198 PHYSICAL BASIS OF CIVILIZATION 



altruism of the women of to-day is inferior to the 

 average altruism of men of the present age, but it 

 would support the opinion that in its original un- 

 differentiated form the altruism of the human male- 

 brute would be more readily transformable into the 

 intellectually initiated higher forms of this tendency, 

 such as devotion to high principle, to justice, to 

 truth, to classes, foreign nations, humanity, to 

 life, in general to 



That thread of the all-sustaining beauty, 

 Which runs through all and does all unite. 



And it seems that the consensus of historic and con- 

 temporary experience supports this view. 



