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point of view set forward in the philosophy of 

 Nietzsche if indeed such writings are worthy of 

 the name philosophy. " The world is for the 

 superman. Dominancy within the human kind 

 must be secured at all costs. As for the old values, 

 they are all wrong. Christian humility is a 

 slavish virtue ; so is Christian charity. Such 

 values have become ' denaturalised.' They are 

 the by-product of certain primitive activities, 

 which were intended by Nature to subserve 

 strictly biological ends, but have somehow escaped 

 from Nature's control and run riot on their own 



account.' 



The prophets of this group of ideals, or some 

 such group of ideals, have no hesitation in telling 

 us how they would direct the affairs of humanity 

 if they were entrusted with their conduct. It 

 will not be without interest to consider their 

 plans and to endeavour to form some sort of an 

 idea of what kind of place the world would be 

 if they had their way. We can then form our 

 own opinion as to whether a world conducted on 

 such lines would be in any way a tolerable place 

 for human existence. 



First of all we may dwell briefly on Natural 

 Selection as a rule of life, since it has been put for- 

 ward as such by quite a number of persons. 

 Never, let it at once be said, by the great and 

 gentle-hearted originator of that theory, who 

 during his life had to protest as to the ignorant 

 and exaggerated ideas which were expressed about 

 it and who, were he now alive, would certainly be 

 shocked at the teachings which are supposed to 



