Facts And Fictions Of Life by Helen H. Gardener is a book based on human evolution history
and philosophy. The essays here collected which do not deal directly with heredity and its
possibilities have been included in the book because of the repeated calls for them upon the
different magazines in which they appeared and because they are rightly classed among the facts
and fictions of life with which we wish here to deal. That most of them touch chiefly the dark
side of the topics discussed is due to the fact that they were one and all written for a
purpose in which that method of handling seemed most effective. That there is a brighter side
goes without saying but when a physician is writing a lecture upon cholera or consumption he
does not devote his time and space to pointing out the indubitable fact that many of us have
not and are not likely to contract either one.
