mercy only adds to nature's brutality. You think your cakes and cream will hasten the millennium. But a heaven for the unfit would be a biological hell for the fit. It is said that Daniel Webster, when called upon to pay a bill, would give a note for it, with the satisfying remark, "Well, thank God! that bill's paid." You are trying to pay your overdue bills to evolution with promissory notes, and any man who examines his tax schedule and discovers nearly one-third of it goes to pay for defectives must realize these notes are rapidly falling due. You think this "applies the golden rule." It is a flattering unction. But the golden rule, as you falsely conceive it, if applied, would wreck the race that tried it. I see the results of your golden rule filling jails, penitentiaries, reformatories, "rescue homes," and asylums - mute monuments, one and all, to your belated efforts to dam the swelling tide of degeneracy that your golden rule has largely created. They are catch-alls for the products of your impertinent meddling with evolution. You think that the meek and lowly should inherit the earth, and have well nigh completed arrangements for their doing it. They already absorb nearly one half the time, energy, and money of your civilization. You fail to notice that the meek and lowly you care for are mostly the grandchildren of the same meek and lowly your grandfathers took care of, only they are far more numerous, while you are relatively less numerous. Brute nature slays its thousands, but your charity in the end will slay its tens of thousands. "Unwise charity has created half the misery of the world," and "charity can never relieve one half the misery which she creates." And unless your philanthropy and charity become imbued, as a few social workers are becoming imbued, with a new biological conscience, you will reap the whirlwind of your well-intentioned, but socially disastrous, folly. 7 [end]