The Mammals and Man 



at the present time. However much we may regret it, this process 

 has undoubtedly been a great factor in the progress of the species 

 as a whole. 



Within the cultivated races, however, man has practically 

 ceased to evolve, at least in so far as concerns the main lines 

 on which his Evolution has thus far proceeded. For in creating 

 the artificial conditions of civilisation, he refuses any longer to 

 be governed by the stern law of nature, v/hich decides that the 

 fit shall live and multiply, and the unfit surely perish. There is 

 in fact evidence that conditions of civilisation are making for 

 retrogression rather than for progress, a state of affairs that is 

 worthy of the most serious consideration. The only rational 

 and scientific remedy that has been offered for this state of affairs 

 is the institution of some moderate system of artificially guiding 

 man's further Evolution. 



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