made; that if you want church members, you will have to give nature a chance to produce them; that if you want artists, poets, philosophers, skilled workers, and great statesmen, mature must have a chance to breed them. You are opposed to this belief. You believe you can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, get blood out of turnips, find Lincolns in every log cabin if you look hard enough, and get genius out of fools. You believe that the reason one man starts at the bottom of the ladder and climbs up while another man starts at the top and slides down is due to the ladder being wrong end up. Science knows it is due to the inborn difference between the climber and the slider. Your environmental remedy is to kick the ladder from under both, and put them on the same level. As a result you deprive each of any means or rapid transportation toward his natural destination. A government built upon scientific inequalitarianism will "lift up the fallen" and "rescue the perishing" with a new and unfailing because, enlightened, mercy. It will give to each man his own kingdom of heaven - his kingdom of wealth, art, beauty and moral adventure - instead of foisting one upon him which doesn't fit him, and whose harps he could not play. [section symbol] 4 The third warning of biology is that your philanthropy and your noble-hearted, but soft-headed, schemes for ameliorating the conditions of life without at the same time improving the quality of life have failed and will fail to improve the race, and are, in fact, hastening its deterioration. You fondly believe that you can speed up evolution with cakes and cream for the unfit. Nature has progressed by letting the devil take the hindmost. But your method is to increase the number of the hindmost. Nature slaughters the innocents, but you merely throw more innocents into her ravenous maw. Your very 6 [end]