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temporary cessation or retrogression due to this 

 cause, and may even have a wise purpose in it. 



We may assume, then, that selection by money 

 is not likely to continue long, nor to exercise any 

 permanent effects on the race. On what lines, 

 then, is matrimonial selection likely to proceed ? 



Evolution in man will probably proceed in 

 future chiefly on mental and moral lines. " The 

 cosmic evolution of Nature," wrote Kant, " is 

 continued in the historic development of humanity, 

 and completed in the moral perfection of the 

 individual." Already evolution has started the 

 second chapter of man's development : no longer 

 is she chiefly concerned with his body, but with his 

 mind ; and the Eugenic Society, which has started 

 to improve the human breed, is perhaps both too 

 late and too previous. It is too late to do muck 

 for man's body, and too soon to do much for his 

 higher nature. Too soon, we say, for his higher 

 nature ; for whither nature would lead him, and to 

 what goal he should aspire, he hardly yet knows. 



Love has been the lever wherewith evolution 

 has raised mankind, and, so far, has acted chiefly 

 through the physical attraction of the fit ; but now, 

 love is assuming new characters and man seems to 

 be entering on a new course of development. Is 

 it not the case that in the more highly developed 

 nations love is growing to mean something more 



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