The Destiny of Man. 101 



mordial which have the incalculable 

 strength of inheritance from the time when 

 animal consciousness began have had 

 but little opportunity to grow weak from 

 disuse. The tender and unselfish feelings, 

 which are a later product of evolution, have 

 too seldom been allowed to grow strong 

 from exercise. And the whims and prej- 

 udices of the primeval militant barbarism 

 are slow in dying out from the midst of 

 peaceful industrial civilization. The coarser 

 forms of cruelty are disappearing, and the 

 butchery of men has greatly diminished. 

 But most people apply to industrial pur- 

 suits a notion of antagonism derived from 

 ages of warfare, and seek in all manner of 

 ways to cheat or overreach one another. 

 And as in more barbarous times the hero 

 was he who had slain his tens of thou- 

 sands, so now the man who has made 

 wealth by overreaching his neighbours 

 is not uncommonly spoken of in terms 

 which imply approval. Though gentle- 

 men, moreover, no longer assail one an- 



