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ORGANIC EVOLUTION—MENTAL
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to be a scientist, then in each case acquired and educational traits would have led to knowledge, ways of thinking, and reasons for acting, and thence to practical results widely different to those which other influences produced. And if the educational influences which act on all the individuals of a race in common, are such as to produce in them a general tendency to the pursuit of knowledge, or of wealth, or to the practice of asceticism, it is abundantly evident that these educational influences will so affect the acquirement of knowledge, of modes of thought, and of motives for acting in the whole race, that the resulting state of society will be quite different in any one instance from what it would be in any other.
