ell, and from generation to
generation_...."

"The germ is the undeveloped organism which forms the bond between
successive generations; the person is the developed organism which
arises from the germ under the influence of environmental
conditions, the person develops and dies in each generation; the
germ-plasm is the continuous stream of living substance which
connects all generations. The person nourishes and protects the
germ, and in this sense the person is merely the carrier of the
germ-plasm, the _mortal trustee_ of an immortal substance."
Conklin.

This is what I call "time-linking." (Author.)

"Through intelligence and social cooperation he is able to control
environment for particular ends, in a manner quite impossible in
other organisms.... Other animals develop much more rapidly than
man but that development sooner comes to an end. The children of
lower races of man develop more rapidly than those of higher races
but in such cases they also cease to develop at an earlier age.
The prolongation of the period of infancy and of immaturity in the
human race greatly increases the importance of environment and
training as _factors of development_." Conklin.

Another sidelight given on the "Spiral theory." (Author.)

"In education also we are strangely blind to proper aims and
methods. Any education is bad which leads to the formation of
habits of idleness, carelessness, failure, instead of habits of
industry, thoroughness and success. Any religious or social
institution is bad which leads to habits of pious make-believe,
insincerity, slavish regard for authority and disregard for
evidence, instead of habits of sincerity, open-mindedness and
independence...."

"All that man now is he has come to be without conscious human
guidance. If evolution has progressed from the am[oe]ba to man
without human interference, if the great progress from ape-like
men to the most highly civilized races has taken place without
conscious human control, the question may well be asked: Is it
possible to improve on the natural method of evolution? It may not
be possible to improve on the method of evolution and yet by
intelligent action it may be possible to facilitate that method.
_Man can not change a single law of nature but he can put himself
into such relations to natural