1 5 o ARISTOCRA C Y AND E VOL UTION 



Book ii struggle which pervades the community as a whole ; 



neither is it a struggle between the majority and an 



not for sub- exceptionally able minority, in which both classes 



sistence, but i- r 1 i j 



for domination, are struggling for what only one can win, and in 

 which the gain of the one involves the loss of the 

 other ; but it is a struggle which is confined to the 

 members of the minority alone, and in which the 

 majority play no part as antagonists whatsoever. It 

 is not a struggle amongst the community generally 

 to live, but a struggle amongst a small section of 

 the community to lead, to direct, to employ, the 

 majority in the best way ; and this struggle is 

 an agent of progress because it tends to result, not 

 in the survival of the fittest man, but in the 

 domination of the greatest man. 



