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 848 H. $ NLE Y fie VON$ Happiness would be recognized by the a hgitimate aim, though not the sole end, it has survival important aim value. He would adopt as the ideal o! perfection o! evolutionist as because a more ment--physicml, intellectual and moral--with to maximum eiBeiency in 'wealth production social combination for peaceful enjoyment and develop- m view mud for war. tion--what is the goal of evolution ? survival value means multiplication But then again, we are brought to the ques- Amongst animals, of the number of one always tending, Ward, to increase species the expense of others, but according to Professor Lester the total mass (weight) o! living matter on the earth (Pure Sociolog!t, If we were to regard the different mankind ms necessarily .bound to when the pressure of population page 114). races of come into conflict on the means of subsistence has reached a certain intensity, we should be overlooking the vast possibilities of economic progress and of extension of thp preventive check on increase of population. If we were to accept as the natural course of human evolution that the more efficient races should dominate and prey upon the less etcient races, both by governing them and by directing and reaping the fruits of their labor, we should be adopting the Prussian view, which is repugnant to the majority of the civilized peoples. Social consciousness having extended to embrace the whole of mankind in all parts of the world, the goal of evolution is necessarily thereby altered. Growth of numbers is no longer an object, nor does military supremacy for the sake of conquest or wrest- ]ng economic advantage remain an acceptable aim. When mankind shall have united to guarantee perma- nent universal peace, the only conceivable end of social regulation and activity will be the maximization of