r 8 ARISTOCRA C Y AND E VOL UTION 



Book i only conducted, but is actually represented by a 

 terminology which refers everything to "the race," 

 "the age," or "man." And it would be hard to 

 find better examples in the works of any other 

 writer of the condition of thought underlying the 

 use of these phrases, and of the extraordinary 

 consequences to which it leads. 

 He quotes with Three examples will be enough. The two first 



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other writers shall be from two other writers, whom Mr. Kidd 

 quotes with admiration ; the third shall be from 

 himself. We will begin with the following passage, 

 taken from a contemporary economist, which Mr. 

 Kidd singles out for emphatic approval as "# very 

 effective statement " of one of the truths of social 

 science. 



"Man" so the passage runs, "is the only animal 

 whose wants can never be satisfied. The wants of 

 every other living thing are uniform and fixed. 

 The ox of to-day aspires no more than did the ox 

 when man first yoked him. . . . But not so with 

 man [himself]. No sooner are his animal wants 

 satisfied, than new wants arise. . . . [He~\ has but set 

 his feet on the first step of an infinite progression. 

 . . . It is not merely his hunger, but taste, that 

 seeks gratification in food. . . . Lucullus will sup 

 with Lucullus ; twelve boars roast on spits that 

 Antony s mouthful of meat may be done to a turn ; 

 every kingdom is ransacked to add to Cleopatra s 

 charms ; and marble colonnades, and hanging 

 gardens, and pyramids that rival the hills, arise" 



This passage is taken from Mr. Henry George. 



