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I hope this much by way of illustration has made clear the fact that 

 all progress upward so far as the individual is concerned, in bodily 

 fitness and brain capacity tends to be retarded by means of man's arbi- 

 trary arrangements in the form of education and science. It seems 

 time that educators become awake to the destiny, or fate, of the race, 

 and by way of the inculcation of popular opinion ultimately put such 

 factors into operation again that will once more start the curve of physical 

 and mental evolution upward. It seems that some of the factors now 

 operating are inevitable, but still something, if the truth be taught, can 

 be done toward amelioration. We cannot hope to do for the human 

 race what Burbank 1 is doing in the vegetable world, but we can do 

 something toward the development of sentiments and ideals along this 

 line, and no one can tell what will be the fruits of our efforts. 



1 "A True Account of Burbank's Work," Century Magazine, Mar. and Apr., 1905. 



