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institutions and social virtues, which we now prize so 

 highly as the most social features of our own civilisation, 

 were undoubtedly the product albeit in a primitive and 

 crude form of a period of kindred group-marriage, a 

 period in which the animal instincts appear to us to 

 have been all-dominant. 



Shall we despair because we find all that man values 

 as unselfish, pure, and noble his love, his friendship, 

 and his charity have their origin in what some are 

 pleased to term base and loathsome animal passions ? 



On the contrary, if we survey the past, and see what 

 mankind, solely under the pressure of animal passions, 

 has achieved blindly amid blood and struggle and un- 

 regarded pain, may we not confidently hope that the 

 strong social instincts which have been evolved from, 

 but which now dominate the more selfish and animal side 

 of man's nature may carry him forward more quickly 

 and more smoothly to still more complex stages of de- 

 velopment ? Out of the low came the high, out of the 

 high may well come the exalted. Only those who dream 

 that morality sprung fully developed from the brain of 

 a deity can dread to learn its lowly animal origin, or fear 

 to acknowledge that our current morality, social and 

 sexual, may be as crude and repellent to the future as 

 that of the matriarchal civilisation in its kindred group- 

 stage now appears to us. 



