116 PRESENT BATTLE-GROUNDS OF EVOLUTION. 



2. Can we improve mankind by improving his 

 hereditary qualities ? 



3. Can we help mankind by improving environ- 

 ment ? 



4. Can we help mankind by substitution of coopera- 

 tion for competition ? If so, how ? By government ? 

 By social changes ? By individual effort ? How keep 

 from destroying self-activity ? 



5. Are "all philanthropic undertakings mischievous 

 meddling with the course of Nature"? "The final 

 result of saving people from their folly would be to 

 fill the earth with fools." Spencer. " He who falls 

 in the press has only to lie there and be trampled 

 broad. " J Carlyle. Hence men must be better before 

 they can be happier. 



6. Why not then be brutal ? Why not destroy in- 

 efficiency ? Because brutality leads to barbarism and 

 away from civilization. Practical results of it. 



7. Why not let Nature go on; let the diseased, 

 weak, and profligate exterminate themselves ? Be- 

 cause " gangrene is not a desirable caustic. Social 

 cancers infect more than they eat away." Warner. 



New investigations bring new questions. The un- 

 solved questions will never be wanting, but they will 

 center around those investigations which are fruitful 

 in results. 



