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life of each individual entire in length and breadth,, 

 at the same time that they efficiently subserve the 

 rearing of young, and do both these not only without 

 hindering other individuals from doing the like, but 

 while giving aid to them in doing the like." * This 

 completing of the life in length and breadth is more 

 fully stated elsewhere. " The type of nature to 

 which the highest social life affords a sphere such 

 that every faculty has its due amount, and no more 

 than its due amount, of function and accompanying 

 gratification, is the type of nature towards which 

 progress cannot cease till it is reached." -f- 



That the state of humanity on the earth will yet 

 be elevated and improved, so as to attain a fulness of 

 life and satisfaction in living not now known, is a 

 reasonable hope. But in procuring that blessedness 

 other influences must be brought into exercise, of 

 which evolution can give no account. It can only 

 set before man, as his ideal condition, a perfect equili- 

 bration of the personal life in the harmonious action 

 of all the faculties, and the constant accompaniment 

 of their activity with a sense of pleasure ; a perfect 

 adaptation of the individual life to the social organi- 

 zation, enhancing the personal enjoyment by a com- 

 munity of pleasurable feelings ; and therewith a 

 perfect adjustment of society in its members one to- 

 another and to the whole, and the whole to the 



* The Data of Ethics, 15. Ibid., 67. 



