Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings.

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    THE ADVANCEMENT OF MAN plays many parts in persons of the most diverse kinds : Who toiled a slave may come anew a prince— Who ruled a king may wander earth in rags. The disappearance into the melting pot of the rare and excellent combina¬ tions has long been a ground for criticism of the way the universe is run. The author of Ecclesiastes hated aU the labour that he had taken under the sun because he should leave it to the man that should come after him, and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool ; yet he shall have rule over all my labour wherein I have shown myself wise under the sun. ' ' The Eugenicist agrees with these animadversions, and wishes to change the system which justifies them ; he desires to continue the combinations [87]