74 DEGENERATION IN MAN. 



feet more than they eat away." The slums destroy 

 those who live in them, but infect and drag others to 

 destruction. 



"If enlightened self-interest is a good thing, enlight- 

 ened self-sacrifice is a better thing. One instinct as 

 well as the other may be misdirected and harmful, 

 but is equally capable of enlightenment." " No race 

 ever became extinct through excess of brotherly love." 

 Warner. Charity as fire insurance. Charity scat- 

 tered as corn to catch the chickens. 



"The final result of saving people from their folly 

 would be to fill the earth with fools." Spencer. 



Charity as an ethical duty. Read Warner : " Ethi- 

 cal Aspects of the Question ; Evolution of Charities " 

 (pp. 268-9). 



