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made agree in helping ns to the solution. That same inciease 

 in representativeness, which is at the bottom of intellectual 

 progressiveness, is also at the bottom of sociality, since it 

 necessitates that prolongation of infancy to which the genesis 

 of sociality, as distinguished from mere gregariousness, must 

 look for its explanation. In this phenomenon of the pro- 

 longing of the period of infancy we find the bond of connec- 

 tion between the problems which occupy such thinkers as 

 Mr. "Wallace and those which occupy such thinkers as Sir 

 Henry Maine. We bridge the guK which seems, on a super- 

 ficial view, for ever to divide the human from the brute world. 

 And not least, in the grand result, is the profound meaning 

 which is given to the phenomena of helpless babyhood. 

 From of old we have heard the monition, " Except ye be as 

 babes, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." The latest 

 science now shows us — though in a very different sense of 

 the words — that, unless we had been as babes, the ethical 

 phenomena which give all its significance to the phrase 

 •* kingdom of heaven " would have been non-existent for us. 

 Without the circumstances of infancy we might have become 

 formidable among animals through sheer force of sharp- 

 wittedness. But, except for these circumstances, we should 

 '.ever have comprehended the meaning of such phrases as 

 " self-sacrifice " or " devotion." The phenomena of social 

 life would have been omitted from the history of the world, 

 and with them the phenomena of ethics and of religion. 



