CHAPTER VI. 



COMPETITION, 



Competition of Brain against Brain. 



IN the last chapter we had evidence enough that in 

 human societies, just as in the animal world, a very 

 keen struggle is going on. This struggle is seen 

 on a colossal scale when whole races enter into 

 combat with each other, and success attends the one 

 which is superior in some quality of mind or body, or 

 that is rich in the possession of some machine of war. 

 We have the spectacle of the Eastern king using a 

 captive nation for the construction of irrigation works, 

 or for the building of a temple or a pyramid ; or, 

 coming to more modern times, we see the Mexican 

 civilisation destroyed by the Spaniards, or the whole- 

 sale extermination of savage races by the British. 

 So, likewise, amongst the individual members of any 

 given community very much the same struggle may 

 be seen, in which the poor are the conquered ones, 



and the rich the vanquishers in the fight. 



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