CHAPTER IV 



THE GREAT MAN AS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE 

 PHYSIOLOGICALLY FITTEST SURVIVOR 



THE two objections to which reference has just been it may be 



, . . . . , r objected that 



made are connected with two doctrines, neither ot modem socio- 

 which has thus far been submitted to any detailed aJhereas- 

 examination, and one of which has indeed been the^eaTman 1 , 

 hardly so much as alluded to, but which are for u adopts .. 



the doctrine of 



both intimately associated, in the estimation of the the survival of 



the fittest. 



world at large, with contemporary science, and more 

 especially with contemporary sociology. One of 

 these doctrines is that of the survival of the fittest. 

 The other is that which, more or less distinctly, is 

 suggested at the present time by the much-abused 

 word "evolution." When the reader thinks of the 

 doctrine of the survival of the fittest, when he 

 reflects on the fact that Mr. Spencer is an avowed . 

 disciple of Darwin, and that Mr. Spencer's own 

 disciples are constantly making allusion to "the 

 rivalry of existence" and the "success/ills and the 

 unsuccessfiils" he may be tempted to ask himself 

 if it can be really true that Mr. Spencer has elimi- 

 nated the great man from his system after all. On 

 the other hand, when the reader thinks of evolution. 



