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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. 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