THE FUTURE EVOLUTION OF MAN 271 
broader education, will come keener demand for in- 
telligence. We may hope the time is not too far dis- 
tant when a question of governmental policy, a new 
book or play, or a new discovery in science will 
stimulate as much conversational zest as now seems 
to be gotten from a pack of cards. 
A third feature of the ideals which should be in- 
stilled into the minds of our children is the moral 
phase. There seems little doubt that this is on the 
way. We must not mistake an evident laxness of 
religious observance as being synonomous with moral 
looseness. The revelations which our recent period- 
icals have brought us concerning the habits of busi- 
ness men, of politicians, and of society, have left 
on many minds the impression that this is distinctly 
an age of decadence. Exactly the reverse is the 
truth. This is the age of intense sensitiveness to 
wrong. In almost no particular is it worse than any 
previous age in the history of our country. We 
openly discuss things which we left untouched a lit- 
tle while ago. We insistently demand that business 
practices to which nobody particularly objected a 
dozen years ago must now certainly cease. All of 
this has produced an erroneous impression that the 
times are out of joint. But the dust and dirt in the 
air is the unavoidable accompaniment of house clean- 
ing. When doubtful practices simply have publicity 
