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racial struggle for existence upon humanity, which 

 is far more severe and cruel than that natural form 

 to which our race has risen superior, but from which 

 the brutes below man, except those which have been 

 domesticated, can not escape. 



Only during the primal era, when our helpless 

 brute ancestry, not yet familiar with the use of 

 sticks and missiles, was pitted against species and 

 genera vastly better fitted for the struggle for ex- 

 istence, when the struggle against living antago- 

 nists was exclusively extroracial, only in that era, 

 and never since, has the false type or its methods 

 been anything besides a hindrance and a curse to the 

 race. 



Fourteen hundred millions of naturally peaceful, 

 intellectual, industrious human beings, when left 

 free by the false type to follow their higher motives, 

 will by voluntary co-operation be able to create hap- 

 pier and more beautiful conditions on earth for every 

 one, far more favorable to the survival of the wiser 

 and nobler among them, than by greedy, fierce 

 contentions for economic advantages for individuals, 

 classes, or nationalities. 



This, then, is the way in which this new factor 

 has power to change the nature of the struggle for 

 existence : 



Until humanity appeared, organic progress could 

 only be attained when each individual, variety, 

 race, and species fiercely and ruthlessly contended 

 against others for the largest share in the supplies 



