94 DARWINISM AND HUMAN LIFE 



greatly changed, becoming less and less literal, less 

 and less siistained. It is seldom allowed to work 

 out to a finish, as it does in the animal world. As 

 this is apt to result in a state of affairs in which 

 the superior are defrauded of the rewards of superi- 

 ority and the inferior are not mulcted for their 

 inferiority — an unnatural state of affairs — it be- 

 hoves man to secure that the literal struggle for 

 existence is replaced by an endeavour after 

 well-being, which will continue in a subtler, more 

 rational, more humane form the automatic singling 

 and sifting which goes on in Nature. ' 



