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heat, clothing, and shelter, and the terrors of the 

 torrid zone by artificial refrigeration. Regions 

 haunted by death-dealing micro-organisms have 

 been made wholesome, productive, and beautiful. 

 Devastating epidemics have been checked and robbed 

 of their terrors. Tremendous obstacles to inter- 

 communication have been overcome. Night has 

 been robbed of its darkness. Distance of its power 

 of interfering with hearing and seeing. Most of the 

 eternal infinite forces of nature can now be diverted 

 by human efforts from their natural courses so as 

 to serve the purposes, desires, and ideals of man- 

 kind. The supplies and opportunities provided 

 by unaided nature have by the labor and genius of 

 the true race type been tremendously increased in 

 quantity, vastly improved in quality, and multiplied 

 in variety. Fauna and flora have been utterly 

 changed so as to make them conform to the necessi- 

 ties, desires, and aesthetic requirements of humanity. 

 These are only a few illustrations of the many 

 wonderful improvements which the latest factor in 

 the progress of the universe, viz., the true human 

 race character, has thus far made possible with the 

 aid of the first feeble beginnings of guidance by 

 scientific foresight. 



And all such enterprises had to force their way 

 against and through the obstacles which a system 

 dominated by the traits of the false race character 

 interposed. Is it not obvious that undertakings 

 depending for success on the expenditure of efforts 



