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himself if he does not use these endowments to forestall 

 situations that would make hunger press thus severely 

 upon him. 



" There is a famous saying that man does not live by 

 bread alone. This is better biology by a thousand times 

 than those inculcations which would have his life de- 

 pend chiefly on his general animal attributes and ignore 

 for the most part those attributes that make him a special 

 kind of animal, namely a rational, an esthetic, a moral, 

 and a religious animal. Nobody, and especially no 

 biologist, can notice too particularly that the man who 

 does not live by bread alone, is exactly the man we call 

 civilised. While in the savage state he does live by 

 food chiefly, his outgrowing this is just what carries him 

 into the civilized state." 



WILLIAM E. HITTER: War, Science 

 and Civilisation, p. 2. 



" The intrinsic significance of Life's fundamental facts 

 cannot be grasped from the point of view of the indi- 

 vidual. Death seems absurd, yet no mother ever gave 

 birth to a child but in pains and pangs, and many dis- 

 eases are inherent in normal growth; vicarious suffering 

 seems supremely unjust, yet it is blessed. In the course 

 of ages, man, through his efforts to understand life and 

 himself, has worked out correspondences between the 

 individual and the universal and codified these in dog- 

 mas, laws, and rules supposed to express absolute right 

 and truth. But even the best-tested of them are not 

 wholly true ; several alternatives for j udgment and action 

 remain open in every case. It is impossible to settle 

 the question once and for all as to which is better for the 

 soul, wealth or poverty, comfort or suffering. . . . The 

 fact is, that man can think only as an individual, while 



