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ethics. Restricted and inverted selection in civilisation. 

 The evils of war and militarism. Nietzsche's egoism. 

 Darwinian ideas of the social future. Insipidity of the 

 Darwinian ideal. Social man according to Nietzsche. 

 Natural science knows no idea of duty. It knows nothing 

 of values, and can therefore frame no ethic. Preservation 

 of existence is not preservation of value. Is there a sense 

 of life ? Monism. Presuppositions of science. The idea 

 of duty is the beginning of all knowledge. Conclusion - 390 



INDEX - - ..... 429 



