284 REV. PROF. A. CALDECOTT, D.LITT., D.D., ON 
as making an appeal to that inner self to come forth and take 
command. Further, that the inner self is endowed with a 
capacity of being conscious of the super-conscious spirit from 
which it has its being; the finite becomes aware of the Eternal, 
the imperfect of the Perfect; we can place the actual self in 
the attitude of obedience, the emotional self in the attitude of 
love and adoration. That this is the experience of reliyion is 
claimed by all the higher forms of it; clearly, richly, and 
pervadingly, in the experience of the saints; dimly and fitfully 
in the experience of ordinary religious men and women ; 
potentially in every personality. 
Hence it is my contention that Heredity does not hold for 
Spirit. I see no reason for thinking that soul succeeds soul in 
the way of generation. Certainly I find no glimpse of a way in 
which I can conceive it operating on the lines of physical 
heredity, nor do I think that it can be conceived as resembling 
the process of psychological heredity dependent as this is, as 
appears at present at least, entirely on the continuity of the 
physical basis of life; and I agree with Professor Henry Jones 
that “the way of virtue, so far as internal conditions are 
concerned, is as open to the child of the wicked as it is to the 
child of the virtuous.” This is a hard saying to the man of 
science, whether physiologist or psychologist, but I hold that 
the philosophy of experience, fully worked out, endorses it; 
and the religious man is compelled to say, Amen. 
I decline therefore to endorse Euripides when he says : 
“The offspring of good men themselves are good ; 
Those of the base are like their fathers, base.” 
ILI. Hugenics. 
I have left myself small space for the highly important 
practical issue which has arisen largely as a consequence o! recent 
study of Heredity. The victories of Science in penetrating to 
the recesses—or towards the recesses at least—of the physical 
organism have inspired not a few acute and eager minds with a 
sense of exultation in the increase of man’s power to direct the 
course of the successive generations of plants, animals, and 
men. By use of conscious selection, based on the knowledge 
recently gained, successive generations are to be improved: the 
human race is to be directed towards being better as a whole, 
and to be composed of better individuals. And so we have the 
newly named science or art of Hugenics, and Society is invited to 
embark upon a definite course of producing better men. If it 
