Might is Right

Might is Right

Might is Right

Might is Right

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ragnar Redbeard

 

 

 

 

 

Published by Libertine Press, Australia, 2008.

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This ebook is based on the 1927 edition, originally

published by Dil Pickle Press, Chicago. Some minor

editorial changes have been made to correct obvious

misprints but many of the inconsistencies in spelling,

grammar and punctuation have been left unchanged.

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

Book 1.

 

 

 

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTORY..................................................................................-4 -

The living forces of Evil are to be found in the Moral Ideals of to-day.

 

CHAPTER II: ICONOCLASTIC.................................................................................-14 -

Christian Ethics impeached. Jesus, the true Prince of Evil & the Mephistopheles of the

world the King of the Slaves.

 

CHAPTERIII: THESPINNING-OF-THE-WEB!.......................................................- 30-

The spinning of the web. The Ship of State, a pirate ship. All men are created equal,' is

the strident doctrine of the maniac.

 

CHAPTERIV: MAN & THECARNIVORE!............................................................- 57 -

Mantle Carnivore. The Ideal Animal, a destructive warrior & not a crucified carpenter.

'MoralPrinciples' are slave-regulations.

 

CHAPTERV: THE CHIEF END OFMANHOOD.....................................................- 81 -

The chief end of manhood & material success. Self preservation, the First Law of

Nature. Hell takes the Defeated Ones & the Failures.

 

CHAPTERVI: LOVE, AND WOMEN, AND WAR................................................-110 -

Love and Women and War. Female animals love the best fighting males. Sexual selection

and the necessity of unmerciful conflict.

 

CHAPTERVI: THE LOGIC OFTO-DAY................................................................- 135 -

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OPPORTUNITIES

 

 

 

A man's opportunities are never exhausted so long as other men (who are not his friends)

possess millions of acres and thousands of tons of gold.

 

The guarded treasure halls and iron-clad temples of modern kings and presidents,high

priests and millionaires, are positively the richest the world has ever known.

 

Bulging are they with the vast hoards of silver and diamonds and gold.

 

Here,then, is opportunity on a colossal scale. Here is the goal of the Caesars,

Nebuchadnezzars and Napoleons in the days that are coming.

 

All is ready and prepared for them, even as in olden times.

 

Caesar carried off the treasures of Egypt, Greece, Gaul and Rome. Napoleon looted the

money vaults of Venice, Vienna, Madrid, Berlin and Moscow. London only escaped him.

 

Nebuchadnezzar plundered the Temple of Zion, where the Jews kept all their deposits

and drank his beer and wine out of Jehovah's pots of gold.

 

Napoleon,Caesar, Nebuchadnezzar! They were three great men, were they not? And in

this their greatness consisted & they seized their opportunities.

 

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ALLELSE IS ERROR

 

 

 

The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural laws tooth

and claw. All else is error. A condition of combat everywhere exists. We are born into a

perpetual conflict. It is our inheritance even as it was the heritage of previous generations.

This 'condition of combat' may be disguised with the holy phrases of St. Francis, or the

soft deceitful doctriness of a Kropotkin or Tolstoi, but it cannotbee eventually evaded by

any human being or any tribe of human beings. It is there and it stays there, and each

man(whether he will or not) has to reckon with it. It rules all things; it governs all things;

it reigns over all things and it decides all who imagine policemanized populations,

internationally regulated tranquility, and State organized industrialism so joyful, blessed

and divine. 

 

 

 

 

THE VICTOR GETS THE GOLD

 

 

 

Virtue is rewarded in this world,remember. Natural law makes no false judgments. Its

decisions are true and just, even when dreadful. The victor gets the gold and the land

every time. He also gets the fairest maidens, the glory tributes. And & why should it be

otherwise?Why should the delights of life go to failures and cowards? Why should the

spoils of battle belong to the unwarlike? That would be insanity, utterly unnatural and

immoral. 

 

 

 

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Behold the crucifix, what does it symbolize? 

Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree. 

 

 

 

 

Lo,I hear the fighters coming

Over fill and dale and plain. 

With the battle cry of ages 

In a Rebel world again. 

 

Who'd forge their swords to plow-shares, 

Shall sweat in bitter yokes, 

The free-born race and fearless 

Must deal out battle strokes. 

 

 

 

 

In the wars of the Great Caesar, and Grim Hannibal, in the times of Belzchazzar,the

Pharaoh sand all; the days of Rienzi and Roland the Bold; all banners are waving for

WOMEN and GOLD. 

 

 

 

 

It is might against might, remember, by land and sea, man against man,

money against money, brains against brains, and & everything to the

winner. 

 

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CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTORY

 

 

 

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. 

 

To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign& 

 

Proclaimers to the weakling, wealth to the strong.' 

 

Open your eyes that you may hear, O! men of mildewed minds and listen to me, ye

laborious millions! 

 

ForI stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the 'laws' of man

and of 'God.' 

 

I request reasons for your Golden Rule and ask the why and wherefore of your Ten

Commands. 

 

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence and he who saith 'thou shalt'

tome is my mortal foe. 

 

I demand proof over all things, and accept (with reservations) even that which is true. 

 

I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad-redeemer (your Divine

Democrat& your Hebrew Madman) and write over his thorn-torn brow, 'The true prince

of Evil & the king of the Slaves!' 

 

 

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me & no cult or dogma shall encramp my pen. 

 

I break away from all conventions. Alone, untrammeled. I raise up in stern invasion the

standard of Strong. 

 

I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the beard& I

uplift a broad-axe and split open his worm-eaten skull. 

 

 

I blastt out the ghastly contents of philosophic whited sepulchres and laugh with sardonic

wrath. 

 

Then reaching up the festering and varnished facades of your haughtiest moral dogmas, I

write thereon in letters of blazing scorn: & 'Lo and behold, all this is fraud!'  

 

 

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I deny all things! I question all things! 

 

And yet! And yet! & 

 

&Gather around me O! ye death-defiant, and the earth itself shall be thine, to have and

to hold. 

 

 

What is your 'civilization and progress' if its only outcome is hysteria and downgoing? 

 

What is 'government and law' if their ripened harvests are men without sap? 

 

What are'religions and literatures' if their grandest productions are hordes of faithfull

slaves? 

 

What is 'evolution and culture' if their noxious blossoms are sterilized women? 

 

What is 'education and enlightenment' if their dead-sea-fruit is a caitiff race,with

rottenness in its bones? 

 

 

 

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How is it that 'men of light and leading' hardly ever call in question the manufactured

'moral codes,' under which our once vigorous Northern race is slowly and surely eating

out its heart in peaceful inaction and laborious dry-rot? 

 

Standard 'moral principles' are arbitrarily assumed by their orthodox apologist to be a

fixed and unalterable quantity, and that to doubt the divine-rightness of these 'principles'

ist reason and sacrilege. When the greatest thinkers of a race are incapable, or afraid to

perform their manifest and logical function, it is scarcely to be wondered that average

citizens are also somewhat unwilling to 'risk life, fortune and sacred honor' for the

overthrow of popularized 'right and wrong' concepts, that they know from bitter

personal experience, are unworkable falsities. Although the average man feels in his heart

that nearly all political and religious conventionalisms are dynamic deceits,yet how

cautiously he avoids any open display of antagonism thereto? He has not the courage of

his opinions. He is afraid to say openly what he thinks secretly. In other words he is

living in a state of subjectiveness of vassalage. He allows his brain to be dominated and

held in bondage by the brain of another. From his infancy he has been deliberately

subjected to a continuous external pressure, especially designed to coerce his

understanding into strict accord with pre-arranged views of moral, political or religious

'duty.'He has not been permitted one moment of real mental liberty. He imbibed

fraudulent conventionalisms with his mother's milk. He listens to the most hideous lies

being glorified in his presence as sublime truths. He hears falsehoods sung in swelling

chorus. He hears them sounded on bugles of silver and brass. He hears them intoned by

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congregations of the faithful amid peals of sacred music, and the solemn roll of chanted

prayer. Thus his mind is sterilized by authority before it has had a chance to mature.Thus

youth is mentally castrated, that its natural vitality may be afterwards used up in the yoke

of custom & which is the yoke of slavery. In the nursery, at school, and at college,

plastic brain-pulp is deliberately forced into the pre-arranged mould. Everything that a

corrupt civilization can do, is done to compress the growing intellect into unnatural

channels.Thus the great mass of men who inhabit the world of to-day have no initiative,

no originality or independence of thought, but are mere subjective individualities, who

have never had the slightest voice in fashioning the ideals that they formallyr evere. 

 

Althoughthe average man has taken no part in manufacturing moral codes and statute

laws,yet how he obeys them with dog-like submissiveness? He is trained to obedience,

likeoxen are broken to the yoke of their masters. He is a born thrall habituated from

childhoodto be governed by others. 

 

Chinesecivilization deliberately distorts its children's feet, by swathing them inbandages

ofsilk and hoop-iron. Christian civilization crushes and cramps the minds of itsyouth by

meansof false philosophies, artificial moral codes and ironclad political creeds.

Deleterioussub-theories of good and evil are systematically injected into our natural

literatures,and gradually (without serious obstruction) they crystallize themselves into

cast-ironformulas, infallible constitutions, will-o-the-wisp evangels, and other deadly

epidemics. 

 

Modern'leaders of thought' are almost wholly wanting in originality and courage.Their

wisdomis foolishness, their remedies poison. They idiotically claim that they guidethe

destiniesof nations, whereas, in reality, they are but the flotsam and scum-froth that

glidessmoothly down the dark stream of decadence. 

 

 

'Thusall the people of the earth are helpless, 

Seeingthose that lead are blind.' 

 

 

Mankindis aweary, aweary of its sham prophets, its demagogues and its statesmen. It

criethout for kings and heroes. It demands a nobility & a nobility that cannotbe hired

withmoney, like slaves or beasts of burden. The world awaits the coming of mightymen

ofvalor, great destroyers; destroyers of all that is vile, angels of death. Weare sick unto

nauseaof the 'good Lord Jesus,' terror-stricken under the executive of priest, moband

proconsul.We are tired to death of 'Equality.' Gods are at a discount, devils are in

demand.He who would rule the coming age must be hard, cruel, and deliberately

intrepid,for softness assails not successfully the idols of the multitude. Those idolsmust

besmashed into fragments, burnt into ashes, and that cannot be done by the gospelof

love. 

 

Theliving forces of evil are to be found in the living ideals of to-day. 

 

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TheCommandments and laws and moral codes that we are called upon to reverence and

obeyare themselves the insidious enginery of decadence. It is moral principles that

manufacturebeggars. It is golden rules that glorify meekness. It is statute laws that make

spanielsof men. 

 

Aman may keep every one of the Ten Commandments and yet remain a fool all thedays

ofhis life. He may obey every written law of the land, and yet be a caitiff and aslave. He

may'love Jesus,' delight in the golden rule and yet continue to the hour of his death,a

failureand dependent. Truly the way to hell is by fulfilling the commandments of God.If

theall-conquering race to which we belong, is not to irretrievably dwindle into

multitudinousnothingness, (like the inferior herds it has outdistanced or enslaved) then it

isessential that the Semitic spider webs (so astutely woven for ages into thebrains of our

chiefs)be remorselessly torn out by the very roots, even though the tearing outprocess be

bothpainful and bloody. 

 

Ifwe would retain and defend our inherited manhood, we must not permit ourselvesto be

foreverrocked to repose, with the sweet lullabies of eastern idealisms. Too long wehave

beenhypnotized by the occult charm of Hebrew Utopianism. If we continue to obey the

insidiousspell that has been laid upon us, we will wake up some dread morning with the

gatesof hell & 'of hell upon earth' yawning wide open, to close again upon usforever. 

 

Theidea of hell is in some respects a truthful conception, suggestive of actualfact. If we

terrestrializethe location, there is nothing inharmonious about it. Many a race, many a

tribe,and many a mighty empire has gone down into a grimly realistic sheol. Is it not

rightand just, that the vile, the base and the degenerate (that is to say the slavenations of

theearth) should be punished pitilessly for their creeping cowardice? Is it notright that

theyshould be, as it were, fried and toasted & should swim in pools ofboiling blood, or

dancesweltering satanic glees, with blistered feet and straining eye-balls onred-hot

Saharasof gravel and sand? 

 

Inactual operation Nature is cruel and merciless to men, as to all other beings.Let a tribe

ofhuman animals live a rational life, Nature will smile upon them and their posterity;but

letthem attempt to organize an unnatural mode of existence an equality elysium,and they

willbe punished even to the point of extermination. 

 

 

 

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Allethics, politics and philosophies are pure assumptions, built upon assumptions.They

reston no sure basis. They are but shadowy castles-in-the-air erected byday-dreamers, or

byrogues, upon nursery fables. It is time they were firmly planted upon anenduring

foundation.This can never be accomplished until the racial mind has first been

thoroughlycleansed and drastically disinfected of its depraved, alien, and demoralizing

conceptsof right and wrong. In no human brain can sufficient space be found, for the

relentlesslogic of hard fact, until all pre-existent delusions have been finallyannihilated.

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Halfmeasures are of no avail, we must go down to the very roots and tear them out,even

tothe last fiber. We must be, like nature, hard, cruel, relentless. 

 

Toolong the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought & toolong, right

andwrong, good and evil, have been inverted by false prophets. In the days thatare at

hand,neither creed nor code must be accepted upon authority, human, superhuman or

"divine.'(Morality and conventionalism are for subordinates.) Religions andconstitutions

andall arbitrary principles, every mortal theorem, must be deliberately put to the

question.No moral dogma must be taken for granted & no standard of measurement

deified.There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of

longago, they are all the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can

destroy. 

 

Hethat is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, forbelief in

onefalse principle, is the beginning of all unwisdom. The chief duty of every newage is

toup-raise new men to determine its liberties, to lead it towards materialsuccess & to

rend(as it were) the rusty padlocks and chains of dead custom that always prevent

healthyexpansion. Theories and ideals and constitutions, that may have meant life and

hope,and freedom, for our ancestors, may now mean destruction, slavery and dishonorto

us.As environments change no human ideal standeth sure. 

 

Wherever,therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne, let it be assailed withoutpity and

withoutregret, for under the domination of a falsehood, no nation can permanently

prosper.Let established sophisms be dethroned, rooted out, burnt and destroyed, forthey

area standing menace to all true nobility of thought and action. Whatever alleged'truth'

isproven by results, to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flunginto the

outerdarkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and otheruseless

lumberand wreckage. 

 

Themost dangerous of all enthroned lies is the holy, the sanctified, theprivileged lie &

thelie that 'everybody' believes to be a model truth. It is the fruitful mother ofall other

popularerrors and delusions. It is hydra-headed. It has a thousand roots. It is asocial

cancer.The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the lie that evenintelligent

personsregard as a sacred fact & the lie that has been inculcated around amother's knee

&is more dangerous to contend against than a creeping pestilence. Popular lieshave

everbeen the most potent enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to dealwith

them.Cut them out, to the very core, just as cancers are. Exterminate them root and

branch,or they will surely eat us all up. We must annihilate them, or they will us.Half

andhalf remedies are of no avail. 

 

However,when a lie has gone too far & when it has taken up its abode in the very

tissues,bones and brains of a people, then all remedies are useless. Even the lancet isof

noavail. Repentance of past misdeeds cannot 'save' decadents from extermination.The

fatalbolt is shot; and into the fiery furnace of wholesale slavery, and oblivion,they must

go,to be there righteously consumed. From their ashes something new, somethingnobler,

maypossibly evolve, but even that is the merest optimistic supposition.  

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Innature the wages of sin is always death. Nature does not love the wrong-doer,but

endeavorsin every possible way to destroy him. Her curse is on the brow of the 'meek

andlowly.' Her blessing is on the very hearts' blood of the strong and the brave.Only

Jewsand Christs and other degenerates, think that rejuvenation can ever comethrough

lawand prayer. 'All the tears of all the martyrs' might just as well have neverbeen shed. 

 

 

 

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Whatsoevera people believeth shall make it free, enslave it, or corrode its very marrow

instrict accordance with natural order. Consequently if a people place implicitfaith in

whatphilosophers teach them, they are liable to be duped. If many nations are soduped,

theirdeception is a menace to the liberty of the world. 

 

Freemenshould never regulate their conduct by the suggestions or dicta of others, for

whenthey do so, they are no longer free. No man ought to obey any contract, writtenor

implied,except he himself has given his personal and formal adherence thereto, when in

astate of mental maturity and unrestrained liberty. It is only slaves that areborn into

contracts,signed and sealed by their progenitors. The freeman is born free, lives free,and

diesfree. He is (even though living in an artificial civilization) above all laws,all

constitutions,all theories of right and wrong. He supports and defends them of course, as

longas they suit his own end, but if they don't, then he annihilates them by theeasiest

andmost direct method. 

 

Thereis no obligation upon any man to passive obedience, when his life, his libertyand

hisproperty are threatened by footpad, assassin or statesman. 

 

Oneof Columbus's lieutenants in the West Indies captured a Carib chief by means ofa

subtlestratagem. The chief was invited to a feast and when there, persuaded with

honeyedwords to don (on horseback) a set of brightly polished steel manacles; it being

cunninglyrepresented to him, that the irons were the regalia of sovereignty. Hefoolishly

believedhis astute flatterer, and when the chains were firmly clasped around his limbs,he

wasled away, to die of vermin, turning a mill in a Spanish dungeon. What those

glitteringmanacles were to the Indian chieftain, constitutions, laws, moral codes, and

Hebrewdominated civilizations, are to the nations of the earth. Indeed, under thename of

Progressand Social Evolution, mankind has been lured into fo¾ted dungeons, where it

laborsunceasingly and for naught, in darkness, despair and shame. Like that Spanish

lieutenantthe masters of the earth first flatter their dupes, in order to more easilyenchain

them.Who talks nowadays of the 'sovereign people,' without a laugh of derision? And

yetit was once thought to be a term full of significance. Their "sovereignty' isnow

acknowledgedsham, and their freedom a dream. The sovereign people be & damned. 

 

Itis clear, therefore, that the man or nation that would retain liberty, or bereally safe,

mustaccept no formula as final & must trust in nothing written or unwritten,living or

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dead& must believe neither in special Jehovahs, nor weeping Saviors &neither in

ragingdevils, nor in devilish philosophies & neither in ghosts, nor in idols,nor in laws

&nor in woman, nor in man.  

 

 

'Othreats of hell, and hopes of paradise, 

Onething at least is certain & this life flies; 

Onething is certain and all the rest is & lies, 

Theflower that once has bloomed forever dies.' 

 

 

 

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Hewho saith unto himself, 'I must believe, I must not question' is not a man buta mere

pusillanimousmental gelding. He who believes 'because it has been handed down' is a

menialin his heart; and he who believes 'because it has been written' is a fool inhis

folly.Sagacious spirits doubt all things, and hold fast only to that which isdemonstrably

true. 

 

Therules of life are not to be found in Korans, Bibles, Decalogues andConstitutions, but

ratherthe rules of decadence and death. The 'law of laws' is not written in Hebrew

consonantsor upon tables of brass and stone, but in every man's own heart. He who

obeysany standard of right and wrong, but the one set up by his own conscience,betrays

himselfinto the hands of his enemies, who are ever laying in wait to bind him to their

millstones.And generally a man's most dangerous enemies are his neighbors. 

 

 

Masterfulmen laugh with contempt at spiritual thunders, and have no occasion to dread

thedecisions of any human tribunal. They are above and beyond all that. Laws and

regulationsare only for conquered vassals. The free man does not require them. He may

manufactureand post up Decalogue regulations, to bind and control dependents with, but

hedoes not himself bow down before those inventions of his own hands, &except as a

lure. 

 

Statutebooks and golden rules, were made to fetter slaves and fools. Very useful are

they,for controlling the herds of sentenced convicts, who fill the factories andcultivate

thefields. All moral principles therefore are the servitors, not the masters ofthe strong.

Powermade moral codes, and Power abrogates them.

 

Aman is under no obligation to obey anything or anybody. It is only serving-menthat

mustobey, because they are caitiffs by birth, breeding, and condition. Morals areonly

requiredin an immoral community, that is to say a community held in a state ofconquest. 

 

FearGod, bridle the spirit, and obey the law, is advice most excellent, as from a

philosopherto a yokel, but when directed in all earnestness at a man of inherent might, he

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smilesto himself in silent scorn. Full well he knows that in actual life the path tovictory

andrenown, does not lie through Gethsemanies, but over fallen enemies, the ruinsof

rivalcombines, through Aceldamas. 'Meekness of spirit' is regarded by him as a

convenientsuperstition, very useful for regulating the lives of his servants, his women

andhis children, but otherwise inoperative. 

 

'Irest my hopes on nothing,' proclaimed Goethe, and masterful minds in all ageshave

neverdone otherwise. This unspoken thought gives to all truly great men theirmanifest

superiorityover the brainless, vociferating herd. The 'common people' have always had

tobe befooled with some written or wooden or golden Idol & someconstitution,

declarationor gospel. Consequently the majority of them have ever been mental thralls,

livingand dying in an atmosphere of strong illusion. They are befooled and hypnotized

evento this hour, and a large proportion of them must remain so, until time is nomore.

Indeedthe masses of mankind are but the sediment from which all the more valuable

elementshave been long ago distilled. They are totally incapable of real freedom, andif it

wasgranted to them, they would straightway vote themselves a master, or a thousand

masterswithin twenty-four hours. Mastership is right & Mastership is natural&

Mastershipis eternal. But only for those who cannot overthrow it, and trample it beneath

theirhoofs. Is it not a fact that in actual life, the ballot-box votes of tenmillion subjective

personalitiesare as thistle down in the balance, when weighed against the far seeing

thought,and material prowess of, say, ten strong silent men? 

 

 

 

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Itis notorious, universally so, that the blackest falsehoods are ever decked outin the most

brilliantand gorgeous regalia. Clearly, therefore, it is the brave man's duty to regardall

sacredthings, all legal things, all constitutional things, all holy things, with morethan

usualsuspicion. 'I deny, and I affirm,' is the countersign of material freedom. 'Ibelieve,

andI obey' is the shibboleth of serfage. Belief is a flunkey, a feminine &Doubt is a

creator,a master. He who denies fundamentals is in triple armor clad. Indeed he is

invulnerable.On the other hand, it has been said that every belief, every philosophy, has

sometruth in it, but so we might add has every insanity. 

 

Strongmen are not deterred from pursuing their aim by anything. They go straight tothe

goal,and that goal is Beauty, Wealth, and Material Power. The mission of Power is to

controland exploit the powerless, for to be powerless is to be criminal. The worldwould

indeedbe a house of horrors, if all men were 'good' and all women &padlocked. 

 

Asfar as human search lights have yet penetrated, into the darkness thatenshrouds the

originof nations, we see the subduers and the subdued, the plebeians and thepatricians,

thechiefs who governed, and the vassals who obeyed. And there is nothing in themost

modernsocial developments (of these deedless days) to warrant any belief that this

ancientand natural division of human animals, into castes of superiors and inferiors,

sovereignsand serfs, can ever be dispensed with. The slave-owner's whip cracked from

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thebeginning and it will crack till the day of doom. In every kingdom, republicand

empireon earth, we have (in one disguise or another) the master and the slave &the

rulerand the ruled. In the course of centuries, names alone have changed, essentialshave

remainedthe same. Forms of royalty may alter but kings can never die. There was

mastershipat the beginning, and there will be mastership to the end. We build, but as our

fathersbuilt. Change is not progress, nor numbers advance. 

 

Everyone who would be free must show his power. Unalterable remains the basis of all

earthlygreatness. He who exalteth himself shall be exalted, and he who humblethhimself

shallbe righteously trodden beneath the hoofs of the herd. 'The humble' are only fitfor

dogs'meat. Bravery includes every virtue, humility, every crime. He who is afraid torisk

hislife must never be permitted to win anything. 

 

Humanrights and wrongs are not determined by Justice, but by Might. Disguise it asyou

may,the naked sword is still king-maker and king-breaker, as of yore. All othertheories

arelies and & lures. 

 

Therefore!If you would conquer wealth and honor, power and fame, you must be

practical,grim, cool and merciless. You must ride to success (by preference) over the

necksof your foemen. Their defeat is your strength. Their downfall is youruplifting.

Onlythe powerful can be free, and Power is non-moral. Life is real, life isearnest, and

neitherheaven nor hell its final goal. And love, and joy, and birth, and death, andfate,

andstrife, shall be forever. 

 

Thisearth is a vast whirl of warring atoms & a veritable revolving cock-pit.Each

molecule,each animal, fights for its life. You must fight for yours, or surrender. Look

wellto it, therefore, that your beaks and spurs, your fangs and claws are as sharpas steel,

andas effective as science can make them. 

 

Though,the survival of the strongest is the logic of events, yet personal cowardice isthe

greatvice of our demoralized age. Cowardice is corroding the brain and blood of our

race,but men have learnt to disguise this terrible infirmity, behind the cantingwhine of

'humanity'and 'goodness.' Words flow instead of blood, and terrible insults are

exchanged,instead of terrible blows. 

 

Howrich this degenerate world is in small, petty-souled, good-for-nothings, whoare

foreverexcusing their infantile ineptitude behind some plausible phrase & some

conventionalmake-believe? 

 

Courage,I say! Courage, not goodness, is the great desideratum & courage thatrequires

neithertin horns, nor calcium lights, nor brass bands, nor shouting multitudes to callit

intoeffective action.

 

Butcourage that goes its way ALONE, as undauntedly as when it marches to "victoryor

death'amid the menacing stride of armed and bannered legions.

 

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Courage,that delights in danger & Courage, that knows not despair! Courage that

proudly,defiantly smiles on death!

 

Courage,that regards with equal loathing the multitude's mad howls of hate, its stupid

hee-hawsand its stridulating "tremendous applause.'

 

Courage,that asks no quarter, even with the knife at its throat & courage that isstiff-

necked,unyielding, sullen, pitiless! 

 

Courage,that never falters & never retreats! 

 

Courage,that looks down with supreme disdain upon all slave regulations, upon allrights

andwrongs, upon all good and evil!

 

Courage,that has made up its mind to conquer or & perish!

  . 

Thatis the kind of courage this world lacks. That is the kind of courage that aidsby

activeco-operation the survival of the Fittest & the survival of the Best. 

 

Thatis the kind of courage that has never turned a master's mill. 

 

Thatis the kind of courage that never will turn it. 

 

Thatis the kind of courage that will die, rather than turn it. 

 

 

** *

 

 

'WhenSvipdag came to the enclosure, the gate of the burg was shut (for it was

customaryto ask leave to come in and see, or take part in the war games.) Svipdag did

nottake that trouble, but broke open the gate and rode into the yard.' 

 

QueenYisa said:&  'This man willbe welcome here.' 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                

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 AncientNorse Saga.

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CHAPTER II: ICONOCLASTIC 

 

 

 

Asfar as Sociology is concerned, we must either abandon our reason, or abandonChrist. 

 

Heis pre-eminently, the prophet of unreason & the preacher ofrabble-rabies. All that is

enervatingand destructive of manhood, he glorifies, & all that is self-reliant andheroic,

hedenounces. Lazarus, the filthy and diseased vagrant, is his hero of heroes; andDives,

thesane, energetic citizen, is his "awful' example of baseness and criminality. Hepraises

'thehumble' and he curses the proud. He blesses the failures, and damns thesuccessful.

Allthat is noble, he perverts & all that is atrocious he upholds. He invertsall the natural

instinctsof mankind, and urges us to live artificial lives. He commands the

demonetizationof virtues that aggrandize a people, and advises his admirers to submit in

quietnessto every insult, contumely, indignity; to be slaves, de-facto. Indeed, there is

scarceone thought in the whole of his Dicta that is practically true. 

 

O,Christ! O, Christ! Thou artful fiend! Thou Great Subverter! What an amazingEblis-

glamour,thou hast cast over the world? Thou mean insignificant-minded Jew! 

 

Whyis it that our modern philosophers are so mortally afraid to boldly challengethe

"inspired'utopianism of this poor self-deluded Galilean mountaineer, & thispreacher of

alleunuch-virtues & of self-abasement, of passive suffering?  . 

 

Thesickly humanitarian ethics, so eloquently rayed forth by Jesus Christ and his

superstitioussuccessors, in ancient Judea, and throughout the moribund Roman empire,

aregenerally accepted in Anglo-Saxondom as the very elixir of immortal wisdom, the

purest,wisest, grandest, most incontrovertible of all "divine revelations,' or occult

thaumaturgies.And yet when closely examined, they are found to be neither divine,

occult,reasonable, nor even honest; but composed, almost exclusively of the stuff that

nightmaresare made of; together with a strong dash of oriental legerdemain.  

 

Througha thousand different channels, current politico-economic belief is dominated by

thebase communistic cabala of the "man of many sorrows;' yet as a practicaltheorem, it

ishardly ever critically examined. Why is it that the suggested social solutions

promulgatedby Jesus, Peter, Paul, James, and other Asiatic cataleptics, are accepted so

meeklyby us, upon trust? If these men were anything, they were crude socialistreformers

withmis-shapen souls, preachers of "a new heaven, and a new earth,' that is to say,

demagogues& politicians-of-the-slums; and out of the slums, nothing that is noblecan

everbe born. 

 

Asagitators, Jesus and his modern continuators shall be exclusively considered inthese

pages.However, it must be distinctly understood that the spiritual and temporal inall

cosmogonies,are so intricately interwoven, that it is almost impossible to completely

divorcethem. Like the Siamese twins, Gods and Governments are inextricably bound

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together;so much so indeed, that if you kill one, the other cannot live. Hence the openor

secretalliance, that has always existed between the politician and the priest. 

 

Whatevertheir primitive purity (or impurity), all operative creedal philosophies are

essentiallycivil and military codes, police regulations. "Religion is a power, a political

engine,and if there was no God, I would have to invent one,' said the great Napoleon.In

letterand in spirit, Christianity is above all things a political theory, and atheory that

oftentakes the form of raging hysterics. 

 

Religionsare the matrix in which public institutions are generally molded. This has ever

beenwell understood by the dominant leaders of mankind, from Numa to Brigham

Young,from Solon to Loyola, from Constantine to the lowest Levite hireling, who gets

paidin dimes and cents for his unctuous mock & dithyrambs. 

 

 

 

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"Allye are brethren.' 

 

Areall men really brethren? & Negro and Indian, Blackfellow, Kalmuck, andCoolie &

thewell-born, and the base-bred,2 & beer-soakedloafer, and hero-hearted patriot &

beltedchieftain and ignoble mechanic-slave, & pot of iron and pot of clay? 

 

Whatproof is there that the brotherhood-of-man hypothesis is in accordance withnature?

Onwhat trustworthy biologic, historic or other evidence does it rest? If it isnatural, then

rivalry,competition, and strife are unnatural. (And it is proposed to prove in thisbook,

thatstrife, competition, rivalry, and the wholesale destruction of feeble types ofmen, is

notonly natural, but highly necessary.) Has "brotherhood' ever been tried uponearth?

Where,when and with what final result? Is not self-assertion nobler, grander and more

trulyheroic than self-denial? Is not self-abasement but another term for voluntary

vassalage;voluntary burden-bearing? 

 

Christmight well and truthfully have said unto his followers "Come unto me all yethat

areweary and heavy laden and I will bind you in unbreakable bonds, and load youdown

likean ass between two burdens.' 

 

The"poor and ignorant' were his first followers & the vagrants, thedisinherited shiftless

classes:and to this very day, the poorer and more ignorant men and women are, the more

eagerare they to follow his religious ideals, or the political millennialisms thatare

distilledout of his delusions. 

