HUMAN LIFE 



in his less material, his higher life as we 

 are accustomed to call it, in other words 

 the part of his life that especially charac- 

 terizes and makes especially worth while 

 being human. Man is not born with this 

 social inheritance in him as his biological 

 inheritance is in him, but with it all 

 about him, ready for him and certain to 

 be, in some measure, imposed on him. 

 He is born into it rather than with it in 

 him. 



This social inheritance consists of tradi- 

 tion, of recorded history, of precept and 

 example, in a word, of education. It is 

 possible because of mutual aid and speech, 

 writing and printing. Other animals, es- 

 pecially a few of the higher ones, may 

 also enjoy a certain social inheritance, 

 but man's social inheritance is so incom- 

 parably greater and more important in 

 determining the character of his life, that 

 he is in this respect practically qualita- 

 tively different from all other animals. 



Now with all this in his eyes the biol- 

 ogist interested in the problem of the 

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