Excerpt from Philosophy of Helpfullness The strength of any excitation, and the consequences of past performances modify all our native tendencies. This fact accepted, we are moved by four primal urges: the hunger-motive, the love-motive, and their counterparts, the rejection or flight-motive and the combat-motive - the more specific reflexes and instincts derived from these may therefore be classified as nutritive, amative, rejective or combative. Our nutritive impulses are usually draughted into the scramble to obtain material goods faster than our desires for ever more and more of such goods can grow. Perceiving unconsciously the hopelessness of this endeavor for all but an unscrupulous mirity, most of us become disheartened. The writer's object is to relieve this disheartenment by sublimating the nutritive urge into the channel of striving toward co-operative living. As a hopeful way of realizing in our lifetime some of the happiness of n-competitive communism, we contribute this plan, which we ourselves practice, namely: Let the devotee occasionally find a time when it will be convenient to take a brief holiday away from his possessions and from his accustomed associations. 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 techlogy 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.