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make it into clothes. You have got to a new state 

 of things. 



After I had put together all these additional cir 

 cumstances with regard to the origination of human 

 society and the development of altruism, I began 

 to see a little further into the matter. It then be 

 gan to appear that not only is man the terminal 

 factor in a long process of evolution, but in the 

 origination of man there began the development of 

 the higher psychical attributes, and those attributes 

 are coming to play a greater and greater part in 

 the development of the human race. Just take 

 this mere matter of &quot; altruism,&quot; as we call it. It is 

 not a pretty word, but must serve for want of a 

 better. In the development of altruism from the 

 low point, where there was scarcely enough to hold 

 the clan together, up to the point reached at the 

 present day, there has been a notable progress, but 

 there is still room for an enormous amount of im 

 provement. The progress has been all in the direc 

 tion of bringing out what we call the higher spirit 

 ual attributes. The feeling was now more strongly 

 impressed upon me than ever, that all these things 

 tended to set the whole doctrine of evolution into 

 harmony with religion ; that if the past through 

 which man had originated was such as has been de 

 scribed, then religion was a fit and worthy occupa- 



