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Eleventhly. Herein lies the incentive for that proper 

 conduct of the individual organism to produce 

 that condition of things which tends to develop the 

 maximum of human happiness for himself and 

 others. To do this the selfish Ego must be sup- 

 pressed, and the dominant object to aim at is : 

 that condition of things which will produce the 

 highest attainable happiness for all which are 

 born. 



Twelffchly. It is obvious such a scheme of Nature is not 

 a national progress, but an international progress. 

 Nature is cosmopolitan. 



Thirteenthly. When we see the capacity of Nature to 

 regenerate the human organisms, under conditions 

 which the intellectual human being loathes, and 

 under conditions which bar all hope and from 

 which often come our agitators, our criminals, 

 our nihilists, &c. then we see the necessity of 

 forwarding the progress of the higher human 

 development. And this development is just 

 what Nature is forcing, 1 and man is now beginning 



1 "There is no phenomenon so stupendous, so bewildering, and 

 withal so interesting to man as that of his own evolution in society. 

 The period it has occupied in his history is short compared with the 

 hole wspan of that history; yet the results obtained are striking 

 beyond comparison. Looking back through the glasses of modern 

 science we behold him at first outwardly a brute, feebly holding his 

 own against -many fierce competitors. He has no wants above those 

 of the beast ; he lives in holes and dens in the rocks ; he is a brute, 

 even more feeble in body than many of the animals with which he 

 struggles for a brute's portion. Tens of thousands of years pass over 

 him, and his progress is slow and painful to a degree. The dim light 

 which inwardly illumines him has grown brighter ; the rude weapons 

 which aid his natural helplessness are better shaped ; the cunning 

 with which he circumvents his prey, and which helps him against 