 

"Ifwe only lived as Christ lived, what a beautiful world this would be,' saith all

thoughtlessones. If we lived as Christ lived, there would be none of us left to live. He

begatno children; he labored not for his bread; he possessed neither house nor home;he

                                                

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 Theseterms are used in the strict Darwinian sense.

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merelytalked. Consequently he must have existed on charity, or have stolen bread. "Ifwe

alllived like Christ,' would there have been anyone left to labor, to be beggedfrom, to be

stolenfrom? "If we all lived like Christ' is thus a self-evident absurdity. 

 

Nowonder that it is recorded: "Not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty,not many

nobleare called; but God chose the foolish things of the world, and God chose theweak

thingsof the world, and the things that are despised.' Nothing else would haveanything

todo with him. Christ was indeed, the prophet of the credulous rabble duringthree years

ofactive agitation, and it abandoned him in his hour of need (what always happensunder

similarcircumstances) for the rabble is ever cowardly, ungenerous, suspicious,

unfathomablybase. It has never yet had a leader of commanding ability (either in peace

orin war) that it did not ultimately desert or betray, i.e. if he did not takethe precaution

tomake himself its master. 

 

Afterpermitting Christ to be butchered, the mob thereupon set him up as theirDivinity,

anderected altars to his renown. Slaves, women, madmen, lepers, magdalenes, werethe

earliestChristians, and to this hour, women, children, slaves and lunatics are the raw

materialof the Christian Church.

 

PrimitiveChristianity cunningly appealed to the imagination of a world of superstitious

slaves(eager for some mode of escape that meant not the giving and receiving ofbattle-

strokes.)It organized them for the overthrow of Heroic Principles; and substituted, fora

genuinenobility based on battle-selection, a crafty theocracy founded uponpriest-craft,

hell-craft,alms-giving, politicalisms, and all that is impure and subterranean. It is a

doctrineat once disgraceful in its antecedents, its teachers, and in itself. Truly hasit been

called"the fatal dower of Constantine,' for it has suffocated, or is suffocating theseeds of

Heroism. 

 

Bothancient and modern Christianism and all that has its root therein, is thenegation of

everythinggrand, noble, generous, heroic, and the glorification of everything feeble,

atrocious,dishonorable, dastardly. The cross is now, and ever has been, an escutcheon of

shame.It represents a gallows, and a Semite slave swinging thereon. For two thousand

yearsit has absolutely overturned human reason, overthrown common sense, infectedthe

worldwith madness, submissiveness, degeneracy.

 

Truly,there is a way which seemeth right unto a people, but the ends thereof are theways

ofdeath. 

 

Soundthe loud timbrel, 

O'erlands and o'er waves; 

TheIsraelite triumphs! 

Thenations are & graves!  

 

 

 

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Isthe Golden Rule a rational rule? & Is it not rather a menial rule &a coward rule & a

best-policyrule? Why is it "right' for one man to do unto others as he would have others

doto him and, what is right? If "others' are unable to injure him or "do good' tohim, why

shouldhe consider them at all? Why should he take any more notice of them than of so

manyworms? If they are endeavoring to injure him, and able to do it, why should he

refrainfrom returning the compliment? Should he not combat them, does not that give

themcarte-blanche to injure and destroy him? May it not be "doing good' to others,to

waragainst them, to annihilate them? May it not also be "good' for them to waragainst

others?(Again, what is "good'?)

 

Isit reasonable to ask preying animals, to do unto others as they would be doneby? & If

theyacted accordingly would they, could they survive? If some only accepted theGolden

Ruleas their guiding moral maxim, would they not become a prey to those who refused

toabide thereby? 

 

Uponwhat reasonable and abiding sanction does this "Rule' rest? & Has it everbeen in

actualoperation among men? & Can it ever be successfully practiced on earth& or

anywhereelse? & Did Jesus Christ practice it himself upon all occasions? &Did His

apostles,his "sons of thunder' practice it? & Did Peter the boaster do so, when he

"deniedHim' for fear of arrest at the camp-fire? & Did Judas the financier, whenhe sold

himfor net cash? Also, how many of his modern lip-servants actually practice it intheir

dailybusiness intercourse with each other? How Many?

 

Thesequestions require no formal answering. They answer themselves in the asking.And

hereit must be remembered that the best test of a witness, is cross-examination."Do unto

othersas you would have others do to you.' No baser precept ever fell from the lipsof a

feebleJew.

 

Itis from alleged moralisms of this sort, and fabulous "principles' that our moborators,

ourcommunards, revivalists, anarchists, red-republicans, democrats, and other mob-

worshippersin general derive the infernal inspiration that they are perpetually hissing

forth.Even the subversive pyrotechnic watchwords of their mephisto-millennium, are to

befound in the "holy gospels.' Is it not written, "and God sendeth angels todestroy the

people?'& Behold! these men are the "angels' that He sends: & politiciansand

reformers! 

 

 

 

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"Loveone another' you say is the supreme law, but what power made it so? &Upon

whatrational authority does the Gospel of Love rest? & Is it even possible topractice,

andwhat would result from its universal application to active affairs? Why shouldI not

hatemine enemies, and hunt them down like the wild beasts that they are? Again Iask,

why?If I "love' them does that not place me at their mercy? Is it natural forenemies to

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"dogood' unto each other and, what is "good'? Can the torn and bloody victim"love' the

blood-splashedjaws that rend it limb from limb? Are we not all predatory animals by

instinct?If humans ceased wholly from preying upon each other, could they continue to

exist? 

 

"Loveyour enemies and do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you,' isthe

despicablephilosophy of the spaniel that rolls upon its back, when kicked. Obey it, O!

reader,and you and all your posterity to the tenth generation shall be irretrievablyand

literallydamned. They shall be hewers of wood, and carriers of water, degenerates,

Gibeonites.But hate your enemies with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one

cheek,smash him down; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highestlaw. 

 

Hewho turns the "other cheek' is a cowardly dog & a Christian dog. 

 

Giveblow for blow, scorn for scorn, doom for doom, with compound interest liberally

addedthereunto. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, aye four-fold, a hundredfold. Makeyourself

aTerror to your adversary and when he goeth his way, he will possess muchadditional

wisdomto ruminate over. Thus shall you make yourself respected in all the walks oflife,

andyour spirit & your IMMORTAL spirit & shall live, not in anintangible paradise, but in

thebrains and thews of your aggressive and unconquerable sons. After all, the trueproof

ofmanhood is a splendid progeny; and it is a scientific axiom that the timidanimal

transmitstimidity to its descendents.

 

Ifmen lived "like brothers' and had no powerful enemies (neighbors) to contendwith and

surpass,they would rapidly lose all their best qualities; like certain oceanic birdsthat lose

theuse of their wings, because they do not have to fly from pursuing beasts ofprey. If all

menhad treated each other with brotherly love since the beginning, what would have

beenthe result now? If there had been no wars, no rivalry, no competition, nokingship,

noslavery, no survival of the Toughest, no racial extermination, truly what afestering

"hellfenced in' this old globe would be? 

 

 

 

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ReverendFerdinand M. Sprague, of Chicago (who may be taken as a common specimen

ofthe priest-politician), in a little pamphlet lately published, entitled "TheLaws of Social

Evolution,'writes thus: & 'The sheet anchor of Socialism according to its ablest

exponents,is the Holy Christian religion. Its motto founded on the precept "love thy

neighboras thyself' is & "each for all, and all for each.' Its working principlefor the

presentis altruism.'3 

 

Nearlyall the canonized "Fathers' of the early Roman propaganda (most of whom, by the

way,were slaves, freedmen, or eunuchs) advocated similar Ideals. Even now, the

anointedand sanctified head of the Catholic Church resurrects the same hoary old

                                                

3

 "Theethics of Socialism are identical with the teachings of Christianity.'Encyclopedia Brittanica.

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utopianism,in a Jesuitic encyclical addressed to his flock. (How suggestive of being

shornand skinned, is that word "flock.')

 

Again,the Epistle of James, who is known to have been Christ's full brother killed bya

specialpoliceman's club, in a street riot has been reprinted and widely circulated by

Socialists,in order to sow and broadcast their illogical theories of a universal

brotherhood,founded upon enforced labor, regimentation of the herd, and majorityvotes. 

 

Manymodern cities are also infested with plausible epileptoid priestlings ofunreason,

likeDr. McGlynn, Professor Bemis, Hugh Price Hughes, W. T. Stead, Myron Reed, and

ProfessorHerron of California. All these men are unrivalled masters in the art of

persuasivedeclamation. They accept the New Testament as their text book and preach

therefromto morbid multitudes the atrocious and shallow gospel of equal rights, equal

liberty,equal brotherhood, as the veritable omnific word, the newly discovered

emancipatingprotocol of the Crucified (yet all-mighty) Don Quixote & the Saviour-god

ofAsia Minor & he who was born in a cattle-shed and died on a gallows.

 

 

 

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Agod begging his bread from door to door! & A god without a place to layhis head! &

Agod spiked to two pieces of crossed scantling! & A god stabbed to deathby an hired

officer!& A god executed by order of a stipendiary magistrate! & What aninsane Idea

&Is it an Idea, or rather a wasting cranial disease? Talk about "the heathen inhis

blindness'and superstitious madness in past ages! Why it is as childplay to the hysteric

Idolatryof to-day & the deification of a Jew. The "Divine Democrat' was executedupon

agovernment gibbet, because the Rulers of Imperial Rome were more powerful menthan

hewas. His strength, and that of his followers, was not equal to theirs.

 

Hedied an abysmal failure & a Redeemer who did not redeem & a Saviourwho did not

save& a Messiah whipped like a calf & a slave-agitator deservedlydestroyed for

preachinga Falsehood & the monstrous gospel of Love, Brotherhood, Equality. 

 

Evenfrom the spiritual point of view, there is nothing whatever in his life or itsafter

effectsto show that "The pale man upon the cross,' when he moaned and wept sobitterly,

"beheldany further down the Void, than those who gathered round to see him die.' 

 

Ofwhat use was that "pale dreamer' to the iron-conditions that existed in theconquered

andgarrisoned Fortress of Jerusalem? For once the city mob were on the righttrail, when

theypetitioned for the release of Bar Abbas, rather than the supple singer of a"Sweet bye

andbye.' Bar Abbas is described in "the Scriptures' as a petty thief. He wasreally an

armedinsurgent leader & the slayer of Roman tax-gatherers & a guerillachief (like Rob

Roy,Robin Hood, William Wallace, William Tell) who levied toll upon opulent Hebrews

forpatriotic purposes.

 

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HadI been there that day, I also would have joined in the demand: & "ReleaseBar

Abbasunto us.' & Better one Bar Abbas than a thousand Christs. 

 

Alas!Alas! O Galilean! Thou art neither the Way, the Truth, nor the Light! 

 

 

 

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Reverting,however, to Chicago's reverend Utopia-constructor, thus waileth he with

cajolingcrudity: 'The laws of social evolution, far from being the blind, barbarous,and

brutalstruggle for organic existence, consists in the physical, intellectual andmoral well

beingof ALL the members of society, so constituted thatthe politico-ethical principles of

Liberty,Equality, and Fraternity shall have the largest possible realization throughoutthe

socialorganism. The main features of the condition of progress are christianchurches,

christianschools, christian governments, christian ethics and economics.' 

 

Anotherseductive but most malignant State Socialist (Henry George) roundly proclaims

that"The salvation of society, the hope of the free, and full development ofHumanity, is

inthe gospel of brotherhood, the gospel of Christ,' and thereupon he proposes tomake

politiciansthe national rent-tax collectors, Administrators of everything in general, and

all-roundDistributors of State Pensions to "the poor and needy.' Has not mankind had

sufficientexperience of what politicians are? & Those black-hearted creepingthieves

andfrauds. Their sting is deadlier than the bite of a cobra, and in the breath oftheir

mouththere is & DEATH. Curses be upon ye, O! ye Politicians, andupon all who

advocateincreasing your prerogatives! 

 

Presidentialcandidates, from Jefferson, to Lincoln, (also their apish imitators) have

generallyindulged in equally shallow rhodomontade, because it means votes, and for

votes,office-seekers would dress up in glowing language, and ray forth any devilish

deception. 

 

Fortwo thousand years these effeminate superlatives have been trumpeted to theremotest

cornerof every Christian land, and yet (while enervating the morale of people) theyhave

dismallyfailed to inaugurate the much foretold Earthly Paradise. They were preached by

bare-footmonks at the inauguration of the Dark Ages, in order that those saintly loversof

thecommon people might creep into the administration of co-operative wealth and

power.Now, the same general ideas are revived and dressed up (this time in politico-

economicgarb) by the eloquent agitator, in order that he may rule and plunder in the

future,through the agency of the State; just as the priest once ruled and plundered

throughthe equally rapacious agency of the Church.

 

Whenthe Church triumphed, the Dark Ages began, and when it is finally rooted out

(togetherwith all its social anten¾) the Heroic Age dawns once more. True heroes shall

beborn again as of old, for our women may yet be something more than rickety

perambulatingdolls and drug-stores in spectacles. 

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The"Church' is the idol of the priestly parasite & The "State' is the idolof the political

parasite.Beware, O, America! that in escaping from the holy trickery of the monk, you

fallnot an easy prey to "the loving kindness' of the politician. Even if the"reformer'

succeedsin re-establishing upon majority-votes, the dark tyranny o£ the "greatest

number;'we have this consolation to fall back upon, such organization must ultimately

tumbledown of its own weight, and then re-divide up into warring fragments. Nothing

thatis unnatural can last for long.

 

TheUniversal Church is no more; all we see of it now is jealous remnants. And the

UniversalState, the Social Democracy, the Economic Republic, the Brotherhood of Man,

shouldthey take practical form, are pre-ordained to similar failure. All they coulddo,

wouldbe to POSTPONE the operation of the survival of the fittest& drugging nations in

temporarysedatives.

 

Nomatter how eagerly madmen may try to do it, there is no known process wherebythey

canjump out of their own skins. Christian or socialist churches, paternalisms,schools,

governments,administrations, ethics, and moralisms (even if genuinely Christian and

Fraternal)would be wholly impotent to change the natural course of things and therefore

powerlessto command the survival of mental and physical cripples; even although those

crippleswere as canonized saints for "goodness,' and as the sands of the sea shore for

number.Shrieking sentimentalism is indeed a feeble lever wherewith to overturn the

immutableorder of the Universe. It cannot do it. No! not if it were whooped till thecrack

ofdoom! Not even if it had a Lamb of God in every city, ready to be butcheredeach

Fridayafternoon, in order to make a Christian Holiday.

 

 

 

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"Liberty,Equality, Fraternity,' those three great lights of Modern Democracies are three

colossalFalsehoods, ignoble slave-shibboleths; impossible of actualization even if

proclaimedby some superhuman Satan, followed by armed hosts of un-killable demons,

allarmed to the teeth with flaming swords, Greek-fire, and dynamite cannon.  

 

Youmay trace Equality in letters of silver on tablets of burnished gold, butwithout

engineeringa perpetual miracle, you cannot make it & true. 

 

Youmay write Fraternity in blazing diamonds on walls of enduring granite, butwithout

reversingthe mechanism of the Universe, you cannot make it a fact.

 

And,though you enscroll Freedom on countless sheepskins and rivet statues ofLiberty

onevery harbor-rock, yet with "all the kings horses and all the kings men' onebeing born

tobe a hireling and a subordinate & NOpower can free.

 

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Canyou build up a marble palace with mud and slime O! ye drivelling bedlamites?Can

youraise up a conqueror from the dunghill, or make the stupid great? Can you

manufactureheroes out of hogs O! ye snuffling "Educated' swine? 

 

"Wecan! We can! We can!' shrieketh the raging rhetoricians of the market place andthe

editorialmill. "We can! We can!' bellows the herd as it stupidly pours through the slip-

railsto the pithing pen. "Yes, O! Yes! with the love of Jesus and our collectionplate,

whinesthe soft-skinned preacher as he turns over the sibylline leaves of hisBlack-Art.

"Ofa certainty, we can,' hisseth the plastic politician, the rattlesnake! &the hungry

basilisk!& whose law making is more blighting than the breath of a simoom.

 

Thereupon,toward you, O! America! they, one and all, point the finger of pride! Towards

you!

 

America!Where the politicians rage and the people imagine vain things! & and thedogs

inthe alleys are & baying at the moon! 

 

Then,turn I away! Sadly! Sadly! Sadly! And I brush against a slave in copper-riveted

overalls,hurrying to his mill; and against another in gold chain and silken hat, hastingto

hismoney-changing & and a lean woman in sordid rags, with a pile of lumberbalanced

uponher crown; and a splendid harlot in diamonds and brilliant plumage ridethslowly

by.

 

Andthe cattle in the slaughter-yard are lowing for their hay; and a draught mare,with a

galledshoulder, lieth swollen and dead on the frozen paving blocks. How nauseous itall

is?

 

Loathsome!Loathsome! O, how loathsome? 

 

 

 

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Manis part and parcel of the animal kingdom and (not withstanding Jefferson,Franklin,

andLincoln & Karl Marx, La Salle, and Liebknecht & Christ,Robespierre, and

Rousseau& Hyndman, Tennyson, and Mazzini & Dr. Adler, Bebel, George andIsaiah

&Bellamy, Gronlund, and W. T. Stead) he CANNOTescape from the draconic ordinances

thatdespotically govern that kingdom and environ his being like an atmosphere onevery

side. 

 

Altruism,meek and lowly self-abnegation, upon any extended scale is among predatory

organisms(and all organisms are predatory) impossible of practice on pain of wholesale

felo-de-se. 

 

Everyman is under an obligation to fight and bear his own burden. If he cannot doso,

otherscannot do his fighting or his burden-bearing and their own at the same timewith

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reasonablesafety to themselves. He therefore who finds it impossible to carry his own

burden,had better sink down and die in his tracks than impose an additional load upon

theshoulders of his kind-hearted fellow strugglers. For then, THEY would be overloaded

andconsequently unable to fight successfully; so ALLmight perish together. 

 

Practicalfraternal sympathy (upon any universal scale) has always had in the end a most

destructiveeffect upon the internal structure of communities. Men will always love and

cherishthose that are near and dear to them; but when it is proposed to extend thecircle

oftheir "near and dear ones' to all mankind, that is going rather too far. Indeedall must

perishignominiously if that foolish idea prevails. "ALL' are even now enervating

themselves,undermining their strength, by futile overexertion in that very direction. They

arestraining themselves to death, by endeavoring to carry an impossible load. The

majorityof men are born far too weak constitutionally for their conditions; and the few

whodo possess the necessary stamina and grit, will have quite enough to do inproving

bydeeds their fitness to survive, propagate, and possess. Many are projected& few are

selected.

 

Yetaltruism, wholesale self-renunciation & wholesale burden-bearing, for thesake of

"Outragedand Suffering Humanity,' is the maddening basis upon which "our good Lord

Jesus,'and his demented imitators have erected their sporadic sociology & their

MagnificentSatanism.

 

Doesnot simple business acumen whisper to us that every man's chief occupation upon

earthis to sustain himself. "I mean subsist at any cost; you shall want ere I shall&

businessis business.' If men had sufficient personal initiative to think along thesestern

lines,there would be little use on earth for the theologian and "the reformer;' thosetwin

Mephistoswho find their renown and grandeur, in the abasement of mankind. The battle

oflife would then be so grim, terrible, and realistic; (so Trojan in fact) thatthose holy

dissimulatorsand crafty deceivers, would rapidly die off, or be eaten off; for in the clash

ofnaked interests, the Best and Bravest ONLYcould possibly survive; and no one would

everdream of including them among the Best or Bravest. 

 

 

 

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CountLeo Tolstoi, undoubtedly the ablest modern expounder of primitive Christliness,in

amuch translated volume, entitled: & 'Work While Ye Have Light,' writesthus: &

"OurFaith tells us that bliss is to be found, not in resistance, but in submission;not in

riches,but in giving everything away; we have not quite succeeded in casting off every

habitof violence and property.' 

 

Tothe most inept understanding, could any proposition be placed in a clearerlight? Is it

notas simple as "rolling off a log,' that the individual who even attempts tobecome a true

andhonest Christian must become like unto a tame sheep? What a sublime Ideal? How

heroic? 

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Thebliss of a sheep! How superlatively delightful? How divinely glorious? And aJew as

theGood Shepherd, who leadeth his lambs 'to green pastures, and quiet restingplaces,

thepleasant waters by.' For two thousand years, or so, His fleecy flocks have been

fatteningthemselves up with commendable diligence & for the shearing-shed and the

butchers-block. 

 

Letany nation throw away all "habits of violence,' and before long it must ceaseto exist

asa nation. It will be laid under tribute & it will become a province, asatrapy. It will be

taxedand looted in a thousand different ways. 

 

Letany man abandon all property, also all overt resistance to aggression andbehold, the

firstsun will scarcely have sunk down in the west, before he is a bondservant, atributary,

abeggar, or & a corpse. 

 

Propertyis necessary to the complete and free development of personality, and therefore

humananimals should somehow obtain a full and fair proportion thereof at any cost& or

perishin the attempt; for he who cannot possess himself of property is much betterburied

outof sight. Our cities are literally honeycombed "with treasure caverns, heapedup with

gold,title-deeds, silver, and instruments of credit: our valleys and our mountainsare 

bubblingwith wealth untold; and yet, poor miserable "servants of Christ' pass idly by.

Men,they call themselves! I call them & castrates. 

 

IfTolstoi's obsequious principles are derived from the Sermon on the Mount, thenwho

candeny but that the Sermon on the Mount is a sermon unto decay and slavery? Ifthey

arederived from the Golden Rule and if the Golden Rule is the word of God, thencan it

bedoubted that the word of God is the word of Fraud. There is far too much ofthis

ghastly"goodness' in the nation, far and away too much. It is time men who CAN think

beganto emancipate themselves, and consider the fact that: & Morals, laws and

decalogueswere made by liars, thieves and rogues. 

 

Allgood citizens however are hereby warned and solemnly advised, not to smash-upthe

TenCommandments & not to burn up the Golden Rule & not to break-up theMoral

Law& for that would be terribly wicked! terribly! On the other hand theymust obey all

Lawimplicitly (no matter how it originated) and be sure (above everything) toorder

themselveslowly and reverently before executive officers of the Law; even if in doing so,

theyare deprived of their Property, and their Liberty for ever. Obedience, you see,is of

God"who so loveth the world' but Disobedience is horrible and of the Devil, andthe

Devilis a frightful rascal, who has not the slightest respect for anybody oranything: not

eventhe American Constitution. Let us curse the Devil then and obey & theLaw. 

 

Libertyis honestly definable, as a state of complete bodily and mental self-mastership

(whichincludeth the possession of property; also defensive weapons) andthorough-going

Independencefrom all official coercion or restraint. Liberty in the conventional sense is a

miserableLie. 

 

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Tobe independent is synonymous with proprietorship. To be property-less, andunarmed,

isthe condition of actual dependence and servitude. Unarmed citizens are always

enslavedcitizens, always. Liberty without Property is a myth, a nursery tale,believable

onlyby babbling babies and "fools-in-th'-forest' & fools in th' city also.'Liberty

REGULATEDby Law' is, in practice, tyranny of the darkest and foulest description;

becauseso impersonal. There are numerous worthy, reasonable, and practical methods

wherebyindividual tyrants may be removed; but a tyranny "regulated by Law' is only

removableby one method & the sword in the hands of men who are not afraid to useit,

orto have it used against them: that is to say & the Sword in the hands ofthe Strongest.

 

Duringthe whole course of human history, there is not upon record, one authentic

instancewherein a subjugated people has ever regained property-holding Liberty, without

firstbutchering its tyrants (or its tyrants' armed slaves in battle) thereafterconfiscating to

itsown use, the lands and realized property that previously had been in thepossession of

itsdefeated foes and masters. This statement is made with cool deliberation and

aforethought.Let it be disproved by any ONE creditableexample to the contrary, and the

Authoris prepared to forfeit 50,000 ounces of pure gold and enough "dimes anddollars'

toerect in Chicago, a bronze statue of "Our Blest Redeemer' (crown of thorns andall)

100cubits higher than the Masonic Temple. This offer is strictly bona-fide andshall

remainopen till 1906, so that philosophers, editors, statesmen, divines (and other

accomplishedliars) may have enough time to blind themselves, wading through National

Archives,and the putrid rubbish heaps that men call Public Libraries. Should some or all

ofsaid Mutual Admiration Society maniac-geniuses go blind, also deaf, dumb, andsilly:

thiswicked old world may probably whoop with delight & should it happen tohear of

thefact. 

 

 

 

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Duringthe three years of Christ Jesus's peripatetic trampings, he never SAID anything that

hadnot been better said a thousand times before, by Dervishes, Spellbinders and

Mahatmas.Neither did he DO anything that had not previously been betterdone, by the

jugglersand wonder-workers of Egypt, India and Assyria. Not a few of his "miracles' are

tothis day, part of the ordinary stock-in-trade of fortune-telling gypsies,third-class

strollingplayers, and charlatans in general.

 

Thevery phrase that He uses to sum-up and memorize His patent Cure-all, was

undoubtedlystolen (directly or indirectly) from Plato, the Rig Veda, or Confucius. The

GoldenRule is not only a snare and a tangle, but it also is & a literarypiracy.

 

"Heraised the dead,' you indignantly protest: and even SUPPOSING that he did, wherein is

thepositive advantage? What is gained by restoring vitality to the decomposing corpseof

ananimal that may be so easily duplicated & an animal that is a positivenuisance,

numerically.What is the 'good' of breathing the "breath of life' into an odorous winding-

sheet-fullof maggots and mouldy bones? Are there not plenty of animalcula on earth,

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withoutdragging them out of tombs? (Especially are there not plenty of leprous

Asiatics?)Death and destruction are necessary to the health of this world and thereforeas

natural,and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and born cowards moan and weepover

dying.Brave men face it with approving nonchalance. 

 

 

'Comelovely and soothing Death, undulate around the world. Serenely Arriving!

Arriving!In the day, in the night; to all, to each. Sooner or later, delicate Death.'4

 

 

Hefed the hungry & but to what end, I say? Why should a famishing multitudebe fed by

agod? And that too, in a land said to be flowing with milk and honey! Would notsuch a

mobbe far better dead? Would not Napoleon with his cosmic "whiff of grape-shot' be

justthe right man for such an occasion? From the harmonious nature of things, it isclear

thatmen were intended to feed themselves by their own personal exertions or perishlike

dogs.He therefore who "feeds the hungry' is really encouraging poltroonery (which

includethall other crimes) for men "who quietly starve within reach of abounding plenty

are& all poltroons. 

 

"Heclothed the naked,' you shriek; and why it may be asked should "the naked' be

clothed& they being able bodied? What right have they to broadcloth and finelinen? If

menpossess not enough sense to clothe themselves (in a literal Weaving Mill of

inexhaustiblelooms) why should a "God' & the son of a ghost, come down from

Cloudland(via a Jewess maiden's womb) to robe such groveling, miserable hounds in

swaddlingcloths, made of cotton or wool? "Clothing the naked' is purely & abusiness

affair.

 

Here,it may be suggested en-passant & is the wearing of garments, in itself, anatural

andnecessary condition of adult existence? It certainly does not render the "humanform

divine'more healthy or more beautiful to gaze upon (although it may prevent

Tenderlingsfrom perishing of cold). Was it really intended that the man-animal ONLY,

shouldwrap itself up, from birth to death in layer over layer of disease-breedingrags?

Wasthere not a secret vital strength in the wind and rain and storms that "whirledaround

ourforefathers' giant limbs and shaggy brows? All ethnic legends tell us that ourfirst

parentswere most elegantly attired in glorious sunshine and gaudy fresh air. Who ever

sawa Cherubim painted in pointed shoes, pantaloons, cuffs, collars and overcoat;or a

smirkingangel in bloomers, steel-ribbed corsets and a delicate little "O! dear me! how

awfullyawful!' style? Clothing serves most effectively to hide the abominable physical

deformityof modern men and women, just as superficial educationalisms serve to hide

theirdwarfed minds. If they were to perambulate around in the nude, even the streetcurs

wouldbark at them out of sheer terror. Indeed, they would be more hideous to the eye

thanthe stuffed scarecrow that adorns a relative's harrowed field: and at which ourold

dog'Danger' generally barks himself into hysterics over, whenever he gets off thechain. 

 

                                                

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 WaltWhitman's 'Ode to Death.'

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Whata horrible sight a crowd of free and independent electors would be, all sittingin

solemnconclave, sucking their thumbs, absorbing political opiates and divineeuthanasia?

Justthink of it! (Even Carlyle the dyspeptic would faint at the sight.) The veryconception

ofsuch a saddening horror makes one ill. It would be as if they all had justemerged from

atomb & a tomb of wool and cotton and leather. 

 

Physicaldistortion and mental malformation, are the direct result of two thousand years

ofbad-breeding: that is to say, of Mongrelism, of Democracy, of Equality, ofMoody-

and-Sankeyism.Christian-ism, originating in the despairful and fallacious philosophy of

aCrucified Wanderer (suffering from acute MORBUS SACER) is now developed into an

organizedand world-wide conspiracy of Clericals, Politicals and Decadents directed en-

masse;with Jesuitic cunning against all the primitive and Heroic Virtues. 

 

Ourclean-skinned "heathenish' ancestors with all their vital forces unimpaired,were

reallythe nobler type of animal. We on the other hand, with our corrupt, irresolute,

civilizedhearts, our trembling nerves, our fragile an¾mic constitutions, are actuallythe

lower,the viler type & notwithstanding the baseless optimism that courtlyrhymers drivel

intotheir 'Heirs of all the ages,' etc., etc. 

 

NoPeople can long retain hardihood and independence, whose minds becomesubmissive

toa False Ideal. 

 

 

 

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Blessedare the Strong for they shall possess the earth & Cursed are the weak forthey

shallinherit the yoke. Blessed are the Powerful for they shall be reverenced amongmen

&Cursed are the Feeble for they shall be blotted out. 

 

Blessedare the Bold for they shall be masters of the world & Cursed are theHumble for

theyshall be trodden under hoofs. Blessed are the Victorious for victory is thebasis of

Right& Cursed are the vanquished for they shall be vassals for ever. 

 

Blessedare the battle-blooded, Beauty shall smile upon them & Cursed are thePoor-in-

Spirit,they shall be spat upon. Blessed are the Audacious for they have imbibed true

wisdom& Cursed are the Obedient for they shall breed Creeplings.

 

Blessedare the iron-handed, the unfit shall flee before them & Cursed are thehaters of

battle,subjugation is their portion. Blessed are the Death-defiant, their days shallbe long

inthe land & Cursed are the Feeble-brained, for they shall perish amidstplenty.

 

Blessedare the destroyers of False-hope, they are true Messiahs & Cursed are theGod-

adorers,they shall be as shorn sheep. Blessed are the Valiant for they shall obtaingreat

treasure& Cursed are the believers in Good and Evil for they are frightened byshadows.

 

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Blessedare they who believe in Nothing & never shall it terrorize their minds& Cursed

arethe "lambs of God,' they shall be bled "whiter than snow'. Blessed is the manwho

hathpowerful enemies, they shall make him a hero & Cursed is he who 'doethgood'

untoothers, he shall be despised. 

 

Blessedis the man whose foot is swift to serve a friend, he is a friend indeed &Cursed

arethe organizers of Charities, they are propagators of plagues. Blessed are theWise and

Bravefor in the Struggle they shall win & Cursed are the Unfit for they shallbe

righteouslyexterminated.

