ORGANIC EVOLUTION — MENTAL 187 



to be a scientist, tlien in each case acquired and educa- 

 tional traits would have led to knowledge, ways of 

 ■ thinking, and reasons for acting, and thence to practical 

 results widely different to those which other influences 

 produced. And if the educational influences which act 

 on all the individuals of a race in common, are such as 

 to produce in them a general tendency to the pursuit 

 of knowledge, or of wealth, or to the practice of asceticism, 

 it is abundantly evident that these educational influ- 

 ences will so affect the acquirement of knowledge, of 

 modes of thought, and of motives for acting in the 

 whole race, that the resulting state of society will be 

 quite different in any one instance from what it would 

 be in any other. 



