4 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



anatomical system may even be lost. So the tapeworm, which 

 feeds upon the digested food present in the intestines of its host, 

 has no alimentary canal of its own because it needs none. On 

 the other hand, the. organs of attack and combat grow by a 

 constant use into the most remarkable of efficient weapons. 



In human society the process continues. Out of the tapeworm 

 nature, the tiger nature, the wolf nature, the simian nature, 

 human nature evolves. Repeated episodes of subjugation and 

 suppression mixed with countless incidents of predaceous cupidity 

 and rapacity have made Man what he is today. Indeed, by a sort 

 of instinct, society has constructed its institutions upon em- 

 pirical observations and assumptions agreeing with this principle. 

 The deductions concerning human nature and human traits that 

 an interplanetary visitor would draw from a study of our 

 common law would be at least slightly humiliating to our incor- 

 rigible pride. Law courts, codes of civil contract and criminal 

 procedure, the systems of subordination in armies and navies, 

 castes and classes, men and women, employers and employees, 

 teachers and pupils, parents and children, are based upon the 

 fundamental, the conservative axiom that man, especially the 

 common plain man (Lincoln's phrase) , is a being incurably lazy, 

 stupid, dishonest, muddled, cowardly, greedy, restless, obsessed 

 with a low cunning and a selfish callousness and insensibility 

 to the sufferings of his fellow creatures, animal and human. 



Why is it that Man, the noblest creature of creation, made in 

 the image of God, capable of the flights of attainment that dis- 

 tinguish a Christ, a Csesar, a Plato, a Shakespeare, a Shelley, a 

 Newton, is so described, not alone by hopeless pessimists like 

 Koheleth, Swift, and Mark Twain, but by the common law, the 

 common opinion, the common assumptions of mankind? Because 

 the development of slavery and parasitism in human society, the 

 subjection of the weak to the strong, the dull and base to the 

 clever and headstrong, set up a vicious cycle: the liberation of 

 more energy for the making of more and more slaves and the 

 propagation of slaves and slave qualities in a geometrically 

 increasing proportion. 



This might be called the Malthusian law of slavery. For the 

 qualities that I have named as man's own characterization of 

 himself are the qualities of the slave and the slave-soul. Nietzche 

 took great pains to repeat ad nauseam that these qualities were 

 the qualities of the slave. But by burdening himself with the 

 hypothesis, evolved from his inner consciousness, that the slaves 



