n of personal inclinations and conformity to social
standards.

For the majority of people, however, it is likely that a more rational
form of social control, freed from the long ages of taboo restrictions,
and based upon accurate biological and psychological knowledge, will
solve the disharmony between the individual and the group to a great
extent. Such a rationalization will take into account the value of a new
ideal of love which shall be built up from a sane relationship between
the sexes and in accordance with eugenic standards. It will also grant a
great deal of personal autonomy in the determination of sexual
relationships in so far as this can be correlated with the welfare of
the children of the race. Last of all, it will attempt to condition the
emotional reactions to respond to stimuli which shall insure eugenic
mating naturally and without the intervention of legislation.

Unless modern civilization can set up some such form of rational control
for the sexual and reproductive life of its members, the present
conflict between individuation and socialization will continue and the
dysgenic factors now operative in society will steadily increase. In the
end, this internal conflict may become so powerful as to act as an
irresistible disintegrating force that will shatter the fabric of modern
social organization. Only the evolution of a rationalized method of
control can avert this social catastrophe.

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER III.

1. Anthony, Katharine. Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia. Henry Holt,
N.Y., 1915.

2. Bloch, Ivan. Sexual Life of Our Time. Rebman, London, 1908.

3. Burgess, E.W. The Function of Socialization in Social Evolution.
Univ. Chicago Press, 1916.

4. Finck, H.T. Romantic Love and Personal Beauty. Macmillan, N.Y., 1891.

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