Tom ought to be a very apt disciple of your bio-sociological creed.

Unhappily a more selfish mortal doesn't walk the earth.

He has been known to send his wife and children supperless to bed, because a festive meeting at a club to which he belongs demanded all the money in his pocket.

Tom, you see, feels himself one of the Select; his wife and children, holding an inferior place in great nature's scheme, must be content to hunger now and then, and it's their fault if they don't feel a religious satisfaction in the privilege." "Why on earth do you employ such a man ?" cried Dyce.
"Because, my dear boy, if I did not, no one else would, and Tom's wife and children would have still greater opportunities of proving their disinterested citizenship." Dyce laughed.
"Speaking seriously again, father, Tom is what he is just because he hasn't received the proper education.

Had he been rightly taught, who knows but he would, in fact, have been an apt disciple of the civic religion ?" "I fear me, Dyce, that no amount of civic instruction, or any other instruction, would have affected Tom's ethics.