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together to the great advantage of trade, but 

 it has also aggravated rivalries and produced 

 an intense militarism, backed by scientific in- 

 vention, which renders insignificant the petty- 

 conflicts of the past. On the whole, if compe- 

 tition and the resulting destruction of the un- 

 wary is the law of progress, as the Darwinists 

 would have us believe, then in view of present- 

 day rivalries, exploitation, industrial strife, and 

 world war the biological millennium should be 

 not far away. 



Such in brief is the unlovely story of the 

 past that materialistic science, with its passion 

 for demonstrable facts, has revealed. It is a 

 story of man's animal origin, of his brute na- 

 ture, of his cupidity, lust, cunning, and hypoc- 

 risy. But, as was suggested at the outset, it is 

 a story that has another side. From that 

 human nature which is of the earth, earthy, 

 where the natural impulse of blind aggression 

 rules, there has blossomed a higher nature ca- 

 pable of appreciating universal aesthetic and 

 moral ideas. This spiritual nature challenges 

 the supremacy of the animal nature, and strives 

 to impose limit and form on the tide of primi- 

 tive passions that express themselves in social 

 life. Indeed, a more intimate study of history 



