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...more trouble by announcing further price cuts. This occurrence has thrown quite a blight over the plans of many car makers to raise prices next season to a point where larger profits, could be seen in the business. Instead, the coming issue will apparently be the survival of the fittest, with the probability that weaker concerns will either retire or consolidate...
Survival of the Fittest...
...certain human institutions preserve for them a certain charm and dignity. However, where such pillars are substituted for scientific pillars capable of shouldering the increased load with less strain, grave danger is unnecessarily involved. It cannot possibly be that Harvard has extended the rule of the survival of the fittest in its fullest sense. This is impossible, for it is opposed to reason...
...this be done? According to Professor McDougall, the effect of civilization is to increase the obligations each individual must fulfill, while at the same time it brings about conditions that nullify the principle of the survival of the fittest and therefore make the average individual loss able to fulfill these obligations. This is shown by statistics gathered in many places which indicate that the upper classes do not reproduce nearly so fast as the lower classes. The average Harvard graduate has seven-tenths of a son! Those who can bring into the world individuals better able to enter fully into...
...just as both parties in the world war can, if they like, claim that Nietzsche is on their side--hater of Prussians and of all Prussianism as he certainly was, yet author of the "superman" theory--so the Darwinians may point out that, according to Darwin, it is the fittest, and not necessarily the strongest physically or materially, that survives, and fitness may reside as much in patience, in industry and in moral purpose as in physical strength and in military efficiency. Darwin was certainly not a preacher of militarism, either directly or inferentially. We cannot put the blame...