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T H E R O O T S O F R E L 1 G I O N 207

origin of morality can itself be the subject of a Darwinian question.

Just as we asked: What is the Darwinian survival value of religion?,

so we can ask the same question of morality. Morality, indeed,

probably predated religion. Just as with religion we drew back from

the question and rephrased it, so with morality we shall find that it

is best seen as a by-product of something else.

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