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you one of ours that is essentially the same. And nearly every custom of ourbarbarian ancestors in historic times persists in some form today. We makeourselves look formidable in battle-for that matter, we fight. Our women painttheir faces. We feel it obligatory to dress more or less alike, inventing the mostingenious reasons for doing so and actually despising and persecuting those whodo not care to conform. Almost within the memory of living persons bearded menwere stoned in the streets; and a clergyman in New York who wore his beard asChrist wore his, was put into jail and variously persecuted till he died.Civilization does not, I think, make the race any better. It makes men know more: and if knowledge makes them happy it is useful and desirable. The one purpose ofevery sane human being is to be happy. No one can have any other motive thanthat. There is no such thing as unselfishness. We perform the most "generous" and"self-sacrificing" acts because we should be unhappy if we did not. We move onlines of least reluctance. Whatever tends to increase the beggarly sum of humanhappiness is worth having; nothing else has any value.