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followers, the truth that any other great factor in 

 Evolution existed. 



The truth is there are two Struggles for Life in 

 every living thing — the Struggle for Life, and the 

 Struggle for the Life of Others. The web of life 

 is woven upon a double set of threads, the second 

 thread distinct in colour from the first, and giving 

 a totally different pattern to the finished fabric. 

 As the whole aspect of the after-world depends 

 on this distinction of strands in the warp, it 

 is necessary to grasp the distinction with the 

 utmost clearness. Already, in the introductory 

 chapter, the nature of the distinction has been 

 briefly explained. But it is necessary to be ex- 

 plicit here, even to redundancy. We have arrived 

 at a point from which the Ascent of Man takes a 

 fresh departure, a point from which the course of 

 Evolution begins to wear an entirely altered as- 

 pect. No such consummation ever before occurred 

 in the progress of the world as the rise to potency 

 in human life of the Struggle for the Life of 

 Others. The Struggle for the Life of Others is 

 the physiological name for the greatest word of 

 ethics — Other-ism, Altruism, Love. From Self-ism 

 to Other-ism is the supreme transition of history. 

 It is therefore impossible to lodge in the mind 

 with too much solidity the simple biological fact 



