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MATERNAL1 AFFECTION THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN ALTRUISM2—SYMPATHY AND PARENTAL3 LOVE THE BASIS OF OTHER VIRTUES4—THE WEAKEST SACRIFICED IN ALL PRIMITIVE5 SOCIETY—NEGLECTED CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE ATTITUDE OF SOCIETY TOWARD CHILDREN.
IF it were possible to postulate6 the first definite concept of the first family that crossed the vague and age-consuming frontier between animality and humanity, it would be safe to say that this primitive and almost animal mind would reach for an approximation, on the part of the male, to the maternal affection.
In the gathering7 of food and the making of protective war, many animals are the rivals in instinct and intelligence of primitive man. Continued development in that regard might have produced a race of men “formidable among animals through sheer force of sharp-wittedness,” but not homo sapiens. In the passage from animality to humanity, there was not only mental2 evolution, but moral, and the developing mind would naturally exercise itself for days and years, and perhaps for long periods around that one emotion—the love of the female for its young—an emotion he was incapable8 of understanding, but the outward manifestations10 of which he would be bound to imitate.
Whether man was led to an understanding of the maternal affections by the “sensuous11 aspects of the newly-born progeny” appealing to man himself,1 or through pity and sympathy, as Spencer suggests, or still more through imitation of the maternal delight, he
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maternal
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adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的 | |
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parental
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adj.父母的;父的;母的 | |
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virtues
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美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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adj.原始的;简单的;n.原(始)人,原始事物 | |
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postulate
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gathering
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incapable
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standing
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n.表示,显示(manifestation的复数形式) | |
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sensuous
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adj.激发美感的;感官的,感觉上的 | |
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gamut
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mentality
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sufficiently
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disturbance
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mere
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civilized
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legitimate
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legitimately
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ad.合法地;正当地,合理地 | |
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altruistic
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purely
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adv.纯粹地,完全地 | |
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loyalty
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n.忠诚,忠心 | |
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gregariousness
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集群性;簇聚性 | |
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incompatible
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specialized
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revolves
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v.(使)旋转( revolve的第三人称单数 );细想 | |
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differentiates
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区分,区别,辨别( differentiate的第三人称单数 ); 区别对待; 表明…间的差别,构成…间差别的特征 | |
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brute
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infancy
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n.婴儿期;幼年期;初期 | |
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savage
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apparently
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adv.显然地;表面上,似乎 | |
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tortuous
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attained
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(通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况) | |
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sublimity
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consecutive
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adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的 | |
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humanitarian
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n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者 | |
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cannibalism
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n.同类相食;吃人肉 | |
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germane
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affected
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favourable
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artifices
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inclinations
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倾向( inclination的名词复数 ); 倾斜; 爱好; 斜坡 | |
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plausible
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taboos
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禁忌( taboo的名词复数 ); 忌讳; 戒律; 禁忌的事物(或行为) | |
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predecessors
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forth
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progenitor
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corruption
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n.腐败,堕落,贪污 | |
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unravelling
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解开,拆散,散开( unravel的现在分词 ); 阐明; 澄清; 弄清楚 | |
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tangled
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disinterested
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adj.不关心的,不感兴趣的 | |
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vivacious
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degenerates
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衰退,堕落,退化( degenerate的第三人称单数 ) | |
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humane
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adj.人道的,富有同情心的 | |
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humaneness
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n.深情,慈悲 | |
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inhuman
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humanely
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adv.仁慈地;人道地;富人情地;慈悲地 | |
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nominal
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adj.名义上的;(金额、租金)微不足道的 | |
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incorporation
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n.设立,合并,法人组织 | |
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misuse
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n.误用,滥用;vt.误用,滥用 | |
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guilds
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行会,同业公会,协会( guild的名词复数 ) | |
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humanitarianism
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n.博爱主义;人道主义;基督凡人论 | |
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conspicuous
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adj.明眼的,惹人注目的;炫耀的,摆阔气的 | |
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benefactor
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epoch
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n.(新)时代;历元 | |
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barbarians
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n.野蛮人( barbarian的名词复数 );外国人;粗野的人;无教养的人 | |
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descended
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qualified
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Christian
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adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒 | |
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decadent
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kindly
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satire
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ethical
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verge
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bishop
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asylum
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slaughter
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infamy
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Founder
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stoics
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禁欲主义者,恬淡寡欲的人,不以苦乐为意的人( stoic的名词复数 ) | |
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awakened
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accomplished
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followers
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indirectly
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remains
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civilizing
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v.使文明,使开化( civilize的现在分词 ) | |
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