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less imperfectly at first, in our race life. But as love 

 grows, so will these purely selfish passions die which 

 militate against man's general well-being; so will be 

 substituted in their place a love as wide and boundless 

 as the universe, knowing no separate castes or creeds, 

 no divided nationalities, no differing races, but em- 

 bracing all mankind; a sympathy for and with all men, 

 and the acts which naturally flow from such an honest 

 sympathy. Had the mental horizon of the peoples to 

 whom this ideal was addressed widened sufficiently yet 

 to enable them to entertain so enlarged and profound 

 a moral idea ? Not in the least. But the evolutionary 

 ideal was set before the race, and some day the race, 

 somewhere, somehow, would slowly grow up to it in a 

 people which should bring forth the fruits thereof. 



Love Without Reason 



But you must always apparently be on your guard 

 against one danger. It is just as easy to exaggerate 

 unduly the emotional side of man's nature as it is the 

 intellectual side; easier, perhaps. In this wider view 

 of the race as one great human family, we must equally 

 guard against the evils which an exaggerated love, 

 untempered by reason, produces in our present family 

 life. In other words, love must always be guided by 

 intelligence. Listen to the following suggestive pas- 

 sage taken from a writer on the family life in Africa 

 to-day, and tell me whether the phenomenon is con- 

 fined to the Dark Continent alone.* "In most tribes 

 Nassau, Fetichism in West Africa, p. 156. 



