ea
that by coddling the few they will usher in the super-race. In short,
they murder the race, but they do it on noble principles, in conformity
with the sanctions of religion, and in the name of the most high God!
Their lives are a direct reversal of the elementary canons of morality;
but they themselves imagine that they are the most perfect products of
evolution, and that they are, by a process of racial suicide, bringing
the race to its perfection--ushering in the super-race and the
super-man.

What a false education must that be to which the race is thus
sacrificed. Education is not a matter of money or accomplishments, but
of wonder, reverence, imagination, and awe. Heaven and earth are
waiting, without money or price, to {14} thrill the young heart with
glory and loveliness; but the poor soul must not be born because he
cannot go to Eton. And the great wide world is calling for men;
provinces added yearly to the Empire demand men; great plains wait the
spade and the plough; the realms of King George have as yet only their
fringes occupied, and the race must produce the men who will go in and
possess, or other races, not yet tired of life, will enter in. And
yet, in the name of the race, the race is being sacrificed.

The real root of the evil is selfishness. A generation that sought
only its own pleasure refused the burden of parentage. They nursed
lap-dogs and preferred bridge to babies. They could not have the
luxuries they craved and also nurseries ringing with the joyous voices
of children; and they made their choice. There were found those who
called them fashionable; but nobody will ever call them blessed. And
because of that choice families whose names were great in the land are
to-day {15} extinct. Names which in other days raised those who bore
them into the fellowship of high ideals and noble service, have
disappeared for ever, because a generation which knew no altar at which
to worship save the altar of self, sacrificed even the generations to
come at that altar. But there is found some saving grace among them.
Having silenced the voices of children in their own houses, they
organise societies to care for the children in the slums, and preserve
their precarious lives. 'In communities like Letchworth or the
Hampstead Garden Suburb, families of more than two children are rare
among the educated classes, but nearly every one is giving time,
energy, and money to the reform movements which t