158 Heredity and Child Culture 



Enduring from birth until death, these relation- 

 ships acquire a traditionary value which passes 

 on from generation to generation, and thus there 

 arise reciprocal necessities of behavior between 

 parents and children, husbands and wives, 

 brothers and sisters, in which reciprocal neces- 

 sities of behavior we have discerned the requi- 

 site conditions for the genesis of those ego- 

 altruistic impulses which, when further modi- 

 fied by the expansion of sympathetic feelings, 

 give birth to moral sentiments. ***** We 

 bridge the gulf which seems, on a superficial 

 view, forever to divide the human from the 

 brute world. And not least, in the grand result, 

 is the profound meaning which is given to the 

 phenomena of helpless babyhood. From of old 

 we have heard the monition, 'Except ye be as 

 babes, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.* 

 The latest science now shows us, — though in a 

 very different sense of the word, — that, unless 

 we had been as babes, the ethical phenomena 

 which gives all its significance to the phrase 

 'kingdom of heaven' would have been non-exis- 

 tent for us. Without the circumstances of in- 



