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supported by altruism, instead of as now being
opposed by this sentiment.
Spencer’s thoughts contain a great truth.
They have been quoted in just this connection.
He says: We see the germ of many things
that later on are developed in a way no one
now suspects. Profound transformations are
worked in society and its members,
transformations which we could not have hoped
for as immediate results, but which we could
have looked for in confidence as final
consequences. The effort to find natural laws
which cause racial progress or deterioration
is one of these germinal ideas. As to
scientific investigation in this field, we can
apply another maxim of the same thinker, one
often overlooked by science. “The passion to
discover truth must be accompanied by the
passion to use it for the welfare of mankind.”
But science must really reach universally
accepted conclusions before we can expect
humanity to begin seriously its self-purification;
but it is certain to come then. When we read
in ethnographical and sociological works what
restrictions in marriage are imposed by savage
people on themselves, and religiously obeyed
on the ground of superstitious prejudice, we
have a right to hope that civilised men will
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