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mind and who has a virile outlook on the universe — 

 will be more likely to mate (in future centuries at 

 least) than will a man who has merely a successful 

 business or a coronet. A woman who has a 

 beautiful womanly mind will be more attractive to 

 men than any strong-minded advocate of woman's 

 rights. And probably mating on such principles 

 of selection will result in a general elevation of the 

 mental and moral qualities of the race, and in an 

 increase of its capacity for happiness, till man a 

 million years hence will be to man of the present 

 day as man of the present day is to a monkey. 



The progeny of marriage determined merely or 

 chiefly by physical qualities of strength and beauty 

 cannot survive under modern conditions. We 

 have in the aristocracy of England an example of 

 such unfitness to survive. The aristocracy have 

 beauty and physique, and probably physical energy 

 superior to the beauty and physique and energy 

 of the middle and lower classes, but they have 

 not the qualities of mind fit to survive in modern 

 environment ; and though their doom may be 

 averted for a time by the dollars of American heir- 

 esses, yet unless the dollars also bring new brains, 

 the aristocracy, as a race, are doomed to die out. 



The future is certain to be a future of brains, and 

 probably of brains leavened with imaginative and 

 emotional qualities, and with the great quality love. 



