THE EVOLUTION OF A MOTHER 373 



ail its significance to the phrase * Kingdom of 

 Heaven * would have been non-existent for us. 

 Without the circumstances of Infancy we might 

 have become formidable among animals throughf 

 sheer force of sharp-wittedness. But except for 

 these circumstances we should never have compre- 

 hended the meaning of such phrases as * self- 

 sacrifice ' or * devotion.' The phenomena of social 

 life would have been omitted from the history of 

 the world, and with them the phenomena of ethics 

 and religion." ^ 



^ Fiske, Cosmic Philosophy^ Vol. 11., p. 363. 



