They might insist that they were ready to aid their fellow-apes of the same troop in many ways, to risk their lives for them, and to take charge of their orphans; but they would be forced to acknowledge that disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man, was quite beyond their comprehension.
Source:(John Murray, ed. 1871), Volume I, Part I. On the Descent of Man, Chapter III. Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals, Page 105
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