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THE URFIT.
Frocess of Multiplication.
Below we present to our thoughtful
readers the Lit. Digest’s condensed
version of a truthful editorial from
the October number of the London
(England) Humanitarian.
F we study the nervous
system of the pauper
class, we find that in
stead of their nervous
energy being econo
mically expended,
there is lavish, un
even, and wasteful ex
penditure which is of
no great benefit to the
individual nor to so
ciety. They are or
ganically deficient*
They inherit defective, ill-regulated
nervous systems, or their nervous
system become badly adjusted through
irregular habits, bad training, or dis
eases. They are incapable of sus
tained effort. They prefer jobs to re
gular work, spasmodic efforts to work
for a few hours or days, and these ef
forts are followed by a reaction of ut
ter inability to make further exertion.
These characteristics are symptoma
tic of retrogression, or they are the
reappearance of * more primitive
type.
It is said that the suecial character
istic of the savage is that he has no
thought for the morrow. He eats un
til he can eat no more, then goes
hungry until he finds more food.
These very characteristics we see ex
hibited among our own savages.
1 have frequently seen them throw
away what remained after their hun
ger was appeased.
To them, bread has been given once,
it will be given again. It is a waste
of words to s*»y that these individuals
are paupers because they have not
been careful, thrifty and temperate.
We might lecture for hours to them
on the advantages of industry, we
might urge our plea with the fervor
of a divine oracle,the adherent impul
ses we give rise to arouse no response
in those torpid brains.
It is is the characteristic of those
organically defective, that it is the
will which is defective. They have
not the will to make any exertion;
they fall into the condition in which
circumstances place them. With tbe
offspring of parents suffering from fa
tigue or from poison, compulsory edu
cation may be enforced,but our efforts
will not be repaid by healthy, useful
individuals unless they spring from a
healthy source.
High motives deter the fit from mar
rying until they are in a position to
do so. Among the better classes, mar
riage is being deferred more, the
standard of living is becoming higher
among them, and more time is given
toeducation; whereas the unfit, who
are not deterred by any qualms of con
science or apprehension of conse
quences, go on multiplying. And, as
the more highly developed are not
perpetuated, or are perpetuated in
fewer numbers, the thoughtless, im
provident, degenerate, and diseased,
multiply upon us.
In any attempt to raisetbe standard
of humanity, we must take into con
sideration that in society as at pres
ent organized it is not the fittest that
survive, but the unfit, in consequence
of their rapid multiplication.
Under our present industrial sys
tem, there Is astrong tendency against
the survival of the fittest. It we take
the life-histories of two men, one hon
est, the other oishonest, we shall find
that nearly everything is in favor of
the clever, dishonest man. He can
acquire wealth by dishonest means;
have the best teachers, and send his
children to the best schools, afford
them every opportunity to acquire the
highest social culture, and to get their
pick in the marriage-market, where
often our very fairest and tenderest
flowers are knocked down to the high
est bidder.
The honest man, with equal oppor
tunities which he is too honorable to
take advantage of, may be sunk into
poverty by misfortune while bis chil
dren are still young; he may be com
pelled to let them grow up without
culture; and, in the terrible stress
and struggle with poverty, they must
inevitably go to the wall, leaving a
deteriorated issue or none at all. Will
this be the survival of the fittest?
The best minds of today have ac
cepted the fact that if superior people
wre deaired, they must be bred; and if
iißtyj/ciles, criminals, paupers, and
otherwise unfit are undesirable citi
zens, they must not be bred. We can
produce numerous modifications of
structure by careful selection of do
mestic animals, and there is no reason
that, if society were differently organ
ized, we should not be able to modify
knd improve the human species to the
kame extent. In order to do this we
nust make a religion of the life-giv
gg principle, which is the most won-
aerful of all the forces at work through
out nature.
Our young men and women should
realize the purpose for which they are
uniting in the holiest bond of physical
life, and by this means we would have
inaugurated the upper million and the
lower ten. Any social conditions
which tend to transpose these terms,
are subversive of the true interests of
humanity.
QIOBGIA ICKXIS.
[CONTINUBD FROM FOURTKSNTH SAGS.]
after bantering a man;” and accord
ingly, they closed the trade.
“Now,” said Blossom, as he handed
Peter the three dollars, “I’m a man
that, when he makes a bad trade,
makes the most of it until he can make
a better. I’m for no rues and after
claps.”
“That’s just my way,” said Peter; “I
never goes to law to mend my bar
gains.”
“Ah, you’re the kind of boy I love to
trade with. Here’s your hoss, old man.
Take the saddle and bridle off him,
and I’ll strip yours; but lift up the
blanket easy from Bullet’s back, for
he’s a mighty tender-backed hoss.”
The old man removed the saddle, but
the blanket stuck fast. He attempted
to raise it, and Bullet bowed himself,
switched bis tail, danced a little, and
gave signs of biting.
“Don't hurt him, old man,” said Blos
som, archly; “take it off easy. I am,
perhaps, a leetle of the best man at a
horse-swap that ever catcbed a coon.’
Peter continued to pull at the blan- (
ket more and more roughly, and Bul
let became more and more oavortish;
insomuch that, when the blanket came
off, he had reached the kicking point
in good earnest.
The removal of the blanket disclosed
a sore on Bullet’s backbone that
seemed to have defied all medical skill,
it measured six full inches in length
and four in breadth, and had as many
features as Bullet had motions. My
heart sickened at the sight; and I felt
that the brute who had been riding
him in that situation deserved the
halter.
The prevailing feeling, however,was
that of mirth. The laugh became loud
and general at the old man’s expense,
and rustic witticisms were liberally
bestowed upon him and his late pur
chase. These Blossom continued to
provoke by various remarks. He asked
the old man “if he thought Bullet
would let five dollars lie on his back.”
He declared most seriously
that he bad owned that horse
three months, and had never discov
ered that he had a sore back, “or he
never should have thought of trading
him,” etc., etc.
The old man bore it all with the
most philosophic composure. He
eyinceo no astonishment at his late
discovery, and made no replies. But
his son Neddy bad not disciplined his
feelings quite so well. His eyes open
ed wider and wider from the first to
the last pull of the blanket; and, when
the whole sore burst upon his view,
astonishment and fright seemed to
contend lor the mastery of his counte
nance.
As the blanket disappeared, he stuck
his hands in his breeches pockets,
heaved a deep sigh, and lapsed into a
profound revery, from which he was
only roused by the cuts at his father
He bore them as long as he could;
and, when he could contain himself no
longer, be began, with a certain wild
ness of expression which gave a pecu
liar interest to what he uttered •
“His back’s mighty bad off; but dod
drot my soul if he’s put it to daddy as
bad as he thinks he nas, for oil Kit’s
both blind and deef, I’ll be dod drot it
he eint.”
“ The devil he is,” said Blossom.
“Yes, dod drot my soul if he eint.
You walk him, and see if he eint. His
eyes don’t look like it; but he’d jist as
leve go again the house with you, or
in a ditch, as any how. Now you go
try him.” The laugh was now turned
on Blossom; and many rushed to test
the fidelity of the little boy’s report.
A few experiments established its
truth beyond controversy.
“Neddy,” said the old man, “yuii
oughtn’t to try and make people dis
contented with their things. Stranger,
don’t mind what the little boy says.
If you can only get Kit nd of them
little failings, you’ll find him all sorts
of a horse. You are a leetle the best
man at a horse-swap that ever I got
hold of; but don’t fool away Kit.
Come, Neddy, my son, let’s be mov
ing; the stranger seems to be getting
snappish.”
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