e housing of the poor, or any amount of State
socialism or public or private philanthropy, will prove permanently
satisfactory substitutes. If ruinous deterioration and other more
immediate evils, are to be avoided, the race must still be to the swift
and the battle to the strong. The healthy Individualism so earnestly
championed by Mr. Spencer must be allowed free play. Open competition,
as Darwin teaches, with its survival and multiplication of the fittest,
must be allowed to decide the battle of life independently of a foolish
benevolence that prefers the elaborate cultivation and multiplication of
weeds to the growth of corn and roses. We are trustees for the countless
generations of the future. If we are wise we shall trust to the great
ruling truths that we assuredly know, rather than to the seductive
claims of an alleged factor of evolution for which no satisfactory
evidence can be produced.

THE END.

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FOOTNOTES:

[72] Professor Romanes had casts made of the feet of upland geese, and
could not detect any diminution as compared with the web of other geese
in relation to the toes.

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