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military and political and economic developments that 

 have taken place tinder the leadership of European 

 motives and ideas, have been in the nature of an inten- 

 sification and elaboration of these instincts, apparently 

 inherited from his animal ancestors. The history of 

 Europe presents a record of cruelty and man-inflicted 

 suffering and internecine bloodshed without parallel in 

 the histories of other peoples and other lands. 



It appears justifiable to forecast that could such a 

 synthetic moral philosophy as that here indicated be 

 made, one consequence would be the bringing of man's 

 acquisitive and hoarding and combative instincts into 

 proper correlation and subordination with his other 

 more definitively human instincts. 



Finally, may we not do we not discern signs in 

 the type of civilization which is struggling forward in 

 the Americas, particularly in North America, that 

 these recently possessed continents may now add their 

 world-encompassing, world-moving contribution to 

 civilization, that contribution to be the very synthesiz- 

 ing of religion, morals, and science, which our discus- 

 sion has revealed might, on rational grounds, be antici- 

 pated? The signs which seem to me most premonitory 

 of such a consummation are the aggregate of ideas and 

 ideals and tendencies in both Americas which we com- 

 monly though not very definitively name democracy, 

 and the development in the United States of what I 

 venture to call scientific philosophy. 



To be only a trifle more specific as to what I mean 



