ABSTRACT
The misbehaviors of the human race might induce their creator to wipe out their planet, but hardly the entire stellar system. Modern physics suggests, indeed, that it will shine for at least a million years. The great meteor imbedded in the desert in Arizona may have formed part of a comet, and some of the scars on the moon may be due to collisions with wandering matter. But the improbability of a collision which would desolate any large part of the earth's surface is enormous, even though the Arizona meteorite would have made a considerable mess of London or New York. The instinctive and traditional preferences of the individual, which were still allowed to influence mating, caused a certain standard body form to be preserved. The almost complete abolition of the pain sense which was carried out before the year five million was the most striking piece of artificial evolution accomplished.