 

Blessedare the sires of Noble maidens, they are the salt of the earth & Cursedthe

mothersof strumous Tenderlings for they shall be shamed. Blessed are the mighty-

mindedfor they shall ride the whirl-winds & Cursed are they who teach Lies forTruth,

andTruth for Lies, for they are & abomination. 

 

Blessedare the unmerciful, THEIR posterity shall own the world & Cursedare the Pitiful

forthey shall receive no pity. Blessed are the destroyers of Idols, for they shallbe feared

bytyrants & Cursed are the famous Wiselings, their seed shall perish offthe earth.

Thricecursed are the Vile for they shall serve and suffer.

 

ContrastTHIS with an orthodox Sermonette & one thatis repeated every seventh day, in

thousandsof sacred sanctuaries by consecrated black-robed clericals, who have been

speciallytrained from boyhood to weepfully, unctuously rehearse the same 'with

upturnedeyes and skillful snuffle or in classic diction, sounding, sonorous, nay! Sublime

&as suits the occasion.

 

DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN!!! 

 

&Gawd answers all who kneel and pray, is a Trewth accepted day by day. Behold!their

brightand joyful lot, who've faith in what Christ Jesu taught! 

 

Ifyou've empty pockets and tables bare, demand ye not your natural share; thatwould be

wrong;but, creep and sigh and "you'll go to heaven when you die'.

 

Forthe meek and humble who obey, there's a happy land, far, far away; but afearsome,

fiery,brimstone pit, shall melt their marrow, who won't & submit.

 

Iffoemen smite you on one cheek, turn round the other, tearful, meek; if perjuredknaves

yourvotes betray: come "wicked sinners' kneel and & pray. 

 

IfHebrews fleece and flay your hide, heaven's gates for you, shall open wide;Christ

yourShepherd, won't lead astray, O! lambs of Gawd! come bleat and pray. 

 

Ifbruised and beaten, shorn and sold, you're sure of stalls in your Father'sfold; but &

robbersrob, or rulers slay! Hell roast your souls for ever and aye. 

 

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Ifelected persons invade your wealth, with bribes and lies or deadly stealth, andthreat

yourbones with a bannered host: Christ is your refuge and the Holy Ghost. 

 

You'lltriumph thus "in the dawning years' hope on! toil on! in this vale of tears& sing,

'Rockof Ages cleft for me, O! let me hide myself in thee.' 

 

 

BOLDLYSTAND ERECT

 

Jewishbooks are for the Jews, 

   And Jew Messiahs too. 

Butif you're not of Jewish blood, 

   How can they be for you? 

 

Tomake an Idol of a book, 

   Is poison for the brain; 

Adying God upon a cross 

   Is reason gone insane. 

 

Bewareof all the Holy books 

   And all the creeds andschools, 

Andevery law that man has made 

   And all the golden rules. 

 

'Laws'and 'rules' imposed on you 

   From days of old renown,

Arenot intended for your 'good' 

   But for your crushing down. 

 

Thendare to rend the chains that bind 

   And to yourself be true. 

Dareto liberate your mind, 

   From all things, old andnew. 

 

Alwaysthink your own thought, 

   All other thoughts reject; 

Learnto use your own brain 

   And boldly stand erect. 

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CHAPTER III: THE SPINNING-OF-THE-WEB! 

 

 

 

Justas the spider weaves his silky web, to lure flies into the larder of hisbanqueting hall

inorder that he may at his leisure, pick the flesh off their bones, so deceitfulIdeals are

cunninglywoven by dexterous, political spiders, to capture and exploit Swarms of 

humanflies.

 

Whatare the grandiose paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence, but the weftand

woofof a dazing spider-web? And what are the American People but the flies thathave

beencleverly entangled in its gossamer meshes? For over a century this"Declaration' has

beenthe parchment divinity or all public orators, from the curbstone dervish at thestreet

corner,to our Elective Monarch in the White House. Every 4th of July, Americans

habituallyscream themselves hoarse over its sounding generalities: making the welkin

ringwith tin-horns, giant fire-crackers, flag-idolatry, brass bands, toy pistolsand herd-

bellowinggenerally. Although the great majority of them are mental and physical

dwindlings,poverty-stricken, and property-less yet how insanely they delight in amusing

asardonic world with their loquacious flamboyant charlatanry. "We are sovereignsand

equals'is their everlasting Barmecide chorus. "Sovereigns and Equals!'

 

Inall lunatic asylums may be found inmates who fancy themselves kings and queens,and

lordsof the earth. These sorrowful creatures, if only permitted to wear imaginarycrowns

andissue imaginary commands, are the most docile and harmless of all maniacs.

 

Asfor the American People of to-day: is not their written constitution but acunningly

constructedstraight-jacket & their moral codes, padded prison-cells: their statutelaws

handcuffsand leg-irons & their Captains of Industry keepers and turnkeys in clever

disguise?One hundred years ago they ostensibly commenced "independent' operations

withthe richest continent on earth as their private property & theirsubscribed capital;

andduring the whole of that period, have they not been as busy as so many relaysof

draughtbeasts-of-burden, pumping the tremendous natural wealth out of their home soil,

andpouring it over-sea, into the cess-pools of Europe? 

 

Isnot that the work of lunatics? They smashed and splintered the wooden politicalyoke

ofan English king and then proceeded to rivet around their necks a brand new yokeof

boltedsteel, which they forged especially to fit themselves: and which they dignified

underthe name of 'Constitutional Freedom'.

 

Isnot that also the work of lunatics? Cursed indeed are the harnessed ones!Cursed are

theyeven though their harness be home made & even though it tinkle musicallywith

silverbells & aye! even though every buckle and link and rivet thereof is madeof solid

gold. 

 

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Howabsurd of men to hurrah over their "glorious political liberty' who have noteven

beenable to retain possession of the substantial products of their ownlaboriousness.

Aftera century of "constitutional progress,' ten per cent of the population areabsolute

ownersof ninety-two per cent of ALL the property. 

 

Now,O reader, Are not THESETHINGS the outward and visiblesign of organic dementia? 

 

 

 

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TheDeclaration of Independence commences by proclaiming an unctuous falsehood, a

black,degrading self-evident lie & a lie which no one could possibly believebut a born

fool.With insolent effrontery it brazenly proclaims as "a self evident truth' that"all men

arecreated equal' and that they are "endowed,' by their "Creator'5 with certain

"inalienable'rights & rights which it thereupon proceeds to define in canting

phraseology,imbecile and florid as it is false.

 

Indeedthe mock-heroic preamble of this rhetorical pronunciamento is but a cunningly

constructedpiece of blague deliberately intended to deceive and betray. It consists of a

patchworkof plagiarized catchwords, annexed wholesale from the ravings of

seventeenth-centuryLevellers, crazed puritanic Mattoids and eighteenth-century

cretinousFrench Jacobins: & all mixed up and jumbled together with a longrigmarole of

semi-meaninglesspretty phrases, culled mostly from an old time melodrama.

 

TheDeclaration of Independence has less real meaning for present conditions than a

bottled-upIndian war-whoop of the same period would have, if uncorked now. It is a

back-number,musty, high smelling, and worm-eaten: only fit for the walls of a museum

orthe brain-cells of & a daft philosopher.

 

Itsethical and most of its political conclusions are shams, deceptions, andcold-blooded

dishonesties& incandescent Lies & glorified, belauded, printed in letters ofgold, but

nevertheless& Lies.

 

Indeedit has always been considered a piece of amusing mockery by those who really

understoodthe secret intent for which it was originally constructed: viz: & as alasso for

thebellowing Herds, that, about one hundred years ago were beginning to run wild,and

escapefrom their herdsmen, and herdsmen's stock-whip, in this (then) boundless New

World. 

 

Toall contemporary demagogues, the high-sounding phraseology of the 'Declaration'is

ashoney from paradise. Everywhere its seductive abstractions are the Avatars of

anarchism,communism, republicanism, and scores of other zymotic convulsionisms.

Whythen should sane men continue giving lip-service to this subtle deception? Why

shouldthey, by their silence, acquiesce in the malefic efforts of Organic Weaklings,

                                                

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 Amythical airy being who roams about Eternity manufacturing Things out ofNo-Things & A fable.

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(instigatedby prattlers of a false philosophy) to enforce by electioneering mass-pressure

animpossible and hideous Equality Ideal? 

 

Everynational appeal is NOW made, not to the Noblest and the Best, but tothe riff-raff &

theslave-hordes & who possess less intelligence than night-owls. All that isbrave,

honorable,heroic, is ignored tacitly, for fear of offending the deified Herd & "the

Majority'.'Equality of conditions' is ITS debasingshibboleth and VERILY he who has

temerityenough to spit upon Equality is liable to be horned to death.

 

The"Voice of the People' can only be compared to the fearsome shrieks of agonythat

maynow and then be heard, issuing forth from the barred windows of a roadside

madhouse."The voice of God!' Alas! Alas! 

 

 

 

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Thereare two methods whereby masterful ambitious men may hold any population in a

stateof ordered subjectivity. The first and by far the most honorable method isthrough an

irresistibleand highly-trained standing army, ready to deploy anywhere; with mechanical

precisionat a telegraphic nod in order to lay down the Law at the cannon's mouth and

sweepaway all dangerous opposition. 

 

Thesecond and cheaper method is, first of all to inoculate those intended to beexploited

withsome poisonous political soporific, superstition, or theoria; something thatoperating

insidiously,hypodermically, may render them laborious, meek, and tractable. 

 

Thelatter plan has ever proved itself most effective because Aryan populations that

wouldfight to the last gasp against undisguised military despotism; may be inducedto

passivelysubmit to any indignity or extortion, if their brains are first carefullysoaked in

someAbstract Lie.

 

Atthe period of the war of Independence, North America was far too wide, far too

sparselysettled, and far too poor in concentrated wealth to be effectively ruled and

plunderedupon the standing army principle: either by King George or the successful

Juntaof power-wielding Revolutionists. 

 

Hamilton,Hancock, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Henry, and all the vested material

intereststhat stood a solid phalanx behind those voluble patriots cast about for somesafer

methodof ruling the minds of the uninformed but extremely valorous yeomanry,

backwoodsmenand mountaineers. 

 

Aftermature consideration they determined to lull and lure the armed peasantry back

againinto a condition of blissful somnolence, by instilling into their newly aroused

minds,false but seductive political Idealisms, as subtle supplements to thefallacious, and

equallydelusive, (but pre-existent) religionisms and moralisms. This cunning plot

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workedlike a charm, for Equity of Rights seemed to puritanic minds the logicaloutcome

ofthat other hoary old lie & "Equality before God'. ('What a set of damnedrascals they

were!'was Governor Morris's terse, rugged, but ever memorable description of the

Congressof smart Corruptionists that adopted and formally proclaimed those famous and

fatalAbstractions.)

 

Thereuponthe Sword of Power, that  conqueredon the battlefield, was carefully hidden

awayout of sight and "Constitutionalism' invoked to aid in the re-harnessing of the

Conquerorsof Cornwallis, by their new masters. The old systems of Jurisprudence and

Government(founded on naked force) were cleverly retained even amplified and at the

sametime the white skinned populations were cunningly proclaimed "free and equal.'

Neverhaving enjoyed genuine personal freedom (except on the Indian border) being for

themost part descendents of hunted-out European starvelings and fanatics,(defeated

battlers)they now stupidly thought that they had won freedom at last by the patentdevice

ofselecting a complete outfit of new tax-gatherers every fourth year. 

 

 

 

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Whenwe look back upon the childlike faith in Constitutionalism, displayed by our

RevolutionaryFathers together with their infantile republican specifics for the

redemptionof mankind, we cannot help smiling. At every general election, since 1776, 

Americanshave voted solidly for increasing the despotic authority of their elective rulers

andtask-masters. Personal liberty is very nearly unknown (except in the newspaper)and

anycitizen who dares to think in direct opposition to the dogma of the Majoritydoes so

atthe risk of his life, if he thinks too loudly.

 

Indeed,men of initiative and enterprise are now in the regular habit of purchasing

immunityfrom Communal molestation by bribing legislatures and officials upon a

wholesalescale. The State is a blackmail agency.

 

Enterprisesnecessitating state-permits and large preliminary expenditures of capital,

cannotbe safely undertaken, until elective satraps (Aldermen, Judges, Governors,

Congressmen,Presidents, Senators, etc.,) have first negotiated a percentage 'rake-off'.

Neitherlife nor property is safe from the malignance, revenge or greed of government

officialsor their confederates. He who would assert himself in this Republic, under

presentconditions, must be a man of unscrupulous acumen and shrewdness. He must

knowthe exact price of every "patriot,' with whom business brings him in contactand be

readyto pay it without demur nay & with an appearance of hearty enthusiasm:otherwise

itwill go hard with him. Should he be a poor man, his chances in life are infinitesimal;so

longas he is conscientious. No citizen can "call his soul his own,' who dares toopenly

attackthe administrative scoundrelism & scoundrelism based securely uponpurchasable

majorityvotes. Those thievish official peculators of Turkey, China, Persia, andMorocco,

wouldhang their heads in utter shame at their own clumsy methods of robbery, if they

oncebeheld the magnificent mechanism and finesse wherewith American politicians

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enrichthemselves by bleeding the treasuries, stealing public lands, and sweating the

revenues.

 

Indeed,OUR Grand Vizers (heaven bless them) not onlyplunder living generations, but

theyeven make Futurity contribute to their hungry rapacity.

 

Theirschemes of financial legerdemain are of unparalleled brilliance and grandeur.They

borrowthousands of millions upon National Credits from the Usurers, and then proceed

toapportion the money unto each other, under the elaborate pretence of needfulpublic

expenditure,redeeming the currency, etc., etc.

 

Inorder that the Jew may be secured in his usurious "shent-per-shent,' oppressivetaxes

arelaid on the Peasantry wherewith to pay the annual interest charge upon theBonded

Millions.All of these tributes are collectable (in appreciating gold) at the point ofthe

SupremeCourt's bayonet. However, military assistance is very seldom needed to enforce

thetax-collectors' demands, because most Americans are exceptionally docile and

"good.'No need of coercion with a palsied people, ever eager to obey the slightest nodof

theirMasters.

 

America!America! Never shall you realize the true meaning of thorough-going

Independenceand Self-Proprietorship, until an American Cromwell, or an American

Caesarhas signed the death-warrant of an American King. The executive that sells his

peopleinto bondage is a Public Enemy, whether he be an elective Monarch or an

hereditaryKing. Such a Scoundrel and Traitor has no rights that property-holding

Freemanare bound to respect: no not one. By accepting the gold of Public Plunderers,he

makeshimself an Ishmaelite. His hand is against every man's hearth and every man's

property.Therefore every man's hand should be uplifted against him. In days not long

goneby, men of our Race have hung bribe-takers with scant ceremony; and even rolled

theheads of Kings into the executioner's basket. 

 

Ifwe are not to be robbed now of everything we possess and reduced to conditionsof

absoluteState servitude, we must not shrink from doing so again.

 

Despotism,if it is to be overthrown, must be fought with its own weapons, and the vilest

ofDespotisms are ever founded upon Majority Votes.

 

Asfor "the Common People,' they are energetically chasing shadowy paternalisms,and

allowingtheir substance to be "appropriated' on a gigantic scale. They are living in a

fool'sparadise of "progress,' and "peaceful industrial evolution,' as the cantphrases go.

Someof these days they may possibly wake up (when too late) and discover, withalarm

andastonishment, that all their mock iambics have been of no avail against theinsidious

growthof centralized Oligarchic Hebraism, ballot-box desolation, and industrial

imperialism.

 

Americanshave yet to learn, that each generation must fight out its own good fight, and

notrely for the preservation of its hardihood and independence, upon moth-eaten

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parchmentsnor on fraudulent statesmen, now in the graveyard & statesmen who spent

theirpetty babblesome lives; not in doing heroic things, but in founding andenthroning

theabominations that afflict us all to-day like a palsy. Our national hero-worshipbadly

wantsreconstruction. 

 

 

 

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Manyyears after the 'Declaration' was issued, our written Constitution wasconstructed

withmuch voluble sophistry and mimic strife. That document, considered as a whole,is

themost cunningly worded and at the same time most terrible instrument of Government

andMastership that any Anglo-Teutonic tribe has ever yoked itself up under.Pretending

to"grant' liberty and self-government, it practically annihilates both. Under theshow of

'guaranteeing'personal independence and civil rights, it has organized an elective

tyranny;wherein the mob-monarch possesses more arbitrary authority than any dynastic

despotsince the days of Darius or Balschazzar. 

 

Thehighest crime IS actually written in the highest law of theland.' 

 

'Thus,did the great Guile-masters, 

Theirtoils and their tangles set; 

Andas wide as was the water: 

Sowide was woven the net.' 

 

Indeedthe written Constitution of our Republic is a monstrous mechanical contrivance,

thatbids fair (when once it has got properly under way) to squeeze the very heartout of

allthe Best Elements in America. 

 

OurFederal Government may be, very appropriately compared to a pirate shipcleverly

disguisedas a friendly armed cruiser; convoying a fleet of peaceful merchantmen loaded

withan immense treasure and 70,000,000 passengers. When it first came to their

"assistance'it was & O! so kindly! so affectionate! so full of loving regard for its

intendedprey, for the welfare and bon-voyage of its quarry. Now however that its forty-

fiveships of state are out in the open ocean, and absolutely at its mercy, itstrips off its

decoyrig; hoists the "Deaths-head-and-bloody-bones,' opens its hidden portholes,runs

outits round-lipped broadsides, and yells through its editorial speaking-trumpets:&

'Heaveto there, or you'll be blown out of the water'. 

 

Thusit will be seen the Jesuitic "Evangel of Equality' has proved itself atremendous

success.It seduced the American People into a feeling of contentment and security till

their"bonds' and fetters were properly forged, polished, and neatly riveted on. 

 

Wellfashioned, indeed, was the Net! & A splendid spider web it has proveditself, and

withal,needful. 

 

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Underthe hypnotic spell of a "free and equal' dream, Americans have been hustledinto a

convict-prisonof laboriousness to piratical masters a thousand times more terrible and

moreunyielding than any history can describe. All that is now left of Liberty isits name,

andthe harmless privilege the common people have of scolding their Proprietors in

vulgareditorial diatribes at or about election times. Occasionally they do descendinto the

streets,indulging in sanguinary vociferations upon the same general principle thatimpels

amangy cur to howl most dismally & if struck with a brick. 

 

Theconflict between the masters and the helots is over for the present and themasters

havingconquered are in possession of the booty and the field. Hark! the songs ofvictory

&the flap of the battle-pennons!'

 

Indeed,considering all the circumstances, the common people are "lost souls' &no

matterwhat they now do they must remain in hell. Their position is that of a wormtrying

toescape from its hole in a heated, burning log; if it runs to the right it runsinto heat and

smoke,and if it runs to the left it runs into blazes. A few minutes more and &it is

roastedalive. 

 

Evenshould America's servile multitudes appeal to the arbitrement of PhysicalForce,

theycannot possibly win. Possessing neither the strength, courage, brains, arms,money,

norleaders: they must be blown into eternal fragments by their master's highlytrained

artillerists,and scientific destroyers.

 

 

 

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Thecitadel of Power is now consolidated and prepared with the most improved

armamentsto repel any assault, no matter how well sustained. The nation is intersectedin

alldirections, with iron highroads and splendid waterways, whereon armies andnavies

maybe moved from city to city, with facility and dread effect. The war ofSecession (or

ratherthe war for the annihilation of Self-Government) demonstrated conclusively thata

CentralizedAuthority, resting on herd-votes of the vulgar and fanatic is (in practice)

militaryAbsolutism. There is no other Power in the land that can effectively hold it in

check.The Czar of Russia possesses less actual authority than our Federal Government.

Witha standing army in the hollow of its hand, it can do exactly as it pleases,i.e. if it can

collectenough revenue to purchase "statesmen' and pay the salaries of its praetorian

cohorts.

 

MostAmericans are ONLYNOW beginning to perceive these things, but theywere forseen,

(andalso foretold in part) by clear-sighted individuals before the Constitutionitself was

formallyEnthroned.

 

To-dayall the old sphinx questions are up again for solution. No man of balancedsense

canhonestly believe that these problems are to be settled by ballot-box stuffingor

Editorialism.Settled they must be upon "the good old rule, the simple plan,' and

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thereaftersettled and re-settled again and again; for, there is no finality in social

adjustmentsand there should not be. Material strength is the basis of all human greatness

andmaterial strength must "settle' the tyranny of the greatest number; probablywith fire

andsteel. All other theories are chimeras & lies & delusions &make-believe and of no

account. 

 

ThePhilosophy of Power has slumbered long, but whenever men of sterling worth are

found,it must again sweep away the ignoble dollar-damned Pedlarisms of to-day and

openly,as of old, dominate the destiny of an emancipated and all-conquering race.

 

Whatis viler than a government of slaves and usurious Jews? What is grander than a

governmentof the Noblest and the Best & who have proved their Fitness on the plainsof

Death? 

 

Cromwelland his Ironsides & Caesar and his Legions shall be born again; and the

thunderoustread of Sulla's fierce destroyers shall roll and rumble amid the fire andglare

andsmoke of crumbling constitutionalisms: "as it was in the beginning, is now, andever

shallbe' & warfare without end. 

 

Yawpingpoliticians may harangue base city mobs of hirelings and Christlings with

'Alas,poor Yorick!' rhapsody, as if struggle and strife were the evil of all evils.Figures

ofspeech, however, cannot breathe the breath of life into feline philosophiesthat never

havehad the slightest foundation in Fact. The survival of the Fittest & theToughest is

thelogic of events and of all time. They who declare otherwise are blind. Thechief point

isthis: that Fitness must honestly demonstrate itself not by ignoble theft andtheory but

byopen conflict as per Darwin's law of battle. 

 

 

** *

 

 

Howcan citizens be honestly described as free and equal who are not, who neverwere,

'freeand equal' in any reasonable sense of the phrase? How can they be evenconsidered

MEN,whose whole lives are governed by cast-iron regulations; whose every movementis

circumscribedand restrained by penal threats & even whose secret thoughts are in a

constantstate of silent repression?

 

Itis no apology whatever to affirm that the People themselves enact all laws theyare

COMMANDEDto obey. Even that statement is a falsity and if it were true, it would not

justifymajority Dictatorship or any other kind of Dictatorship.

 

TheConstitution under which all other laws are born, was accepted, not by us butby

bewiggedindividuals who are long since rotten. We are ruled, in fact by cadavers& the

inhabitantsof tombs.

 

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'Whyshould agreements made by coffined dead men bind and mortgage living, pulsing,

breathingbeings?

 

Theirbones have long ago mouldered into ozone and fertilizers, who drew up andsigned

theBill of Rights; Magna Charta, the Sermon on the Mount, the Declaration of

Independence,our Glorious Constitution, etc., etc. Rotten are the brains that concocted

themand the fingers that signed and sealed them. Equally rotten are theirirrational and

infantilephilosophies. Rotten also in their heart, are the men who obey UNDER

COMPULSIONvoices from the tomb.

 

Nodoubt those old documents served their purpose at the time, but "new occasionsteach

newduties,' and new ages require, not only new leaders, but new deeds.

 

Again,most Acts of Congress are the Machiavellian work of eminent rogues, curse them

whosevery names are almost forgotten except by partisan chroniclers, and printers of

publicschool histories.

 

Asfor the Common Law, it is an inheritance from those interesting old days, whenSaxon

andNorman earls (they were genuine noblemen then, for they had won their positionby

riskingtheir lives in battle) administered "Justice' direct, per media of knottedclubs,

hiltedknives, and long handled cleavers. That was the only kind of "Law' understoodby

our"uncivilized' forefathers, for THEY had notbeen "educated' into the profound

convictionthat governments and laws "derive all their just powers from the consent of the

governed.'Such an expression would have sent them into convulsions, and he who

utteredit would be considered & a most excellent fool. 

 

Nodoubt our ancestors were somewhat rude in their manners, somewhat deficient in

sweetnessand culture but in matters of frozen fact they were decidedly logical. They did

notsneak to public meetings and swagger about "Liberty,' "Justice,' and "Equalityof

Opportunity,'or "Rights of Man,' when they knew full well that not only their lives, but

everythingthey nominally possessed was "by leave' of their conquerors and proprietors.

Theyaccepted their position pro-tem, and when again ready, honestly re-entered the

doom-ringto test anew their Fate.

 

Ifthey could come alive again how those old Pirates and Freebooters would starein

shameand scorn at the sight of their "tenderfoot' posterity, walking up in solemn,horny-

handed,hump-backed procession in shoddy rags before an idol-altar called a ballot-box,

droppinginto its gilded maw, printed invocations for Justice, Mercy, Liberty, 'Peace in

ourtime O! Lord!' & Protection, & Cheap Money, & "more laws!more laws! more

laws!'How our blonde, clean-limbed ancestors would guffaw? Indeed, they would

probablykeep on guffawing, till they guffawed themselves to death again.

 

"Oh!'they would say: & "to think that our seed should have sunk so low!' 

 

 

 

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7

 

But,Equality before the Law is all we mean whimpers the everlasting sophist &the

cunningliar! Let us see! By what rational method can any two litigants be placed in a

positionof unconditional "Equality before the Law?' First of all, plaintiff anddefendant

alwayspossess totally different physical and mental characteristics, differentpersonal

magnetismsand different sized bank balances. Also all judges, juries, and legal officials

areunequals in temperament, ability, courage and honesty. Each one has his ownpeculiar

idiosyncrasies,prejudices, inferiorities, superstitions, and & price. Each again, may be

moreor less dishonest and more or less subject to financial pressure or caste bias.No two

menare born alike: each one being literally born under his own particular star,formed of

differentmaterial, swayed by different ideals, educated and moulded in a different mill,

bya different process.

 

Evenif all tribunals of Justice were founded upon blind Impartiality, andadministered

freeof cost, it will be plainly seen, that "Equality before the Law' remains a mere

chimera,a dream; and of no real value. "Equality before the Law,' is just a meaningless

catchword,something like that famous Jesuitism & "Liberty regulated by Law.'

 

StatuteLaw may formally confer equal rights and privileges upon unequal citizens, butit

cannotenforce itself & it must execute its mandate through human media, andthat media

isfull up to the brim with superiorities, inferiorities, and inequalities.

 

Nolegalism has ever been devised that Strength can not drive its coach and fourthrough;

andit is a popular proverb (in all lands) that somehow, there is "one law for therich and

anotherfor the poor.' Indeed the poor can NEVERbe placed upon an equality with the rich

&not even by the pillage of the rich. 

 

Whetherthey are the Fittest or not, the present proprietors of wealth should neverpermit

themselvesto be plundered, without a savage struggle. 

 

Sooneror later, the hour of this struggle in its acute form shall arrive, but theRich must

notdread it. If they prepare in time, the result shall not only justify theirmastership, but

renderit impregnable & if they are Fit. To be respected and secure,Aristocracies must

restthemselves upon Sworded Might, not upon paper-credits, consols, and bondissues. 

 

Shouldthe Opulents be conquered and pillaged, that in itself will be conclusiveevidence

thatthey are neither the Fittest nor the Best. Upon this earth there is no suchthing as

EqualJustice.

 

Alllegal tribunals are based, not upon ideal concepts of Justice and Fair Play,but upon

effectivearmed Strength. This is a truism. Robbery under arms, laid the corner stone of

everyCourt House in Christendom and elsewhere. How then can the robbers and the

robbed& the eagle and the pigeon & the chicken and the hawk be placed inpositions of

genuineequilibrium before removable officials, specially paid and appointed, to

"vindicatethe Law' & that is to give forcible effect to the Dicta of the Strongest.

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Alljudges are authorized avengers armed to the teeth and all hangmen are licensed

assassins,trained to kill. These words are not spoken in disparagement. Assassins and

avengers!Ha! If that be soÉ 

 

Trulythey that 'seek the Lord' DO suffer hunger but & lions seek for prey.

 

Whenan army of occupation settles down upon an enemy's territory, it issues certain

rulesof "procedure' for the orderly transference of the property and persons of the

conqueredinto the absolute possession and unlimited control of the conquerors. These

"rulesof procedure' may at first take shape as orders issued by military generals'but after

atime they develop themselves into Statute Books, Precedents, and Constitutions.Indeed

ALLLaw is now and ever has been, the mandate of successful belligerents or ratherthe

mandateof the few masterful personalities that ever inspire them.

 

Equalitybefore the Law, is thus a contradiction in terms for Law itself is anincarnation

ofInequality. It is true only in the subjective sense, that all who OBEY the Law are equally

theservants of those who make it or caused it to be made.

 

Drum-headcourt martials are really Law Courts in embryo. Congresses and Parliaments

aremerely committees of rapacious tax-gatherers. Legislators may describethemselves

as"representatives of the people,' but that is only a cunning masquerade. Theirchief

vocationis to strengthen "the Law,' uphold "the Constitution,' vote the annual

"Appropriations'and devise ways and means of exploiting the nation or of permitting it

tobe systematically looted by their accomplices, or & their Masters.

 

Theprinciples that govern a "hold-up' are the selfsame principles that govern

government.No government on earth rests on the consent of the governed. 

 

Itis reasonable therefore for a confederation of masterful bandits to placethemselves in

positionsof absolute equality, before their intended victims. The idea is absurd on the

faceof it. Brigandage necessitates inequality: and every government on earth, is

organizedand enthroned Brigandage.6

 

LasCasas, the Spanish Jesuit, was the first in America to spread about the false,

subversive,and shameful theory of "equal human rights' but since his time, it has been

boastfullyaccepted on all sides, by vast hordes of witless persons who are in all

countries,the numerical majority. 'The race of fools' as Plato sagaciously remarked, 'is

notto be counted' & not even in this "land of the free.' 

 

AlthoughEquality (in any shape) has never been scientifically proven nor logically

defended:nevertheless it passes from tongue to tongue, from brain to brain in current

discussions,for "gospel truth' & just as clever counterfeit coins are passed

unsuspectinglyfrom hand to hand.

 

                                                

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 'Have wenot shown that Government is essentially immoral?' & Herbert Spencer

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TheEquality superstition is tolerated by clear-seeing men, for one reason only. Itassists

themto govern the thoughts: and by governing the thoughts, to exploit the property,

energy,and labor-force, of their soft-minded, good natured neighbors: who reallybelieve

itto be true & who think it, glad tidings of Great Joy. 

 

Behold!When the fraudulent "equality of natural rights' evangel, is mellifluouslypoured

forthin the Market Places by suave dollar-hunting attorneys; or half educatedmechanics;

eventhose staid citizens (whose whole life is of it a direct disproof) lead theroaring,

raving,yelling crowd,' in its maniacal bellowings.

 

Lo!the Angel of Lunacy is camped in their souls!

 

 

 

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Everyatom of organic matter has its own vital peculiarity. Every animate being is

differentin osseous structure and chemical composition. Ethnology, Biology, History, all

proclaimEquality to be a myth. Even the great epics of antiquity are all glorificationsof

inequality:inequality of mind & inequality of birth, of courage or condition. Can

equalityof body, equality of mind, equality of origin, equality before the law, or any

otherkind of "equality' be demonstrated by any one fact? 

 

Mentallyand morally, every breathing being is a self poised monad & adifferentiated

ego.No two germs, planets, suns, or stars, are alike. Among the higher vertebratesthis is

especiallyso, and consequently, the only law that men ought to honor or respect; is the

lawthat originates, and finds its final sanction IN THEMSELVES &in their own

consciousness. 

