114 Luck, or Cunning ? 
They all came to the country equally without money, and 
have had to fight their way in the forest, but the difference 
in their condition is very remarkable ; on the German side 
there is comfort, thrift, peace, but on the other side the 
spectacle is very different.’”” Few will deny that slight or- 
ganic differences, corresponding to these differences of habit, 
are already perceptible ; no Darwinian will deny that these 
differences are likely to be inherited, and, in the absence 
of intermarriage between the two colonies, to result in still 
more typical difference than that which exists at present. 
According to Mr. Darwin, the improved type of the more 
successful race would not be due mainly to transmitted 
perseverance in well-doing, but to the fact that if any 
member of the German colony “‘ happened” to be born 
““ ever so slightly,”’ &c. Of course this last is true to a cer- 
tain extent also; if any member of the German colony 
does “‘ happen to be born,” &c., then he will stand a better 
chance of surviving, and, if he marries a wife like himself, 
of transmitting his good qualities; but how about the 
happening ? How is it that this is of such frequent occur- 
rence in the one colony, and is so rare in the other ? Fortes 
creantur fortibus et bonis. True, but howand why? Through 
the race being favoured? In one sense, doubtless, it is 
true that no man can have anything except it be given him 
from above, but it must be from an above into the composi- 
tion of which he himself largely enters. God gives us all 
things ; but we are a part of God, and that part of Him, 
moreover, whose department it more especially is to look 
after ourselves. It cannot be through luck, for luck is 
blind, and does not pick out the same people year after 
year and generation after generation ; shall we not rather 
say, then, that it is because mind, or cunning, is a great 
factor in the achievement of physical results, and because 
there is an abiding memory between successive generations, 
in virtue of which the cunning of an earlier one enures to the 
benefit of its successors ? 
