io6 The Morality of Nature 



which asserts that the sins of the fathers are not upon the 

 heads of the children. It is true that altruism may modify 

 the consequences to others of a man's individual acts yet it 

 is clear that any benefit or loss must in secondary ways 

 affect his successors. It may appear that an individual can 

 evade in his own life consequences not desired, by action 

 which throws them into the future. He cannot thus escape 

 nature's law, but is in fact, putting it into operation. 



