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maintain efforts in the line of their attainment — 

 these are the essential parts of it. It further in- 

 cludes sympathy with the infirmities, frailties, and 

 sufferings that fall to the human lot, and with the 

 noble aspirations that come to the mind from the 

 grand prospects attainable by our race through 

 co-operation. 



Such characters and such prospects inevitably 

 tend to an ultimate mental attitude, in which a wrong 

 to one becomes to -some extent a wrong to each and 

 all; in which the suffering of one becomes to a 

 degree the pain of each and all; in which no one 

 could do a wrong to another, because it would be 

 felt by him the same as a wrong to himself; in 

 which the benefit to one would be felt as a boon by 

 each and all; and so forth. In other words, the 

 average state of mind would imperatively demand 

 conformity to the three principles designated by 

 Herbert Spencer, in his original "Social Statics," 

 as "Justice tempered by Positive and Negative 

 Beneficence." 



When such motives initiate and when scientific 

 foresight guides the grand co-operative industrial 

 enterprises of the nations toward the attainment 0} 

 ideal conditions, for the highest uses of life, then this 

 new factor in the formula of the higher development 

 of the universe, this true hereditary character of the 

 human race will begin to assert its wonderfully 

 beneficent capacity. 



Its influence thus far has barely been potential. 



