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humanity for religion ; it holds that the true corporate view is 
attainable only by basing it upon the existence of souls of 
infinite worth, who find their life in mutual societv and their 
supreme end, on the tinite level, in common well-being. But 
still more, only by standin» firin upon personality can we keep 
secure a direct way of access for the soul to the presence of the 
Divine Spirit in a way that can be truly communion of personal 
man and personal God. 
And for Eugenics, I am sure that the amelioration of society 
must rest ultimately on appeal to the voluntary choice of the 
individual: that it is reactiunary to think of sacrificing the 
freedom of human action. Earnest effort may well be made to 
induce persons of weak or diseased physical frames to adopt 
celibacy as their vocation, and it may be that tbe Christian 
churches have been too keen in their approval of universal 
marriage to see that this exceptional vocation needed to be 
highly commended. But even so, we do not share the depth of 
the alarms and the anxieties as to the transmissiun of defective 
stock which distress those who regard man as a purely natural 
being of the biological order fast bound by heredity even in the 
very centre of his character. The idea of personality and the 
sentiment which belongs to it give to the Christian the hope and 
conviction that in weak physical frames, in defective mental 
equipments, and even in unpromising moral dispositions. the 
soul may tind itself able, by the co-operating assistance of 
Divine grace, to develop itself along paths of integrity, virtue, 
and piety. It is not in physical robustness or in intellectual 
vigour, but in the power of the spirit tu express the Spirit of 
God, that we are to look for the secret of noble individual life 
and the presage of the perfection of Society. 
DISCUSSION. 
The paper was followed by a discussion opened by Rev. CHAN- 
CELLOR Liss, M.A., who said :— 
It is, I believe, an acknowledged fact that the less a man knows 
about a subject, the more easy he finds it to talk about it. This 
may be one reason for my commencing the discussion this afternoon. 
I know very little indeed of Heredity or Eugenics. But I may 
