Two or three such groups would do more than many sermons to awaken attention to the problem before the race to-day.

Shall man yield himself to the tendencies of natural selection and be modified out of existence by the pressure of his environment, or shall he turn upon himself some of the knowledge of Nature's forces he has gained and by "conscious evolution" begin an adaptation of the environment to the organism?
For we no longer hold with Robert Owen and the socialists that man is necessarily controlled and moulded by his surroundings, that he is absolutely subject to the laws of animal evolution.

A new era will dawn when man sees his power over his own future.

Then, and not till then, will come again that willingness to sacrifice present ease and pleasure for the sake of race progress, which alone can make the restrained life a satisfaction.
The environment is, more largely than we think, the house and the manner of life it forces upon us.

Therefore the first point of attack is the shelter under which the family life of the newly married pair establishes itself.