There's where I ran across 'altruism,' and I remember now how it was used." I wondered what this man could have got from such a work.

Spencer I remembered enough to know that altruism was imperative to his ideal of highest conduct.

Wolf Larsen, evidently, had sifted the great philosopher's teachings, rejecting and selecting according to his needs and desires.
"What else did you run across ?" I asked.
His brows drew in slightly with the mental effort of suitably phrasing thoughts which he had never before put into speech.

I felt an elation of spirit.

I was groping into his soul-stuff as he made a practice of groping in the soul-stuff of others.