The Future of Man—Evolutionary Aspects 
space—the realm of our own minds, and the psychometabolic 
processes at work in it. It is here that the greatest discoveries 
will be made, here that the largest and most fruitful territories 
await our occupancy. All branches of science and learning, 
from biophysics to social anthropology, from psychiatry to 
aesthetics, can join in this great venture of exploration. 
We should set about planning a Fulfilment Society, rather 
than a Welfare Society or an Efficiency Society or a Power 
Society. Greater fulfilment can only come about by the realiza- 
tion of more of our potentialities. Once people grasp what a 
small fraction of humanity’s potentialities are actually being 
realized, and what vast new possibilities are waiting to be 
elicited, we shall have a new and powerful motive to activate 
our future. 
Our knowledge of the evolutionary past makes it clear that 
any new psychosocial system should be open-ended, not liable 
to become self-limiting. Like science itself, human evolution 
must become a self-correcting cybernetic process. 
Our present civilization is becoming dysgenic. To reverse 
this grave trend, we must use our genetical knowledge to the 
full, and develop new techniques of human reproduction, such 
as oral contraception and multiple insemination by deep-frozen 
sperm from desired donors. Eventually, the prospect of radical 
eugenic improvement could become one of the mainsprings of 
man’s evolutionary advance. 
Meanwhile, since evolutionary advance depends on know- 
ledge, we must try to secure the widest possible dissemination 
of modern knowledge and ideas about our evolutionary role 
and the possibilities of fulfilment, must raise the level of educa- 
tion in all sections of all nations, and must remodel our educa- 
tional systems so that they can promote transformation as well 
as transmit tradition. 
To me, it is an exciting fact that man, after he appeared to 
have been dethroned from his supremacy, demoted from his 
central position in the universe to the status of an insignificant 
inhabitant of a small outlying planet of one among millions of 
stars, has now become reinstated in a key position, one of the 
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