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Sixteenth, Human conduct In successful life is thus physi- 

 cally based on an altruism which is natural in a being of 

 defenseless and perishable structure, and which is indicated 

 and conserved in a helpless infancy, and in the sacrifice of 

 motherhood. Humanity is only predatory and aggressive 

 under the compulsion of adverse circumstances, or in the 

 habitual fear of that compulsion. 



Seventeenth, The power which in high development per- 

 ceives the far reaching effects of conduct, and in that con- 

 scious knowledge qualifies the present impulse, and thus 

 founds morality, is a complex of inherited emotions and 

 instinctive perceptions and of education and reason called 

 intuition and conscience. 



Eighteenth, The degree of perception of the more remote, 

 as well as of the immediate, effects of conduct, is the 

 measure of the quality and perfection of morality; and this 

 perception is necessarily imperfect, and right conduct is a 

 comparative term. 



Nineteenth, The intellectual perception of morality, and 

 of the virtue of altruism in conduct, is the basis of human 

 organization for mutual support in the struggle against 

 hostile environment. The practice of altruistic cooperation 

 has achieved the organization of higher units of activity, 

 in many degrees; in which human individual life acts with 

 collective force, and with participating profit. This power 

 for organizing in harmonious unity achieves material and 

 moral benefit, and leads toward ideals beyond reason's pres- 

 ent ability tp define. 



Twentieth, Right conduct, being that which has fitness 

 for the contest with circumstance, therefore changes as con- 



