240 THE PSYCHICAL KINSHIP 



seeks wealth purely out of an insane impulse to 

 accumulate. And no animal, except man, gloats 

 over accumulations that are of no possible use to 

 him, that are an injury and an abomination, and 

 in whose acquisition he may have committed 

 irreparable crimes upon others. There are no 

 millionaires — no professional, legalised, lifelong 

 kleptomaniacs — among the birds and quadrupeds. 

 No animal, except man, spends so large a part of 

 his energies striving for superiority — not superiority 

 in usefulness, but that superiority which consists 

 in simply getting on the heads of one's fellows. 

 And no animal practises common, ordinary 

 morality to the other beings of the world in which 

 he lives so little, compared with the amount he 

 preaches it, as man. 



Let us be honest. Honour to whom honour 

 is due. It will not emaciate our own glory to 

 recognise the excellence and reality of others, or 

 to come face to face with our own frailties. We 

 are our brother's keeper. Our brethern are they 

 that feel. Let us universalise. Our thoughts and 

 sympathies have been too long wingless. The 

 Universe is our Country, and our Kindred are the 

 Populations that Mount. It is well — it is eminently 

 well, for it is godlike — to send our Magnanimity to 

 the Dusts and the Deeps, our Sunrises to the Utter- 

 ^ most Isles, and our Chanty to the Stars. 



