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"One central fire glows in all." "Parts of a single 

 continent." Matthew Arnold, The heaven before in- 

 dividuation. Sympathy a reminiscence of the soul's 

 ancient estate. We are Brahma fallen into multi- 

 plicity, and hence into selfishness and sin. Sympathy 

 recognizes our underlying oneness intimates the 

 identity of all life. " Tat twam asi." The self transi- 

 tory. The I is an ice crystal born of the All, and des- 

 tined to melt into the All. We are from the One en 

 route to the One. Sympathy a reminiscence and a 

 prophecy. 



" Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee, 

 There was and then no more of Thee and Me" 



Omar Khayyam. 



The explanation from Evolution. The individual 

 came first no primeval soul-plasm consciousness 

 of self preceded consciousness of others. Egoism older 

 than altruism. Man not fallen from unity into multi- 

 plicity, but rising from multiplicity to unity. Sym- 

 pathy a derivative feeling of practical origin in no 

 wise supernatural or mystical developed by the cos- 

 mic process of selection through struggle. The moral 

 paradox. 



Sub-human altruism. Family cohesion love, ma- 

 ternal, sexual, paternal. Group cohesion in gregar- 

 ious species ants, bees, rooks, wolves, deer. Such 

 altruism developed and limited by natural selection, 

 instinctive, irrational, inconsistent. 



Human altruism. Vast changes with growth of 

 intelligence. (1) Range of sympathy widened with 

 greater power of interpreting signs of feeling. (2) 



