HUMAN LIFE 



servations and so many experiments on 

 them, that in our search for the springs 

 of this behavior we have become accus- 

 tomed to feel justified in saying that such 

 and such behavior indicates such and 

 such kind of disposition, a large or small 

 possession of kindliness, or as some might 

 interpret it, soul. If we knew tarantulas 

 better we might be able to use the same 

 generalization and discriminate among 

 them as fairly. 



Mother love reveals the human soul, 

 says one; but mother love is a common- 

 place among the higher animals and some 

 of the less high. Love and sacrifice of 

 self for family and community prove 

 soul: well, the worker bee works till it 

 falls dead on the threshold of the hive 

 with honey sac or pollen baskets filled 

 with food which it is bringing home to 

 feed the babies and queen and drones of 

 the hive. Faith in an all-wise and all- 

 kind God proves the soul in us. The 

 primitive Africans have no less faith 

 although their God is made of wood or 

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