TIME AND CHANGE 



When the nations, too, cease to be savage and 

 selfish, and become altruistic, then the new birth of 

 humanity will actually have occurred. As an artist 

 and a creator of beautiful forms, man has also had 

 his day; he loved the beautiful, the artistic, or the 

 ornamental long before he loved the true and the 

 just. He was proud before he was kind ; he was chiv- 

 alrous before he was decent; he was tattooed before 

 he was washed; he was painted before he was 

 clothed; he built temples before he built a home; 

 he sacrificed to his gods before he helped his neigh- 

 bor; he was heroic before he was self-denying; he 

 was devout before he was charitable. We are losing 

 the savage virtues and vanities and growing in the 

 grace of all the humanities, and this process will 

 doubtless go on, with many interruptions and set- 

 backs of course, till the kingdom of love is at last 

 fairly established upon the earth. 



