“We believe in the survival of the fittest and
labour to be fittest. They believe in their power
of making the unfit fit and fail, and by failures fall
among the unfit class.” “Unless the vigorous nation
or race can continue, as throughout history, to expand
and grow stronger at the expense of the decaying
nation or race, the fundamental condition of human
advance will not be fulfilled, and a stage of stagnancy,
ending in social death, will be substituted for
a State of Progress. The only means, revealed to us
by past experience, whereby the vigorous people
has supplanted the weaker, has been war, without
which change and movement must have ceased.
Thus viewed, it will be seen that war appears
simply a phase in that tremendous and ceaseless
process of competition which prevails alike on sea and
land–in the ocean-depths, in the paths of the air,
in field and forest, throughout insect and animal and
vegetable life. The recoil from war, which is felt by
so many minds, is only another instance of the
eternal contrast between the upward trend of the
human spirit and the physical environment by which
that spirit is conditioned. But to strive to reach
the ideal by a short cut, is not only to fail to attain
it, but also actually to postpone its arrival. [૧] ”
પોપટ– The cat is out of the bag at last. Enough ! I can hear or bear no longer. My country has no hope from thee.
વાનર- Nor from thee and thy people, either.
પોપટ– You wish my extinction, then ?
વાનર– It is not a question of my wish but a matter
- ↑ 1 From the Ninteenth Century, Feb, 1893, p. 222.
