ter of his own destiny. A hypothetical ass
may stand helpless between two equidistant bales of hay, but no human
being is ever so helpless a sport of his environment. As it is, he may
drift or he may rove as he pleases. To one man the current may be
stronger than to another. There may be now and then a child so
feeble-minded as to be unable to decide the course of its own life. It
will not be long before society will see to it that such a life leaves
behind it no strain cursed with its fatal weakness. In this effort to
advance, man has all the advantage that comes from concentrated social
effort. No man may live to himself. To every man in our community who
desires it, a helping hand will be stretched. Often a hand will be
stretched to him and he will be steadied whether he will or not,
until his own will reforms itself and gains the mastery.

Inasmuch as all that is in man comes from his environment or from his
heredity, the only way in which the race of men can be advanced is by
improving their environment or by bettering their heredity. The first
of these is the province of the sociologist; the second that of the
eugenist. The sociologist has for some time been giving his careful
attention to the improvement of the environment. In every large city,
a man must build for himself a house fit to live in, if he build it at
all. Whether he erects it for himself or for another makes no
difference. Society will no longer allow him to build a home which is
a detriment to the one who lives in it. Not only must he make himself
a decent home but he must keep it in decent condition. The community
will not allow him to endanger his own health, or that of his
neighbor, by an insufficient method of attending to his garbage, or by
a lack of ordinary cleanliness. If he will not clean his premises
himself, the law sees to it that they are cleaned for him. Already we
are beginning to understand that no man has a right to employ another
man or woman or child at wages which are not sufficient to maintain
the one thus employed. The wages of many people are exceedingly
meager, notably those of women and children. He can read but ill the
signs of the times who does not foresee an early end to the exploiting
of the labor of these helpless creatures. Humanity has determined
firmly that these things must pass, that the young child must not
labor long or hard, that a woman must not be taxed beyond her
strength. Already in England there is a part