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teristics which affect the conduct of the individual, 

 and which, helpful to the preservation of the 

 species in the lower life, are opposed to the growth 

 of the higher nature of man. 



The effects of this altruistic growth are evident 

 at a glance in the life of the community as a whole. 

 In the lower life, and in savages, the community in 

 its characteristics approaches the masculine type; 

 it is selfish (egoistic), unstable, variable. The 

 herd of buffalo, for illustration, roams about in 

 search of food and water, charging relentlessly and 

 destroying whatever enemy comes in its way. The 

 savage tribe often has no fixed abode, but roams 

 about from place to place; where it has a home it 

 is, as a rule, given to frequent war with its neigh- 

 bors, and is liable to be uprooted by a stronger foe 

 and absorbed and thus lost, or it may be destroyed, 

 or compelled to move on. While this is true of 

 the savage community as a whole, that is, consid- 

 ered as a nation, a unit, in its internal organization, 

 on the other hand, it is essentially feminine in its 

 characteristics; its habits are simple, stable, not 

 liable to change. It makes no inventions, elabo- 

 rates no complex machinery. 



To make clear what is meant, let us compare the 

 savage community to a ball which is tossed and 

 rolled about here and there. The particles within 

 the ball, which compose its substance, however, do 

 not change in relation to one another. The ball as 

 a whole may be considered unstable, masculine in 

 its tendencies ; its constituents stable, feminine. 



