298 THE ASCENT OF MAN 



education, is the gift of Love. Remember not 

 only these things, but the diffusions of feeling 

 which accompany them, the elevations, the ideals, 

 the happiness, the goodness, and the faitt in more 

 goodness, and ask if it is not a world of Love in 

 which we live. 



CO-OPERA TION IN NA TURK 



Though Co-operation is not exclusively the gift 

 of Reproduction, it is so closely related to it that 

 we may next observe a few of the fruits of 

 this most definitely altruistic principle. For here 

 is a principle, not merely a series of interesting 

 phenomena, profoundly rooted in Nature and 

 having for its immediate purpose the establishment 

 of Other-ism. In innumerable cases, doubtless, 

 Co-operation has been induced rather by the action 

 of the Struggle for Life — a striking circumstance 

 in itself, as showing how the very selfish side of 

 life has had to pay its debt to the larger law 

 — but in multitudes more it is directly allied with 

 the Struggle for the Life of Others. 



For illustrations of the principle in general we 

 may begin with the very dawn of life. Every life 

 at first was a single cell. Co-operation was un- 

 known. Each cell was self-contained and self-suflfi- 



