Metanthropos, or, The body of the future / by Ronald Campbell MacFie.

  • Macfie, Ronald Campbell, 1867-1931.
Date:
1928
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Credit: Metanthropos, or, The body of the future / by Ronald Campbell MacFie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    METANTHROPOS waken thoughts and feelings unknown to generations in simpler environments. The main progress of the brain and of man's cerebral life within the limits of the genes will depend almost entirely on love and sexual selection. It is love—blind, clairvoyant love—that will choose the combinations that will make the brain, and with the brain the whole conscious being of Future Humanity. So far, love has chosen chiefly through men, and men have been attracted chiefly by the physical—a form of choice to which the dress of modern woman pays ample testimony—but more and more as the bodies of men and women get sufíiciently selected the choice will be mutual and will depend on the conscious or subconscious recognition of intellectual and moral characters. In view of the vast intellectual and moral differences that already obtain between man and man, and race and race, the moral and intellectual results of conscious and subconscious sexual selection on a moral and intellec¬ tual basis will be revolutionary, even in the absence of further evolution. Certainly it will be impossible to breed true, to breed [94]