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BRAINS IN THE UNDERWORLD.
I hope that, in some of my chapters, I have made it clear that a large proportion of the underworld people are industrious and persevering.
I want in this chapter to show that many of them have also ability and brains, gifts and graces.

This is a pleasant theme, and I would revel in it, but for the sorrowful side of it.
It may seem strange that people living under their conditions should possess these qualities, but in reality there is nothing strange about it, for Nature laughs at us, and bestows her gifts upon whom she pleases, though I have no doubt that she works to law and order if we only understood.
But we do not understand, and therefore she appears whimsical and capricious.

I rather expect that even when eugenists get their way and the human race is born to order, that Dame Nature, the mother of us all, will not consent to be left out of the reckoning.

Be that as it may, it is certain she bestows her personal gifts among the very poor equally with the rich.