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and the lineage becomes extinct. Death, primitive and par- 

 tial, by which the lineage is weakened, is proportionate to 

 the insufficiency of activity against environment, but is 

 corrective, and selective of survivors in cumulative beneficial 

 effect. 



Seventh, Exhaustion or decay of the bodily structure, and 

 hostility of environment, causing injury of its materials, 

 necessitate the repeated abandonment of old structure, and 

 the transfer of the lineal life plasm to new bodies; and this 

 transfer originates and develops altruistic sacrifice, which 

 arises in the gift of advantage from parent to offspring. 



Eighth, Normal death of the individual is not a penalty 

 nor is it a break of the greater life. Death is the natural 

 method for a necessary periodic rejection of structures de- 

 fective or obsolete, from change of environment, or by age 

 and decay, usually structures from which the greater or im- 

 mortal life has, in normal circumstances already passed into 

 its newer forms. 



Ninth, The preservation of the greater or lineal life is the 

 fundamental motive of moral conduct, and is the justifica- 

 tion or right, of self-preservation by the individual, which 

 is therefore restrained, for ultimate benefit, by a regard for 

 the rights and activities of others mutually interested. 



Tenth, The consequence of right conduct is enjoyment 

 continued of the greater life of the lineage, with participa- 

 tion in its higher achievements, and with, for self-conscious 

 humanity, a prospect of future participation in conditions 

 higher than imagined in any present conception; and extend- 

 ing toward the infinite. 



Eleventh, The consequence of wrong conduct in the ex- 



