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make it into clothes. You have got to a new state 

 of things. 



After I had put together all these additional cir- 

 cumstances with regard to the origination of human 

 society and the development of altruism, I began 

 to see a little further into the matter. It then be- 

 gan to appear that not only is man the terminal 

 factor in a long process of evolution, but in the 

 origination of man there began the development of 

 the higher psychical attributes, and those attributes 

 are coming to play a greater and greater part in 

 the development of the human race. Just take 

 this mere matter of " altruism," as we call it. It is 

 not a pretty word, but must serve for want of a 

 better. In the development of altruism from the 

 low point, where there was scarcely enough to hold 

 the clan together, up to the point reached at the 

 present day, there has been a notable progress, but 

 there is still room for an enormous amount of im- 

 provement. The progress has been all in the direc- 

 tion of bringing out what we call the higher spirit- 

 ual attributes. The feeling was now more strongly 

 impressed upon me than ever, that all these things 

 tended to set the whole doctrine of evolution into 

 harmony with religion ; that if the past through 

 which man had originated was such as has been de- 

 scribed, then religion was a fit and worthy occupa- 



