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1266 Recent Literature. [December, — 
ferent journals, which are brought together with some revision, 
condensation and rewriting. The author’s object has been “to 
take note of the varied hereditary faculties of different men, and 
of the great differences in different families and races, to learn 
how far history may have shown the practicability of supplanting 
inefficient human stock by better strains, and to consider w! 
it might not be our duty to do so by such efforts as may be rea- 
sonable, thus exerting ourselves to further the ends of evolution 
more rapidly and with less distress than if events were left to 
their own course.” 
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intellectual differences, mental imagery, number-forms, color 
associations, visionaries, nurture and nature, associations, psycho- 
metric experiments, antechamber of consciousness, early seat | 
ments, history of twins, domestication of animals, possibilities r 
theocratic intervention, objective efficacy of prayer, enthusiasm, z 
the observed order of events, selection and race, influence ann a 
upon race, population, early and late marriages, marks for family 
merit, endowments, conclusion. i EE 
The relations of these subjects to morals and ethics, a3 Fee: 
by Mr. Galton, and also by other writers of what is some 
calied the positive school, from the inductive and evolut af his 4 
standpoint, shows what man may do for the improvement of 2 : 
own race. eS 
As the author says, we cannot but recognize the vast varira 
natural faculty, useful and harmful, in members of the pa rei ae 
and much more in the human family at large, all fie observe : 
to be transmitted by inheritance. Neither can Hie Hie pele 
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that the faculties of men generally are uneq Galton att ates 
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able,” leads him to consider what may be van het 
function of man in the order of the world. We shou 
