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far as care for the amelioration of the race
is concerned, stands on a much lower plane
than savages, not to speak of Sparta which
did not allow the weak, the too young, and
the too old to marry, and where national
pride in a pure race, a strong offspring, was
so great that individuals were sacrificed to the
attainment of this end. Galton, like Darwin,
Spencer, A. R. Wallace, and others, has
brought out the fact that the law of natural
selection, which in the rest of nature has
secured the survival of the fittest, is not
applicable to human society, where economic
motives lead to unsuitable marriages, made
possible by wealth. Poverty hinders suitable
marriages. Besides the development of sympathy
has come into the field as a factor which
disturbs natural selection. The sympathy of
love, chooses according to motives that certainly
tend to the happiness of the individual,
but this does not mean that they guarantee
the improvement of the race. And while
other writers hope for a voluntary abstinence
from marriage in those cases, where an
inferior offspring is to be expected, Galton, on
the other hand, is in favour of very strict rules,
to hinder inferior specimens of humanity from
transmitting their vices or diseases, their
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