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mense and increasing population compelled the think- 

 ing men to devise a remedy for the starvation which in 

 times of drought or comparative failure of the feis or 

 breadfruit or a scarcity of fish menaced the nation! 

 That the cruel remedy of infanticide was chosen may be 

 laid to ignorance of foeticidal methods, and the indispo- 

 sition of the languorous women to suffer pain or to 

 risk their own lives or health. 



Lecky says that however much moralists may en- 

 force the obligation of extra-matrimonial purity, this 

 obligation has never been even approximately regarded. 

 One could hardly expect from the heathen Tahitians 

 moral restraint. Malthus, a Christian clergyman, did 

 not until the second edition of his book add that to vice 

 and misery as checks of nature to an increase of humans 

 faster than the means of subsistence. Nor have most 

 Christian or civilized nations made such a check effec- 

 tual. 



The ever-dominant and only inherent impulse in all 

 living beings, including man, is the will to remain alive 

 — the will, that is, to attain power over those forces 

 which make life difficult or impossible. 



All schemes of morality are nothing more than efforts 

 to put into permanent codes the expedients found use- 

 ful by some given race in the course of its successful en- 

 deavors to remain alive. 



Did not Zarathustra so philosophize, and is not the 

 national trend in Europe exalting his theory? With 

 the difference that nationalism takes the place of in- 

 dividualism in the scheme of survival and a better place 

 in the sun is the legend on the banners. 



Unable to find enemies to keep their numbers down, 