 

Inequalityis summed up in the scientific axiom 'inferior organisms succumb, that

superiororganisms may survive, propagate, and possess.' In other words, the proper

placefor Lazarus is to rot among the dogs. And the proper place for Caesar is at thehead

ofhis irresistible legions.

 

Fromthe soles of his feet to the crown of his head the bones, skin and flesh of hisbody

&even the grey brain pulp & the electric nerves and tissues & mentalganglia and

internalviscera of a man belonging to the African, Mongolian, Semite, or Negro breeds

areall fundamentally different in formation, constituents, and character; from the

correspondinganatomical sections in men of Aryan descent. The points of non-

resemblancemay be superficially unperceivable, but they are organic & deep seated.

 

Notwithstandingthe dexterous writers of strategic fables, dross is dross, gold is gold: and

somemen ARE born better, born nobler, born braver thanothers. 

 

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Aristocracyby birth rests upon an unalterable scientific basis of heredity and selection&

butan aristocracy of money rests mainly upon bolts and bars & i.e. uponlaws, that may

beabrogated at a moments notice.

 

Thoughunable to reason out, in logical sequence their inherent abhorrence of socialand

racialequality yet most men instinctively detest it & in practice.

 

Whatwhite father for example, would encourage the marriage of a hulking thickskulled

Negrowith his beautiful and accomplished daughter? Would he enthusiastically "giveher

away'to the matrimonial embraces of a Chinaman, a Coolie or the leper-hugs of a

polluted"mean white'? Is there ten such citizens even in North America, where equality

ofbirth and condition is so much speechified and & NEVER seen? Is there five? Is there

onewho would not rather see the daughter of his loins, stiff, stark, and cold inher

shroud?Should that ONE exist (he being of sound mind) let him speak.Then and only

then,can this diabolical gospel of intrinsic equality be reconsidered. 

 

Meanwhile,plain practical citizens are justified in regarding it, not as a self-evidenttruth,

butan insolent, malignant, and abominable lie & a lie that shall yet bestamped out

forever& with blood and fire. 

 

Youhave only to look at some men, to know that they belong to an inferior breed.Take

theNegro for example. His narrow cranial development, his prognathous jaw, his

projectinglips, his wide nasal aperture, his simian disposition, his want of forethought,

originality,and mental capacity: are all peculiarities strictly inferior. Similar language

maybe applied to the Chinaman, the Coolie, the Kanaka, the Jew, and to the rotten-boned

citydegenerates of Anglo-Saxondom: rich and poor. Vile indeed are the inhabitantsof

thosenoxious cattle kraals: London, Liverpool, New York, Chicago, New Orleans: and

yet,in those places is heaped up the golden plunder of the world. 

 

Ethnographistsof the very highest authority, assert that over ten thousand years ago, the

black,white and yellow types of men-animal were as pronounced, and as ineffaceable as

theyare to-day. The hieroglyphics and records of ancient tombs and monuments,

cuneiforminscriptions, antiquarian researches, and the systematic study of pre-historic

skullsand skeletons all bear the same uniform testimony.

 

Inequalityof birth and condition, can never perish from off the earth. Never! and why

shouldit? Who can fill the valleys up and lay the mountains low?

 

 

 

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Eventhe giddy doctrinaire who so cunningly concocted the bombastes-furioso fictionsof

theDeclaration7 could not apparently have believed themhimself. Was he not a slave-

                                                

7

 Mayhap,Franklin (who had a comic vein), wrote them as grinning jokes. By the way everysignature,

attached thereto, represents a slave-holding,slave-trading constituency. All the colonies traded in niggers.

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driver(residing among slave-drivers) who bought and auctioned human cattle fordollars

andcents ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE?No doubt for purposes of state-craft and

necessarywar-craft he wove his philosophic preamble of Strong Deceit. Probably also, he

wascomparatively honest, and even sincere but among the alluring priests ofUnreason,

themost dangerous is the fanatical propagandist.

 

WhenJefferson dictated his fatal and untenable abstraction, he was not evenoriginal but

plagiarizedZeno the Stoic, Jack Cade, Savonarola, Milton, Plato, John Ball etc. Zeno

said:'All men are by nature equal,' but carefully refrained from attempting to

demonstrateit. Milton defended it in his prose essays, Plato voiced it in his "Republic,'

JohnBall preached it in medieval England, Savonarola perished trying to establishit in

Florence.Jack Cade, Robenspierre and Christ were also failures & ghastly failures.

 

'Ifhuman experience proves anything at all,' writes James Fitzjames Stephens, "it

proves,that if the restraints are minimized, if the largest possible measure ofLiberty is

accordedto all human beings; the result will not be equality but inequality,reproducing

itselfin a geometrical ratio.' Remove the restraints and see how quickly anaristocracy

basedon Merit would mow down an aristocracy based on Credit.

 

Inactual life, he who claims equality with another, is ever called upon to provehis claim,

notby a grotesque abracadabra of silly phrases, parroted from antique philosophersor

blue-mouldydocuments but by actual deeds & that is to say, by producing his

credentials.Constitutional theories are all very well to humbug stridulating slaves but ina

freeman'shousehold, or business, they are not "legal tender.'  Among men of affairs,

naturalegalitarianism is regarded as amusing moonshine & mere spread-eagleism,fit for

publicmeetings only. Business minds thoroughly understand, (having learnt by bitter

experience)that some men are destined by Nature to bear command and some to obey:

aye,even for a thousand years before their birth.

 

Noone can study the laborers on a farm, the "hands' in a big foundry or factory,the

seamenin a large seaport, the nomadic hirelings on a railroad construction gang: orthe

clerksand salesmen in a city warehouse, without perceiving at a glance, that the vast

majorityof them are extremely poor specimens of humanity. 

 

Theideal type of manhood or womanhood, (that is to say, 'Ye Thoroughbred') is notto

befound among these captive hordes & for captives they really are. Theirheads are to a

largeextent unsymmetrical, their features distorted, ape-like, unintelligent. Theirbodies

areout of all proportion, dwarfed, stunted, diseased, malformed, cretinous.

 

Theirmovements are contracted, artificial, ungainly, and their minds (outside ofroutine)

areutter vacuums. When compared with the traditional idea of Strength, Beauty,

Courage,and Nobleness of character, they are an extremely ill-bred herd of cattle:

exhibitingall the psychological stigmata of inherited rain-rot and of physical decay. 'A

crownof thorns on every brow & that ISthe wage they're earning now.'8

 

                                                

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Nine-tenthsof them are positively repulsive in language, mentality, and in general

appearance.They even display an extraordinary low average of animality; and upon the

slightestexposure perish off, like sheep that have the lung worm. Heated rooms, woolen

clothing,and stimulating beverages, are the means whereby their watery blood is kept in

languidcirculation. Every new generation is feebler, and more debased than its

predecessor.All the scientific evidences of mental, moral, and bodily deterioration, are

markedlyaccentuated in them & their timidity is proverbial.9

 

Hard,continuous, methodical labor, destroys courage, saps vitality, and demoralizes

character.It tames and subdues men; just as it tames and subdues the wild steer or the

youngcolt. Men who labor hard and continuously, have no power to think. It requiresall

theirvital force to keep their muscles in trim.

 

Indeed,the civilized city working-man and working-woman are the lowest and worst

typeof animal ever evolved from dust and slime and oxygen. They actually worship

Work:and bow down before Law as an ox-team crouches and strains under the lash.

Lookupon their shrunken cheeks, their thin decayed teeth, sharp puny noses, small

wateryeyes, yellow bloodless complexions, bent shoulders, dry hair tending tobaldness,

strugglingthin beard: the women with pinched features, waspish fragile waists, want of

bustdevelopment, consumptive, neurotic, artificially barren, emaciated, hungry,dwarfed,

hysterical.

 

Theminds of average workmen and workwomen, are either total vacuums or stuffed to

thebrim with every conceivable species of lies, iniquity, superstition, and sham.Indeed

howcould they remain in such conditions of base loathsome hirelingism, were theynot

deficientin all the Primitive Virtues & in all that is manly or womanly?

 

Behold!& upon their brow is stamped (with red-hot cattle brands) the word "DAMNED.'

Eternallytortured are they in a patent purgatory invented by Politicians. Theirtribulations

howevermay really be but Progression in disguise, because their shameful self-

degradation,must ultimately end in their utter extinguishment. Hopelessly are they

entangledin the snare & hopelessly defeated. For them there is no escape &No! not

eventhrough fields of blood. 

 

Poortrembling wretches! & washing their own hands in their own sweat! &nay, in their

ownhearts blood! Born thralls are they & or, born madmen!

 

Theirdays are without hope, and their years are consumed for & naught. Whentheir

Mastersspeak unto them, there is trembling in all their joints. 

 

Theywaste their lives pursuing shadows; and for hire, build their own tombs. Their

mindsare below freezing point, nay! below zero! Crippled souls are they. 

 

Theyknead their own flesh into daily bread, and transmute their "contrite hearts'into

basinsof gruel.

                                                

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 'Thebrave man may fail sometimes, but the coward fails always.' Angelo Mosso.

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Theylook unto Idols for deliverance,10 aye and grindtheir dry bones into baskets of coal.

Atthoughts of battle they blench with terror: & at the sight of nakedbayonets, they run

likewhipped hounds.

 

ThereforeStrength leapeth down upon them as the panther leaps upon his quarry. And in

amoment of time they are blotted out.

 

Mysoul abhorreth them as an abomination. My hand reacheth out to clutch them bythe

throat.

 

 

 

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Heredityhas ever so much more to do with social conditions than the majority of modern

menare willing to admit. Judging by results that nations ignore Birth and Breedingat

theirperil for just as there are noble animals, there are noble-men. If astock-raiser throws

downhis dividing fences, and permits ALLhis cattle to mix-up promiscuously together:

whatkind of a herd would he have, say in a decade? Nothing but weeds, hybrids, and

mongrels.

 

Now,that is exactly what nations attempt when they endeavor to establish anequality of

privilegesand of happy peaceful conditions.

 

Theclose psychological connection that exists between ancestry and degeneracy,crime,

genius,insanity, etc., etc. is now everywhere being acknowledged thanks to the

researchesof Galton, Lombrosso, Mosso, Otto Ammon, Ferri, Kraft Ebbing, and others.

 

Ifcriminals are criminals, by descent, or by birth; is it not equally probablethat slaves are

slavesby the facts of their breed and ancestry? Does it not also follow that heroesand

strong,powerful, resolute, personalities, have derived their solid stamina from their

forefathers?Indeed all history and all genealogies prove that this is a mathematical fact.

Greatmen are ever the descendants of mighty warriors and conquerors: that is to say,of

mightyanimals.

 

VonOtto Ammon cites a remarkable instance, which goes to prove the selective and

ethnicadvantages of Warfare. He states that all German children born during theFranco-

Prussiancampaign of '71, (also the years immediately following) show a strikingly high

averageexcellence, both of body and mind.

 

Theconverse is equally demonstrable. Show me a herd of humans who have been

underfedday-drudgers from their youth up and I will show you a herd of cattle whose

                                                

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 When theRoman Empire was tottering to its fall, the worship of the State was anestablished cult: just as

it is to-day. Better to adore blocks of wood or stone,than to bow our hearts, our heads and our knees,

before those troops of Unclean Beasts &Politicians!

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ancestorswere also propertyless vassals and serfs, beaten in diplomacy and in war for

agespast. (Take the Irish peasantry and the fellaheen of Egypt as examples.) This

statementadmits of no qualification, for if one exception can be discovered, it willserve

toprove the general rule. A MAN in the full possession of all his faculties,of leonine

ancestry,well born, self contained, would rather cut his own throat from ear to ear witha

blacksmithsrasp than live the life of an average hired laborer in any civilized 'hell' on

earth.

 

Thenexus between self mastership and breed is of tremendous significance. Thereinis

theLost Secret. Undoubtedly new born infants AREdaily coming wailing into this world,

withthe words & statesman, tramp, wastrel, warrior, priest, philosopher,criminal, thief,

king,slave and coward, indelibly branded upon their brows, their hearts and theirbrains.

 

Ourtalents, our virtues and our vices, depend entirely upon our individualmechanism;

andthat mechanism is the result of countless chemic transformations, extendingover

agesbut modified to a large extent by climate and soil. 'What is bred in the bone,will

nevercome out of the flesh,' wrote Pilpay thousands of years ago. There is a pregnant

ethnicphilosophy in four lines (quoted from Keramos):

 

 

 'This clay well mixed with marl andsand,

 Follows the motion of my hand;

 For some must follow, and some command;

 Though all are made of clay.'

 

 

AlthoughALL may be made of clay in the poetic sense, itmust never be forgotten that the

clayitself is composed of differentiated elements. The clay that is in aBlackfellow or a

Chinaman,is not the clay that is in a Shakespeare or a Bismarck. Some 'clay' will grow

goodwheat and make very bad bricks: just as some breeds of animals are born to be

huntersand others to be hunted. Some clay will raise splendid crops, even from poor

seed;and some never produces anything (no matter how highly cultivated) exceptthorns

andweeds and nettles and poisons. The natures of men are moulded almost entirelyby

thenature of the soil from which they have been grown. Man is a perambulatingcrop. In

someplaces he grows to perfection: in other localities he won't grow at all or runsto

seed.In India, the Anglo Saxon dwines and dwindles, but in Canada and the Northern

Stateshe even develops increased stamina & 

 

Allscience, all history, and all experience are unanimous in disproof of equalnatural

rightsfor ALL men (that strident doctrine of the fool); andyet the insolent, proofless

assertionsof a Zeno, a Jefferson, a Jack Cade, Robespierre, or a Jewish Carpenter (when

fantasticallyengrossed and framed or bound in a book) are passively accepted by the

intellectualserfs of this degenerate nineteenth century, and trumpeted to the ends of the

earthas a sublime and holy revelation. Equalityism passes almost unchallenged inpublic

orations,because to openly question its veracity, is felt to be unpopular; and with the

ignobleleaders of public opinion in all democracies, popularity is everything &the alpha

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andthe omega, the beginning and the end. The result for Anglo-saxondom is simply

nauseous.

 

Youngmen are mentally mutilated, systematically 'educated' by schools, press, and

literature,upon fundamental hallucinations, pyrotechnic shams, and glittering illusions&

illusionsthat are the perennial source of fruitless servile uprisings, socialheart-burnings,

internecineunpleasantness and sundry other secondary symptoms of social cancer. 

 

OurGovernment Educational Systems are absolutely under the direct control of

Politicians.These Priests-of-the-State select and train the teachers, vote the salaries and

dictatewhat Truths and Lies the textbooks shall contain. Indeed our National Schoolsare

managedupon the same jesuitic plan, whereby the monks and prelates of old,

successfullyworked the Universal Church. 'Come right in here and we'll improve your

mindsfree of cost,' suavely saith the high priests of this New Idolatry & thisdevouring

Dragon& this Impersonal State. So the pure-hearted rosy-cheeked little onesenter

unsuspectingly.Gradually as they are 'brought under the influence' the grey brain-pulp

isforced out of plastic young skulls, and lies, nice pretty poetic lies (mixedwith

unavoidablefacts and perverted truths) skillfully injected. Did you ever see medical

studentsextract the brain of a frog and then fill up the vacuum with pith? The frogdoes

notdie, it lives, hops about quite lively and seems to possess its formerintelligence and

vitalitybut it is all illusion. What experimental vivisectionists do to frogs,state-priests do

tothe children of men. 

 

Bitby bit, with dates and lists and emasculated histories; the iniquitousbrain-wrecking

deviltryproceeds. When completed, young men and women are turned out with addled

brains,into a warring world, incapables, semi-imbeciles, unable to defend or assert

themselves& footballs of fate, ready to SERVEanyone. Is it not notorious, the ineptitude,

mechanicalimitativeness, and want of initiative, displayed by state-educated young men?

Insteadof being urged to THINK and ACTfor themselves, they are taught, like well-drilled

slavesto Believe and Obey. They are even trained to worship Idols, with stridentshouts

andmodulated canticles & not honest Idols of wood and stone, but Idols ofsheepskin,

boundpamphlets, variegated rags and falsified Renown of dead Scoundrels, i.e.

Statesmen.

 

Itrequires a stout rope, a firm post and muscular men to hold an UNBROKEN colt; but

whenby Force and petting he has once been subdued i.e. tamed, educated, saddled,

bridled,he may be led anywhere even with a piece of twine in the hands of a littlechild.

O,ye State-Priests, so adroit, so eloquent! Ye cunning demons! Ye wolves insheep's

clothing!Ye corrupters of Youth! Ye generation of vipers! How can you escape from the

wrathto come? How can you escape SOMEDAY frombeing 'hung up, by the tongue on the

red-hothooks, of a real live hell.'

 

Thirtyyears ago the United States quixotically essayed to demonstrate racial equality

withrifle bullets and bomb-shells; but failed most ignominiously. Southern valleyswere

strewnwith Northern and Southern bones and millions of tax-treasure blown from the

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lipsof cannons without any tangible result, except to demonstrate before aninterested

world,the utter failure and hollowness of equality principles.

 

Apeople that deliberately enters upon a gigantic war in order to firmlyestablish a

CentralizedDespotism; and at the same time reduce itself to the social level of the Negro,

theRussian Jew, the Coolie, the Chinaman, and the European Serf, must indeed (to usea

suggestivevernacularism) have 'wheels in its head.'

 

The'man and brother' lie has certainly succeeded in writing itself in a'constitutional

amendment'but in real life it is as far from actuality as ever it was. The 'free' negroof

NewOrleans or Charleston is a more degraded, more despised being; and of lessmoney

valueto his proprietors now then when it was customary to buy and sell him at the

auctionblock, instead of as at present on the Stock Exchange.

 

Whatthe late civil war really accomplished was to degrade the white slave to thelower

levelof the plantation nigger: and in that respect it was a triumph of ingenuity.The

whitesfought & actually fought each other to demonetize themselves. Equality!

Equality!what brilliant deeds have been 'perpetrated' in thy name? Lincoln however!

washe not 'a great statesman?' Decidedly he was! Well indeed HE knew how to "round-

up'the herd with bewitching phrases?

 

Hark!do you hear those drunken slaves caterwauling down the street? Lo! it iselection

night!'Hurrah! hurrah!' they sing, 'We'll sound the jubilee! Glory be to Lincoln, the

manwho made US free.' In Morocco, the eunuchs and othermenials, bless their fate and

thePrince, at the very time he condescends to cut THEIR throats with HIS own hands.

Americanshowever are a free-born people not to be duped that way.

 

Throughoutboth Northern and Southern states, the social chasm between the highest and

lowesthuman organisms (whether white or black, or black-and-tan), is even more

pronouncednow, than ever it was previously. For example, although the Negroes are a

majorityin many States, they are never permitted to attain actual administrative power

andthey never shall.

 

Youcannot paint the Negro white, with laws and constitutions: though you write itin the

fireand smoke of wars and revolutions.

 

 

 

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Tosolemnly proclaim that 'all men are created equal,' is as stupid andunscientific, as to

assertthat all dogs, cattle, apes and trees are created equal.

 

Arethere not as many diverse varieties of dogs, cattle, apes and trees, as thereare of men,

planets,germs, stars and suns? Where then is the intrinsic equality between an oak tree

anda currant bush & between a mettlesome wolf-hound and a yelping street cur&

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betweena buffalo bull and a hand-fed steer & between an untamable gorilla of the

woodsand an organ-grinder's castrated monkey & between a cosmic-brainedBismarck

andthat famous Christling, 'the good young man that died.' Cannot a bloodedbulldog

whipa solid score of lean half-starved street mongrels? Upon exactly the sameprinciple,

asmall body of bold, self-reliant, brainy men are ever more than a match (underany

circumstances),for 10, 000, nay, 10, 000, 000 greasy mechanics. What is a mechanic

anyhowbut a specially trained slave? & and it would take the spirit of 1, 000American

slavesto make that of one live man. Theoretically all these organisms are of 'thesame

species,'but in the savage rush for bread, love, space and life, there are as much

functionaldifference between them, as there is between a royal Bengal tiger and 'Mary's

littlelamb.' The lamb was made to be eaten and the tiger was made to eat it; and man

wasborn to struggle as the sparks fly upwards.

 

Thenecessities of environment make of each man, the enemy or rival of other men,more

especially,those with whom he comes in direct personal conflict. Where then does

equalitycome in? It does not "come in' at all. It is an idiotic myth. There must alwaysbe

asubstratum of victimized organisms. How could the tiger live if there were novictims to

devour?How could there be heroes if there were no slaves? How could there be great

nationsif there were no contemptible ones?

 

Comparethe noble qualities inherent in some dogs with the obsequious 'virtues' that

distinguishnine men out of ten. Now, give to canine or homo equal liberty of action&

equalopportunity & equal 'rights': and what will be the result? Must not thefiercest

fighterfatten, while the skeletons of lean weaklings project through their scrofulous

hides?What power ORIGINATINGAMONG THEMSELVES could dictateand enforce &

equalityof opportunity?

 

Socialism,Christianism, Democratism, Equalityism, are really the whining yelpings of

base-bredmongrel-multitudes. They howl aloud for State intervention & 'protectionfor

sufferinghumanity' & regulated mill-grinding as it were; with the State to betheir

SupremeIdol, their God and Master, their All in All, their Great Panjandrum. Poor

deludedbase spirited 'weeds.' Truly the 'Curse of God' is in the very marrow of their

bones& in every pump-stroke of their dying hearts.

 

Theman who prays to be 'protected' by politicians, guarded by armed Janissaries,saved

byidolatrous priests, and redeemed by State Regimentation is indeed a miserablesinner

&a vile, despicable, un-manly wretch.

 

 

 

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Nopaternalistic governmental mechanism (however theoretically perfect), can everkeep

thebase-born and well-born, the thoroughbreds and the hybrids, in a state ofperpetual

equilibrium.You might as well try to bind down an earthquake with hoop-iron, as to rule

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theStrong with 'be it enacted.' 'Be it enacteds' were invented only to frightencaptives

with.

 

Whatpower on earth can permanently keep the Negro on a parity with the Anglo-Saxon?

 

TheStrong must have their way in spite of all puritanical proscribings, all mock

moralisms,all degrading legalisms, all constitutional covenantings. Neither the

machinerynor the raw material of equality has ever existed; only the dream, the idea of

it.Equality! Equality! in that one word is summed up the accumulated dementia oftwo

thousandyears! The thought of it was born in the brain of an inferior organism: and the

brainsof the inferior organisms nourish it still.

 

Howcan beings who for ages have been born and bred to toil and subjectitvity, ever

comprehendthe feelings of those who are free-born, and of valorous descent & ofthose

whounderstand the cosmic law that Might is & Master?

 

Youcannot muzzle a tempest with a cobweb, bridle a volcano with a shoe-string,bottle

upa cyclone in a powder horn, nor catch a tidal wave with a boat-hook. Neithercan you

puta bit between the teeth of the Strong. They will see you & in Sheolfirst.

 

Noartificial plan of society & no pious incantations however sincere andwell

intentioned;can ever prevent the pot that is of iron from smashing and sinking, the pot

thatis of clay & and why should it? If social equilibrium had been feasible,it would

havebeen established ages and ages ago. It has never been established & andit never

shall.11

 

Whatthen is the good of eternally dreaming, theorizing, and constructing phantom

castles-in-the-air,cities of god, and gardens of delight, upon foundations of deliberate

unveracity?Let us be men & whole men & not clamorous, tearful little children

demandinginfantile sugar-plumbs. Let us face the fierce challenging FACTS of existence

asboldly as our forefathers did before 'Christly comfort and consolation' wasintroduced

toun-man them & not like crouching, cringing, terrorized, oriental pariahs.Let us not be

luredto wholesale annihilation by sonorous Asiatic evangelisms, that have proved

themselvesworthless and unsuitable to our temperament, our climate, and our breed. Let

usbe sensible, brave, practical; and as Virchow somewhat trenchantly recommends:& 

'ACCEPT THINGS AS THEY TRULYARE, NOT AS WE CHOSE TO IMAGINETHEM' & or rather as

theyhave been imagined by dotard philosophers, daft poets, and castrated clerics.

 

 

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Theproblem that we are ever called upon to solve or be eaten up, is not how tomake life

"happyand equal' for happiness is a moving mirage, and equality an impossibility but

howmen may conquer their Opportunities, surpass their Rivals, extirpate theirPursuers. 

                                                

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 'Man hasa right to subsistence,' wrote Thomas Paine. 'Yes' replied an observant reader,'he has a right

to live one thousand years, IF HE CAN.' It is not a problem ofRight but of Ability & Strength.

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Therace is still to the swift and the battle to the strong. Beauty and booty arealways the

prerogativesof victorious valor. Woe unto the outgeneralled ones!

 

 

'Tisa battle for bread, for love, and for breath,

'Tisa race for life to the jaws of death.'12

 

 

Uponthe island of Java there is a remarkable valley of death. It is literallystrewed with

thebones and skulls and skeletons of innumerable dead animals and creeping things.In

thedue season, giant turtles, five foot by three in diameter, travel up through itfrom the

sea,to lay their eggs. En-route, they are set upon by packs of wild dogs and thesedogs

rollthe turtles upon their backs and then devour them alive, by tearing out their

unprotectedentrails. When the dogs are gorged, they in their turn, fall an easy prey to

ambushingtigers. Then hunters kill these tigers for their variegated skins. Rank grass

springsup after the rainy season, through the skulls and bones that litter thistropical

golgothaand droves of cattle gather there to fatten. Again the cattle are hunted fortheir

hides,horns, and flesh, and their bones are also left where they fall, to manure thevalley

andprepare it for new generations of hunters and hunted. Such is in miniature, apicture

ofthe everyday world as it actually is. All living beings are pursuing and& being

pursued.

 

Woeunto those that stumble! Woe unto Ye who fall!

 

Theywho accept the 'Equality, Faith, Hope, and Charity' ideal, in any shape or form

whatever,interpret the facts of mortal life as they are not & as they have everbeen, as

theycan never be. Indeed when the animal world becomes "moralized' and "equalized'it

willbe extinct. No doubt when contemplating the dark side of all this, Pascal was

impelledto write with superstitious medieval diapason: & "I am affrighted like aman

whoin his sleep has been carried unto some horrible desert island, and thereawakes, not

knowingwhere he is, nor how he shall escape.'

 

Degeneratesonly are thus affrighted at the tragic majesty of their surroundings.

 

Ifthis struggle is ordained of us, why not enter into it with kingly courage,with dauntless

delight?Why not go forward, daring all things, to conquer or to die?

 

Isit not better to perish than to serve? 'Liberty or death' is NOT a meaningless phrase.

No!it is of tremendous import to those who & comprehend.

 

Whatis death that it should make cowards of us all? What is life that it should bevalued

sohighly? There are worse things than death and among them is a life of dishonor.All

menlead dishonorable lives who serve a master with hand or brain.

 

                                                

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 P.Luftig. & 'Bulletin,' Australia.

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Lifeitself is but a spark in the gloom that flashes out and disappears. Whytherefore not

makethe most of it here and now & Here and Now!

 

Thereis no 'heaven of glory bright,' and no hell where sinners roast. There is noRight,

thereis no wrong & nor God & nor Son & nor Ghost.

 

  Death endeth all for every man,

  For every 'son of thunder:'

  Then be a Lion in the path;

  And don't be trampled under.

 

Forus there is no rest & no Kingdom of Indolence, either on this earth orbeyond the

skies& no Isles of the Blest & no Elysian Fields & no garden ofthe Hesperides. No!

No!All these magical legends are but fanciful waking dreams & 'fiction ofmortals of

yore.'

 

Hereand NOW is our day of torment! Here and NOW is our day of joy! Here and NOW is

ourOpportunity & to eat or to be eaten & to be lion or Lamb! Here and NOW it is war to

theknife & no escape & no retreat. Choose ye this day, this hour, forno Redeemer

liveth!

 

Everyattempt made to organize the Future must necessarily collapse. The present isour

Domainand or chief duty is to take immediate possession thereof upon strict business

principles.

 

Strivetherefore against them that strive against you, and war against them that war

againstthine. Lay hold of shield and buckler or their equivalents, stand up! Be aTerrible

onein thine own defense. Raise up also the Clenched Hand and stop the way of themthat

wouldpersecute you. Say unto thine own heart and soul: 'I, even I, am mine own

redeemer.'

 

Letthem be hurled back to confusion and infamy, who devise thine undoing. Let thembe

aschaff before the cyclone and let the Angel of Death pursue them, nay overtakethem. In

apit, they have hidden a trap for THYfeet: into that very destruction let them fall. Then,

exultant,'sound the loud timbrel.' Rejoice! Rejoice! in thine own salvation. Then allthy

bonesshall say pridefully 'who is like unto me?' & Have I not delivered myselfby mine

ownbrain? Have I not been too strong for mine adversaries? & Have I notspoiled them

thatwould have spoiled me.

 

 

 

 

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Thiscircling planet-ball is no navel-contemplating Nirvana, but rather a vastwhirling

star-litValhalla, where victorious battlers quaff the foaming hearts-blood of their

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smashed-upadversaries, from the scooped out skull goblets of the slain in never-ending

war.

 

Andbehold it is good! It is good! It is very good!

 

 

 'Blending in bloody strife,

 Throat to throat, life for life;

 Struggles the human still.'

 

 

Andin that invigorating struggle strength is renewable. Fitness to reign,propagate and

possess,can there alone be tested with mathematical precision (in nature's majestic

JudgmentHall), that is to say on the plains of Conquest where foeman look into foeman's

eyeand death lurks, like a ravenous leopard, in every bush.

 

Theywho claim Mastership on any other basis than conquest are Upstarts, Usurpersand

oughttherefore to be deposed without pity, and without mercy in accordance with the

cosmicdecree of ethnic displacement. Death I say! & Death! to ev [op cit]

 

Lifeis a duel and only the Fittest can possibly hope to succeed. If you wouldSurvive O

reader!(in the highest meaning of that word) go to, and put some splendor in yourdeeds.

Bewareof false philosophies that equalize YOUwith slavelings and dastards! Beware of

fattenedpriestlings and tax-collecting statesmen!

 

Bewarethe tongue that is smoothly hung, and never forget for one moment, that your

greatestenemies upon earth, are those crafty courtiers who eloquently, cunninglyflatter

you,that they may first win your heart, and then skin you alive. The modern

Mephistophelesis the soft-toned preacher in his pulpit & the editorial sophist in hisnet-

workof lies, & the political crocodile on his 'planks' and his platforms.'

 

Atrinity of hell-hounds are they! Oh! Would that they had but one neck and I was&

JudgeLynch!

 

America!America! in spite of all the surreptitious bonds that in thy sleep have beenlaid

uponthee yet pregnant thy womb is with men of Nerve & men of Valor &men of

Might.Lo! the hour approacheth when in dire travail thou shalt give birth unto

Thunderbolts,and Joves to handle them.

 

Beholdthat time cometh! Nay, it is at hand! But it will not be a period of puredelight.

No!No! & it will be a day of wrath, a dreadful day & a day ofJudgement, Tribulation,

Triumph. 

 

AndDemocracy! Democracy! thou leprous thing! & thou loathsome disease!& thou

plasticdemon! & thou murderer of man! Many nations have bowed down to thy

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infection,and perished from off the earth, but America! America! shall wipe thee out,&

thoublight-some  malady & thouhuman rinderpest!

