GENESIS OF MAN, MORALLY 



more with anticipations and memories. The 

 concluding phases of this long change may be 

 witnessed in the course of civilization. Our 

 parental affections now endure through life — 

 and while their fundamental instinct is perhaps 

 no stronger than in savages, they are, neverthe- 

 less, far more effectively powerful, owing to our 

 far greater power of remembering the past and 

 anticipating the future. 



I believe we have now reached a very thor- 

 ough and satisfactory explanation of the change 

 from Gregariousness to Sociality. Bear in mind 

 that I am not indulging in pure hypothesis. 

 The prolongation of infancy accompanying the 

 development of intelligence, and the correlative 

 extension of parental feelings, are facts estab- 

 lished by observation wherever observation is 

 possible. And to maintain that the correlation 

 of these phenomena was kept up during an 

 epoch which is hidden from observation, and 

 can only be known by inference, is to make a 

 genuine induction, involving no other assump- 

 tion than that the operations of nature are uni- 

 form. To him who is still capable of believing 

 that the human race was created by miracle in 

 a single day, with all its attributes, physical and 

 psychical, compounded and proportioned just 

 as they now are, the present inquiry is, of course, 

 devoid of significance. But for the evolution- 

 ist there would seem to be no alternative but 

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