THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE 2t^ 



have but to be named to show the enormous place 

 this factor has been given to play in the world's 

 destiny. The first is War, the second is Industry. 

 These in all their forms and ramifications are simply 

 the primitive Struggle continued on the social and 

 political plane. War is not a casual thing like a 

 thunderstorm, nor a specific thing like a battle. 

 It is that ancient Struggle for Life carried over 

 from the animal kingdom, which, in the later 

 as in the earlier world, has been so perfect an 

 instrument of evolution. Along with Industry, and 

 for a time before it, War was the foster-mother 

 of civilization. The patron of the heroic virtues, 

 the purifier of societies, the solidifier of states, 

 the military form of this Struggle — despite the 

 awful balance on the other side — stands out on 

 every page of history as the maker and educator 

 of the human race. Industry is but the same 

 Struggle in another disguise. The industrial 

 conflict of to-day is the old attempt of primitive 

 Man to get the most out of Nature — to grow 

 foods, to find clothes, to raise fuel, to gain 

 wealth. Owing to the ever-increasing number 

 of the Strugglers the supplies fall short of the 

 demands, with the result of perpetuating on the 

 industrial plane, and often in hard and degrading 

 forms, the primitive Struggle for Life. When 



