wo The Destiny of Man. 



siderably determined by increasing width 

 and variety of experience. From the 

 simplest form of sympathy, such as the 

 painful thrill felt on seeing some one in a 

 dangerous position, up to the elaborate 

 complication of altruistic feelings involved 

 in the notion of abstract justice, the de- 

 velopment is very largely a development 

 of the representative faculty. The very 

 same causes, therefore, deeply grounded 

 in the nature of industrial civilization, 

 which have developed science and art, 

 have also had a distinct tendency to en- 

 ' courage the growth of the sympathetic 

 emotions. 



But, as already observed, these emotions 

 are still too feebly developed, even in the 

 highest races of men. We have made 

 more progress in intelligence than in 

 kindness. For thousands of generations, 

 and until very recent times, one of the 

 chief occupations of men has been to plun- 

 der, bruise, and kill one another. The 

 selfish and ugly passions which are pri- 



