A NEW FACTOR 175 



And this is the new goal toward which the progress 

 of the universe is tending: life and consciousness 

 will not remain mere haphazard incidents in the 

 blind drift of the interactions of its forces and 

 materials; but the force inherent in life's highest 

 type, viz., in our moral and intellectual race, will by 

 loyal industry, genius, co-operation, and science so 

 regulate and direct these interactions that they must 

 bring life in general nearer to a realization of the 

 purest and highest ideals of truth, justice, happiness, 

 beauty, etc. 



Wider recognition of these fundamental truths will 

 not be without some influence in bringing about the 

 change in conditions which they suggest. Primarily 

 will it in time produce so widespread and deep an 

 aversion to and condemnation of the immoral aims 

 and methods of the false type, and such devoted 

 support of those of the true, as to influence social 

 and sexual selection favorably to the true and 

 against the false. 



Thus the true will tend to increase in numbers 

 and influence and the false to diminish. 



Nor are other agencies lacking which favor this 

 change. It is furthered by every factor which tem- 

 pers the harsh contrast in opportunities for desir- 

 able lives which now exists between the masses of 

 humanity generally employed in arts, trades, and 

 occupations which make the earth habitable and 

 beautiful, and that small minority which possess 

 and amass wealth, power, and privilege without 



