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latter is not. So also the language of to-day is, in a figurative 

 sense only, the progeny of the language of the former times ; the 

 morals of to-day have, in a figurative sense, only descended from 

 those of yesterday. All these things are human inventions, and 

 belong not to human evolution, but to what has been called 

 evolution in the environment. The so-called " Social Evolution," 

 of which we have lately heard so much, is therefore a myth, from 

 the biological standpoint. As I have said, and as I wish to 

 iterate and reiterate, neither the altruistic feelings in particular, 

 nor morals in general, nor anything of the kind, has undergone 

 volution in man. What has undergone evolution is his enormous 

 power of acquiring characters, these among others. 



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