The Importance of Altruism

Spencer said that altruism was imperative to his ideal of highest conduct. Wolf Larson, evidently, had sifted the great philosopher's teaching and rejected it according to his needs and desires. He asked Spencer: What else did you run across? His brows drew in slightly with the mental effort of suitably phrasing thoughts which he had never before put into speech. "A strange, terribly strange region was unrolling itself before my eyes"

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