7<S The Destiny of Man. 



visibly changed from what they had been 

 from the outset in the animal world. 

 That struggle meant everlasting slaughter, 

 and the fiercest races of fighters would be 

 just the ones to survive and perpetuate 

 their kind. Those most successful primi- 

 tive men, from whom civilized peoples are 

 descended, must have excelled in treach- 

 ery and cruelty, as in quickness of wit and 

 strength of will. That moral sense which 

 makes it seem wicked to steal and murder 

 was scarcely more developed in them than 

 in tigers or wolves. But to all this there 

 was one exception. The family supplied 

 motives for peaceful cooperation. 12 With- 

 in the family limits fidelity and forbear- 

 ance had their uses, for events could not 

 have been long in showing that the most 

 coherent families would prevail over their 

 less coherent rivals. Observation of the 

 most savage races agrees with the compar- 

 ative study of the institutions of civilized 

 peoples, in proving that the only bond of 

 political union recognized among primitive 



