CHAPTER III 



THE MEANS BY WHICH THE GREAT MAN APPLIES 

 HIS GREATNESS TO WEALTH-PRODUCTION 



THE whole secret of social progress, other than 

 the most rudimentary, is summed up in the formula 

 with which the preceding chapter has concluded. 

 Progress is the result of the domination or the 

 triumphant influence of the greatest. That is to AH gain by the 



. ..... r i i domination of 



say, the civilisation ot the entire community de- the fittest, 

 pends alike for its advance and for its mainten- wTo^/To^ 

 ance on a struggle which is confined within the f cu !f pow . er 



oo for themselves. 



limits of an exceptional class ; and the ordinary 

 members of the community are connected with it 

 only by the fact that when the fittest competitor 

 achieves the domination for which he is struggling, 

 they, instead of being defeated by him, share the 

 advantage of his victory. When the scientific doctor 

 discredits the theories of the quack, when the com- 

 petent organiser of industry causes the ruin of the 

 incompetent, when a good ministry drives a bad 

 from office, when a great general supersedes one 

 who is inferior, or when a true religious teacher 

 destroys the influence of a false, the whole commun- 

 ity gains, except the men who have personally lost 



