And it is true that eugenics alone, like birth-control alone, can effect little if the economic basis of society is unsound.

But it is equally certain that the economic factor can never in itself suffice for fine living or even as a cure-all of social and racial diseases.

Its value is not that it can effect these things but that it furnishes the favourable conditions for effecting them.

He would be foolish indeed who went to the rich to find the example of good breeding and, as is well known, it is not with the rich that the future of the race lies.

The fact is that under any economic system the responsible personal direction of the individual and the family remain equally necessary, and no progress is possible so long as the individual casts all responsibility away from himself on to the social group he forms part of.