SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION.
The heading to this article possibly suggests that the topic touched upon is an exceedingly dry one, but Dr Leuria has written a book, with such a title, of a very interesting character. The purpose of the author is to show the mechanics of the way in which Nature may solve the social problem it man will allow it.- Humanity has contemptuously severed herself frooo Nature," he says, "occasioning a systematic and per petual violation of the laws of evolution by initiating inequalities and* torturing pain and misery." There the social world is seen at a glance. "There is," declares Dr Lluria, "no social class, from the richest to the poorest, that concerns itself with the betterment of its species. What a sad condition that of man, who, having succeeded in selecting his potatoes, his calves, his and horses; cannot perfect hia own offspring! Those directly responsible I are the parents, and indirectly sociI ety as it is constituted
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10031, 4 July 1910, Page 4
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161SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10031, 4 July 1910, Page 4
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