Evening star., 1925-07-28

issued from the press in 1918, seven
years ago. The title of the book is
The Science of Power, and its au-
thor, Benjamin Kidd, being an Eng
lishman, could not have any national
prejudice against Darwin. On pages
46 and At we find Kidd's interpreta-
ton of evoIution:
DarWin'S presentation of the evo-
luton of the world as the product of
natural selection in never-ceasing war
as product, that is to say, of a
struggle in which the individual, eff
cient in the fight for his own in
tereSts, was always the winning type
touched the profoundeSt depths of
the psychology of the west. The idea
seemed to present the whole order of
progress in the world as the result of
a purely mechanical and materialistic
process resting on force. In so doing
it was a conception which reached the
springs of that heredity born of the
unmeasured ages of conquest out of
which the western mind has come.
Within half a century the Origin of
Species" had become the bible of the
doctrine of the omnipotence of force
Kidd goes so far as to charge that
'Nietzsche's teaching represented the
Interpretation of the popular Oar
winism delivered with the fury and
intensity of genius. And Nietzsche,
be it remembered, denounced Chris
tianity as the doctrine of the degen-
crate and democracy as the refuge
of weaklings.'
Led to "Super State"
Kidd says that Nietzsche gave
Germany the doctrine of Darwin's
efficient animal in the voice of his
superman. and that Bernhard and
the military textbooks in due time
gave Germany the doctrine of the
aIperman translated into the national
policy of the superState aiming at
world power page 6T.
And what else but the spirit of
evolution can account for the popu-
larity of the selfish doctrine each
one for himself and the devil take
the hindmost, that threatens the very
existence of the doctrine of brother
hood.
In 1900-25 years ago-while an in
ternational peace congress was in
session in Paris. the following editorial
appeared in L'Univers:
The spirit of peace has fed the
earth because evolution has taken
possession of It. The plea for peace
in past years has been inspired by
faith in the divine nature and the
looked upon as children of apes what
matters it whether they are slaugh-
tered or not?' .
Quotes School Magazine.
when there is poison in the blood
no one knows on what part of the
body it will break out, but we can be
sure that it will continue to break
out until the blood is purified. One of
the leading universities of the South
Il love the State too well to mention
its name) publishes a monthly maya
zine entitled Journal of Social Forces.
In the January issue of this year a
contributor has a lengthy article on
Sociology and Ethics in the course
of which he says: No attempt will be
made to take up the matter of the
good or evil of sexual intercourse
among humans aside from the mat
ter of conscious procreation, but as an
historian it might be worth while to
ask the eXponents of the impurity
complex to explain the fact that, with
out exception, the great periods of
cultural affiorescence have been those
characterized by a large amount of
freedom in sex relations, and that
those of the greatest cultural degrada-
ton and decline have been accom-