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relationships between father and mother, 

 brethren and sisters, must have become 

 firmly knit ; and thus the family, the unit 

 of human society, gradually came into 

 existence. 11 The rudimentary growth of 

 moral sentiment must now have received 

 a definite direction. As already observed, 

 with the beginnings of infancy in the 

 animal world there came the genesis in 

 the parents of feelings and actions not 

 purely self-regarding. Rudimentary sym- 

 pathies, with rudimentary capacity for 

 self-devotion, are witnessed now and then 

 among higher mammals, such as the dog, 

 and not uncommonly among apes. But as 

 the human family, with its definite re- 

 lationships, came into being, there must 

 necessarily have grown up between its 

 various members reciprocal necessities of 

 behaviour. The conduct of the individual 

 could no longer be shaped with sole ref- 

 erence to his own selfish desires, but 

 must be to a great extent subordinated to 

 the general welfare of the family. And in 



