36 NATURE S GOOD: A CONVERSATION 



naturalism of Aristotle in saying that some are 

 slaves by nature and others free by nature. But 

 let socialism come to-morrow and somebody not 

 V 1 anybody, but somebody will be managing its ma 

 chinery and somebody else will be managed by the 

 machinery. I do not wonder that my socialistic 

 friends always imagine themselves active in the first 

 capacity perhaps by way of compensation for 

 doing all of the imagining and none of the executive 

 management at present. But those who are man 

 aged, who are controlled, deserve at least a mo 

 ment s attention. Would you not at once agree 

 that if there is any justice at all in these positions 

 of relative inferiority and superiority, it is because 

 those who are capable by insight deserve to rule, 

 and those who are incapable on account of igno 

 rance, deserve to be ruled ? If so, how do you dif 

 fer, save verbally, from Aristotle? 



Or do you think that all that men want in order 

 to be men is to have their bellies filled, with assur 

 ance of constant plenty and without too much ante 

 cedent labor? &amp;gt;fo4 believe _jne &amp;gt; _..Gcrimes, men--dr 

 men, and hence their_asjpjratiim_js_fpr the-4iyine 

 even when they know it not ; their desire is for the 

 ruling element, for intelligence. Till they achieve 

 that~They~will still be discontented, rebellious, un 

 ruly and hence ruled shuffle your social cards 

 as much as you may. 



Grimes (after shrugging his shoulders contempt- 



