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interests as by far the most important, yet we have 

 some regard for the interests of others, and the most 

 savage man is capable of that very human virtue 

 called friendship. Hence it is that although we may 

 pursue our own ends and aims in life, we are not 

 always entirely regardless of others. We are content 

 to become rich and influential while our neighbour 

 remains poor ; and so strong are our instincts of self- 

 love, that it wounds us sorely for him to overtake 

 or outstrip us in the race for wealth, though, in 

 spite of this, we shrink from doing him actual injury. 



Human Brain Power results merely in Wealth 

 Accumulation. 



The struggle between members of the same com- 

 munity is not therefore so much a struggle for exist- 

 ence as a struggle for a superfluity of the good things 

 obtainable. It is a struggle for property, and not 

 therefore necessarily a struggle in which the most 

 successful will be the largest race producer. While 

 the young lion is killed by his stronger rival, and 

 while the rat with an injured limb is at once at- 

 tacked, killed and eaten by its fellows, men compete 

 with each other for power and position, and for the 

 means of gratifying whims and obtaining pleasure, 

 It may truly be called a race for greed in which, in 

 the nature of things, all cannot come in first The 



