Progress Proportional to Justice 231 



We who hold a different belief — we, who regard 

 the democratic movement, not only as a degenerating 

 form of political organization, but as equivalent to a 

 degenerating, a waning type of man, as involving 

 his mediocrizing and depreciation: where have we 

 to fix our hopes? In new philosophers — there is no 

 other alternative : in minds strong and original enough 

 to initiate opposite estimates of value. ^ 



The task of reconstruction in social philosophy is 

 distinct from that which Nietzsche outlines, in that 

 it does not consist in setting up a false standard of 

 value and then building a theory to correspond. 

 The new social philosophy must begin with a 

 thorough examination of the structure of society; 

 science must be its guiding star, and its watchword, 

 "The truth shall make you free." Its greatest 

 hope lies in the fact that it runs with, not counter 

 to, the great world currents of democracy and the 

 fundamental social instincts of the human race. 



This intellectual revolution, this replacing of 

 the idea of force by the idea of justice as the 

 guiding principle of social and political action, is 

 fraught with an untold wealth of promise for the 

 advancement of the human race. Thus far we 

 have failed to reap the fruits of that unparalleled 

 advance in the physical world, in the mastery of 

 the laws of nature and the increased productivity 

 of labour, which have been the dominant char- 

 acteristics of the past century. No addition has 



' Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, " The Natural History of 

 Morals," p. 22. 



