HUMAN LIFE 



developed derivative of more animal- 

 like attributes. Love may be a beautiful 

 outgrowth from the animal necessities 

 of reproduction and protection; charity 

 from the requirements of an advantageous 

 development and exercise of altruism in 

 the case of an animal species which has 

 adopted the mutual aid principle in 

 evolution rather than the mutual fight 

 principle; hope and belief may be the 

 by-products of a brain development that 

 has outrun biological utility even as the 

 Irish stag's antlers outran advantage 

 in size. But I need not dwell on these 

 iconoclastic ingenuities of the cynical 

 materialist. They are familiar to you and 

 have already been accepted or rejected 

 by you; by some of you on a basis of 

 reason, by others on a basis of emotion. 

 Emotion itself is a great problem. 

 There are fundamental emotions or con- 

 scious states such as fear and hunger and 

 sex interest which are plainly closely 

 related to the brute part of our life, and 

 other less fundamental or derived emo- 

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