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evolution, instead of on the immense function of 

 the cultural heredity of society imposed on the 

 mind of the young of each generation under the 

 influence of the emotion of the ideal, is one of the 

 most remarkable, as it is one of the most pregnant, 

 facts in the history of mankind. It is a cause 

 which has undoubtedly for long retarded the delayed 

 development of civilization. 



This fact is all the more striking, as there has 

 been for a long period foreshadowed in the West 

 in nearly every leading branch of the activities 

 of the Western mind an instinctive perception of 

 the true line which human evolution is taking, and 

 of the importance in the development in civilization 

 of qualities reaching their highest expression only 

 hi the mind of the young. 



For instance, in science the fact has been on 

 record that the development of the human face 

 after childhood into the usual adult maturity, 

 corresponding to the period wherein Bateson 

 described the altruistic emotions as tending to 

 weaken, represents development towards a type 

 of face which for some unexplained cause is in- 

 stinctively recognized by the mind as nearer the 

 apelike in character. 



Havelock Ellis, remarking on this fact, speaks of 

 the type of face which the child represents as appear- 



