an institution and the parents punished.[Footnote:  See, besides the books referred to later, H. G. Wells, “The Endowment of Motherhood” (in Social Forces in England and America); or, New Worlds for Old, chap.  III.  F. W. Taussig, Principles of Economics, chap. 65, sec. 1.  Survey, vols. 29 and 30, many articles.] recruiting of coming generations from the diseased and feeble-minded, to prevent the handicapping of poor children through the overwork and poverty of their parents, and gradually to raise the level of inherited human nature.  When coupled with improved environment and with universal and rational education, it will surely mean the existence of a happier race of men-which should be the ultimate goal of all human endeavor.  What are the gravest moral dangers of our times?  In conclusion, we may venture a judgment as to which, out of the many evils we have noted in contemporary life, are most serious, and where our moral energies should most earnestly be directed.

The most prominent of prevalent vices are certainly sex incontinence and the use of alcohol; the lure of wine and the lure of women have from time immemorial been man’s undoing.  Alcohol is being vigorously fought, and is probably doomed to general prohibition, together with opium and morphine and the other narcotics.  The sex dangers are not to be so easily overcome, and we are probably in for an increase of license and its inevitable evils.  There will be need for every farsighted and earnest man and woman to stand firm, in spite of enticing promises of liberty, for the great ideal of faithful marriage that makes in the end for man’s deepest happiness.

The most prominent sins of today are, selfish moneymaking, selfish money spending, selfish idleness; the chief sinners we may label pirates, prodigals, parasites.  By pirates are meant the dishonest dealers, the grafters, the vice caterers, the unscrupulous competitors, the pilers-up of exorbitant profits at the expense of employees and public; by prodigals, the spendthrift rich, the wasters of wealth, those who lavish in luxury or ostentation money that is sorely needed by others; by parasites, the idle rich, the lazy poor, the tramps, all who take, but do not give a return of honest work.  There are also the jingoes, the preachers of lawlessness, the demagogues, and many less common types of sinners.  But the particularly flagrant wrongs of our day have to do with the getting and spending of money; and the peril of the near future which looms now most menacingly on the horizon is the irritation of the wronged classes to the point of civil warfare and revolution.  Such a calamity might, of course, be ultimately a means of great social advance; but it is a highly dangerous and uncertain method, involving great moral damage as well as great individual suffering, and to be averted by every possible means.  The hope for averting it lies not only in the growth of public condemnation of lawlessness, but in the substitution of an ideal