Edward Drinker Cope.-^—Frazer, 1 1 1 
direction. So far as the evolution of animals goes (man included) I 
consider it unassailable. The rest is not yet made out. It is for the 
future to decide. But it will give new interest to physics and chemis- 
try. I hope it may prove the beginning of the scientific proof of the 
mastery of mind over matter, instead of that of matter over mind. 
"It is true that mind is under the dominion of matter, as it is an 
attribute of it — but not entirely so. In the proper way, and at the 
proper time, mind controls. To find out how this is, and when and 
where, is the great problem of science; also therefore of progress and 
prosperity." * * 
"Washington, June 9, 1886. * * I learned several things in the 
time I have lived. Nothing affords so much satisfaction to the mind 
as the consciousness of having done right, not but that the best people 
must have regrets for having also done wrong on some occasions. 
Then we can take comfort in the knowledge that God knows our 
incapacities and our defects, and pities and. helps us; the latter espe- 
cially if we try to help ourselves. But there are many triilers in the 
world, people who avoid doing anything of any value or importance. 
It is very desirably not to be compelled to live with such people. Any 
one who feels the seriousness of life, and the certainty of its termina- 
tion, will not waste it" * * 
"Washington, D. C, December 18, 1886. * * I started to write 
my paper, read before the Natl Acad. Sciences "On the Phylogeny of 
the Placental Mammalia"; but I found the work so extensive that I 
could not get it finished in time. So I concluded to turn it into a 
book and call it the "Genealogy of Man and the Mammalia" and see 
whether I can get a publisher. 
My book "Origin of the Fittest" is out. * * It is nicely printed, 
and looks well. I have several complimentary letters about it al- 
ready. * * 
Now I must get to work while I am fresh on it. My head is full 
of crescents and cones and cannon bones and naviculo-cuboids." * * 
In 1886 Prof. Cope published forty-seven scientific papers. 
"Washington, February 5, 1887. * * The woman sufTragists say: 
'If blacks can vote, we should also.' Perhaps so only I would reverse 
the proposition and say since white women cannot vote colored people 
oughtn't to either. In truth there should be some test or qualification 
for voting so that a great many ignorant men would be cut off. We 
have too many incapable voters now, and to give suffrage to all 
women would be to increase the number very greatly. * * * 
I have heard women complain of injustice on various accounts; as 
for instance lower wages than men; also of dependence on men; and 
of the control of men. Men may and do at times act unjustly, but the 
above conditions are the fault (?) of nature, and the order of things 
and not of any particular man or men. The part the women play in 
the natural order of things is totally different from that of men, so 
much so that in those things in which they differ, the same rules do 
