176 EVOLUTION 



greatest practical controversy of our science, 

 in comparison to which all others have been 

 but academic that ultimately between the 

 Herodian and the Magian view and treat- 

 ment of the child, and between essential 

 renewals of the Caesarist and of the Christian 

 ideals of the community, upon our modern 

 spiral. Yet since this is a modern spiral, we 

 must harmonize this controversy; 



due correlation of t,he idfiflls of 

 cH^ti^n For this 

 we need above all some^clearer vision of the 

 ideals ^of, evolution Olympian for "the T body, 

 Parnassian for the spirit, and even more 

 in fact, an evolutionist hope and aim not 

 only for the life of the individual, but in- 

 creasingly f orthejiplift of the race andjofjhe 

 '()n the way towards this, 



in Hi vj ffal $ * 1 QYf* * A 



^ Nor is the 



social control a mere choice between Dra- 

 conian harshness on one hand and shallow 

 philanthropy on the other; for these are but 

 rival cruelties, that to the individual, this to 

 the race. T ft dp-terming, then, the .ideaLgoal 

 ^riifiJBrocess of selection fqr ,our own 



which_ are^ogening bejfore 



