CHAPTER VII 



ASSOCIATED MOTIVES MULTIPLEX 



By circumstances which we may consider fortuitous, 

 these two rival systems of conduct, the co-operative and the 

 aggressive, are thus produced from a source originally 

 single. They are launched each separately, by life succeed- 

 ing under separate and different conditions. Thenceforth 

 they may meet again and contend, blend and compare, to 

 influence the evolution of conduct, each in due proportion. 

 The selective process of survival favors the combination of 

 the two, which, at any particular time and place, will best 

 endow life for the mixed conditions then and there prevail- 

 ing. Under this regime there may be an obligation at one 

 place, upon the individual happening there, to choose be- 

 tween aggressive action towards others on one hand, and the 

 suffering of injury or death by himself and his kin, through 

 the aggressions of others; and the use of force under these 

 circumstances becomes his right, unless higher obligations 

 toward higher conduct units overrule it. At the same time 

 in another place, where aggressive action has been succeeded 

 by the higher tolerance, and by a greater unit of activity; 

 such conduct might be a crime which would entail evil con- 

 sequence. Therefore it appears that conduct has a fit or 

 unfit character, consequent upon the conduct of the fellow 



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