 

Verily!Verily! a new nobility shall be born unto thee O America! & a breed ofTerrible

Commanders!& of Grim Destroyers & A nobility unpurchasable with the mintedtokens

ofmoney-changers & a nobility of Valor, of Power and of Might & anobility

honourable,clear-sighted, clean-skinned, UNCONQUERABLE..

 

 

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Throughthe future shines the sun of splendid struggle. Heroic Natures there lead on,as

theyled at Illion. The Natural Man steps forth once more in all his daringgrandeur,

Smashingunclean Idols, defying Gods and Laws and slave-made Morals.

 

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THEPHILOSOPHY OF POWER.Condensed:

 

Howdid government of man by man originate? 

Byforce of arms. Victors became rulers.

 

Butamong US government force is abolished? 

Thatis a popular delusion. It is stronger than ever.

 

Howis it that we do not see it clearly? 

Noneed of compulsion with inferiors ever eager to obey.

 

Howcan the Mastership of man be destroyed? 

Itcan never be destroyed. It is essential.

 

Butfor one man to reign over another is wrong? 

Whatis "wrong'? The Strong can do as they please.

 

Whoare the "Strong'?

Theywho conquer. They who take the spoil and camp on the battlefield. All life is a

battlefield.

 

Howdid subjectiveness originate?

Thefirst slave was a defeated fighter, afterwards tamed by hunger and blows. His

descendantsbeing born and trained to submissiveness are more tractable. All the Servile

Classesare posterity of beaten battlers.

 

Thenvassalage still flourishes as of yore?

Certainly.In the pitiless strife for existence, all weaklings and feeble-minded personsare

justlysubordinated.

 

Butwe are taught "all men are created equal'?

Youare taught many a diplomatic Lie.

 

Howcan a slave recover his liberty?

Byre-conquering his conqueror. If he feels that he not man enough then he MUST submit,

cuthis own throat, or die fighting unsubdued.

 

Butfreedom may be granted to him?

"Freedomcannot be granted, it must be taken'.

 

ThenStrife is perpetual, inevitable, nay, glorious?

Yes!It is intended as an ordeal, a trial by combat. It unmistakably divides theguilty from

thenon-guilty.

 

Butthat is a harsh philosophy?

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Natureis harsh, cruel, merciless to all unlovely things. Her smile is only for the

Courageous,the Strong, the Beautiful and the All-Daring.

 

Youhave no comfort for the "poor and lowly', the "innocent ones', the"downtrodden'?

Thepoor and lowly are a creeping pestilence & there are no innocent ones,and the

downtroddenare the justly damned & sinners in a hell they've made.

 

Youpraise the Strong, you glorify the Mighty ones?

Ido. They are Natures noblemen. In them she delights: the All-Vanquishers! the

DauntlessOnes!

 

 

 

 

 

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CHAPTER IV: MAN & THE CARNIVORE!

 

Ithas taken countless evolutionary epochs to make man what he is, the mostferocious

hirsutebeast of prey that inhabits the caverns and jungles of earth.

 

Canhis osseous mechanism and pathological instincts be summarily extinguished or

reversed,merely by connecting him, per an electric wire, laid through the sewers of

Rome,to the feeble dynamos of Bethlehem, and Tarsus? Can his structural anatomy,

intendedfor conflict and slaughter, be transformed in a day, a year, or even in 'amillion,

millionof suns?'

 

Toovermaster and devour his neighbor, in the reasoned effort to obtain food andbooty,

land,love, renown and gold is bred into the very marrow of his bones. Therefore all

effortsmade by Reformers and Messiahs, to transfigure him into a 'lamb' are fore-

ordainedto fathomless failure. Indeed it would be much more reasonable of them, to

attemptthe transfiguration of a grizzly bear into a parlor poodle or propose the

transformationof a bald-headed eagle into a gently cooing turtle-dove.

 

Nearlyall the prophetic demi-gods of Democracy from Paul and Isaiah to Carlyle and

Ruskin,have ever been madly screeching by the roadside, vainly endeavoring to stay the

march!march! march! of a world of bannered armies; striding grimly, sternly by. What

arethese howling prophets of Evil but dogs eloquently baying at the moon? 'Rightwheel

there!Right wheel! Turn back! Turn back! You are going to the devil!' is there

resoundingear-splitting chorus. But the human flood sweeps on silently, scornfully,

confident,inspired as it were by some over-mastering instinct. 'We may be going to the

devil,'is the unspoken retort of these thundering legionaries & these Nations'but even

so!is not the Devil honest & the Destroyer of Deception! & theDisobedient One?'

 

Canyou lasso the stars with a green-hide lariat? Can you block the march of Mightwith

magnificenthowls of declamatory despair? No! No! Skyward or hellward, man moves on

andon and on. If there are barricades in his way, he must surmount them or blastthem

aside.If there are Wild Beasts ready to spring upon him, he must destroy them or they

willdestroy him. If the highroad leads though hells, then those infernos must bebesieged,

assailedand taken possession of & aye, even if their present monarchs have to berooted-

outwith weapons as demoniac and deadly as their own.

 

Thisworld is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world.Nay! & a

castratedworld! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and&

morenatural.

 

Foolsindeed are they who would arrest the unfolding process with 'humanitarian'

Cagliostroism,and 'rescue the perishing' mummery. Maniacs are they who would ward

offthe suns blazing rays from withering souls or the blighting frosts of winterfrom hearts

thatare already broken. For, I doubt not, through the ages, one tremendous purposeruns;

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andmaturing crops are ripened with the process of the suns & to be sickleddown,

threshedand rolled away.

 

 

 

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Undoubtedlythe Black Magic of the Christ Myth, combined with the subterranean

sorceryof medieval sacredotalism HAS partially succeeded, not only in sappingindividual

initiative,but also in suppressing in our Race many of its ancestral leonine traits and

superbBarbarian Virtues. But as yet, it has not wholly triumphed in its emasculating

necromancy.No! it has not transfigured us ALL into teamsof contented oxen and bunches

ofearmarked sheep, although that is its final hope. There ARE SOME of the grand old

stock,left alive. Few indeed are they amidst a world of slaves and swine.

 

Thelion is still the lion, although his teeth have been most foully filed down by

abominablemoral codes; his skin made scrofulous with the mange and leprosy of caged

peacefulness& his paws fettered by links of slave-voted statutes and an iron collar of

StateOfficialism wound around his regal neck.

 

Someday,sometime, he is destines to break through the vile bonds that have been

cunninglylaid on him, escape from the wasting decline that originates from unnatural

confinementand regain once more his primitive freedom of Action. The treacherous

legislatorsand illustrious statesmen, who are now so eager to teach him the method of

growingwool like sheep and how to fit his battle-scarred shoulders to a horse collar,may

thenbe sorry and sad (if they have time) & for he will probably chew them up.

 

Greatand powerful governments, Commanding Peace, come into existence ONLY in ages

ofdecadence; when nations are on the downward grade. If the human animal lives a

natural,cleanly life, out on the plains and forests, away, where oceans rollers crashalong

theshore, or on the banks of the pouring rivers he requires no police-force to'protect'

him& no usurious Jew to rob him of his harvests & no tax-gatheringlegislators to vote

awayhis property, and no "priests of the Idol' to 'save' his soul.

 

Itis false standards of morality that debase and enfeeble individuals, tribes andnations.

First,in obedience to some sovereign code, they lose their hardihood and increasetheir

numbers.Then that ALL may live, they become laborious, submissive toRegulations; and

finally& with Death held up by priestcraft as a fearsome Terror, all personalvalor fades

away.Thus nations of spaniels are manufactured.

 

Thenormal man is the man that loves and feasts and fights and hunts, the predatoryman.

Theabnormal man is he that toils for a master, half-starves, and 'thinks' &the Christly

dog.The first is a perfect animal; the second, a perfect & monster.

 

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Everybelief that makes a duty of humility & that inspires a people with'moral' courage

only,enervates their fiber, corrupts their spirit, and prepares them first forthralldom and

thenfor & throttling.

 

Itis not possible to conceive of Grand Life without incessant rivalry, perpetualwarfare

andthe implacable hunting of man by man.

 

Terror,torture, agony and the wholesale destruction of feeble and worn out types, must

markin future, as in the past, every step forward, or backward in evolution,homo-culture

andracial displacement.

 

Thesoil of every nation is an arena, a stamping ground, where only the mostvigorous

ANIMALSmay hope to hold their own. What is all history but the epic of a colossal

campaign,the final Armageddon of which is never likely to be fought, because, when

mencease to fight & they cease to be & Men.

 

Thisold earth is strewn to the very mountain-tops with the fleshless skulls andrain

bleachedbones of perished combatants in countless myriads.

 

Everysquare foot, every inch, of soil contains its & man.

 

 

 

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Theevolution (or de-evolution) of mankind demands the perpetual transfiguration ofone

maninto another, continuous re-incarnation, eternal re-birth and re-construction.

Scientificallyconsidered, the 'resurrection of the dead' is not an illusion. Every living

organismis formed from the decomposed essence of pre-existent organisms. The 'man'

ofto-day is actually built out of the grave-mould of his prototypes; perhaps ofages long

forgotten.Thus, without death there could be no birth-material; and without conflict,

fierceand deadly, there could be no surpassing.

 

Butto individuals foolishly trained to bewail their fate, all these commonplacefacts are

agonizing.

 

'Whenwe solemnly look upon this perpetual conflict,' writes Schelling with true

theocraticpessimism, 'it fills us with shuddering sorrow, and with boundless alarm&

buthow can we help it? Hence the veil of sadness that is spread over all nature,the deep

indestructiblemelancholy of all life.'

 

Likemany other philosophers, deceived by appearances, Schelling fancies savage and

dreadfulthat which is pure, mischievous that which is preservative, and calamitous that

whichis benign.

 

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Theflow of Destruction is as natural and as needful as the flow of water. No human

ingenuitycan destroy the Immolation of Man, nor prevent the shedding of blood &and

whyshould it?

 

MajesticNature continues on her tragic way serenely, caring naught for the wails of the

agonizedand panic-stricken nor the protests of defeat; but smiling sadly, proudly (yet

somewhatdisdainfully in her passing stride) at the victor's fierce Hurrah. She lovesthe

writhingof sword-blades & the rending of tradition, the crunching of bones, andthe flap

ofshredded shot-torn banners, streaming out savagely (in the night, in the day),over the

battle-weary,the mangled dying and the swollen dead. Christs may come and Christs

maygo, but Caesar lives for ever.

 

Deep,permanent, and abiding is the elemental antagonism between the Sociology of'the

Manof Nazareth' and the imprescriptible Laws of the Universe. They are as fire and

waterto each other & irreconcilable. Indeed our planetary system itself shallmelt with

ferventheat ere the Galilean's philosophy can conquer.

 

Nohuman being can ever hope to attain 'the perfectibility that is in Christ.' Solong as

weremain animals, we shall be dominated by animal wants and animal passions and

animalrivalries.

 

Undoubtedlythe Messiah ideal is unattainable, hopeless, and especially so upon its

reformatoryside. However the world loves to be deceived by some ghastly delusion and

thatis the reason perhaps, that it has taken to its bosom this rustic fable; thisGospel of

Ineffectuality& this Evangel of Darkness & this Dream of an Israelite slave.'When the

Assyriansand after them the Medes and Persians' writes Tacitus, 'were masters of the

Orientalworld, the Jews of all nations, then held in subjection, were deemed the most

contemptible.'Christ was a pariah Jew.

 

Amongvirile conquering tribes, the Ideal Man is ever the all-daring Jove, thesplendid

Apollo,the self-reliant Achilles, or the Constructive Genius. It is only in centuriesof

dotage& in ages of cankersome down-going and nervous disease, that the ModelMan

becomesa Christ. The Model Man of out forefathers was Odin, a War Lord, but our Ideal

Manis a weeping, horsewhipped Jew.13 A Jew for a God!

 

Thedeities of the Greeks and Vikings, Goths and Romans, were all (originally)mighty-

men-of-valor,or virile women of surpassing beauty, afterwards held up (before their

warlikeposterity) as splendid examples of natural nobility, conscious power, daring

courage,shrewdness, sexual vigor and boundless strength of character. The gods and

heroesof antiquity spent their vital force in the destruction of monsters, in theseizure of

newhunting-grounds, in the slaughtering of tyrants and in the breeding ofunconquerable

sons.

 

ButChrist! the God of Christendom! the Divine Exemplar! "that Majestic Figure!'What

godlikedeed did he ever do? What unconquerable sons did he beget?

                                                

13

 "Tauntsand blows the portion of the slave.' Macauley.

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Ifthe 'first principles of Christianity' should, by an unforeseen miracle triumphin the

elementalconflict that is approaching, assuredly the Anglo-Saxon is played-out, his days

numbered,his dominion ended, his sepulchre prepared. Multitudinous multiplication of

UnfitMillions (broods of strumous semi-idiots) must then proceed through dreary,

barren,brain-paralyzing centuries, winding up perhaps in a blast of pestilentialplague &

aBlack Death.

 

The'dead and alive' conditions of the 'Celestial' Empire will then be applied tothis

WesternWorld and under the thin disguise of 'Advancement,' 'Progress' and

'Civilization,'an atmosphere of excruciating torture must be artificially created, hostile

toall but degenerative forces as in China. In the name of 'goodness,''righteousness,'

and'morality,' Woe shall be poured out upon our Seed, as it has already beenpoured out

onthe rotten Swarms of the Orient.

 

Congenitalenfeeblement of body, together with organic degeneracy of mind, must then

goon and on, at an ever accelerating ratio, until our posterity may end (asDarwin

imaginedWE began) by becoming chattering apes, withoutsense enough to light a fire,

cracka cocoanut or swing by their tails.

 

Beholdthe modern man! this 'heir of all the ages & in the foremost ranks oftime!' His

sight,taste, smell and hearing are all notoriously defective. He can harness thunderbolts,

butthe unerring instinct of a carrier-pigeon is beyond him. His brain has becomean over-

heatedthinking engine, but he may not read the DAILY MORNING LIAR & without

spectacles.He 'understands' more things (or thinks he does) but if suddenly removed

fromhis artificial environment, he would perish as helplessly as theBabes-in-the-Wood.

Hecan gauge sound-waves; photograph broken bones; construct gigantic ironmonsters;

whisperacross miles of copper wire; but when the pointer-dog sniffs the hiddenpheasant

fromafar off, this erudite Bundle-of-Nerves looks on in blank amazement. The factis

thatthe civilized man is gradually 'losing his senses.' If he continues to'progress' at the

existingrate, in a comparatively little while, he will have no smell, no sight, nohearing.

 

 

'Dirervisions worse foreboding

Glareupon me through the gloom!

Europe'ssmoke-cloud sinks, corroding

Onthe land, in noisome fume;...

...Showeringdown like rain of ashes,

Onthe Cities of God's doom...

...Bustlingsmug, a pigmy pack,

Plucksits prey from ores embraces;

Walkswith crooked soul and back:

Glareslike dwarfs with greedy eyes,

Forthe golden glittering lies.'14

 

                                                

14

 HenrickIbsen. & Adapted in the translating.

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Itis good for a degraded people to be utterly consumed.

 

 

 

4

 

Inthe department of Natural History, it is axiomatic that all kinds of livingbeings, from

protozoato man; subsist and propagate, through and by the destruction of feebler

competitors,belonging to the same species or to kindred species.

 

Thusthe big fish eat the little fish & the big trees (by absorbing andmonopolizing the

nutriment)'eat up' the little trees & the strong animals eat the weak animals andso on

&ad infinitum.

 

Manis no exception. Conquering and masterful nations have ever been ravenous

devourersof flesh-food; and most of them have also been man-eaters. The slaughter-

housesof Christendom reek with the dying effluvia of millions and millions ofbutchered

brutes;that man & the King of Animals & may day by day eat flesh, drinkblood and

gnawbones.

 

Evencannibalism is not extinct in far lands, nor quite unknown in the centers ofour

proudestcivilizations. With the first great revolutionary cataclysm, its revival upon a

giganticscale is not an improbability.

 

Duringthe eleventh century, man's flesh was cooked, sold and eaten in England, and

Englishmenmay again revert to anthropophagy, if ever their imported food supplies

shouldbe suddenly and entirely cut off; either by convulsions of nature or acts ofwar.

Ship-wreckedcrews have repeatedly saved themselves by casting lots and devouring

someof their number: and shipwrecked nations (loaded up to the hatches withseething

cargosof festering useless nondescripts), may yet be driven to do the same.

 

Innumerableare the folk-lore legends, relating to ancient and modern man-eaters. Formal

humansacrifices upon the Alters of Idols are quite common. In Mexico and Ancient

Britain,prelates butchered their victims (generally young virgins) in public, amid the

acclaimof musical instruments, the chanting of beautiful liturgies, and the hosanna

shoutsof the mob.

 

Themodern prelate does not employ the rude smoking gully-knife, but uses other

weapons,ten times more keen and more destructive. For every human sacrifice "offered-

up'in olden times, millions are offered now.

 

 

 

 

 

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5

 

ProfessorHuxley pictorially describes an African butcher's shop, where human steaks,

roastsand sirloins, were systematically retailed.

 

Josephustells us of mothers who ate their own infants during the last siege ofJerusalem,

andin many later sieges human flesh has been consumed.

 

Orientaltraditions record of King Richard Lion Heart, that once upon a time when

presidingat a feast of moslem heads, he remarked with grim matter-of-factness "one roast

Saracenmade good entertainment for nine or ten of my good Christian men.' An English

Crusadingrhymer is even proud of this:&

 

 

'KingRichard shall warrant,

Thereis no flesh so nourissant,

Untoan English Man;

partridge,plover, heron, ne swan,

Cow,ne ox, sheep, ne swine,

Asthe (roast) head of a Sarazan.'

 

 

Veryintelligent New Zealand aboriginals may still be found, who describe with much

apparentgusto, how (in comparatively recent dates) they satiated their ravenous hunger,

bybanqueting all night upon the grilled flesh of foemen they had tomahawkedduring the

day.Neither is it uncommon to hear tattooed old veterans, tell how war-captiveswere

pennedup like cattle and fattened upon each other, until required for the tribal oven

(formedof red-hot stones, paved into an oval hollow in the ground): & how thenthe

fattestwere selected one by one, taken out, systematically bled, disemboweled and hung

upby the heels on neighboring trees; just as sheep, swine, and cattle are exposedfor sale,

inour own abattoirs and meat-markets. The Maoris also have a tradition, that if aman

killsand eats his enemy, he by doing so, absorbs all the dead man's vitality,strength, and

courage.

 

Inthe nascent Colony of New Zealand, missionaries, soldiers, whalers and pioneerswere

oftencooked and eaten; but by a general consensus of epicurean opinion the"Pakeha's'

fleshwas voted bad form, principally because it was "too tough and too salty.'

 

Duringthe War on Secession, Northern infantry-men accidentally imprisoned in a

Virginianmine, devoured each other one at a time; the last man (John Ewing) dying of

hunger,and leaving a written record of the facts, sealed up in a flask.

 

Thestory of Sawny Bean is well known, and the classical legends of the Cyclops,the

Giants,the Phalaris Bull, the Moloch holocausts and Homer's Polyphemus.

 

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Anthropophagyhas been practiced in Australia, both by whites and blackfellows. In New

Guineaand portions of Africa, man-eating is quite an ordinary custom to this hour.

MarcusClarke describes how Gabbet, an English-born Botany Bay convict, induced his

prisoncomrades to escape with him (into the bush), in order that he might have aholiday

anda feast, picking their succulent bones and sucking out the marrow thereof.

 

Allover continental Europe there is a popular superstition that Jew Rabbis stealand

murderChristian infants and maidens, in order to use the blood on the door-lintels,at

Passoverand other ceremonials.

 

Asimilar charge was brought against the early Christians, and even PROVED in the

ImperialLaw Courts, if we are to judge by the verdicts.

 

Humanfat is regularly retailed in modern drug stores and human heads are even now a

marketablecommodity in the South Seas. There are also mystic brotherhoods in our

midst,whose initiates pledge fidelity, and obligate themselves to life-long secrecy,by

drinkingblood out of a skull, over emblems of violent death & with daggerspointed at

theirthroats.

 

Thefoundation stones of many famous buildings, palaces, castles, temples, and

monuments,have been emblematically laid upon the living body of a man & the Kremlin

forexample.

 

Isnot the Communion Service allegorical anthropophagy? Is it not a piousperiodical

cannibalfeast in more ways than one? Does not the wine symbolize human blood, and

thewafers typify human flesh?

 

Metaphoricallyconsidered, every trading Christian State is a meat market, wherein the

flesh,bones, and blood not only of men, but of women and little children are boughtand

solddaily & 'offered up' nominally for the 'Love of God' really for the Loveof

Dollars. 

 

Atrocitiesof the most revolting description are of daily, hourly occurrence, not only in

Turkeyand Siam, but in New York and Chicago; not only in Cuba and Port Arthur, but in

London,Madrid, and Paris; not only in Mashonaland, and on the Congo, but in St.

Petersburgand Berlin. Men, women, and little children are being everywhere starved

slowlyto the grave, worked till they fall down, driven insane by legislation, andeven

torturedto death, inch by inch.

 

Greatfinancial corporations (backed by the State) directed mostly by Hebrews,literally

coinGreat Empires into golden dividends: and upon the share lists of mortgage banksand

man-devouringinstitutions generally, may be found the names of bishops, popes,

preachers,generals, governors, statesmen & and other human Carnivores by the

thousand.He who doubts should look up the official share registers, and behold the long

rowsof adorable names belonging to High Priests, Philanthropists and Rulers,appearing

thereon.

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Cannibalismwas practiced in Ancient Greece at the period of highest culture. Herodotus

describesAsian feasts where man's flesh was the chief dish: and down to the Thirteenth

Centurythe Tibetans were in the habit of making their parents into broth.

 

Thereare confraternaties still in existence, into which no one is ever admitteduntil he has

killeda man. Among the Dyaks (as among our own ancestors) a youth is never

considereda full-grown person capable of founding a home until he has slain at least one

enemyin battle. The Thugs of India (a religious sect) brought the science of holymurder,

bystrategic violence, to such a pitch of perfection that they have never beensurpassed &

noteven by Grant or Moltke.

 

TheKinderawas of India, make a regular practice of eating all their diseased,useless,

senile,and decrepit relations: just as packs of wolves fall upon any of their numberthat is

seriouslywounded in foray.

 

Inportions of Sumatra, law-breakers are neither imprisoned nor electrocuted, butactually

carvedup and eaten alive & piece by piece. The Capanagugas of South Americamake of

theirown stomachs the sepulchre of their dead relatives. A funeral with them is abanquet

&the collation being a corpse. The Terra Del Fuegans throttle and eat all veryold

women.

 

TheMonbuttas of Central Africa carry on aggressive wars to capture flesh food.They

alsodry human flitches in the sun and smoke them for export.

 

Duringthe Tae Ping rebellion, Chinese soldiers (under General Gordon) were in thehabit

ofcutting out and devouring the hearts of their dead enemies (on thebattle-field) like the

Maorisand Britons.

 

Mistresseswere specially kept by opulent ancient Peruvians, to breed sucklings &for the

table.When these women became too old for child-bearing, they were likewise cast into

thepot, as useless encumbrances. In 1782 more than forty gypsies were executed in

Austria,upon a proved charge of cannibalism. The case of the herdsman Goldsmidt, must

notbe forgotten; not the gruesome London legends, regarding sausages being

manufacturedout of dead cats, dead dogs, dead paupers, and murdered sailors.

 

TheAncient Scandinavians, Teutons, Celts, (vide St. Jerome), Sythians, Mongols,

Sarmatians,Canaanites, Goths, and Huns were all anthropophagy.

 

Indeedthe detailed facts of how men have tortured each other for pleasure, revenge,or

profit,would fill 10, 000 volumes. No man in his lifetime could read or comprehend all

thehorrors that have been perpetrated say in the Tower of London, the ParisBastille, the

SpanishInquisition, the Rhine Castle Dungeons, by the Bridge of Sighs, the Bosphorous,

orin the prison-hells of Chicago, Newgate, Mazas, Siberia, Sing Sing, NewCaledonia,

BotanyBay or Van Dieman's Land. The cold-blooded cruelty of man to man, surpasses

anythingthat poet-cranks could conceive of, as happening in hell.

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Cannibalismundoubtedly originated amid over-crowded populations in some pre-historic

age.Among moderns (civilized and savage) it merely exists as a survival of social

conditionswhich have long since passed away. At some former era of the world's

profoundlymysterious history, men-animals increased in swarming myriads as they are

doingnow; until at last on the surface of the soil there was scarcely standing roomfor all.

Thenthe air became laden with the reeking effluvia of their strumous bodies,leprosy,

poisoningthe wells and rivers, and transforming Babylons into charnel houses and tombs.

Therearing of tame cattle for food in such an environment, probably became too

expensiveand cumbersome. Perhaps even the cattle would also be swept away by some

blightor rinderpest. Under such horrible circumstances, survivors might fromnecessity

resortto anthropophagy. Gradually the new habit would grow upon them and become a

settledcustom.

 

Thesegmental fragments of pre-historic civilizations are & the CannibalSavages of to-

day& the savages that we are displacing, pushing aside in order that we mayenslave

themand repeat over again the same weary old round of growth, power and decay.

 

Shiploadsof dead soldiers, dug out of old battle-fields, possess a regular commercial

value.They are imported into England, to be chemically treated and manufactured into

fertilizersfor enriching exhausted wheat fields. Human hair commands a steady sale, and

'cadavers'may be bought for dissection, in any great city for a dollar, C.O.D.

 

Thetanning of human skins for glove-making and book-binding (Meudon!) is an old

establishedindustry. 

 

Thetransfusion of blood from animals into human veins, and from healthy humansinto

unhealthyones (for a price), is regularly practiced  by medical men. The grafting of flesh,

bone,and skin, has also been successfully performed.

 

Americansheriffs and detectives hunt down tramps and criminals with specially trained

bloodhounds,just as Russians hunt wolves, and sheepfarmers hunt coyotes and dingos. It

isnowise unusual for Negros to be first captured, then chained to a stake, flayedalive,

soakedin kerosene, and burnt to death amid exultant shrieks of corybantic delight. 

 

RomanSenators fattened their lampreys and eels upon the drowned bodies of old worn

outslaves, and patrician maids and matrons (with uplifted thumb) sent many agladiator

tokingdom come. For innate cruelty of deed, no animal can surpass woman.

 

InMohammedan Europe, boys are unsexed by the lancet, that they may thereafter be

moresafely employed as harem-attendants and in Christian Europe 'eunuchs are made

andtrained and priced, to sing the praise of a risen Christ.'

 

Younggirls are nightly bought and sold for currency, like horses and hogs, at thestreet

corners:and upon the profits of licensed polyandry 'pillars of the church' become

millionaires.Even the salaries of fulminating evangelists are paid out of Rahab's rent.

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Bathsof human blood are not unknown to students of history: and Jack the Ripper,with

hisletters written in harlots' blood; enclosing pieces of fried woman's liver tothe London

Chiefof Police, is certainly not a fabulous ancient legend.

 

Isthis the record of a breed of 'dearly beloved brethren'? What hollow mockerythese

holyphrases are, to be sure? & The Brotherhood of man! Ha!Ha! The Brotherhoodof

Devilsrather!

 

Allegoricallyspeaking the clothes we wear & the houses we live in & the food weeat

&the books we read, have been carved (by force) out of other men's bones andflesh.

Literallythey are the hides, sinews, flesh, pulp, and outer woolen covering of captive

animals,transmuted by human slavery into garments, lumber, implements, thoughts,

shoes,and daily dinners. Indeed man's tushes are against all other animate beings

whatsoever;and in turn, their fangs are against him. So it goes on, and on, and on, as

merrilyas marriage bells. Vi¾ Victus! And behold, it is good! This world is noNirvana,

wherepeaceful pleasure flows. It is a gruesome butcher-shop, where slain men hang in

rows.

 

 

 

6

 

Fromthe scientific point of view, it is but a single step from the eating ofcaptive cattle,

horses,sheep, hares, rabbits, deer, hogs, etc. to the eating of captive men.

 

Itmay grate upon unstrung nerves to be harshly told these gruesome facts instraight

language.However, calm sensible readers must unreservedly admit that Man is not a

pretty,harmless little cherub; not even a 'lamb,' but the fiercest of all thevertebrates. He

isthe fighting, roving, pillaging, lusting, cannibalistic animal, par excellence& the King

ofthe Great Carnivore. When HE takes his walks abroad, the 'wild beasts' ofthe field

andthe birds of the air, even the most courageous of them, are stricken dumb.Shuddering

theyfly from his shadow (or his odor down the wind) hiding in trembling and quaking

withterror.

 

Itis man's destructive energy & not his altruism; that makes him absolutemonarch of all

hesurveys; and yet, how feeble he is if compared to the powers of Nature thatgave him

being?No other beast will stand and face him, except it cannot run away & noteven a

snake,a tiger, or a wolf.

 

Structurally,men are fashioned for purposes of inflicting and suffering pain. Every

humananatomy is an elaborate nerve and bone infernal machine & a kind ofbreathing,

perambulatingJuggernaut & a superb engine of lethal immolation that automatically

stokesits furnace fires with its victims.

 

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Menrush upon each other (or upon their prey) with hoarse war-shouts and bloodshot

eyes,as prowling beasts of the deserts and jungles do. Man banquets upon his quarry

withgreediness, snarling, and growling with ferocious triumphant delight, just likeunto

wolves:but HE loves to act the hypocrite & turn up thewhites of his protesting eyes to

"heaven'& weep crocodile tears over his mangled, bleeding, and palpitatingcarrion.

Howexultantly he lilts his Te Deum, his Kyrie Eleison, his Et in terra pax, hisGlorias,

andhis Alleluia's; while with blood-clotted jaw and distended paunch he licks hisgaping

wounds?

 

Asthe painted Redskin chants his vengeful ghost-song; so the furious Palefacewhoops

hisdouble-leaded editorial. As the hungry lion roars at midnight o African karoo,or in

Himalayanjungle; so the piratical Anglo-Tueton roars his "Battle Hymn of the Republic'

hisBrittania Rules the Waves,' or his "Watch by the Rhine.' Exactly as the Moslem

fanaticyells 'Allah Akbar,' while slicing up hated 'Christian dogs,' so the vicious

Englishmanthunders forth his 'Hip, Hip, Hurrah!' while driving and elegant bayonet-

daggerinto the liver of 'wicked heathens;' whose property he thereafter annexes& as a

matterof course; for 'business is business, don't you know.'

 

Man'sanatomy, external and internal; his eyes, his teeth, his muscles, his blood,his

viscera,his brain, his vertebra; all speak of fighting, passion, aggressiveness,violence,

andprideful egoism. 

 

Eventhe component elements of a human body are themselves in a constant state of

internecinewarfare. Our bony framework and pulsating tissues, are vast campaigning

grounds;whereon microscopical animal-cul¾ in countless myriads, fight out their

ephemerallives, as we ourselves do & with tooth and claw. When one swarm of

microbes,germs, or spores, conquer (in the struggle for sustenance) disease, or death

supervenesto us, as the case may be. When rival hosts vanquish, then our flesh, nerves,

bones,and blood become THEIR happy hunting grounds, and our health returns& at least

untilthe bacilli-battalions have finally eaten us out: or they have been,themselves,

conqueredand exterminated by fiercer swarms.

