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 the determining quality." Mr. Kidd's theory of the governing principle in Evolution differs as widely from prevalent theories as he would have us believe. For Evolutionists have held hitherto that the controlling principle is in nature itself, seeking perpetually to preserve the present and to perpetuate it.

How fundamentally Mr. Kidd differs is evinced in these words, "The controlling center of the evolutionary process in our social history is not in the present at all, but in the future. It is in favor of the interests of the future that natural selection continually discriminates."

This principle he calls "projected efficiency." In analyzing this idea we are led to ask, What is "projected efficiency?" Mr. Kidd's clearest idea appears in the following words, "It is a world in which, with the passing of