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grew rapidly. The Golden Rule was soon established 

 as a principle, long before it was formulated in words, 

 although constantly violated. Then it became easy 

 to establish a religious cult, founded on that principle. 

 The conditions, such as the greater brain power, and 

 the ability to accumulate wealth, after the smelting 

 of iron ore was invented, and marriage began to be 

 founded on sexual love, and not mere passion, were 

 brought about by natural evolution. The Christian 

 religion grew out of these conditions. They were 

 not made by the religion, but the natural conditions 

 made the religion. It is not an intuitive principle. 

 If it had been implanted, and not a result of physical 

 evolution, it could have been implanted in the savage, 

 or primitive man, as well as in the Aryan or Semitic 

 race, at the time it appeared. But the primitive man was 

 not prepared for it, by previous industrial development, 

 and therefore could not comprehend it, nor adopt it. 

 Altruism which includes all unselfishness and ethics, 

 can only arise when men see the necessity of doing 

 away with war in all its forms, and when the true 

 value of life is comprehended. It is conceived, only 

 when peace is discovered to be more economically 

 valuable than war. In order to maintain peace, 

 cruelty, oppression, and all forms of selfishness, must 

 be either entirely abolished, or exercised in such a 

 way, as not to appear to the victim, as such. In 

 order that men may live and thrive together, each indi- 

 vidual must concede many of his individual rights 

 and desires to the maintenance of the bond of com- 

 munity. This inspires him with an unselfishness which 

 grows, as his conceptions of what is best for his own 

 welfare, reveal to him, that this means the welfare of 

 the community at large. As he grows old, he needs 



