CHAPTER VII 



THE STRUGGLE FOR THE LIFE OF 

 OTHERS 



\T TE now open a wholly new, and by far the 

 ' ^ most important, chapter in the Evolution 

 of Man. Up to this time we have found for him 

 a Body, and the rudiments of Mind. But Man is 

 not a Body, nor a Mind. The temple still awaits 

 its final tenant — the higher human Soul. 



With a Body alone, Man is an animal: the high- 

 est animal, yet a pure animal; struggling for its own 

 narrow life, living for its small and sordid ends. 

 Add a Mind to that and the advance is infinite. 

 The Struggle for Life assumes the august form of 

 a struggle for light : he who was once a savage, 

 pursuing the arts of the chase, realizes Aristotle's 

 ideal man, " a hunter after Truth." Yet this is not 

 the end. Experience tells us that Man's true life 

 is neither lived in the material tracts of the body, 



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