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or selfish and cunning conflicts for procuring indivi- 

 dual, class, or national advantages are therefore ex- 

 cluded, and must necessarily be superseded by the 

 earnest efforts of each to be of utmost service in pro- 

 ducing conditions which shall be most favorable to 

 the highest and happiest lives of all the race. 



Instead of "every one for himself, no matter 

 what befalls others," which is the spirit of the old 

 style struggle for existence, the new struggle will be 

 to excel in promoting the general welfare of all. 



And this is the way in which the tendency of 

 natural selection and of the traits which are fittest 

 and which therefore determine individual and type 

 survival will be altered : personalities in which pas- 

 sion or selfishness overbalance the sense of justice, 

 such as are animated by sordid, ambitious aims, 

 although prepossessing in speech, manner and ap- 

 pearance, although forceful, tactful, and cunning to 

 a high degree, although surrounded by artificial 

 glamor of sanctity or benevolence, although con- 

 trolling power, wealth and influence, will not as 

 they are now, be naturally selected in the society of 

 the future by the sexual, social, conventional and 

 governmental environment. On the contrary, such 

 persons will be sifted out, eliminated, for they can 

 only hinder and retard the higher progress of hu- 

 manity. But characters suited to universal, con- 

 sciously sympathetic co-operation will be preserved 

 and multiplied, for they are needed for the general 

 welfare. 



