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  THE 
  ISSUES 
  OF 
  LIFE 
  

  

  phorically 
  speaking, 
  we 
  may 
  say 
  that 
  this 
  has 
  been 
  Nature's 
  

   way 
  of 
  setting 
  the 
  seal 
  of 
  her 
  approval 
  on 
  altruistic 
  be- 
  

   haviour, 
  even 
  when 
  the 
  animal's 
  left 
  hand 
  does 
  not 
  know 
  

   what 
  its 
  right 
  hand 
  doeth. 
  

  

  6. 
  As 
  regards 
  Warfare. 
  

  

  The 
  position 
  here 
  defended 
  has 
  an 
  obvious 
  practical 
  in- 
  

   terest, 
  in 
  reference 
  to 
  war, 
  for 
  some 
  have 
  seriously 
  main- 
  

   tained 
  that 
  human 
  warfare 
  has 
  what 
  is 
  called 
  ' 
  Nature's 
  

   sanction 
  ', 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  consonant 
  with 
  what 
  goes 
  on 
  throughout 
  

   Animate 
  Nature, 
  which 
  is 
  believed 
  to 
  be 
  in 
  a 
  state 
  of 
  uni- 
  

   versal 
  Hobbesian 
  warfare, 
  each 
  against 
  all, 
  and 
  no 
  discharge 
  

   for 
  any. 
  Moreover, 
  human 
  warfare 
  is 
  declared 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  con- 
  

   tinuation 
  of 
  a 
  natural 
  process 
  which 
  necessarily 
  leads 
  to 
  the 
  

   survival 
  of 
  the 
  relatively 
  more 
  fit. 
  In 
  the 
  words 
  of 
  von 
  

   Bernhardi 
  : 
  " 
  Wherever 
  we 
  look 
  in 
  nature, 
  we 
  find 
  that 
  war 
  

   is 
  a 
  fundamental 
  law 
  of 
  evolution. 
  This 
  great 
  verity, 
  which 
  

   has 
  been 
  recognised 
  in 
  past 
  ages, 
  has 
  been 
  convincingly 
  dem- 
  

   onstrated 
  in 
  modern 
  times 
  by 
  Charles 
  Darwin." 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Karl 
  Pearson 
  has 
  given 
  strong 
  expression 
  to 
  the 
  

   view 
  that 
  a 
  nation 
  should 
  be 
  " 
  kept 
  up 
  to 
  a 
  high 
  pitch 
  of 
  

   internal 
  efficiency 
  by 
  insuring 
  that 
  its 
  numbers 
  are 
  substan- 
  

   tially 
  recruited 
  from 
  the 
  better 
  stocks, 
  and 
  kept 
  up 
  to 
  a 
  high 
  

   pitch 
  of 
  external 
  efficiency 
  by 
  contest, 
  chiefly 
  by 
  way 
  of 
  war 
  

   with 
  inferior 
  races, 
  and 
  with 
  equal 
  races 
  by 
  the 
  struggle 
  

   for 
  trade-routes 
  and 
  for 
  the 
  sources 
  of 
  food 
  supply 
  ' 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  

   (1901, 
  p. 
  44). 
  "When 
  the 
  struggle 
  for 
  existence 
  between 
  

   races 
  is 
  suspended, 
  the 
  solution 
  of 
  great 
  problems 
  may 
  be 
  

   unnaturally 
  postponed 
  ; 
  instead 
  of 
  the 
  slow 
  stern 
  processes 
  

   of 
  evolution, 
  cataclysmal 
  solutions 
  are 
  prepared 
  for 
  the 
  

   future." 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  (1901, 
  p. 
  20). 
  "There 
  will 
  be 
  nothing 
  

   to 
  check 
  the 
  fertility 
  of 
  inferior 
  stock; 
  the 
  relentless 
  law 
  

  

  