Moral Identities of Mankind. 65 



though not so disinterested as you might think, if 

 the master meanwhile is looking back at the brute 

 as his own progenitor. 



71. This explanation notwithstanding, the moral 



manifestations remain distinctly and ob- 



. „ . r Charity. 



viously human. Charity, for instance, 



is there; and that which is called philanthropy. 

 They have animated loved and loving souls, whose 

 very names send a thrill through the generous 

 heart. Nor could we undertake barely to enumer- 

 ate the great divisions of those armies which have 

 graced the field of charity, truly a " field of the 

 cloth of gold " in the wide domain of our history 

 upon earth. 



72. It grows a little tedious to be told again by. 

 this irrepressible science that even charity, the 

 ornament of our humanity's bosom, is readily ex- 

 plained by — what we should like to omit, but what 

 the symmetry of solemn repudiation on the part of 

 sound science will have us record. Well, this im- 

 portunate science — this infant terrible and uncon- 

 trolled, sprung from the cultured thought of a kindly 

 man — explains charity by pointing to dogs licking 

 one another, oxen similarly, monkeys ditto! 



73. Finally, there is the religious idea, everywhere 

 leavening the races and exalting the na- 



T . , .... , Religion. 



tions. It is the same which, in educa- 

 tional systems of the day, is rather freely relegated 

 into the realms of poetry. Yet, even so, it is in- 

 deed the truest poesy, raising the mind to an Infi- 



