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attractive to some though repugnant to others. Why 

 decry it ? some may ask. But Natural Selection is 

 more than a mental comfort, it is often used as a justi- 

 fication for conduct. Anthropomorphism has been used 

 in the past much in the same manner. We are familiar 

 in history with the phrase " the divine right of kings," 

 i.e. the sacredness of hereditary right which was used as 

 a plea till the seventeenth century. At the present day 

 this plea finds a parallel in what may be called the right 

 of the spirit of competition which is daily invoked in 

 order to smother those altruistic feelings that are an 

 important part of the human mind. 



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