Associated Motives Multiplex 185 



the value is in results better enabling the individual, and 

 every individual, to achieve his own proper purposes. 



Altruism under the test of nature's uses is seen to be a 

 principle in conduct, originating in the division of a life- 

 stream into many individuals, in the separation of the ego 

 or conduct subject, into more than one individual, so that it 

 may specialize its parts and gain elasticity, which in this 

 principle is done without loss of unity of purpose, and the 

 principle is seen graduating into a precept, when reason 

 endows man with a knowledge of its benefits. 



The benefits are the organization of greater and higher 

 units of the collective activities of the mutually interested 

 creatures, who, although putting aside undue rivalries among 

 themselves, are still banded in the greater self-interest of 

 their association for its self-preservation. 



Thus a new creature appears; an incorporation of the 

 greater phase of the dual life, a creature which can change 

 and renew its form, and can retain perennial youth, and to 

 which death is only the transfer of life from old structures 

 to new ones. And this creature is an entity capable of 

 being aggressive to all the outer world. The outsiders 

 whose aggressiveness can be reconciled, and who will enter 

 the community of interest, are welcomed to embrace that 

 relation, but the peaceful essence of its alliance still permits 

 its engagement in active warfare with environment including 

 the predatory foes of an irreconcilable nature. It offers in 

 collective strength protection to the weak individual of its 

 own brotherhood, 



A demonstrating example of this attitude is the war of 

 altruistic humanity against disease, which rightly aims at 



