CHAPTER VII. 



THE STRUGGLE FOR THE LIFE OF OTHERS. 



WE now open a wholly new, and by far the most 

 important, chapter in the Evolution of Man. Up to 

 this time we have found for him a Body, and the rudi- 

 ments of Mind. But Man is not a Body, nor a Mind. 

 The temple still awaits its final tenant the higher 

 human Soul. 



With a Body alone, Man is an animal : the highest 

 animal, yet a pure animal ; struggling for its own nar- 

 row life, living for its small and sordid ends. Add a 

 Mind to that and the advance is infinite. The Strug- 

 gle for Life assumes the august form of a struggle for 

 light : he who was once a savage, pursuing the arts of 

 the chase, realizes Aristotle's ideal man, "a hunter 

 after Truth." Yet this is not the end. Experience 

 tells us that Man's true life is neither lived in the 

 material tracts of the body, nor in the higher altitudes 

 of the intellect, but in the warm world of the affec- 

 tions. Till he is equipped with these Man is not hu- 

 man. He reaches his full height only when Love be- 

 comes to him the breath of life, the energy of will, the 

 summit of desire. There at last lies all happiness, 

 and goodness, and truth and divinity : 



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