IN HIGHER PEOPLES 181 



There is no instinct in human nature that has 

 made greater gro^\i;h during the human period 

 than the instinct of liumanity. Humanity means 

 brotherhood — the spirit of the family. Men are 

 brothers. And they should have for each other 

 that fellow-feeling, that feeling of SATnpathy and 

 oneness, that brothers have. We have all come 

 from the same great ^vomb of life, we have the 

 same susceptibilities of pleasure and pain, the 

 same frailties, and are advancing all of us to the 

 same ultimate destiny. We should take each 

 other by the hand. We should be comrades. This 

 is a gray world. There is enough sorrow in it, 

 even tho we cease to scourge each other — the sor- 

 row of floods, famines, fires, earthquakes, storms, 

 diseases, and death. We should trust each other, 

 and love each other, and s^mipathize with and help 

 each other, and be patient and forgiving. For do 

 we not know how divine these things are when 

 they are done to us ? 



The following is from Darwin : 



**As man advances in civilization and small 

 tribes are united into larger communities, the 

 simplest reason should tell each individual that he 

 ought to extend his sympathies to all the members 

 of the nation, tho personally unknown to him. 

 This point being once reached, there is only an 

 artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies ex- 

 tending to the men of all nations. But, unfortun- 

 ately, experience shows us that, if such men are 

 separated from us by great differences in appear- 



