And we find it suggested that these social feelings probably began in the love of animals for their young, and in the brotherhood and comradeship of the young for each other.
It was the social feelings of men that made their Bibles: the Bibles did not make the social feelings.
Morality is the result of evolution, not of revelation.
CHAPTER FIVE—THE ANCESTRAL STRUGGLE WITHIN US
I HAVE spoken of the "nature" handed down to us by our fore-parents. I might have said "natures," for our inheritance, being not from one, but from many, is not simple, but compound.
We too commonly think of a man as an Englishman or a Frenchman; as a Londoner or a Yorkshireman; as good or bad.
We too commonly think of a man as one person, instead of as a mixture of many persons. As though John Smith were all John Smith, and always John Smith.
There is no such thing as an unmixed Englishman, Irishman, or Yorkshireman.