Altruism

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. While modern nations have allowed such precepts to stand as counsels of perfection and have been ready to see in occasional acts an embodiment of them, parallel with them they have always recognized a con trary and more powerful tendency, namely, the disposition to seek one's own. This they have believed to be essential for carry ing on the daily affairs of life. At the same time altruistic conduct has ever been thought superior, higher egoistic, as containing nothing to call forth admiration.