. The literary digest. r superficial, voluntary orautomatic, does not concern us. VVhat concerns us is that theAltruism is there ; that the day came when, even tho a rudiment,it was a reality ; above all that the arrangements for introducingand perfecting it were realities. That suffices for our own con-tention, which is this : that the foundations of human moralityare laid in the very nature of the animal life which we share withall our humble fellow creatures, and consequently, that thehighest ethical attainments and aspirations of man as a socialbeing are only developments of a principle wh
. The literary digest. r superficial, voluntary orautomatic, does not concern us. VVhat concerns us is that theAltruism is there ; that the day came when, even tho a rudiment,it was a reality ; above all that the arrangements for introducingand perfecting it were realities. That suffices for our own con-tention, which is this : that the foundations of human moralityare laid in the very nature of the animal life which we share withall our humble fellow creatures, and consequently, that thehighest ethical attainments and aspirations of man as a socialbeing are only developments of a principle which exists andoperates, often in a most wonderful and admirable way, in themas well as in mankind. THE CONFLICT OF DISEASE. WE have long been accustomed to speak of disease as a bat-tle ; we say that the sufferer is making a splendid up-hill fight, and that he has subdued the disease or that the dis-ease has vanquished him. It is only recently, however, thatphysicians have had grounds for the belief that the patient is.
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