702 The Destiny of Man. 



other with knives and clubs, they still in- 

 flict wounds with cruel words and sneers. 

 Though the free - thinker is no longer 

 chained to a stake and burned, people still 

 tell lies about him, and do their best to 

 starve him by hurting his reputation. The 

 virtues of forbearance and self-control are 

 still in a very rudimentary state, and of 

 mutual helpfulness there is far too little 

 among men. 



Nevertheless in all these respects some 

 improvement has been made, along with 

 the diminution of warfare, and by the 

 time warfare has not merely ceased from 

 the earth but has come to be the dimly 

 remembered phantom of a remote past, 

 the development of the sympathetic side 

 of human nature will doubtless become 

 prodigious. The manifestation of selfish 

 and hateful feelings will be more and more 

 sternly repressed by public opinion, and 

 such feelings will become weakened by 

 disuse, while the sympathetic feelings will 

 increase in strength as the sphere for 



