Family and Society 



highest and best human mind. First comes the 

 physical, then the mental and spiritual slowly 

 gain ascendancy and complete control. 



Mentally, as well as physically, man has In- 

 herited from all ages and stages of life. Appe- 

 tites are old and deep-seated, rude and very 

 strong. His senses are keen. Old motives, 

 like fear or hate, are always threatening revolt 

 against the higher and younger moral and relig- 

 ious ruling powders. But slowly, as man at- 

 tained the human stage, love of beauty and 

 truth, of right, of fellow-man and of God; obe- 

 dience to the laws of reason — in one word, the 

 real human life — rose superior to the appetites 

 and passions of his old animal ancestors. It has 

 been a long and fearful struggle. Rex regis 

 rebellis. The king has always been in rebellion 

 against the king. The lower always appeals 

 from and against the higher. Ape and tiger die 

 hard. 



Where so many powers had to be evolved, 

 they could not all advance equally at one time. 

 The first organs were those Insuring growth and 

 survival. These were fundamental. Only when 

 they had been firmly established could anything 

 higher be Introduced. But upon this founda- 



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