Humanity, like every other living item, has a basis which is made for it by inheritance, and not by itself. When it keeps towards such basis, it repeats the history of its forefathers, and "like begets like" in the record of its race. To get rid of poverty, we must take such steps as will improve the race. It cannot be too soon recognized and acknowledged that the causes of poverty are primarily causes of physical kind, and that the cures for pauperism, crime, and degradation are similarly to be drawn from the resources of sanitary or social science. To recover the socially lost and the moral pariah of the race, we must study the law of evolution, and we shall find that, although we are all subject to the law of inheritance, there are in each of us, more or less, materials for change and variation, new features and traits, that may be developed, or old ones to undergo modifications; so that we may speed onward and upward towards a higher level of life. " But there is a wider thought still, which underlies the law of inheritance. To rest content with the phrase that ' like begets like,' is to comprehend only half a truth. Inheritance is only a name for a tendency that works out a larger law of nature. It is true that the features of parents are transmitted to offspring. It is undeniable that the traits of character seen in one generation are found reproduced, with greater or less exactitude, in the next. But this is only part of the truth about inheritance, after all. We light upon an equally important truth in the statement that there is an evolution to be accounted for as well as a more repetition; there is variation, as well as transmission-change, as well as sameness, in the ways and works of life.