Given a world without religious faith, in full social revolution, with possibilities of wealth and power dangled before every man's eyes--what can you expect but the prevalences of a more or less ferocious egoism?
We, who are _not_ egoists"-- he looked into his companion's eyes--"yet are conscious of unusual strength, may, it seems to me, avail ourselves of the truth in Nietzsche, which, after all, is very much the same as my own theory of the selection of the fit for rule.

The difference is, that we wish to use our power for the common good, whilst Nietzsche's teaching results in a return to sheer barbarism, the weak trampled because of their weakness." Constance approved.

Yes, their aim, undoubtedly, was the common good, and, whilst keeping this in view, they need not, perhaps, be over-fastidious as to the means they employed.

She had for years regarded herself as at war with society, in the narrow sense of the word; its creeds, great or small, had no validity for her; she had striven for what she deemed her rights, the rights of a woman born with intellect and will and imagination, yet condemned by poverty to rank among subordinates.

The struggle appeared to have brought her within view of triumph, and was it not to herself, her natural powers and qualities, that she owed all?
At this moment she felt her right to pursue any object which seemed to her desirable.