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efforts, the organism becomes a keen, calculating, analytic, 

 and synthetic machine moved by impulses of self-preservation, 

 self-esteem, self-glorification, self -advancement. But even the 

 higher cogitic centers may often be linked up into moral con- 

 siderations and "feelings" or resultant responses, which pro- 

 duce in the organism love of family, regard and even love for 

 social and civic organization, and improvement of the centers 

 in which his life is passed. He may be a regular attendant 

 even at church, for the sense of order, of sobriety, of decency, 

 of harmonious moral relation between man and man prompts 

 him to find in such service a glad satisfaction. But he has no 

 inclination toward viewing "all men as brethren"; for easing 

 the heavy burden of the oppressed; for uniting backward or 

 unprivileged fellow-men, who show equal qualities with him, 

 but have had less worldly opportunity, into a brotherhood 

 of effort and improvement; for thinking of a great fatherhood 

 of the universe and of the world toward whom he and all com- 

 mon children of the Father may turn; for trusting that grad- 

 ually but surely the world will be so suffused with the father- 

 hood spirit that wars shall cease, and that human love and 

 forbearance shall replace intense competition, keen dealings, 

 and unscrupulous deceits. 



So trades unions are regarded as suspicious institutions, 

 dissenting religious bodies are only worthy to be frowned on, 

 cooperative unions represent efforts "to upset the regular 

 order of Society," while the often yawning gap between wealth 

 and poverty is a sacred institution that "in the Providence 

 of the Lord must always exist." 



On either side of this exactly scientific and common life 

 picture might be ranged others, who on the lower side give 

 freer rein to the sensuous — and specially the sex-impulse, who 

 indulge more freely and yet with guarded rarity in carnal 

 excesses, who regard all religious or spiritic stimuli and re- 

 sponses as worthy only of "old women." On the higher side 

 are others who, as in the parable of the rich young ruler, are 

 "not far from the Kingdom of Heaven." But the pleasing 

 mental response called forth, as sensuous impressions of lands, 



