TIME AND CHANGE 
When the nations, too, cease to be savage and 
selfish, and become altruistic, then the new birth of 
humanity will actually have occurred. As an artist 
and a creator of beautiful forms, man has also had 
» his day; he loved the beautiful, the artistic, or the 
ornamental long before he loved the true and the 
just. He was proud before he was kind; he was chiv- 
alrous before he was decent; he was tattooed before 
he was washed; he was painted before he was 
clothed; he built temples before he built a home; 
he sacrificed to his gods before he helped his neigh- 
bor; he was heroic before he was self-denying; he 
was devout before he was charitable. We are losing 
the savage virtues and vanities and growing in the 
grace of all the humanities, and this process will 
doubtless go on, with many interruptions and set- 
backs of course, till the kingdom of love is at last 
fairly established upon the earth. 
