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alone. Ihe power of sacrifice and renunciation is 

 the first and last word in that kind of efficiency 

 which is deepening in the social era of the race. 

 Man can only reach his highest power in the social 

 integration ; and there is no cause in the universe 

 which is able to render the individual, who is efficient 

 in the struggle for his own interests, capable of the 

 principle of sacrifice upon which the social integra- 

 tion rests, save only the Cause which expresses 

 itself through the emotion of the ideal. Civiliza- 

 tion has its origin, has its existence, and has the 

 cause of its progress in the emotion of the ideal. 

 It is through this faculty that the human mind 

 rises to the Universal. It is his capacity for the 

 emotion of the ideal and not his reasoning mind 

 which constitutes Man the God-like, and which 

 separates him from the brutes. 



The first remarkable feature of the emotion of 

 the ideal is that it is an attitude of mind which, 

 for the deep physiological reasons to be referred to 

 later, is most highly developed in the child. To 

 produce the most permanent results results which 

 in most cases are ineradicable afterwards the 

 emotion of the ideal must always be appealed to 

 in the mind of the child. One of the most significant 

 passages in Mr. Bateson's essay dealing with inborn 

 heredity in relation to society is that in which he recog- 



