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nation the same relation that the primitive savage 

 bore to his fellow. The command to *'love your 

 enemies" is a radical break in the development of 

 morals, a world-wide departure from the previous 

 condition of the ethical nature. 



"We have no space to develop this topic further 

 and must leave it with this sketchy outline. Brief as 

 it is, our outline will serve to illustrate the point 

 which we wish to emphasize. The present condition 

 of the morality of nations has been a matter of slow 

 growth and development. History clearly shows that 

 moral codes, which regulate the customs of mankind, 

 have developed from the condition so low as to be 

 hardly an advance over the life of the brute creation, 

 and have come to their present state by a series of 

 traceable steps. Obligations began with the family 

 and have grown and expanded with the size of the 

 organizations of men. So far as concerns codes of 

 morals there is no break of any significance separat- 

 ing the highest from the lowest man. 