 

Itis not improbable that this earth itself is a living breathing organism andthat the Tribes

ofMan are microbes and bloodsucking vermin (on its outer cuticle) imagining

themselves'the whole thing.' Just as itch-creating parasites burrow into our own hide, so

(inour turn) we may be unpleasant parasites, burrowing in the hide of some noblerand

granderBeing.

 

 

7

 

Fromyouth to hoary age, man takes an instinctive delight in all that pertains towarfare

andthe chase.

 

Asa boy he twangs his arrows at the sparrows, trains and loads his toy-cannon,marshals

histin soldiers, brandishes his wooden sword, fights his mimic battles, builds hissnow

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fortificationson the play ground; and the proudest day of his life is that on which he

becomesthe proprietor of 'a real gun.'

 

Asa full grown citizen he practices homicide with repeating rifle, at  moving targets &

slaughterstame pigeons with choke-bore breechloaders & hunts foxes, wolves, bears,

pumas,over mountain and mere & wades up to his neck in swamps to kill teal, and

travelsto far lands in search of Big Game and nigger shooting.

 

TheIndian fighters of North America take supreme joyance in slaying red devils;and to

'pota black-fellow' in Queensland is boasted of round camp-fires under gum trees,as &

'greatfun.'

 

TheCape of Good Hope, Australia, New Zealand, North and South America, have been

madeinto veritable human shambles and gory hunting grounds, within the memory of

middle-agedmen. Indeed the delight which men take in slaying wild animals, is tameness

itself,compared with the exultation they display in hunting, trailing and slaughteringeach

other.

 

Man-huntswere organized systematically in Lacad¾mon, when the helots became too

numerousand too restive. It is not improbable that as our own surplus 'submerged

tenths'increase in numbers, they may be thinned out by similar battues.

 

Atevery meal we rend flesh, scrape bones, suck marrow, and daintily lap blood;just as

ourhairy troglodyte progenitors did. The food supply of all Christian nations iscomposed

ofthe body and blood & the hides and marrow of BOTH human herds and vast swarms of

inferiorbrutes, living, dying, dead. The lives of countless hordes of hirelings, aredaily

beingtransmuted into juicy steaks and sirloins; that those who have money may buyand

eatthereof. Not only do we ferociously compete for prey i.e. for subsistence; butwe

literallyeat each other with voracity, relish, and mutual toleration. Thus properly

understood,Darwinism is no very comforting doctrine for fat men.

 

Publicbuildings and frowning fortresses; capitols and prisons; 'temples of freedom'and

cross-crownedcathedrals, have (every one of them) been constructed upon exactly the

samegeneral principles whereby the Pyramids of On and the palaces of Nineveh were

built& every riveted girder, every iron transom, every block of concrete,every solid,

squared,and polished stone, has been bedded literally in a dying groan; by the hands of

dehumanizedand conquered decadents, insensate, & 'of reason void, of reverencefull.'

 

Thereis nothing immoral, nothing abnormal, in these grim facts. All is in strictharmony

withthat cosmic enactment & the Survival of the Strongest. 

 

Inthe proud language of Germany's chansonist:&

 

 

'Theliving current through the air is heaving,

Breathingblessings, see them bending;

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Balancedworlds from change defending,

Whileeverywhere diffused is harmony unending.'

 

 

Instinctivelywe understand that the struggle for existence is absolutely needful. We feel

thatNature makes no mistakes, and therefore we accept her dicta BECAUSE WE MUST, not

becauseit has been eloquently formulated, by sublimated visionaries; or re-echoed,again

andagain, by thousands of human microphones.

 

 

 

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Whennot thwarted by artificial contrivances, whatever argument Nature promulgatesis

&RIGHT. The further man gets away from Nature, thefurther he departs from right. To

beright is to be natural, and to be natural is to be right. The sun shines,therefore it is

rightthat it should shine & the rain falls, therefore it is right that itshould fall & the

tidesebb and flow, therefore it is right that they should ebb and flow.

 

Darwin'slaw exists & may be seen in operation & is practicable & ofdaily

demonstration& therefore it also is right. It is not a dream like 'Religion,' it isnot an

inventionlike 'Morals;' it is not an assumption like 'God.' It is a cosmic Fact, likethe

sunshine,the rain, and the tides! Nature does not set up Idols, does not found

Superstitions,does not invent Decalogues. These toys and fetters have been constructed

byman, for his own infinite & damnation.

 

Neithermorals, laws, nor creeds are First Principles, but they may (probably) havetheir

uses;just as guillotines, and gardeners' hoes have THEIR uses. They may be convenient

enginesfor the deletion of Lower Organisms, for extirpating individuals of infantile

intellect.Indeed the secret object of all superstitions possibly is, to provide an ultra-

rationalsanction for fraudulent standards of Right and Wrong. 

 

Tobase a Lie upon a myth, is certainly much safer than to base it on a Reality,for you

cannotrun a tape-measure over a Myth.

 

Christliness,as social quietism, has never been accepted by men of super-eminent

strength,courage, and wisdom. Such men have everywhere regarded the Christ Ideal as a

modelfor slavish souls ONLY & to be humored for strategic purposesbut never practiced

bymasters, conquerors, kings. 'Don't do as I DO,but do as I SAY' has ever been the

dictumof High Priests and Rulers & to docile multitudes.

 

Theevolution of sovereignty satisfactorily exhibits this ethical dictatorship, asan

historicalcommon-place. Moral codes, (always and everywhere IMPOSED upon the

commonpeople by 'immoral' combinations of cumulative craft) are never obeyed by

RulingCastes.

 

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Ifthe Masters of Christiandom are to be judged by Moral Codes, by the Common Law,or

byGospel Injunctions, there is not one "moral' individual among them. Measured by

Religio-Ethicaldogmas, they are one and all, an amalgamated Mafia of blackmailers,

confidence-men,thieves, murderers and infidels. AS FAR AS THE CODESARE CONCERNED,

honestymust undoubtedly be searched for among the dregs of society, rather than among

theelite. But it is essentially unjust to measure the Conquerors of Mankind byfallacious

Christlystandards. Christ together with his moral measuring rod, is their subordinate

agent& an effective instrument of State.

 

Indeed'Moral Principles' are one of the tricks in the game of 'dog eat dog;' all are

playing.They are effectively narcotized out of the deal, who fancy themselves 'Safe in

thearms of Jesus.'

 

Neveryet has there been a Christian king, a Christian president, a Christiancongress, nor

aChristian synod. Of course many prominent celebrities have professedChristianism &

forexample: Judas Iscariot, St. Peter, Torquemada, Cromwell, Abraham Lincoln,

Napoleon,Gladstone, and Jabez Spencer Balfour; but only minds paralytic judge of men

byprofessions. Christian and Ruler are direct contradiction.

 

Theridiculous ineffectuality of all Gospel Theories, shows that they were onlyinvented

ascampaign lies. 

 

Christexplicitly condemns the use of force, and yet all existent nations (without

exception)were founded by unlimited throat-cutting and piracy. The rulers of the world,

thedirectors of concentrated Power,are not now, and never have been, sad-eyed Saviors

&mournful, immaculate tramp-gods & but masters of majestic violence. Touse the

languageof Isaiah, not only Zion, but every nation on earth 'has been built withblood.'

Nationscannot be built otherwise.

 

TheRomans first appear in history as a gang of banditti & the English as anest of pirates

&the Germans as a horde of roving freebooters & the Russians as a band ofmounted

horse-thieves& the Americans as pious anarchists and nigger stealers & theAustralians

asexiled cut-purses & the Turks as Bedouin brigands.

 

Everywheresymbols of kingship, tribal totems, and insignia of state, speak of Violence,

Defianceand War.

 

Thefasces carried before a Roman Pr¾tor, consisted of an axe for chopping necks,and a

bundleof rods for whipping backs. The Mace of the English parliamentary organization,

ofwhich the American system is an imitative offshoot ('that bauble of Cromwell')also

allRoyal Sceptres are but carved and gilded clubs. Originally both Mace and Sceptre

werein daily use for breaking recalcitrant skulls. They are still emblematic ofLegislative

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Authority& and offensive Violence & as much so indeed, as the knottedbludgeon, the

barbedlance, or the greenstone skull-splitter of an orthodox cannibal chief.

 

Nationalcrests are selected, not as a rule from doves, lambs, goats, magpies, andhares;

butfrom lions, tigers, she-wolves, serpents, dragons, bears, eagles, and theFighting Man.

 

Inthe centers of 'our highest civilization,' force is recognized as theunderlying principle

ofAuthority. Between nation and nation it is in constant requisition, as thebasis of all

diplomacy,and between contending factions (within the nation) it is often effectively

applied.The policeman's loaded truncheon, the huzzar's slicing sabre, and the artillery

company'sfield piece, are still the ultimo ration of Order, Liberty, Peace. The maxim-

gunis a development, and a decided improvement upon the old time bludgeon;especially

whendealing with rabid revolutionary masses. One of those beautiful engines andhalf a

dozentrained men, if supplied with plenty of ammunition, could wipe out in half aday,

thelargest mob of would-be insurgents that London, Paris, or Chicago ever saw. 'We

havefound in most cases that one regiment of regular infantry, is quite capable of

managingthe biggest and wildest mob' writes millionaire editor Kohlsaat. Chicago

Times-Herald.(13-11-'96.)

 

Whencitizens disobey legal 'regulations' they are generally interviewed at first,by a

blue-coated'guardian of the Peace,' with an official warrant and a varnished club, who

tamelyleads them away to a State dungeon, or indicts them before a State Inquisitor.

Behindthe armed police and the suave Judge, stand in threatening array, the whole

militaryand naval forces of Government and Law.

 

LawCourts and Thrones are (de facto) built upon bayonets. Likewise all Statutes,

Constitutions,and Moral Codes are written by the Sword. Material Strength is now, and

everhas been, and ever must be, the true basis upon which all politicalinstitutions rest.

Noother foundation is feasible.

 

Whatthe sword has established the sword must defend. Symbolic thereof, everyemperor

andpresident, every sultan, king, shah, or savage chief, is proclaimed beforedrilled

legionsand raucous multitudes; amid the fan-fare of battle trumpets & theunsheathing

ofbattle-sword & and the thundering roar of battle-cannon. Two examples,from two

continents,& from two different systems of Government, & may be quoted assufficient

proofof this: & 

 

SirEdwin Arnold describes the recent Coronation of the Emperor of Russia, an

hereditaryabsolute monarch: & 'Behind and between the royal chairs, stood the new

Commanderof the silver-eagled regiment, his saber bared and gleaming.' When cannon

volleys,booming across two continents, from Riga to Vladivostock, announced the final

crowningof their Suzerain; 2,000,000 Sclavonian warriors bared their heads in

acknowledgement,clanged their weapons in token of pride, and swore eternal allegiance.

 

'GovernorJohn R. Tanner (of Illinois) mounted on a black horse, and wearing a broad-

rimmedfelt hat, with gold braid and tassel, (also cavalry saber), will ride down

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PennsylvaniaAvenue (Washington) at the head of the First Regiment...National Guards,

inthe Presidents inaugural...crack Illinois soldiery marching...next the President's

PersonalEscort...Troop A. 8th. Infantry...Along with the regiment will gothe gun corps

andthe gatling guns that did service...during the Deb's insurrection.' ThePresident of

theseUnited States, an elective Monarch, is a Commander-in Chief of the federalarmed

forces:and possesses more administrative authority than any Asiatic despot.

 

Everymilitary and naval officer in England, receives his commission direct from the

Queen.Until recently it was customary at Coronation ceremonials for an hereditary

Champion(armed cap-a-pie) to ride out into the courtyard and there, before assembled

commoners,knights, nobles, generals; officially challenge to personal encounter, anyone

whodared to even question the royal titles.

 

Europeanland-title deeds may be (in every instance) traced back to military and kingly

power.In all the English colonies, waste lands are occupied and cleared, under 'Crown

grants.'The same principle prevails in this Republic and among all savage tribes.

 

 

 

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Byforce all things that exist are evolved, maintained and perpetuated. Forceaggregates

andseparates the atoms that go to make up this cosmic universe of mind and matter.It

integratesthem into forms, organic and inorganic. It disintegrates them again and again.

Itbuilds up and pulls down, without the slightest respect to man's wishes ordesires. It

theorizes,creates, constructs, annihilates, attacks, and repels. It is literally in all,through

all,and OVER all.

 

Eventhe undulatory migration of races, that now proceeds (over sea and continent)in

greatanimalistic waves, as it did in the days of Akbar and Tamerlane, is also the

vibrationsof force, acting through human media. It is the incarnate pulsations of Power.

 

Antiquariandelvings in America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Islands of the Sea

corroboratethe written annals, folk-lore, and legends of tribes and nations. The past of

thispendant ball, is one long awe-inspiring chronicle of cannibalisms, invasions,

ravishments,cataclysms, 'battle, murder, and sudden death.'

 

Thesurface of the soil is a lethal chamber & the bottom of the sea a charnelhouse. Both

arelittered from pole to pole with the ruins of forgotten 'civilizations' that menand

naturehave delighted to destroy. Everywhere and always the debilitated have perished,

everywhereand ALWAYS the mightiest have won. As it was in thebeginning, is now, and

evershall be, Power, Slavery, Pain , Joyance, side by side.

 

Racesof Helots are never wanting! See to it that you Men, that you breed fighters!See to

itthat you train them too! 'The harper is not made otherwise than by harping' northe

warriorotherwise than by war. Let muscle force be pitted against muscle force, brain

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poweragainst brain power and let winners wear the laurel and losers wear the rasping

sackcloth.Let there be no compromise & no half-hearted philandering & nobacking

downbut as Darwin commands, let the strongest live and the vilest die.

 

 

Black,furious and tragic are the bloody annals of man's evolution, and there is no

rationalevidence upon which to conclude that it shall ever be otherwise & or thatit

wouldbe wise for us to attempt the making of it otherwise.

 

Whythen be discontented with that which we cannot alter, even if we dared. Betterafter

all,fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Let it be as it has ever been& as the

grimold Norseland skald chanted it, when our Race began to emerge into the dimdistant

twilightof the gods.

 

 

 'An age of axes & an age ofswords;

 An age of tempests & an age ofwolves.'

 

 

Beit among animalcul¾, moth or mollusc, birds of the air, beasts of the field,fishes of

thesea, planets, suns, stars or solar systems; Force reigns unchangeable,unchallengeable,

inexorable.

 

Whenthe kindly Roman emperor imagined that peace had settled down permanently

uponthe ancient world; even then, the (dissemulating) assassin's dagger wassharpening

forhis throat: and now, while Lower Organisms dream of a 'world of lovers' &of

arbitrationinstead of hostility & of conciliation between rival carnivores; the mechanism

ofdeletion is silently under construction: that (when completed) will sweep themoff the

faceof the earth. 

 

TheStrongest organisms are always the determinants. They hold in their hands

(absolutely)the destinies of weaker organisms. Further, in all the interwoven

differentiationsof matter and mind; equality, mercy, pity, are wholly at a discount &

exceptalone in family relationship. (A man's family is his property & it ispart of

himself.Therefore his NATURAL business is to defend it, as he would his ownlife. Women

andchildren BELONG to man; who must hunt for them as well as forhimself. He is their

lordand master, in theory and in fact.

 

Undernatural conditions, there is no haven for the wretched, no hope for theweaklings,

noresting place for the weary, no quarter for the beaten. Nature loathes InfirmOnes.

Everyorganism, every human being, must conquer or serve. This is an Ultimatum.

 

Lifeis a race for Power into the very jaws of death and 'hell take the hindmost.'

 

Helltake the hindmost! No! & that isn't so! Christ takes the hindmost!Exactly! that is

correct!In real life HE is the true Prince of Evil. Soothingly hesaith: & 'Come unto me

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allye that are weary or heavy laden;' and, those who obey are sure of &hell. Nay,

ascendethup for ever and ever.'

 

Inancient ages the Incapables were permitted to perish without comment: but withus it is

different.

 

Almsgiving,first by the monastery, now by the State, has preserved them and their

leprousseed, until modern nations are actually swarming with men and women (rich and

poor)who are totally useless and totally vile. Selective influences that operateunder

naturalconditions, have been kept in abeyance by religions and moralisms: until the

wholehuman race is saturated with inherited mental disease androttenness-of-the-bones.

OurChristian civilization is a forcing-chamber for weakly animalcul¾. Natural

conditionsare a lethal-chamber for them. The proper home for incurables is & thegrave.

 

Competitionmust be to the death. If retarded in any way it fails of beneficial results.The

chiefintent of false religions and false moralisms is to arrest competition half-wayto

safe-guarddegenerates in possessing that which they could neither seize nor defend if

competitionwas unlimited. Humanitarian institutionalisms have been invented to

handicapand eliminate the elite of mankind & vainly however. 

 

Withthe NORMAL man, it is a pleasure to struggle, a pastimeto fight, and nothing is

sweeterto him than to confiscate his confiscator and surpass his surpasser & to,as it

were,smite his enemy hip and thigh and spoil him of that which he spoiled fromothers.

Thenormal man prefers to eat others than to be eaten.

 

Withthe ABNORMAL man, it is otherwise. He is of the mob &he sheepishly obeys public

opinion& he is one of a flock. That word flock! & Does it not postulatethe existence of

shepherdsto 'round-up' and drove & of specialists to castrate & of shearersto shear &

ofcattle dealers to purchase & of butchers to kill & of tanneries& wire fences &

corrals& abattoirs; and finally of 'roast lamb and mint sauce,' with fatCarnivores

sittinground, lapping blood and purring gently?

 

 

 

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HerbertSpencer (referring to the origin of manners, customs, and politicalinstitutions)

says:& 'The will of the victorious chief, of the strongest, was the rule ofall conduct.

Whenhe passed judgment on private quarrels, his decisions were the origin of law.The

mingledrespect and terror inspired by his person and his peerless qualities, thendeemed

super-naturalby the rude minds that had scarcely an idea of the powers and limits of

humannature, were the origins of religions, and HISopinions were the first dogmas. The

signsof obedience by which the vanquished, whom he spared, repaid his mercy, werethe

firstexamples of those marks of respect that are now called good manners and formsof

courtesy.'

 

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Howhuman history duplicates itself over and over again? How it revolves in a never

endingpanorama.

 

Whereverhuman herds congregate, the 'Victorious Chief' still governs; though not

withoutenvy and impotent opposition. Everywhere he is Master in one guise or another:

butit behooves him to beware that his power is not undermined by the teredo of

sanctifiedutopianism & founded on the multitudinous votes of the vile, the vulgar,and

thevitiated. Blighting indeed is the tyranny of Collective Humanity.

 

'Thegreat political superstition of the present,' (also writes Spencer) is 'thedivine right

ofparliaments and the implied divine right of majorities.'

 

Thesupremacy of Living Manhood over devout dreaming, over literature, dogma, law

andtradition; must be boldly asserted and aggressively maintained; as it was, inthe days

ofyore. Woe unto you Strong Ones if you ever get beneath the hoofs of thetrampling,

bellowing,maddened mob. Ha! & "You must meet the guile and death-snare with battle

andwith wrack.'

 

'Woeto the vanquished, was stern Brenno's words, when sand proud Rome beneath the

Gallicsword. Woe to the vanquished, when his massive blade bore down the scales

againsthis massive her ransom weighed: and on the field of foughten battle still, woe

knowsno limits & save the victors will.'

 

'TheSurvival of the Fittest' is the scientist's translation of the heroic age's'Vi¾

Victus.'Grim and harsh it may appear to nervous souls, but it is TRUE TO NATURE. Neither

legislativeenactments nor pious incantations can deflect or nullify it. It may be thwarted

andturned aside for a time, but only for a time; just as a river may be bankedback by the

buildingof a breastwork. The waters cease to flow onward until the dam is brim-full,and

then,over the top the flood leaps, with resounding crash and uproar, finallysweeping

awaythe obstruction itself.

 

Decaloguesand 'be it enacteds' are mud ramparts the decadent ages vainly erect against

theirresistible flow of natural events. Sooner or later these feeble barriers godown, or are

surmounted;just as the river surmounts the dam. Cardinal Newman tersely describes the

Churchof England as a 'serviceable breakwater' and he speaks with astuteness. All

sacredotalismsare 'serviceable breakwaters.' They may last for one century or twenty,

butthey down-tumble in the end. Artificial obstructions cannot last for if theydid, then

thecankerous ancient civilizations would never have been overwhelmed; for theyalso

hadtheir serviceable breakwaters; that is to say, gods and temples, mob-politics,mob-

morals,mob-philosophies.

 

Legaland ethical barricades may not be depended upon to protect dwindlings from the

judgmentsthey bring upon themselves; and which they richly deserve.

 

EveryPeople that have been blotted-out, were rightfully blotted-out. What afrightful

maggot-heapthis earth would now be, if the 'civilized' populations of the past, had not

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perished?If nature had permitted them to live and multiply and propagate their

'progress',that is to say, their iniquity, what a noisome sink it would be? What must near

Futuritybe like, if wars and plagues do not come, burning contemporary infernalisms and

purifyingthe air?

 

Thus,the utter extermination of enfeebled breeds is in accordance with the Highest

Wisdom:and whether we personally approve thereof or not, it must persist. There is

nothingunjust, nothing ultra-natural, nothing diabolic about the elimination of thevile &

tomake room for the 'sound in mind and limb.'

 

Clearlytherefore, in every department of life, the lesser force must be overthrown bythe

greater;which (being interpreted) meaneth: & MIGHT IS RIGHT, absolutely, unreservedly.

Fromthe records of history, the facts of life, and the discoveries of science, thisstartling

deductionmay be thoroughly proved. 'The law of life' as Benjamin Kidd writes, 'has

beenalways the same from the beginning, ceaseless and inevitable struggle,ceaseless and

inevitableselection and rejection.' That "Might is Master' should require demonstrating

isin itself a proof of the mental and moral perversity that pervades the world.Perhaps

howeverthe "age we live in,' may not be an "age of enlightenment and progress,' but an

ageof darkness, arrested development, and psychic paralysis. Mayhap the theologiesand

intellectualismsof our time may be but a magical hoodwink. We might (for example) be

enchantedon the down-grade track, that leads to eternal extinction; while insanely

imagining'progress and enlightenment.' Also the imagining process may be part of the

complicatedmechanism that facilitates the descent & the descent into Sheol. Official

statisticsshow that racial deterioration (begun centuries ago as a sequence of ultra-

naturalism)is now proceeding at a tremendous rate.

 

Dr.Haycraft, F.R.S.E. in his book "Darwinism and Race Progress' asserts 'there are

stronggrounds for believing that during the last 30 years, the race has decidedly

degenerated.'The decadence of character is obvious to the most obtuse understanding,

especiallyin this land of Liberty and Light; were you can buy statesmen with a snuff-box

&editors with a dollar & women with a gew-gaw.

 

Undoubtedlydegenerative forces prevail in our social life, and yet it is impressed upon us

fromour youth up, that: & 'A Great Light hath come down upon the earth andall the

endsof the world hath seen the Salvation of our God.' Salvation indeed! Whatlunacy? 

 

 

 'So the multitude goes, like the flowerand the weed

 That wither away to let others succeed& 

 So the multitude comes, even that webehold;

 To repeat every tale that has often beentold.'

 

 

Toact as the hunted ostrich on an African karoo & to hide our heads fromthe cosmic

vengeancein hot pursuit, is as futile and ridiculous as it is base. No empiric

reorganizationof the social system & no rock of ages & no legislative meliorism& no

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fungusvirtues & no scheme of fool redemption & no patent economic plan& no

Israelitishcodes of 'Thou Shalts' and 'Thou Salt Nots;' can deliver whimpering

defectives,from the wrath that is their just reward. Sooner or later THEIR 'Day of

Judgment'cometh; bringing in its train of desolation, reparation and rolling doom.

 

Evenas I write & with wrecked civilizations lying around me, cold and chill& outraged

Natureis preparing her whirlblasts of wholesale avengement. Europe is a vast powder

magazine,with a strident maniac in the middle waving a burning torch; and from Asia is

waftedthe odorous stench of plague-smitten millions.

 

Anyday, any hour, 'Civilization' may be startled from its hypnotic trance, to gazeupon

themightiest drama that has ever been unrolled when the "tempest flings out itsred

bannerof lightning,' and great nations groan, and reel, and surge, and rock; beneaththe

thunderoustread of trampling legions, drilling for the savage shock. Military arsenalsare

preparingin every city, and floating defiantly on Seven Seas are the steel-clad fortresses

ofrival MIGHTS.

 

Foolishand blind (or mad) are they who think the struggle for existence ended. It isonly

begun.This Planet is in its infancy, not in its decrepitude. The "end of all things'is afar

off.The kingdom of heaven in NOT at hand. Incessant is the rivalry forsupremacy among

men,and manifold are its metamorphoses. Not for a single hour, for a single second,is

therean armistice. Night and day the combat rages, and with renewed virulence on

Sundays.When we fall asleep and when we wake up, the clashing of the Weapons and

thecrunching of the bones, is sounding on our ears. Everywhere 'the sword isuplifted on

man.'Everywhere Cain's bludgeon is cracking skulls, and with bloodhounds Americans

hunteach other. The hands of 'Congregations of the Faithful' are red with the bloodof

theinnocent; yet how they boast of being washed clean in the blood of theirBrother &

theLamb.

 

Eternalbattle is the main condition upon which man holds his life tenure. When thebrand

isshattered in his hand, that is death or & slavery. When his enemies arebeneath his

heel,that is life, honor, success. Indeed the struggle between men is more pitiless,and

moreunmerciful, than among brutes.

 

Thebrute beasts do not enslave, but permit the unfit to die off. Man enslaves his'brother

man'on business principles, and makes fuel of the widow and the fatherless. The

'failuresin life' may be counted by millions and everyone knows their horrible fate&

theirblazing death. Behold them being whirled into the blazing maw of the great iron

furnaces.

 

Overtaction is not always needful for the drastic removal of lower organisms. Very

often,if left alone, degenerates cremate themselves. If given control of governmental

mechanisms,they immediately commence to grind one another into mincemeat & (that

isto say, into dividends); crying Holy! Holy ! Holy! Mentally, physically,morally, they

arepast redemption. Doomed souls are they & miserable sinners!

 

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Seventy-fiveper cent of the inmates of state orphan asylums (for example) are the

childrenof parents that perish from chronic alcoholism. Poverty, helotism, are theresults

ofchronic ballot-boxing. Alcoholism and politics are convenient Destructives&

Crematories;whereby weak-minded 'flocks' may eliminate themselves with beneficient

results& 

 

Naturehaving already condemned them, they provide each other with palatable poisons

&for slow but sure suicide. They build Gehenna-fires and cast themselvesheadlong into

blazes.

 

Sociologyis a biological problem and Nations are herds of cattle. How much demagogic

he-hawingwould die down into solemn self-questioning if this Grim Omnific Fact was

clearlyrealized?

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 BE AS A LION IN THE PATH!

 

 HATE FOR HATE AND RUTH FOR RUTH,

 EYE FOR EYE AND TOOTH FOR TOOTH.

SCORN FOR SCORN AND SMILE FORSMILE,

LOVE FOR LOVE AND GUILE FORGUILE.

WAR FOR WAR AND WOE FOR WOE,

BLOOD FOR BLOOD AND BLOW FORBLOW.

 

 

Thouhast listened full oft, to the diabolic philosophy of the "Divine' Creepling!

 

"Loveyour enemies and bless them that hate you and despitefully use you'.

 

ButI say unto you: & Love thy kindred, love thy friends, love thyself, andhate thine

enemieswith a whole heart.

 

Bea foe to your friend's foe & a friend to your friend's friend, and aboveall things

permitno wrong, done unto thee or thine, to pass unchallenged, unredressed,unavenged.

 

Letthy motto be "Tread not on me'.

 

For,he that tamely submits, to insult and injury is worse than a dog: he is adastard, a

bornslave, a Christling.

 

 

I'mthe friend of all brave men,

Thefoe of all cowards;

Icall up high daring,

Icast down despair.

 

 

AnEvil Spirit hath inoculated our race with the hideous gospel of submissiveness,of

degeneracy:& "Resist not evil' it whines and "If a man smite you on one cheek, smash

HIMon "the other'.

 

Resistevery Evil! Be as a lion in the path!

 

Be"dangerous' even in defeat!

 

CourageI say! Courage! and evermore Courage! even the stars in their courses are fight

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CHAPTER V: THE CHIEF END OF MANHOOD

 

 

 

'Youmust tread on the necks of your enemies if you would win renown. It is successthat

makesthe great man' was Napoleon's dicta. The whole duty of man in this world is to

SUCCEED& to help himself, defeat his foes; outstrip his rivals. He who conquers not,is

conquered.He who is unable to trample rough-shod over others, will assuredly be

trampledby them. In the strength of his arm man eats his bread. In the sweat of hisbrow

(andbrain), the slave earns bread & for a master.

 

Allemotional rhetoric about 'love one another,' 'learn to labor and to wait,'etc., has a

tendencyto paralyze effort & to make victims rather than victors of assentients.Every

man'shand IS against every other man; EXCEPT where LIVINGindividuals have formed

temporaryco-partnerships. When one partner breaks the mutual agreement, then the

Combineis necessarily dissolved, and all become enemies & as before. Fraternity

betweencarnivores is as transient as the smoke of the morning. It is a pro-temexpedient.

 

Twohungry lions may engage to hunt together, but should one attempt to seize morethan

hisfair proportion of the prey, then it is & woe to the vanquished.

 

Selfpreservation first, foremost, above all things, and AT WHATEVER COST; is the law of

thejungle. So must it be among human carnivores. So it is, for society is ajungle.

ThereforeO reader! Go forth and win! Possess all you can of earth's good things. Man

DOESlive by bread alone. Be strong and fear not, for all obstruction melts awaybefore

realstrength of deed and strength of character. Nothing succeeds like success. Donot

quibbleover the order of your succeeding but & succeed. Thou shalt give thyheart to no

god,for that is idiocy; neither shalt thou love thy neighbors as thyself, for thatis

madness.Let 'Nil Desperandum' be your motto even to the death. If you fail you are

righteouslydetestable; but if you triumph, thrice blessed art thou. (The great vice of our

ageis cowardice). Glory and honor be unto him that wins, but anathema maranatha be

uponthe head of him that fails. Failure is not only disgrace, but practical proofof organic

incompetence.

 

Powerand proprietorship cover a multitude of sins & of ALLEGED sins: but men and

women,(especially women) have an overflowing fund of sympathy and forgiveness &

forthe 'Bold Bad Man' if he is victorious. How women admire men of leonine

resolutionand Eagle Principles. How they detest cowardice, 'goodness,' feebleness,

effeminacy,failure. There is no character in history so universally applauded, as the bold

'bad'rebel and the mighty conqueror.

 

Thereforeget you gold and land and power somehow. If foiled and baffled one way, try

another.When there's a will, there are a thousand ways. If the worn and beaten tracksare

intentionallyblockaded against you, do not hesitate to cut-out a new highway through the

jungle& for yourself. Never mind the pulpiteers and editors. They are hired toblind and

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blockadeyou. Above all things do not follow the multitude, for it tramples downward,

everdownward along Via Del Mortes to abysses of poverty, chains, and shame. Retreat

not,turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but zig-zag on. Ask no quarter,no

sympathy.'Die the death' rather than surrender and perishing & strike at your

conqueror.'Withhold not good from him to whom it is due, when it is in the power of

thinehand to do it,' But withal be honorable and upright; never forgetting thatbravery

(whichincludeth all other virtues) is the highest wisdom & and material successthe chief

endof man. "Upward thou must rise, or falter & bend the neck or standtriumphant & be

theanvil or the hammer.'

