HUMAN LIFE 



trusted with the biological inheritance 

 which is all the inheritance that other 

 animal species have, a social inheritance 

 which gives him the present realities and 

 the future possibilities of a social evolu- 

 tion in addition to his more personal 

 evolution, has in his own hands a great 

 instrument for determining the fate of 

 himself as species; the future of mankind. 

 This, of course, is what the preacher and 

 the poet have always said -about man, 

 though on a basis of other conceptions as 

 to how man has been given this power. 

 But whatever the foundations for the 

 agreement between scientist and preacher 

 in their common conclusion, the interest- 

 ing and important thing is that they do 

 agree and hence that they can reinforce 

 each other in appealing to man con- 

 sciously to direct his efforts, with all his 

 advantage of scientific knowledge and all 

 his strength of belief, to the production 

 of a higher, a socially and morally higher, 

 future man type. 



Thus these discussions of "human life 

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