to tend. Habitual selection of the tamest to breed from.
Exceptions; summary.

THE OBSERVED ORDER OF EVENTS

Steady improvement in the birthright of successive generations;
our ignorance of the origin and purport of all existence;
of the outcome of life on this earth; of the conditions
of consciousness; slow progress of evolution and its
system of ruthless routine; man is the heir of long bygone
ages; has great power in expediting the course of evolution;
he might render its progress less slow and painful;
does not yet understand that it may be his part to do so.

SELECTION AND RACE

Difference between the best specimens of a poor race and
the mediocre ones of a high race; typical centres to which
races tend to revert; delicacy of highly-bred animals; their
diminished fertility; the misery of rigorous selection; it is
preferable to replace poor races by better ones; strains of
emigrant blood; of exiles.

INFLUENCE OF MAN UPON RACE

Conquest, migrations, etc.; sentiment against extinguishing
races; is partly unreasonable; the so-called "aborigines";
on the variety and number of different races
inhabiting the same country; as in Spain; history of the
Moors; Gypsies; the races in Damara Land; their recent