 

Battleand conquer HEREAND NOW, for behold! &to-morrow you die! you die! & and

thatIS the end of you. Let Napoleon's ideal be thine.Napoleon was Darwin on horseback.

Whenaddressing the ragged and famishing army of Italy, these were his words:&

'Soldiers!abundance courts you in the fertile plains below & (the plains ofItaly)...are

youdeficient in constancy and courage?' Events proved that they were not deficientin

constancyand courage.

 

Consequentlythe spoils of Italy and the stored-up treasures of the great Venetian Bank

wereequalized among them. Everywhere similar conditions have prevailed absolutely,

andalways will prevail. There is land for the taking, and gold for the raking; andfame,

andpower, and song; for the brave, the bold, and the strong. & AND FOR NONE OTHER.

Therefore,be thou a Napoleon & don't be a Christ.

 

Getyou Property by whatever method comes easiest to you. Reverting to termseconomic

"buypower in the cheapest market and sell it in the dearest.' Gratify yourlife-hopes as

thelions and eagles do, i.e. along the lines of least resistance & even asdo growing

plantsin a dark cellar. Do they not endeavor to reach sunshine by the most directroute?

 

Scornall insolent dictation as to right and wrong. Decide right and wrong foryourself.

Getproperty, honestly if you can; but remember 'business is business.' ('Mr. Cecil

Rhodesunder heavy fire for fifteen minutes, captured one herd of cattle himself.' 15) Life

islife and defeat is hell. Obey thine Inner Voice! It can never err. It is thyvery soul. Be a

Darwinin active operation. Do noble deeds, don't dream about them all thy life long.

 

"Moralprinciples' you say! What are moralisms that they should paralyze your arm and

brain?Are they not artificial human enactments, apparently sanctified; but notnecessarily

natural,honest, just, or true? Moral codes are the Black Terror of all dastards.

 

Theethical principles of Christendom, judging by daily developments, are the principles

ofa mocking, sneaking hypocritical devil & if there is a devil.

 

 

 

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 St. jamesGazette, '96 cablegram from Mashonaland.

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Readersmust distinctly understand that SEXUAL MORALITY isnowise condemned in these

pages.In all sexual relations (as in everything else) 'morality' is what Strengthdecrees.

Womenare frail beings at the best of times and in their secret hearts are probablylovers

ofthe unlimited. For the welfare of the breed, and the security of descent, theymust be

heldin thorough subjection. Man has captured them and besides providing for, and

protectingthem it is necessary to keep them 'on the chain' as it were. Woe unto him,

woeunto them, and woe unto our Race, if ever these lovable creatures should breakloose

frommastership, and become the rulers or equals of Man. (But that is impossible.)From

theearliest ages, Man has captured his wife by force or stratagem and to this dayhe does

thesame. Marriage ceremonies symbolize his proprietorship & his capture. Themarriage

ringis one link of a chain, emblematic of the fact that the prehistoric bridegroomchained

his'beloved one' in a cave; till she became tame, tractable, reciprocative.

 

Thesexual degeneracy that is now so prevalent among us, is the result of Christian

Civilization;that is to say, the Demonetization of Man and the equalization of woman. As

longas the husband is absolute Imperator within his own four walls, the poisoningof the

marriagebed (now so common, and so loathsome), cannot take place. If his wife or an

intruderdares to dishonor him, their death is an effective deterrent. His daughters,

controlledwith equal vigor, are not permitted to mate with every strumous Dick, Tom

andHarry, that comes smirking along; but are 'given away' to Men who are born of

GoodStock; or who have proved their inherent manhood and capacity & incarnivorous

combat.

 

Inhis sexual relations, the insolent interference of Church and State, isgradually

reducingMan to a mere cipher, and establishing a system of organized concubinage; or

ratherpromiscuity. The records of our divorce courts show that sexual infidelity is

spreadinglike wildfire. A prominent New Yorker has publicly asserted that two-thirds of

the'married' women in that city are systematically unfaithful: and a fat sordidpriestling

(namedMoody) openly advises his female lambs, to enter into the joys of "godly

freedom'via that harlot factory, the Divorce Court.

 

Awoman is two-thirds womb. The other third is a network of nerves andsentimentality.

To'emancipate' her, is to hand her over to the tender mercies of clerics, whohave

learnedto 'play' upon her emotionalism. Then Credos become illegitimately powerful

andeven to dictate 'the whole duty of Man.' After a time diabolicalpastor-theories

inspirepolitics and rule nations. Then the State becomes the individual's Dictator.Men

aredemonetized while degeneracy and socialistic hybridism sets in, like a slimyflood.

 

Prostitution(for hire) is also the direct outcome of unnatural conditions, brought about

andestablished, by the harmonious infernalism of statesmen and prelates. In many

countriesthis vile thing is "regulated' by law, and in all great cities it is a suresource of

revenue,not only to the police forces, but to every man who invests in real-estate or

bankingscrip. A great city is a great ulcer, and a great ulcer is a sure symptom of

congenitalblood poisoning. Undoubtedly the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was a

goodthing.

 

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Ifour modern Sodoms were all razed to the ground, how Nature in all her perennial

puritywould rejoice exultantly? How she would wrap their tombs and crumbling tumuli

witha blaze of shining glory:

 

Ifdevelopment persists along present lines, the time is not remote when it shallbe

truthfullyrecorded: 'There is no marriage in America.' A terrible menace to manhood

lurksin the dictation of Slave Majorities in this as in all other affairs. Under theplausible

formof Divorce Proceedings, a devilish enginery has been established: by means of

whichthe once pure and Saxon Invaders of North America, are rapidly transforming

themselvesinto hordes of semi-socialistic free-lovers.

 

Thesanctity of the Home is disappearing. No longer can it be asserted that a'man's

houseis his castle.' Marriages are becoming proportionately less and less: and baby-

farmingby the Government, is in full blast. Home life is withering away under theblight

ofState Interference and Pastoral Benediction.

 

Lookover at France where (with the growth of government supervision) the absolutism

ofthe husband is attenuated to a mere fiction & and what do you see? Anation steeped

incommunistic eroticism, as in a stygian sewer. French women are notoriously

unfaithful,and the most horrible sexual lusts are practiced and pleasantly laughed at.

Therepromiscuity results in barrenness; and this, when supplemented by correlatedself-

sterilization,is rapidly transmuting the once all-powerful Frankish Confederacy, into a

feebleand decaying tribe of wasted marasma-struck manglings, sheltering themselves

beneaththe all-protecting wing of an Asiatic Despot.

 

Thetitle of a man to the proprietorship of his wife does not originate withChurch, or

State,or Majority Votes. It is inherent in the Man himself. It began in capture andis

continuedby capture, modified of course by mutual affection,16 mutual toleration, and

parentallove. It existed before the State Monstrosity was invented, and it must be

maintainedintact, even if both Church and State (those twin devils), have to be utterly

annihilated.The Christian Church commenced operations among Roman slaves and

Syrianharlots. Its founder himself was the fruit of clandestine intercourse. He never

marriedbut consorted with publicans, pariahs, magdalenes, all his life. By his silence

uponone famous occasion, he condoned adultery; and in his nebulous Paradise (which

socialistsand anarchists and other priestlings assert will 'come' upon earth) he

insinuatinglystates there is 'no marriage or giving in marriage.'

 

Duringthe first three centuries 'Christians' was another name for 'free lovers'&

meetingin catacombs and secret places, to enjoy promiscuous sexualism, before the 'end

ofthe world' came & an event they expected every day, for three hundredyears.

 

Theleprous repulsiveness of medieval sodalities and modern monasticism, is all toowell

known,and requires no more than a passing allusion. 'The cells where corralledonanism

dwells'are as notorious as they are ultra-natural. Not only the lairs of male andfemale

                                                

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celibates,but the vestries of churches and temples, have ever been hot-beds of

lasciviousness,seduction, and all uncleanliness.

 

'Theharlot is Christ's sister, and the tramp is Christ's brother;' proclaims 'ourdear

comrade,W.T. Stead,' and he out to know. Has he not theatrically tried his hand at

'beinga Christ' (vide 'Liza Armstrong and Modern Babylon') & in order to turnan

honestpenny?

 

Indeference to Barbarian prejudices (after the Alaric and Attila immigrations)the Early

Churchabandoned its communistic Free Loverisms. But to provide holy sanctions and

writtenauthority for its change of heart; monkish forgeries of 'Epistles from theSaints'

weremanufactured on an extensive scale and cautiously published throughoutEurope. 

 

To-day,with the advent of Triumphant Democracy, all vile old slave-practices are being

activelyrevived.

 

Verily!Verily! Triumphant Democracy, thou art a foul thing! & TriumphantDesolation!

&Triumphant Amphimixis! Lo! this is the redeeming spirit that was to 'cleansethe

heathenas white as snow.'

 

Manymodern chapels are little better than assignation houses; and the tambourined,

uniformedChristlings of the slum-corners are boastfully recruited from the vilest of the

vile.An enterprising Chicago pastor has even started a free-love seraglio (withhimself as

thedivine Thunder Thrower) which he calls "Heaven;' and one of its ugliest angelshas

boldlysworn in open Court, that she was impregnated by the Holy Ghost; to whom she

borea son & in the orthodox style.

 

Altogetherprimitive Christianity is in its renaissance. Behold it cometh to pass! 'Thy

kingdomcome, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven;' is being rapidly and

joyouslymaterialized.

 

Deityhath established Himself as Statute Law. "The State which is the People' is His

throne,and "the Church which is righteousness' is his footstool. Glory! Glory! Glory!

'Allthe ends of the world hath seen the salvation of OURGod.' Behold Christliness

realizingitself through social institutionalisms! Behold the golden harvests grown from

theseed of Legislation!

 

Ofor the Barbarian swarms of the Danube and the Rhine! & for the BlondePirates from

theNorthern Seas! O for men of a spirit, with lion hearts and lion brains! &for one

cohortof True Knights, who would consolidate their Hopes and Convictions into Naked

Swords!Alas! Alas! Vanity of vanities, all is vanity! The age of Chivalry is dead and

gone.'So sleeps the proud of former days & so glory's thrill is o'er.'

 

 

 

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Inall practical operations, non-principled persons possess a distinctiveadvantage over

'principled'ones. Honesty never succeeds for when it succeeds, it is not honesty. There

isno fair play in Love and War; and all life is made up of Love and War.Genuinely

honestmen, die as a rule like dogs & in a ditch; and in business affairs theyare

'nowhere.'In their dotage or "in God's good time' & they (nearly always) go overthe

hillto State Infirmaries, unknown, friendless.

 

Whatchance has a conscientious man, when pitted in statesmanship, literature, or

commerce,against the Organized Knavery of sanctimonious and powerful cut-throats?

Tothem he is a pigeon to be plucked & a buck to be hunted & acriminal to be chained

&a madman to be made sport of & a lamb to be skinned & a heretic tobe & burnt

alive.

 

Certainlyit is not good strategy for a man to openly proclaim his loss of faith in

conventionalmoralisms: if he desires to get-on in the world. A wiseling keeps his real

sentimentson this point to himself & guards them as his own life. The best mask for

moralheresy is one of pretended sanctity. It is very effective. Nearly all theHigher

Thievesare ostentatiously pious. Thus when you hear pulpiteers and journalists

vociferouslyproclaiming their profound acquiescence in 'moral principles,' it is safe to

concludethat they are engineering some subterranean swindle.

 

"Belief'is a war-stratagem & an instrument of deceit, a convenient falsificationformula

&a beautiful hoodwink. Hence it is, that very religious and very holy persons,are almost

alwaysthorough-going scoundrels at heart & utterly unreliable & utterlyuntrustworthy.

Generallytheir whole lives are one long drawn our mendacity, and genuineness-of-

Thoughtor Action is in their mind, attenuated to a mere sham.

 

Politicians,authors, pastors, "prophets,' historians, philosophers, and editors, are

notoriousfalsifiers of nature and fabricators of subterfuge. Soaked in unnaturalism,

saturatedthrough and through with delirium-breeding hashish-literature, they become

organicallyincapable of speaking, let alone of thinking or writing honestly. Artificialism

hastrained them to be prevaricators, and prevaricators they MUST remain until the clods

fromthe grave-diggers shovel rattle down on their coffin lids. As the Old Man ofthe

Mountainstrained his fanatical Assassins, and sent them forth to slay, so Civilization

trainsits Fiendling Intellectuals and sends them forth to assassinate Human Nature.They

arethe murderers of manliness & the regicides of Thought & theannihilators of

heroism.Would that I had a legion of demons, to wring their necks. They have smothered

thegrand and masterful old Northern REALISMSbeneath pestiferous rubbish-heaps of

OrientalMythology & of Hebrew old clothes. They repeat automatically in sounding

diction,what has already been stuffed into them, as it were, with a ramrod. Theirlearning

isthe learning of the "learned pig' in a menagerie; and their virtue is thevirtue of a

conscientiousJesuit. March of Mind they call it! & "As organs grind the note they'reset

to...brainsjejune...Grind, year in year out, the same Old Tune.'

 

 

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TheMEN whoconspicuously 'succeed in life' & the generals and nobles, merchant-

princes,powerful prelates, opulent bankers, wealthy manufacturers, never overload

themselveswith artificial moral principles. In their secret hearts they utterly despiseall

evangelicalismsand as for written law, they are above and beyond its reach. Kings,

conquerors,millionaires, are perpetually being denounced for not abiding by Laws and

Regulationsenacted by Majority Votes.

 

Theman who plays "the game of life; in strict accord with certain cut and driedprinciples

&principles that everybody knows by heart, is not likely to come out a winner.He who

inhis younger days, incommodes himself with copy-book moralisms and terror of the

Law;is like unto a soldier who (before entering the battlefield) ties his righthand behind

hisback and pledges himself to strike and shoot his adversaries on onepre-arranged spot

oftheir bodies only. Could such a mad-man soldier hope to conquer? What chancewould

hehave if pitted against brave, dauntless, well-equipped antagonists; who had not

foolishlybound themselves by such a stupid obligation?

 

'Theright of Nature, which writers commonly call JUS NATURALE, is the liberty each man

hath,to use his own power for the preservation of his own nature: that is to say hisown

life,and consequently of DOINGANYTHING, which in HIS OWN JUDGEMENT AND REASON he

shallconceive to be the aptest means thereto' writes Hobbes in his 'Leviathan.' Theman

whopermits himself to be directed and mastered by the insolent moral principles ofthe

Multitude,is like an eagle with clipped wings and broken talons.

 

InWAR, your chief end is to smash and paralyze yourenemies' combinations. To do this

effectuallyyou must meet wile with wile, steel with steel, and blow with blow. You must

beequally prepared to fight in the open or fight under cover; to fight on sea, tofight on

land,or to fight in the air. You shall wage your own war & you shall thinkyour own

thought.It is pusillanimity that evolves the Slave, and breeds the Idolator. "Quit

yourselveslike men, O ye Philistines!'

 

Tacituswith true Roman stateliness observes: & 'The gods look with favor upon

supremecourage;' and Herbert Spencer savagely asserts that 'a creature not energetic

enoughto maintain itself must die.' Cursed are the white-livered, they make excellent

fertilizer.Truly & "The seed of the wicked shall be cut off.'

 

Thisage of ours wants MEN above all things & 'men of spirit'& men ever ready to look

intothe eyes of death, without winking. Behold! I post up this New Proclamation."The

manwho made Justice was a Liar.'

 

Whateverweapon your Enemy possesses, must be duplicated, or improved upon by you.

Ifit suits him to challenge battle in open front, be sure and ambush him in theflank; or

straightawaymake a hidden detour to and charge him in the rear. It is your chief business

todelude him, deceive him, decoy him, out-general him, IF YOU CAN. If moral scruples

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andfear of 'what the world will say,' prevents you from doing this, then you were born

tosubordination; and you had better surrender; for you can never hope tovanquish. You

MUSTbe born again.

 

'Overan open grave' ever lies the road to success. In 'the worlds broad field ofbattle,'

everyMAN is a combatant; and to be a successfulcombatant, he must not only be

calculating,cool-headed, and brave but possessed of merciless strategy, a stout heart, a

strongarm, and quiet indomitable determination.

 

Eventhe Siamese twins waged a life-long civil war. Man, as we have proved, is theKing

ofthe Great Carnivores. HOMO HOMINI. By heredity and by training, all carnivoresare

instinctivelystrategic in their hunt-operations. They lie in wait for their prey, when they

cannotcapture it by other methods; but they do not hesitate to hunt in the open, ifit

pleasesthem to do so. Great animals (whether man or brute) never operate in strict

accordancewith prearranged rules of procedure. If they did do so, they could never

prosper& and would die of hunger. Their GREATNESSlies in springing surprises & in

doingexactly what their antagonists (or intended quarry) don't expect them to do& in

beingbeyond and above all moral measurements whatsoever.

 

Geniusin a first-class commander is always exemplified, not by his 'goodness,' but by

theoriginality and aggressive boldness of his pitiless tactics. When he is thoughtto be in

fullretreat, he whirls around and annihilates his pursuers. When his adversariesare

preparingto give him a hot reception, 'he foldeth his tents like the Arabs,' andsilently

wendethaway.

 

Whenit is whispered he will embattle his defensive legions on the frontiers of the

Fatherland;he bridges the Rhine and bounds upon Paris with tooth and claw. When to

invaders,he is expected to abandon Moscow and retire; he burns it to the ground; and

whilehis foemen (imbedded in snow and ice) are freezing to death; he shells themwith

hisfield batteries. When wiselings predict that he will seize Gaul and establish aColonial

Dictatorship;he fords the Rubicon, marches on Rome and throttles the Law. When his

nation'sfoemen are embattled on Italian plains, he crosses the Punic foam and carriesthe

warinto Africa. When he is reported to be assaulting Babylonian Ramparts he digs anew

channelfor 'the River' and writeth 'mene mene rekel upharisin' on Balshazaar's walls.

Whendefenders believe he will march up the Slope with drums and banners gay he

quietlyscales the Heights of Abraham (in the night) and captures Quebec. When western

diplomatsthink he is about to pounce on Constantinople; he runs Baldwin engines

throughthe Great Wall and stuffs the title deeds of the moribund Chinese empire intohis

overcoatpocket.

 

 

 

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Theman-animal can never be rendered absolutely 'moral' because by nature he is asfull

ofwiles as a fox or a Jew. Should he insanely endeavor to abandon his predatory

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propensities,then he immediately begins to degenerate and ultimately becomes a feeble,

diseased,ghost-ridden monstrosity, a horror to look at. Therefore those who

conscientiouslytry to become 'honest' and 'good' are permitting themselves to be

sacrificed& as burnt offerings on Idol Alters.

 

IfALL MEN werescrupulously honest, then honesty MIGHTbe all right (although even that

isquestionable) but if one per cent are deliberately dishonest, then it is assuredlyall

wrong.Under such resultant circumstances the "ninety and nine' actually becomevictims

of"the one.' Honest merchants are ruined by dishonest merchants, honestcommanders

out-maneuveredby dishonest commanders, honest workmen displaced by dishonest

workmen,honest judges undermined by dishonest judges, and honest nations reduced to

beggaryand vassalage by dishonest nations.

 

Honestyis merely a policy & under given circumstances 'the best policy' &nothing

more.In all departments of human effort, honesty is used as a cloak for realdesigns; just

asa wood, a ravine, or a stretch of rising ground serves (in campaigning) to hide

squadronsdeploying for flank movements. 

 

Whythen do parents inoculate the plastic minds of their children, with falseconceptions

ofmoral conduct, when they themselves know (from personal experience) that allsuch

conceptionsare a positive handicap in the race for Wealth and Power. What a witless

procedure,to teach Ideals (at home, at school, and at college), that we KNOW in our hearts,

arethorough-going Lies, and then expect nobility of personal conduct to be theresultant?

Turnout into the world a young man well trained in "moral principles' and thechances

areninety-nine to one against him.

 

Indeedthe majority of men never win success until they are middle aged; until theyhave

hadtime to slough off the false Idealisms, they began the world with.Un-naturalism has

neveryet bred a race of heroes and never will. All great Races are predatory.

 

The"hungry-to-eat-a-man,' tiger knows that if he first growls out his intentions,and then

openlybounds up to his intended victim, he will (most probably) get an explosivebullet

neatlylodged in his cerebrum. Consequently he ambushes himself in the shadow of a

rockor behind a log, and leaps upon his "dinner' with varying results. It is thesame &

exactlythe same, among carnivorous bipeds. A few of them are tigers, hungry-to-eat-a-

man,and the rest are & tiger's-meat, hungry to be eaten. The fact is thatCivilization's

moralismsare wholly ultra-rational, fundamentally un-natural and utterly inoperative.

Christianprinciples and Natural principles mutually antagonize one another. Nature is

Anti-Christ.Darwinism is the mortal foe of Hebraism.

 

Nature'scommand is, 'Be egoist, possess the earth and fight it out.' Jusus insists, 'Be

altruistic,abandon the world, and love your enemies.' Darwin proclaims, "All ye are rival

carnivores!Be strong therefore, and bold, and fear & Nothing.' Christ teaches, 'Allye

aredearly beloved brethren. Be obedient therefore and 'good' and fear &Ghosts.' Jesus

urgeshis devotees to PRAY for deliverance. Darwin gently intimates hisheartfelt belief in

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theLaw of Battle. "He who will not WORK, neithershall he eat' is the Apostolic

pronounciamento.'He who will not fight, neither can he eat' is Nature's savage logic.

 

"Itis more blest to give than to receive' is the vacuous baby-prattle of thePastor. It is

moreblest to CAPTURE then to receive, is ordinary Common Sense.

 

Hewho denies man's right to exploit man, impeaches, not the conduct of man, butthe

orderof nature.

 

Whothen is right & the Anglo-Saxon or the Israelite? The scientist or theoratorical

wonder-worker?The Western thinker or the Eastern dreamer? Which is the True Faith:

&Japhet's logic or Shem's Fabulism?

 

 

 

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Common-senseprovides no precise solution of Right or Wrong. 'All moral philosophy is

falseand vain' for MAN is unlimited. In the realm of Ethics, mostmodern wiselings are

fanaticaland unreasonable bigots. They really believe that Ethical Principles are as a

housebuilt on a rock; whereas 'the House' is an unfounded hypothesis, and 'the Rock'

nonexistent.

 

Goodand Evil liveth only in men's minds. They are not Realities but shadows &credos

&ghosts & and only the maddest of the mad worship their own Shade.

 

Whatis Right & what is Wrong? These elemental interrogatories have been askedin

everyage, and every age formulates replies to suit itself. DE FACTO Right and Wrong are

nomore than arbitrary algebraic signs, representing hypnagogic phantasies. Theyare

meresymbols emblematic of belated fragments of insolent ecclesiastical crudities.In

nature,all developments are essentially ONEand the same phenomenon infinitely

transfusedand intermingled. Good and Evil are human inventions, born of human

foolery,narrowness, and short-sightedness. The organic brain is far too small and too

contemptible,to COMPLETELY comprehend what nature is driving at. Whatappears to be

wrongto us, may be right in nature, and vice versa. 

 

Wecan no more establish an infallible system of ethics, than we can establishinfallible

systemsof religion, philosophy or politics. All the Universe is in a state of flux,and men

arebut a swarm of querulous, heat-evolved insectivores, living aimlessly on thetop of a

floatingcork, that whirls and darts and rolls over and over and over; amid the scum and

frothand slime of a boiling, bubbling Alembic. Within his own sphere individual manis,

andought to be the supreme determinant. Outside of that sphere he knows absolutely

nothing& and philosophy LESSTHAN NOTHING.

 

Asfor the prophets of Futurity, from the days of Gautama, Bel, and Ishtar, downto

Christ,Mahomet, Peter, Luther, Calvin, and Brigham Young; they have been strident

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'deceiversall' working on the emotional credulity of women & and doltish rabbles. A

falseteacher may be earnestly and honorably sincere in al his theoria, but that doesnot

necessarilydemonstrate intrinsic divinity. Many false prophets have been murdered

(becauseof their opinions) besides Jesus of Nazareth, Judea; and Smith of Nauvoo,

Illinois.The execution of the founder of Mormonism (inspired by political clamor) is an

exactparallel to the execution of the founder of Christianity (inspired by priestlyclamor).

Thepoint is & neither shooting nor crucifixion are satisfactory proofs ofdivinity or

probity.

 

Rightand Wrong, like Up and Down, East and West, are relative terms, without any

fixedor finite meaning. What is good for the goose is NOT ALWAYS good for the gander.

Newfoundlandlies East form Chicago, but West from Berlin. All depends upon the point

ofview. Consequently what may be "right' in one age may, in another age, bewholly

"wrong'.

 

Inancient Rome it was considered the height of impiety, heresy, and treason, forfree

borncitizens to adore a circumcised Asiatic; but in modern Europe and America, itis

consideredpious and fashionable and highly commendable to do so. 

 

Evenwhat is right to one man, under one set of circumstance, may be utterly wrongto

thesame man under a different set of circumstances. Cromwell as colonel of the

Ironsides,thought regal absolutism the essence of all diabolism: but as President of the

Republic,he defended it (in himself) as & "a crowning mercy.'

 

WhenGovernment soldiers shoot down American 'rebels' that is called 'a glorious

victory'but when Government soldiers shot Colonial rebels during the Red Flag Riots

(inauguralof the War of Independence) that is conventionally labeled "wickedmassacre.' 

 

Whena band of rich men plunder the poor, that is business shrewdness, practical

statesmanship,of financial integrity; but if bands of poor men plunder the rich, that is

larceny,burglary, highway robbery, and rebellion. When the Anglo-Saxon invader is

cooped-upand slaughtered in India, that is mutiny and red-handed murder; but when HE

mowsdown the sepoys in battalions, or fastens them to the muzzles of cannon andblows

theminto ribbons, that is upholding the majesty of Law and of Order. When Cuban

guerillaskill Spaniards, all American papers describe it as 'war' but when the Spaniards

retaliateand kill the Cubans, that is "horrible butcheries by General Weyler.' Spanishcut-

throatsare glorified (in Spain) as dashing heroes, and the Cuban patriots described as

brigands,outlaws, and brutal Negro murderers. ALL DEPENDS UPON THE POINT OF VIEW.

 

Victorysanctifies. In the realm of abstract Ethics there is no other Fact upon whichthe

plainman can finally make up his mind. As far as Sociology is concerned, ethical

principlesare decided by the shock of contending armies. Right has always been

emblazonedon the standards of Victory, and wrong on the draggled rags of Lost Causes.

 

'WhenBrennus, commander of the ancient Gauls, attacked the Clusians a Roman

ambassadorprotested, asking "what offense have the Clusians given you?' Brennus

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laughedat the question, and replied: & "Their offense is the refusal they maketo divide

thecountry with me. It is the same offense that the people of Alba, the Fideniansand

Ardeansgave you: and lately the Vienans, the Falisci, and the Volsci. To avenge

yourselves,you took up arms and washed your injury in their blood: you subdued the

people,pillaged their houses, and laid waste their cities and their countries: and inthis

youdid no wrong or injustice: you obeyed the most ancient laws, which gave to the

Strongthe possessions of the Weak; the sovereign law of nature, that begins with the

godsand ends with the animals. Suppress therefore O Romans, your pity for theClusians.

Compassionis yet unknown to the Gauls: do not inspire them with that sentiment, lest

theyshould have compassion upon those you oppress.'

 

Historyis full of similar logic. Brutus for instance, who poindered Julius C¾ser (his

friendand benefactor), has always been held up to public estimation as 'the noblest

Romanof them all;' whereas Booth, who slew Abraham Lincoln, is everywhere and at

alltimes, spoken of as a malevolent assassin.

 

Theoperation of the "Law' itself, is also an apt illustration of the paradoxicalnature of

Rightand Wrong. Citizens who break the written law are hauled before judges,

inquisitoriallycross-examined, and chained for long years in State dungeons: but the

statesmenand legislators may sell their country for gold, and break every statute lawand

constitutionin the land without the least fear of legal intimidation. Indeed theapprobation

ofthe State, is all-sufficient nowadays to sanctify any crime & even themost

abominable.In this particular (of granting absolution) the State is gradually supplanting

andabsorbing the Church.

 

(ThePROTESTORS of the past demolished the infallible imperialism of clericalsover

religio-individualthought; and the Protestantism of the future must demolish the insolent

dictatorshipof Politicals over private judgment, and the development of Personality.)

 

All"good christian men' regard the judicial murder of Jesus as a crime of theblackest

dye,but they chant church-paeans of joy over Jael's murder of Sisera, and the

assassinationof Eglon King of Moab, etc. It is not very long ago since Catholic and

Protestantidolators, mutually roasted each other alive 'for the glory of God and the

upliftingof his Holy Name.' Each side proclaimed themselves right, with rack and

thumbscrew,and other little instruments of persuasion.

 

Protestantsstill think it a crime and a scandal to worship the mother of their god; but

Catholicsconsider it right and proper to deify the Hebrew maid, who remained a maid

(whata paradox?) after borning a son.

 

Toeat pork and beans is frightfully wicked for a Jew, but passable for a cultured

Bostonian.To drink whiskey is iniquity to a Turk, but exhilarating to a Scotlander. Roast

beefis a goodly dish to and English "barbarian,' but famine-stricken orthodoxHindoos

dierather than taste thereof. Dueling is honorable in some countries butdishonorable in

others.So also pugilism, private revenge, tyrannicide, bull-fighting, regicide, and

warfare.The Quakers, Anarchists, and Young Men's Christian Associations, are

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unceasinglyrailing against "war and all its horrors,' whereas there are not a few

benightedinfidels, (including the author) who regard war as nature's Greatest

Prophylactic.

 

Polygamyis 'wrong' in England and America, but monogamy is righteous, and

polyandry'right' (being licensed by the state); whereas in Eastern Europe and among all

'savage'tribes, polyandry is iniquity; polygamy & blessedness; and monogamy&

vileness.

 

Inancient Lacad¾mon stealing was considered highly meritorious IF NOT FOUND OUT, as

inmodern America. Solon places theft among the professions, and he knew what hewas

doing.Aristotle includes "robbery' among the different kinds of hunting. (There wasno

hypocrisyabout these classical authors. They called a spade a spade, and searched Nature

(notlibraries) for facts. Herein is the secret of their genius and undying renown.)If a man

stealsa horse or a steer, he is lynched (if captured) as an "enemy of society' but ifhe

stealsthe value of a million horses by wrecking a savings bank; he is straightawaymade

aSenator or Knighted. It is a criminal act to burglarize another man's house,but it's

'enlargingour markets' to steal Texas from the Mexicans; Alsace and Lorianne from the

French;Egypt from the Turks; or Madagascar from the Hovas. The fact is, that all the

greateststatesmen and kings have been (most commendably) the Higher Criminals. Wars

aremarauding expeditions and all kingships and property originates in Warfare.

 

Slayone man (in order to rob him) and you are a murderer. Slay a million men (inorder

torob them) and you are a renowned general. Annex from ONE person and you are a

feloniousruffian, but annex from THEWHOLE POPULATION, or fromrival nations, and you

aremade Chancellor of the Exchequer; Chairman of Ways and Means; or decorated with

thegrand cross of the Legion of Honor. Maraud direct for your own profit, and youare a

heinousrascal, counterfeiter, forger, bandit; but maraud indirect, "on public serviceonly'

andyou are proclaimed 'our opulent fellow-citizen and distinguished patriot.'

