it with all mankind, your civilization will lost its own soul. But if you bring all its ministries to the common man, you will endow him with new and unknown powers of personal character, political efficiency, and social service. For the social organization of science is simply the technical administration of the love of God. [section symbol] 11 The fourth commandment of biology is the duty of vocational education. Civilization has always failed, because it has never succeeded in fitting each and every man to its new forms of evolution. For evolution, you Excellency, seems to the human mind today to be mainly the resultant of four great forces: variation, adaptation, selection, and heredity. First, each individual person "varies" from his forbears. Secondly, if his variation be not "adapted" to his environment, nature kills him. Thirdly, if his variation be adapted, nature "selects" him for survival. And, fourthly, he produces progeny, and by "heredity" transmits his survival values to his offspring. This is nature's method. It is crude, stupid, horrible, wasteful. Many beautiful variations are lost in the vast melee. Real civilization must improve on nature's method by preserving all variations of worth and beauty. It must fit the environment to them as well as fit them to the environment. Nothing else is true civilization except, first the selection by intelligence, second, the education by social environment, and third, the preservation and transmission by heredity of everything beautiful and ennobling that rises above the protoplasmic stream. For this reason vocational education must discover every human worth and fit the individual possessing it to an ever-widening and more complex environment, which the increasingly intelligent descendants of such a scientific social order are certain, from their inborn excellence, to build. 14 [end]