Excerpt from Manual of Moral and Humane Education: June to September Inclusive Essay receiving William G. Sprague Memorial Prize from the American Humane Association, in 1908. Huxley says the ego is the center of the universe. This psychological assumption explains much in the problematical study of the history of man. Man begins life on a very simple basis as to his social environment. As an infant, not even his mother is at first recognized as a social factor in the self-absorbing processes of a tentative hold on life; but, as his nature unfolds, the extreme egoism of his early infancy gradually expands along radiating lines in all directions until we find the circumference bounding, in gradations, mother, family, home life, playmates, neighborhood, school life, municipality, his country, the world, the universe, until, in the highest form of human development, his egoism has expanded into an altruism broad in scope and elevated in character. Thinkers recognize that the individual man is an epitomized form of the race of man, - the stages of growth through infancy, youth, and maturity corresponding to the stages that racial man passes through from the primitive man of savagery to the highest type of civilization and progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.