determines ideals of beauty, and beauty in man and woman is the outward index of survival value - potential parenthood. Beauty is thus nature's flaming banner of her own evolution. If the worship of physical beauty can, by inducing selection toward it, change the faces of men, the worship of moral beauty can likewise change the mind and character of men. In all its endless forms art is thus man's highest contribution to the evolutionary process. It should, then, become the end and aim of all your systems of education, leading men with its gentle selective processes and creative ideals toward a better, wiser, happier, and more beautiful human race. I have thus laid before you Excellency the stern warnings and high commands which I believe it is the duty and privilege of the biologist to utter. I believe you will heed them. Your endless charities, your boundless altruisms, your ambitious schemes for universal education, your insatiate cry for "more democracy" give proof of this. But in your narrow nationalisms and ephemeral schemes of environmental reform you have forgotten both your geographic neighbor at the antipodes and your biologic brother of the unborn tomorrow. And if you forget either one, all history is witness that your civilization, like all others, will run a brief course of meteoric splendor and then pass away into the trackless void. So far you have thought only to leave the men of y our own time and your own tribe a material and cultural legacy instead of bequeathing to all men of all time the biologic legacy of strong bodies and great souls. But if your social orders are to endure, and be sufficient unto the salvation of all men, the completed Christianity of science must become the dominating, informing spirit of the state. Your morality, your religion, your education, your politics, your statesmanship, as well as your noble mercies must take on the wideness of the sea and the eternity of protoplasm. Respectfully, The Biologist. 16 [end]