The Germans, so conceited about their special worth, erect upon distant ground their intellectual monuments, borrowing of the foreigner their foundation material whenever they undertake a new line of work.

A Frenchman and an Englishman, Gobineau and Chamberlain, have given them the arguments with which to defend the superiority of their race.

With the rubbish left over from Darwin and Spencer, their old Haeckel has built up his doctrine of 'Monism' which, applied to politics, scientifically consecrates Prussian pride and recognizes its right to rule the world by force." "No, a thousand times no!" he exclaimed after a brief silence.

"The struggle for existence with its procession of cruelties may be true among the lower species, but it should not be true among human creatures.

We are rational beings and ought to free ourselves from the fatality of environment, moulding it to our convenience.