IX. 



The Origins of Society and of Morality. 

 NE further point must be con- 



sidered before this outline sketch 

 of the manner of man's origin 

 can be called complete. The psychical 

 development of Humanity, since its ear- 

 lier stages, has been largely due to the 

 reaction of individuals upon one another 

 in those various relations which we char- 

 acterize as social. 10 In considering the 

 origin of Man, the origin of human soci- 

 ety cannot be passed over. Foreshadow- 

 ings of social relations occur in the animal 

 world, not only in the line of our own ver- 

 tebrate ancestry, but in certain orders of 

 insects which stand quite remote from 

 that line. Many of the higher mammals 

 are gregarious, and this is especially true 

 of that whole order of primates to which 



