Law, disease and human progress ...

Index

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Introduction 3

False Assumption by Spencer and Others That Over Population Has Crowded Man's Food Supply, and Will

Continue To Do So 1

Man's Natural Enemies Not Man 16

How Nature Selects Life 17

Favorable and Unfavorable Natural Laws 23

Individual Rights Over Property. Real and Personal 28

All Forms of Life are Subject to the Same Laws of Development

Order of Human Development 30

Acts of Chance and Conscious Acts Further Discussed 32

What is Meant by Design in Nature 34

Further Discussion of Natures Methods of Selecting Life. . . 35

Greater Intelligence Can Produce Greater Human Fitness. . 43

What is the Hope of Human Achievement 48

The Merit System 51

Slave Co-operation of Insect Life Due to the Difference in

their Physical and Physiological Characters 55

Greater Need for Systematic Co-operation by the Establishment of an Industrial Commonwealth 57

Mass Action and the Workers 61

Political Action and Industrial Action 63

Why Working Class Co-operation and Organization is Discouraged , . 65

-Why Human Co-operation is Opposed to Human Anarchy. . 66

What Individual Anarchism Means 67

Bases of Law — Criminal. Civil and Moral 70

False Value of Man to Man Competition 77

Competition Between Merit and Merit, and Not Between

Wealth Power and Ignorant Weakness 89

Political. Religious, Industrial and Social Customs Not

Always Controlled by Reason 92

The Spirit of Aggression and The Spirit of Resistance.... 98

Conclusion 106 iu

It is not the intention of the writer of this essay to make it a scientific monograph. If one is of an analytical turn of mind, there are many splendid philosophical and scientific works which can easily be obtained, written by some of the world's best thinkers, who have dealt thoroughly in detail with all the general facts herein stated.

Those who are familiar with biology, physiology or psychology, in order to satisfy the cravings for more facts pertaining to statements made in this essay, will find many excellent works by such famous writers and scientists as Linneaus, Lamarck, Romanes, Huber, Comte, Spencer, Haeckel, Darwin, Huxley, Marx, Lester Ward, Kropotkin, Wheeler, Lubbock and many others.

I am more than anxious not to burden the reader with the scientific detail pertaining to many general statements herein made, for if one were to become analytical on the various subjects treated in this essay, then not an essay would be required such as this is, but many volumes would have to be written. However, if one is further interested, as I have said before, there can readily be found full information in the text books relating to such matters.

The attempt of this little work is to add by me, as far as it is possible, my emphasis of what I see to be the truth. It is impossible to beautify natural truths; exaggeration will not do it. To me the truths of nature are so profound and wonderful that they need no exaggeration. Fiction and miracles, concoctions of the human mind, cannot begin to compare to the real actual wonders