Society then is, when taken in the widest sense, made up of two classes of people--the heirs who possess and the delinquents by birth or conduct who have forfeited the inheritance.
We may get a clear idea of the way a man attains his social heritage by dropping figure for the present and speaking in the terms of plain natural science.

Ever since Darwin propounded the law of Natural Selection the word Variation has been current in the sense explained on an earlier page.
The student in natural science has come to look for variations as the necessary preliminary to any new step of progress and adaptation in the sphere of organic life.

Nature, we now know, is fruitful to an extraordinary degree.

She produces many specimens of everything.

It is a general fact of reproduction that the offspring of plant or animal is quite out of proportion in numbers to the parents that produce them, and often also to the means of living which await them.