1 66 Life and Love. 



and fastened there an inheritance of abnormal 

 generative activity, wliicli it devolves upon the en- 

 lightened race of the future to restore to normal 

 condition. Because of these early mistakes the 

 human race has suffered inexpressibly through its 

 generative power. It is at once individual man's 

 highest blessing and his greatest misfortune. 



Himself highly individualized, he has sought to 

 put himself before his race. He has not under- 

 stood the universality of his importance. 



He has not fully learned how to use his most 

 important physical function in strict obedience to 

 nature's law of race progress, and at the same time 

 derive from it the highest individual benediction. 

 He has not fully reconciled himself as an individual 

 to himself as a universal force. 



As life has moved upward to the present man's 

 creation, so will he by immutable laws be com- 

 pelled to move upward to the perfection of the 

 man of the future. 



Nature is inexorable. As ruthlessly as she has 

 sacrificed individuals to the good of the race in the 

 past, will she continue to sacrifice them to the 

 good of the race in the future. 



From the beginning there has been produced an 

 infinitely greater number of living beings than the 

 earth was able to nourish. From the lowest to 

 the highest life this overcrowding has been con- 

 stant. More offspring have been produced than 

 could by any chance survive. 



