Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![XVI] Progress Through Selection the future the regenerators of the entire human race. We hope and beheve that they will be fully equal to the high and responsible position which, in accordance with natural laws, they will be called upon to fulfil. The certainty that this powerful selec¬ tive agency will come into existence just in proportion as we reform our existing social system by the abolition of poverty and the establishment of full equality of opportunity in education and economic position, demonstrates that Nature—or the Universal Mind—has not failed or bungled our world so completely as to require the weak and ignorant efíorts of the eugenists to set it right, while leaving the great fundamental causes of all exist¬ ing social evils absolutely untouched. Let them devote all their energies to purify¬ ing this whitened sepulchre of destitution and ignorance, and the beneficent laws of human nature will themselves bring about the physical, intellectual, and moral ad¬ vancement of our race. 149](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18022121_0162.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
