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for the Life of Others nothing. Seeing not only 

 that the second is the more important, but also 

 this far more significant fact — which has not yet 

 been alluded to — that as Evolution proceeds the one 

 Struggle waxes^ and the other wanes^ would it not 

 be wiser to study the drama nearer its denoue- 

 ment before deciding whether it was a moral, a 

 non-moral, or an immoral play ? 



Lest the alleged waning of the Struggle for Life 

 convey a wrong impression, let it be added that of 

 course the word is to be taken qualitatively. The 

 Struggle in itself can never cease. What ceases 

 is its so-called anti-ethical character. For nothing 

 is in finer evidence as we rise in the scale of life 

 than the gradual tempering of the Struggle for Life. 

 Its slow amelioration is the work of ages, may be 

 the work of ages still, but its animal qualities in 

 the social life of Man are being surely left be- 

 hind ; and though the mark of the savage and 

 the brute still mar its handiwork, these harsher 

 qualities must pass away. In that new social 

 order which the gathering might of the altru- 

 istic spirit is creating now around us, in that 

 reign of Love which must one day, if the course 

 of Evolution holds on its way, be realized, the 

 baser elements will find that solvent prepared for 

 them from the beginning in anticipation of a higher 



