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and to prevent all crime at all costs, but sin we can never 

 entirely eradicate, and we can only aim at an increase of 

 charity by assisting the deserving to rise in the social scale 

 and at aiming to avoid all sins that may offend others, and 

 realise that the enormity of our sin is measured by the offence 

 we give or the injury we do to others, not by your own ideas 

 of its criminality, and this will be decided by the offence you 

 give to your own social set, not by the enormity of its offence 

 to other social sets with whom you do not come into contact 

 but have to live amongst. 



Therefore the sins that can be forgiven in one class of the 

 community are the very sins that cannot go unpunished in 

 another ; that the sins permissible in one country may be the 

 crimes that would ruin another nation. And as regards 

 nations, that, just as the laws of Evolution are the only true 

 laws of God, so also are the laws of nature the only true laws 

 of Government. As nature is free subject to restriction of 

 geography and climate, every nation has an equal right to 

 live in any part of the globe under conditions of freedom best 

 suited to its existence. Race and social and religious 

 distinctions are three meanings to one word, and that one 

 word is degree of fitness for certain duties necessary to main- 

 tain life. Our colour, speech, social superiority or in- 

 feriority, wisdom or folly, virtue or crime, health or debility, 

 wealth or poverty, vitality of life in animal or man, 

 bird or fish, are only results of breeding and the survival of 

 the fittest. Hence, in a better comprehension of how to breed, 

 inbreed, or outbreed or cross the different races of mankind, 

 irrespective of colours or class, wise or foolish, quick or slow, 

 stupid or clever, agricultural, commercial or industrial, lies 

 the means of higher perfection of the human species. That 

 just as it has taken hundreds of thousands of years to evolve 

 a gentleman from a cad, a wise man from a fool, a civilised 

 being from a savage, and a Christian from a Buddhist, or 

 Mahomedan from a Pagan lies our right to perpetuate our 

 existence, all of these distinctions may be compatible 

 with one another. You have only to turn to India to 

 realise that these can all be intermingled. In India, 

 in a comparatively limited area, with the greatest 

 possible varieties of climate and soil, we also find 

 there is the greatest possible variety of national in- 

 termingling of races and of crosses in breeding that the 



