CHAPTER II 



PROGRESS THE RESULT OF A STRUGGLE NOT F.OR 

 SURVIVAL, BUT FOR DOMINATION 



IT has already been explained that the great man, 

 as here understood, does not in any way correspond 

 with the fittest man in the Darwinian struggle for 

 existence. The fittest man in the Darwinian sense 

 merely promotes progress by the physiological 

 process of reproducing his slight superiorities in his 

 children, and thus raising in the slow course of ages 

 the general level of capacity throughout subsequent 

 generations of his race. The great man, on the 

 contrary, promotes progress, not because he raises 

 the capacity of the generations that come after him, 

 but because he rises individually above the general 

 level of his own. This, however, is only one of the 

 differences by which the great man is distinguished 

 from the fittest. There are two others, of which the 

 how thegrcaT first that we must consider is as follows. 



The nttest man > or the survivor in the Dar- 

 must consider wm j an struggle for existence, is, so far as his own 



that whilst 



the nttest sur- contemporaries are concerned, greater than his 

 motes it inferiors only in respect of what he accomplishes for 



