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offspring in devices or skillful acts that would equip them later 

 for mature life, as well as many other kindred deeds, are, and were 

 nearly all, made possible by hand-arm and brain cooperation. 



So human morals became a most important factor in human 

 advance, and represented myriads of environal stimuli of an 

 intelligent or even reasoning kind, due to contact of man with 

 his fellows, and the resulting formation of proenvironal re- 

 sponses that gradually became recognized as conduct, or in other 

 words the most satisfying and satisfied behavior for himself, and 

 in relation to his fellows around. The consideration, therefore, 

 of morals as a great agency for human advance will be taken 

 up in a later chapter. 



But a still more significant environal condition was estab- 

 lished when man started distance concept connections. For, 

 while morals became to him increasingly necessary if a satisfied 

 but also a proenvironal and so progressive life was to be lived 

 in relation to his fellows, his mind became occupied with ratio- 

 cinative problems that the moral relations in part started and 

 seemed to obtrude on him. Love for wife, children, or mem- 

 bers of the tribe; an awed and reverential regard for all the ex- 

 hibitions of nature that surrounded him and which seemed to 

 pursue their courses without his aid, before which also he ap- 

 peared often powerless; an increasing knowledge of animal 

 migrations, of seasonal flowering or matings, of diverse climates 

 and their different products; a study of the movements and 

 relations of the heavenly bodies and a cumulated knowledge of 

 the power and magnificence of the sun and moon, were all 

 compelling stimuli of most varied kind that started increasingly 

 complex proenvironal thoughts and attempted reasons as to 

 their interrelation with each other and with him. 



So originated and developed, we have every cause for be- 

 lieving, the religious field of man's mental evolution, that has 

 been as much misunderstood as it has been minimized in value, 

 but which has been a powerful lever in man's mental and spir- 

 itual uplift. 



For the recognition by man of great and as yet unsolved ex- 

 hibitions of natural force, energy, spirit, that were outside him, 



