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crobes, and insects which the largest and best 
armed species. He sees no of purpose or plan in the 
evolutionary process, nor any guarantee for the future of hu- 
manity. Utopias, he holds, are mere phantasies of the brain. 
Lapouge sees one glimmering ray of hope, — systematic selec- 
tion, or what Galton and Pearson are pleased to call national 
eugenics. He sets forth facetiously the possibilities of zodtech- 
nic and scientific reproduction ? concluding that the triumph of 
statecraft would be in the breeding of a society of optimists who 
would always be content with everything. In this we are re- 
minded of the ultimate stoical super-man of Nietzsche evolved by 
natural, however, rather than by artificial selection. 
Lapouge’s eugenic program is as follows: — 
(t) To establish a natural aristocracy in some selected social 
group; (2) to establish special, distinct castes; (3) to transform 
the group as a whole to a fixed point; (4) to create a race that 
shall dominate everywhere; (5) to recast humanity completely 
by the aid of perfect local types; (6) to substitute for humanity 
as it now is a single perfect race; etc.’ 
This program is to be carried out in a two-fold way: by the 
elimination of unserviceable elements and second, by the breed- 
ing of superior elements. He realizes the difficulties in the 
accomplishment of the plan but looks first to the enlightenment 
of the people and the formation of public opinion, and then 
expects that some sort of socialistic régime will be necessary for 
its consummation. 
In view of the dispute among biologists as to the place natural 
selection plays in biological evolution, all social philosophies 
based on this theory by deduction have an uncertain foundation 
but this foundation becomes still more unreliable when we consider 
that in social evolution intelligence adds a new and disturbing 
1 Sélectiones Sociales, p. 457. 2 Ibid., pp. 472 f. 
3 (x) De constituer une aristocratie naturelle chez un people déterminé; (2) de 
constituer des castes spécialisées et separées; (3) de transformer intégralement un 
peuple 4 un degré déterminé; (4) de créer une race dominante ubiquiste; (5) de 
refondre entiérement ’humanité 4 l’aide des types locaux les parfaits; (6) de sub- 
stituer 4 l’humanité actuelle une race unique et parfaite; etc,” p. 484. 
