What's So and What Isn't

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In short, it will give him industrial freedom in place of the present industrial slavery. In order to repeat myself as little as possible, I will refer the reader for further matter bearing upon this subject to the chapter on Individuality, and the chapter on Individual Initiative. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST No, Socialism will not prevent the survival of the fittest. Capitalism prevents the survival of the best. Socialism will abolish the survival of the slickest. Socialism will provide conditions wherein the best will have a chance to survive. The best are now killed off, or submerged. There never has been a time since the dawn of civilization when the best men have survived. That is, when the best men have been accorded their proper place among their fellow men. The best men are the men of moral integrity, of intellectual vigor, the broad-minded and big-hearted men, the men who do something useful, the men who love their fellow men, the men who try to do good in the world, the men who are of the best use to humanity. These are the best men. But the conditions since civilization began have not been such that they could survive. The fittest do survive. That is, the men who are fittest for the environment. The men who are the nearest adapted to existing conditions. Sow wheat in a weed patch and the weeds will survive, although the wheat is the best. The weeds are the fittest for those conditions. Pit a man naked-handed against a gorilla, and the gorilla will survive, although the man is the best. The gorilla is the fittest for those conditions. In the middle ages the man who was the most expert with the sword and the lance was the one who survived, although no one will contend that he was the best. He was the fittest for the condit...

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