 

TAKE from the peasantry even an infinitesimalproportion of their petty property, and they

willlynch you as a lazy thievish tramp; but TAKEtwo-thirds of their harvests by law and

rule(rent, interest or tax assessments) and they will turn out in the middle of thenight, to

cheeryou in your steam-horsed palace car, as it whirls through their "God forsaken'

villages.

 

To'steal the goose from off the common' is awful rascality, but 'to steal thecommon

fromthe goose' is splendid statesmanship. Men who write down Holy Fables in books

arecalled Apostles of God, or canonized as saints; but men who tell regulationlies in the

ordinarycourse of business are popularly supposed to be wicked and ungodly scamps.

Thedelightful story-teller who prints a pleasing yarn, coined out of his alcoholic

imagination,is known as a gifted author: but the plain blunt writer who interprets Facts

andproclaims them openly, is an incarnation of iniquity, madness, blasphemy& a

veritableApollyon, Satan. 'What is one man's meat is another man's poison.'

 

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Again,he who prevaricates in a pulpit for "the Glory of God' is everywhere known as a

Doctorof Divinity, but he who bears false witness in an ordinary Court of Justice, is

universallycondemned as a perjured villain.

 

Itis questionable if there is one codified crime that would be considered a crimein every

landon earth. Just as there are a thousand different icons and ideals of god, sothere are a

thousandmutually repellant views of Right and Wrong. Every climate, every nation,

everycommunity, has its own notion of what Virtue means. Moral Dogmas are

MANUFACTURED to suitthe occasion, and are always used as instruments of intimidation.

Theyare not necessarily in harmony with, or based upon Nature: except in the sensethat

Fraudis natural. Biologically and historically considered & "there is nothingeither Right

ofWrong, but THINKING makes it so.'

 

Everyage and nation must interpret Right and Wrong for itself. So MUST EVERY MAN. It is

eachman's manifest duty to invent his own Ethical Credo. If he neglects this duty,and

supinely(without thinking) adopts the Credo of the herd into which he is born; then his

individualityis merged and lost. Other men with more personal will-power, may then set

upfallacious, maladroit Dogmas & counterfeit twenty-four inch gauges& and compel

himto 'conform' against his wish. They become rulers and proprietors, while he

descendsto the position of a dependent or vassal. Here is the permanent menace to

freedomthat lies imbedded in all ethical, political, and religious Codes.

 

Hewho 'keeps the commandments' of another, is necessarily the servant of thatother.

Hewho curbs his own thought, to please a majority; has already lost his mentalliberty.

Hewho implicitly relies upon 'public opinion' becomes a mere marionette & a

bloodlessdummy. Professing independence, he is practically a prisoner in his own

domain.

 

Thepride of life is in DECIDING and DOING &in TAKING THE INITIATIVE & not in obeying

thedictation of others. He who 'keeps the commandments' is, and must always remaina

subordinate& in a beggardom of rules and regulations. He who disobeys 'the

commandments'becomes himself a Commandment-Maker; that is to say, a ruler over the

mindsand bodies and property of inferior organisms. Obedience is characteristic ofthe

menial.Disobedience is the stamp of the hero. 'Man is the measure of all things.'&

(Protagoras.)

 

'Hewho takes no initiative, and determines no issues, however intelligent and

trustworthy'plays a subordinate part.'17 All great deeds are the result, not ofMajority

Votes,but of Individual Activity.

 

Everyman who is free (and freedom means something more than the mere privilege of

droppingregulation pieces of print into a Majority Box) should judge "all things' byhis

ownpersonality. He should regard himself as the measuring rod & thedeterminant &

theunit of value, and carefully abstain from blindly adopting other men'smeasurements,

withoutpersonal verification and reasonable tests.

                                                

17

 AdmiralWalker, U.S.N., in Forum, Dec., 1896.

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Theeasiest way for a band of public robbers to plunder a nation, is for them to ISSUE

COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY, AND EXCHANGE IT FOR INTRINSIC VALUES: and theeasiest way to

enslavea Race is to wheedle it into, or impose upon it counterfeit Ethics, that is tosay,

fraudulentstandards of morality.

 

Whenthe weighing scales (or measures) are falsified, all subsequent exchangebecomes

marauding.Then foreclosing bankers become cattle-lifters, and machine politicians

developinto pirates. Thus it happeneth that the words "politician' and "thief' are NOW

interchangeableterms; more especially in America, France, and Australia. 'Government

isthe Great Blackmailer.'

 

 

 

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Betterfar, for a free animal to be killed outright, than to be mastered,subordinated, and

enchained.

 

Mentally,morally, physically, a full-grown man should swear allegiance to no extraneous

moralism,custom, or arbitrary rule-of-conduct. He ought to take a special pride in

developinghis own individuality; independent of all other men whatsoever. In the maxim

'unionis strength' there lies an abiding fallacy. Very often, in practical affairs,he is

greatestwho stands most apart. 'Every man for himself' is the law of life. Every manfor

anInstitution, a God, or a Dogma, is the law of death. 'Mind your own business'is a line

ofthought very much neglected in this infirm age; when every sodden degeneratefancies

thatit is his 'business' to be every other degenerate's keeper, guardian and nurse.Cain's

wrathfulretort 'am I my brother's keeper?' contains a far reaching practicalphilosophy,

thatis deserving of calm consideration, in the light of contemporary socialistic

maladjustmentsand biological evolutionism. Only the terrorized repent, but non-

moralistsfound families, build cities, rule the earth and laugh at the Gods.

 

Eachindividual should think as he pleases & as 'the spirit moves in him'& without the

leastrespect for what others think or do & the only limit to his actions being(of course)

thematerialized opposition he actually meets with: for the Strong are the naturallimit of

theStrong. No one is bound to obey another (or a majority) EXCEPT 'the other' can

coerceobedience; and to do that at all times, under all circumstances, would beterribly

troublesome,expensive, and & dangerous.

 

Whenactualized antagonism is met with, it is every dauntless man's business to

surmountit & if he can. Should he find that beyond his strength (or the massedpower of

hisfriends and supporters), then death or submission are the only reasonablealternatives.

Ifhe has not the nerve to fall (as the much maligned Catiline fell at Pistoria18), then he

andhis posterity to the third and fourth generation must sink to subjectivity.

                                                

18

 'Allwounded in front; not a man taken alive; Catiline himself gasping out his life,ringed round with

corpses of his foemen.' & SALLUST.

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Ifhe is coerced by superior Strength (or strategy) into temporary retreat; hethen owes no

allegiancewhatever to his triumphant adversaries: and he should be ever ready (when

timeand tide seem propitiatory) to overwhelm and destroy their dictation. "Getthere!' I

say,get there! & Get there at any cost!

 

Bethou a True Knight. Save thyself by thine own high deeds. If a man wound you onone

cheek,lay him low & smite him hip and thigh. Self preservation is the first lawof thy

being.Hate for hate, ruth for ruth & scorn for scorn and tooth for tooth. Getthere, I say!

&Get there! Get there at any cost!

 

Lethim no longer boast of his bravery who merely weeps with his Dear-Ones, whenhis

Dear-Onesweep for bread. The gallant and the brave, have never yet been known to want

forANYTHING. Women shed tears; men shed blood. Cowardsserve masters. Bold men

makethemselves Masters.

 

Whenpassing through the Valley of Humiliation, slaves and dastards, exposing their

sores,sob aloud for consolation and sympathy. Brave men stand apart and ponder

vengeanceor conquest.

 

Thefear of death is the beginning of Slavery. Majority-Box despotism can only be

maintained,by making a sudden and violent death its final sanction. 'Civilized' men are

terrorizedat the idea of death, and as long as that is so, those who wield sudden deathin

thehollow of their hand, are masters of the world.

 

Hencea small body of disciplined fighters (if protected by the death penalty) arecapable

ofdominating a nation of ten thousand times their number.

 

Hencealso, in accordance with the 'fight-fire-with-fire' principle, all secretassociations

aimingat the destruction of established tyrannies, in Church or State, have ever been

organized(from the most ancient times) upon a 'death penalty' basis. When successful,

thesesocieties become 'Government' in their turn; merely re-forming as DEFENCE forces

insteadof AGGRESSIVE forces. On this account the inner workings of"government' are

unknownto the outer world.

 

Everyministerial Cabinet is oath-bound and all the higher officials are pledged and

obligatedunder a death penalty, to the most strict secrecy. Indeed under the cover of

PopularGovernment, the Financial Empire of the World is an established Fact.

 

 

** *

 

 

Noman has (or ever had) any INHERENT right to the use of the earth; nor to personal

independence;nor to property, nor to wives, nor to liberty of speech; nor to freedom of

thought;nor to ANYTHING except he can (by himself or in conjunctionwith his allies)

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asserthis 'rights' by Power. What are (in popular parlance) called 'rights,' arereally

'spoil'& the prerogatives of formerly exerted Might: but a 'right' lapsesimmediately,

whenthose who are enjoying it, become incapable of further maintaining it.

Consequentlyall 'rights' are as transient as morning rainbows, international treaties, or

clausesin a temporary armistice. They may be abrogated at any moment, by any one of

thecontracting parties, holding the necessary Power.

 

Broadlyspeaking therefore, Might is incarnated Right, and rights are metamorphosed

mights.Power and Justice are synonyms; for Might is mighty and DOES prevail. They

whopossess the UNDISPUTABLE Might (be they one, ten, or ten million) mayand DO

proclaimthe Right. Government is founded on property, property is founded on conquest,

andconquest is founded on Power & and Power is founded on brain and brawn& on

OrganicAnimality. Just as parents dictate right to their children, so masterfulanimals

dictateright to millions and millions of sodden-livered, baby-minded men. Monarchic

rulersare the gaudy jumping-jacks, and representative institutions the tax-gathering

mechanismof the Mighty-Ones. Banks and safe-deposits are their treasure-stores, and

armiesand navies their sentinels, executioners, watchmen.

 

"Thereis much to be said for the opinion' writes Professor Huxley, "that Forceeffectually

andthoroughly used, so as to render further opposition useless; establishes anownership

thatSHOULD BERECOGNIZED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.' Professor Jevons expresses a parallel

thought:& "The first step must be, to rid our minds of the idea that there aresuch things

asabstract rights.' 'Spiritual right' and 'moral right' cannot possibly beexplained,

becausethey are merely verbalisms without solid substance. They are not even shadows;

fora shadow implies a materialized actuality. It is somewhat difficult to definewhat is

non-existent.That task may be left to University professors and Sunday school divines.

Theyare adepts at clothing their mental nudity in clouds of wondrous verbosity.

 

Right,in its broadest and deepest sense can be logically defined however, as the

manifestationsof solar energy, materialized through human thought and thew, upon

Battlefields& that is to say, in Nature's Supreme Court. Might is victory and victory

establishesrightness. Might is cosmic power in chemic operation; and Man (in his own

sphere)is heliocentric force on two legs. Might is mighty and MUST prevail.

 

ItDOES prevail for verily it is as the Law ofGravitation & Nay! ITIS THE LAW OF

GRAVITATION.

 

 

 

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Allarbitrary rules of Right and Wrong are insolent invasions of personal liberty.He who

wouldmaintain his manhood, must ignore them and abandon them, wherever and

wheneverpossible; EXCEPT he has investigated them & paralleledthem with Nature, and

withoutcoercion agrees to abide thereby as a modus-vivendi. If he accepts them (onother

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conditions)as his life-long load, that is & his funeral. If he is eager to handicaphimself

orcommit suicide, why shouldn't he? That is HISown business.

 

Asensible man should never conform to any rule or custom, simply because it hasbeen

highlycommended by others, alive or dead. If they are alive he should suspect their

motives.If dead they are out of Court. He should be a law unto himself in all things:

otherwisehe permits himself to be demonetized to the level of a domesticated animal.

 

Thereal man must depend upon himself absolutely, determine his own ends, decidehis

ownplan of campaign; and savagely resent any authoritarian interference(especially if it

takesthe form of socialistic officialism). He must be resolutely on his defence,against all

thosemeddlesome 'dogs' who dare to impose their squalid ideals upon his private or

publiclife.

 

Itwould be well for him also to be a thorough-going and dangerous adversary; aswell as

anunswerving friend. To his foemen he should be as pitiless as "the gods' to hisfriends

inall days of difficulty and danger, he should be, as & "an army withbanners.'

 

ThereforeI say be manly! & be BOTH manly andwise! Be fearless, tenacious, resolute,

andbold; for (as Von Clausewitz sagaciously insists), 'boldness, directed by an

overrullingintelligence is the brand of the hero.'

 

Amans FIRST duty in this world is to HIMSELF, and the word "himself' includes those near

anddear ones who have twined their tendrils around his heart. A man's kindred arepart

ofhimself. He should not forget that when fighting for his own hand, he isfighting for

them.His strength is their rampart. Their strength is his glory. The family and the

individualare a unit. 

 

HenryWatterson, an insolent editor of the New Dispensation, in a studied orationbefore

thedivine-right of Communalism over the fates of men: & 'We are to teach thelesson

thatthe citizen exists for the government, not the government for the citizen.'Ignatius

Loyolos;Calvins; Dukes of Alva; Torquemadas; and Piuses by the score; have been

equallyeloquent in expounding parallel diabolical sophisms. For ages those Destroyersof

Libertyproclaimed that the individual existed for the Holy Church; not the Holy Church

forthe individual. However the despotism of socialistic-sacredotalism has been

thoroughlytamed & blown to fragments as it were; and the right of private judgment

fullymaintained. Its cunning recrudescence under the guise of State Infallibility,by the

Jesuitsof journalistic Diablrie must be met as resolutely, and smashed as savagely

relentlessly,as its infernal theocratic prototype.

 

Themajesty of the Individual first, foremost, and above all things. 'Hells blazes'are

realizedamong us, when 'the individual withers and the State grows more and more.'

 

Shouldthe Wattersonian ideal triumph, every man who THENdares open his mouth

(exceptto extol Authority) will run the risk of having streams of lead pumped into it,as a

gentlehint to be constitutional.

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Hewho acts upon self-denial principles in his dealings with rival carnivorescasts himself

downthat they may climb over his prostrate personality to THEIR SUCCESS. He abdicates

hisinherent royalty who bends before any human being or any human dogma &but his

own.Humbleness is a crime in a man, though it may be a virtue in a menial. The

"modest'man permits his rivals to occupy all the High Places and make him their

footstool& nay, their very doormat.

 

Ofcourse there are certain Higher Laws, which no one can even try to rebelagainst,

withoutbeing quietly executed. The transgressor of a natural Ordinance may think hehas

escaped,even while the noose-knot is under his chin and the bolt about to be sprung.

Naturehas a very long arm and a vengeful one. Many a 'city of the plain' has been

incinerated,besides Sodom and Gomorrah. Individual transgressors of nature are always

drivenmad: and nations that organize defiance to the nature of their being become

regimentedhordes of incoherent manlings, sootily perspiring downward to their 'heaven'

dancingthe dance of death, shrieking the songs of 'Progress.' Observe for example the

workingclasses of civilization and the utter lunacy of their doings. Undoubtedly theirgod

hasstruck them blind or mayhap they are "possessed of a devil.' Certainly they arenot

sane.The day is near at hand when they shall cry out with shame 'O, would that wewere

dead!'

 

Asrapidly as machinery can be perfected, to perform the work now being done bythese

animals;they are being 'dispensed with,' & turned adrift in hordes to find fodderand

shelteras best they can. Hired-men are rapidly becoming cheaper than horses and dogs,

butas yet somewhat dearer than electric motors and steam engines. The average

workmantherefore feels instinctively that his "virtues may not, after all, preservehis

throatfrom the knife & that is to say, from the logical consequences of hisown, or his

forefathers'defeat in the struggle. His 'virtues' (as he calls them, poor devil) areextreme

laboriousness,extreme docility, extreme political and religious credulity & togetherwith

extremepusillanimity in his own defence. As long as Power requires these hordes of

slave-hirelings,they will be provided with enough necessaries to keep themselves in

propertrim; but when their Labor Force is no longer a profitable investment, they will

assuredlybe eliminated.19 Why should prisoners of war be kept aliveanyhow at vast

expense;when it becomes cheaper and more convenient, to turn them adrift & toperish

asvalueless stock perish on the ranges in winter time? Already many of these 'freeborn

citizens'are cutting their throats daily in despair, at being unable to find a master.

Millionsare also slowly drugging themselves with succulent poisons, in the shape of

alcoholicand other stimulants. Scientific sterilization is an established custom;

infanticidea regular trade; and celibacy increasing by leaps and bounds. The fact is that

theindustrial world is run on business principles and "business principles' are asynonym

for"woe to the vanquished,' "hell takes the hindmost,' "the survival of thefittest' and

"mightis right.'

 

                                                

19

 "Themuzzles of the repeating rifles pointing at their heads, had a quieting effecton the miners;' DAILY

PAPER.

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RIGHT, like water, finds its own level. Man'sconsent is not necessary to the operations of

NaturalForces. It is not required. It is not even asked. He is like unto a patientstrapped

firmlyupon a dissecting table. He may feel the surgeon's lance sinking through his

quiveringflesh & he may shiver in terror and break out into a cold sweat &he may

groanin convulsive agony and pray to his Idol & but, he cannot escape.

 

Knowingall this, why not let Nature alone to work out her own silent ends? Why should

communitiesof creeping-things try to safe-guard their incapables? Why obstruct the

drasticand significant removal of corrupted organisms. The Jesus type of men were

clearlymade to be crucified and flogged. The Buddha type were (evidently) born to die

ofpestilence and famine & poor weak cowardly swarms of rotting vermin thatthey are!

Beholdthem in the distance there, with their ribs sticking through their hides,accepting

withdoleful thankfulness the alms of their Conquerors.

 

Brahma!Buddha! Confucius! Juggernaut! Christ! & Behold & Your glorious

handiwork!

 

Letthe cowardly and the vile die off & let them annihilate themselves:& that is the

logicof the spheres. The atmosphere of this terrestrial ball will be purer, whenthese

'heavyladen souls' are gone; and there will be elbow-room upon its surface, for the

regenerationof Purity and Cleanliness of mind and body. 

 

Atthe banquet of life, let no seat be reserved for those who cannot win it& who cannot

BREAK INTOthe enchanted circle, by force of character and force of deeds [See page 13].

Theimpotent and the brainless, who call themselves 'the righteous' are better dead

anyhow& better for themselves, and better for their successors. Is it not theheight of

madness,for communities to deliberately nourish and foster, the bacteria of hereditary

degeneration?

 

Superioritycan only be decided by Battle. Conflict is an infallible method of Selection

andRejection. Evolution has no end. That is undoubtedly, the logical deduction of

Darwin'sfamous pronouncement: & 'if he (man) is to advance still higher, it is tobe

fearedthat he must remain subject to a severe struggle. Otherwise he would sink into

indolence;and the more gifted men would not be more successful than the less gifted.'

 

Itis only Incoherents of subjective will-power or of servile extraction(bottle-fed beings

asit were) that even dream of an 'ordered state of society' wherein Right andWrong (or

personalmerit) can be decisively decided upon other than biological principles.

 

Hebrewdecadents harped upon this fool-thought of Universal Peace, Equality, Justice,

andFair Play for ages: but have then not been a pestilent tribe of unwarlikeslaves from

theirleprous beginning? The greatest poem of their repulsive literature, inculcatesthe

'virtue'of patience and submission under intolerable Injustice. All their gyrating

prophetsscream, and sob, and yell over the wholesale failure of epileptoid ethical

standards;and insanely proclaim a "good' time coming; when every Israelite 'shall

reclineunder his own vine and fig tree, with no one to make him afraid.' Howdelightful?

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Moses,Jesus, Isaiah, Peter. & Mark, Mathew, Luke, and John, were all squalidJews, and

rhapsodicalCommunards. Those Hebrew breeders of desolation & Lasalle, Dr. Adler,

Jacobi,Karl Marx, and modernized transplanted Essenes & Ebionites.

 

Allmoral injunctions, all millenialisms; are arbitrary infernalisms & theresults of crafty

hypnoticsuggestion. Their secret object is the overthrow of human reason and individual

independence;in order to establish a vast bedlamite penitentiary to be called "God's

kingdomon earth' alias "pandemonium in full blast.'

 

Thefact is, Humanity is going stark staring mad in consequence of having eaten thefruit

thatgrows on that devilish tree 'the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.'Luscious it

isto look upon & pleasant it is to the palate, but a deadly atropine& a cunning poison

lurksin its core. Cursed are they that eat thereof. 

 

Aye,thrice cursed are the BELIEVERS in Right and Wrong & for they ARE & the erring

ones.

 

 

 

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Attractionand gravitation holds the stars in their courses and (upon exactly the same

generaloperative method) all human swarms and animal herds, are integrated and

disintegratedby effective manifestations of derivative solar heat and power.

 

Strong-Menare magnetized incarnations of primordial energy & dynamos of

concentratedelectricity. There is a mysterious, almost magical charm about the

personalityof True Greatness. Lesser men are attracted to their Natural Chiefs as steel

shavingsare drawn to the loadstone. This peculiar attractive force is hardly ever seen

(exceptspasmodically) in physical weaklings. It seems to develop only in animals of

unusualvitality & men with plenty of 'devil' in them.

 

Physicalpower is the basis of mental power. The nutriment of the brain cells is derived

fromthe blood-corpuscles perpetually being pumped into it by the heart's action. Ifthe

pumpvalves are weak or out of gear & if the food stream is impure & ifthe stomach if

disordered& if the liver is congested or the lungs decaying and corrupt; then thebrain is

starved,drugged, poisoned, while all the thoughts that germinate therein are feeble,

unnatural,impure. Hence the rolling stream of literary filth that the Zolas and thebible-

boomers,the poetlings, and the "eminent savants,' keep pouring out upon generations of

men,soaked for ages in similar intellectual sewerage.

 

Hencealso the remarkable fact, that neither Great Men nor Great Heroisms are evertown

bred.Cities are impure in thought, word, and deed; and nothing that is noble canever

evolvetherein. They are the refuse heaps & the kjokken-moddings of the world.They

arematrixes of all that is shameful and base, in religion, politics, sociology,and law.

Lupanarsof organized abomination are they! & where the infamous prostitute andthe

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stillmore infamous editor poison the air, side by side; spreading abroad theirleprous

contagionwith every wind that blows. Would that I were a Nero and could play the

fiddle!But after all perhaps, it would be a waste of matches and good cat-gut.

 

Greatmen can only evolve from out an environment of comparative personal

independence.They come from the mountains and the forest clearings. They grow to

maturitywith the storm beating upon, and the rains dripping adown them. First, warring

againstthe rivalry of the elements, they develop the tremendous motor-power necessary

inafter life, for the mastership of man-herds. Entering into the centres ofsemi-moribund

civilizations,they straightaway take the lead as a matter of natural right. They become

rulers,chancellors, kings, conquerors, electric batteries, dynamos. Slave-bred swarmstoil

attheir bidding, with zealous contentment and rivals are cast down, as it were,by a 'turn

ofthe wrist.'

 

Theirsmile is wealth and honor to lesser men & their frown is poverty,outlawry, or the

bow-string.Second-class animals gather around them, and are used up as satraps,

governors,lieutenants. If a nation under process of exploitation, revolts, the revolt is

suppressedby FORCE. If established rulers are incapable of thattask, then are they

overthrown;and leaders of Revolt rule in their stead & as a matter of course.Rulers'

controldepends absolutely upon their Might. When unable any longer to wield the 'death

penalty,'their power is departed. The French aristocracy originated in the savage deeds

offierce, long-haired, battle-bred Franks; and their effeminate descendents& were

overwhelmedand guillotined by Grim Provincials who came to Paris, hungry for money,

powerand renown.

 

Inthe regions of stellar Space similar phenomena may be noted. That sun-star withthe

strongestattractive power, whirls other and lesser stars around it until finally itcomes in

contactwith a rival rolling mass of greater magnitude and attractiveness, whereupon itis

absorbedand loses its individuality. What the law of gravitation is to matter andmotion,

thelaw of Might is in the province of sociology. In this analogy there isillimitable

significanceembedded. 

 

Starlife is known to be an emanation of primeval plutonic energy. Our planetarysystem

islike unto one whirling mote (among countless myriads) in a vitalized sunbeam.Our

earthis a by-product of secondary cyclonic rage. The sun itself (the power-house of OUR

WORLD)is materialized heat-force in active operation; manifesting itself as warmth,light,

motion,electricity, and animal life. 

 

Man'sbody and sustenance is derived, directly or indirectly from the Sun. By it helives,

dies,and has his being. Let heliocentric force be withdrawn for an instant, and alllife

straightwaydisappears. Thus everywhere, throughout 'Eternity,' under all circumstances

andat all times; this world, all worlds, and all that creeps thereon are driven,inspired,

vitalized,and guided by active operating Force. Everywhere it is Might that governs,

feeblenessthat is governed, attracted, repelled, controlled.

 

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Forcepropels iron-ribbed reindeers of the sea and hurls them plunging though thegrey-

greensurges. Force whirls the loaded freight cars over prairie, range, and river.Force

hauls-upfrom the deep sunk mines, vast treasures of gold, iron, silver, and coal. Force

rollsthe red-glowing metal ingots into titanic shapes. Force sows the seed, ploughsthe

field,reaps the grain, threshes the corn, hews the stone, shapes the girders, bridgesrivers,

mowsdown forests, builds cities, writes the book & inspires it, prints it,defends it.

 

Even'the music of the spheres' is the vibrant roar of warring elementals, chantingthe

Gloriaof Power.

 

IfForce is the 'all in all' of the planetary systems and of the animal world, mayit not

alsobe the open-sesame of sociology & the primeval principle that governs,(and must

continueto govern) the relations of tribe to tribe and man to man? Is it not the gospelof

antiquity,as well as the logical reducto of To-day?

 

Whetherin mortgaged republics, pawned monarchies, or hypothecated despotisms, the

SwordPower & (that is to say, the military power & the clubbing power)is the ultimate

IPSE DIXITin the measuring-out of right and wrong. As it was in the days of the fierce

Sesostris;the devastating Genghis; the venturesome Charlemagne; so is it even now. In

allindustrial relations Might is "monarch of all it surveys.' Authority isAuthority, though

itmay take on a thousand diverse forms. What is the elemental difference betweena

Romanmandumus, a Turkish firman, a Russian ukase, a "Supreme' Court injunction, or

anOrder in Chancery? They are exact synonyms. Whatever their salient phraseologymay

be;in operation they are visible manifestations of Imperial Power & ofSceptred

Majesty.No sacredotal sophistry can permanently disguise this fact; and what is more

important,no emotional demagoguery can remove it.

 

Authorityis not an evil in itself. It is as natural for men of Power to rule Feeble

multitudes,as it is for the lion to eat the lamb. When any nation, or class of men possess

noreal might, it is just and proper that they should be subordinated: and again,if they

developthe requisite strength, it is equally justifiable for them to reconquer theirformer

position;and subordinate their subordinators. Evolution works through Authority but

thereis to it no limitation. 

 

Thepenalty of defeat is tremendous. Wage-earning is (in modern times) the mainclause

inthe treaty under which the defeated are permitted to exist.

 

Even-handedJustice has never existed in the animate creation and never can. The very

ideaof it is an absurdity. Evolution knows it not.

 

Betweenbeasts of burden and beasts of prey; also between Capital and Labor there is an

eternalcombat. Natural enemies are they of each other, and whichever proves the

strongermust rule & for the time being; or rather, until the next Test. The lawof battle is

unlimited.It does not end to-day or to-morrow. It persists for all time.

 

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Betweenthe Optimates and Populares of Rome & and Aristos and the Helots ofGreece

&the Merchant-Kings and Nubian serfs of Carthage & the Military Caste andthe slaves

ofKarnack and Memphis; the same irrepressible conflict raged for long centuriesthat is

nowbeing waged EVERYWHERE, between the Haves and the Have-nots. Indeedthe

agrarianagitation, and the tumultous strife between the Debtor and the Creditor classesin

modernAmerica, is an exact duplicate of what happened in the Gr¾co-Roman world.

Modernleaders, however, (on both sides) are poor miserable weaklings, compared with

thechiefs of Antiquity. Mere infants are they, delighting in toys and lullabies& seeing,

theysee not; hearing, they hear not; minds have they, but they know not; laughingand

prattlingthey SAY naught & most eloquently. To them theirpetty provincial cradle is the

Universe,and their lives an aimless wandering in the land o' dreams.

 

Themen who talk of permanently reconciling conflicting world-wide energies, are

wastingtheir breath for naught. Compromise is out of the question (now as of old)except

asa temporary expedient. The rich and the poor are both inevitable naturalproducts and

complementsof each other & like the opposing currents in an electric battery. It isthe

businessof the rich to exploit the poor and it is equally the business of the poor todefeat

andexploit & in their turn.

 

Theoppression of one class by another is always induced by the physical cowardiceof

thevictimized; and Nature has no love for dastards & whether rich or poor.Oppression

isone of the NECESSARY phases of evolution. In order therefore toinsure the subordination

andultimate annihilation of lower types; the struggle for survival is imposed upon

humansas upon all other animals. Even when our "eminent' wiselings are predictingeras

ofuniversal peace and contentment; the contending cohorts are preparing to jumpat each

othersthroats & as of yore. Might must decide "all things' in the future, as ithas decided

"allthings' in the past: and they who teach otherwise, are either dishonest or haveno real

conceptionof the magnitude and sequence of biological determinance.

 

"Allthe world' is now in Debt and no human effort can ever suffice to repay theinterest

(letalone the principal) in cash. Business lives under a cloud of mortgageindebtedness,

thatmust some day be liquidated with shot and shell, for bonds infer &bondage.

 

Allrealized wealth is transfigured Force; and want of it, a sure sign of sterilityand

degeneracy.Industrialism is the manipulation of Force & by Force. Brains and muscles

arepart of the mechanism of gravitation. Descendents of 'prisoners-of-war' havebeen

trainedfor ages in servitude: and they make most intelligent mechanics, specialists,and

serving-men.

 

Capitalis concentrated Force, applied to the extraction and storage of additionalForce. It

maybe operated by its proprietor in any way that he pleases. He is under noobligation to

othersas to its application or proprietorship. He can "do as he likes with his own' AS LONG

AS HE HAS THE POWER. He may own the earth by its agency, if hewants to; and he may

buyor sell men and nations, if he feels so inclined or thinks it profitable. Thereis in

Natureno limit to his energies or ambitions. All that is needed is Power equal to the

design.But the same principles may be acted upon by any other man or association of

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men;and in the conflict that ensues, FITNESS IS PROVED & ABSOLUTELY AND WITHOUT

DOUBT.The "rights of the rich' are what they CANmaintain; and the "rights of the poor'

areno less. No bounds are set to the accumulation of property, and none whateverto its

re-distribution.Fair-play is not even an essential or a requisite. It may be established, if

mutuallydesired by both combatants; but it may also be wholly dispensed with. In real

lifeit IS always 'dispensed with' by those who possess apreponderance of material

might.

 

Equalitycan only exist amongst equals. Civilization implies division of labor and

divisionof labor implies subordination and subordination implies injustice and

inequality.Woe to me if I speak not truth!

 

Atsuch words as these, pusillanimity blanches with timidity & gathers inits Idol Halls,

supplicating& 'Lord have mercy upon us! & Christ have mercy upon us! &Deliver us

fromEvil!'

 

Inprimitive communities the Philosophy of Power is thoroughly understood andacted

uponby all classes & even by the Servi.20 Theideas of abstract justice, righteousness,

non-resistance,can find no lodgement in an uncorrupted brain. Life is too grim in a camp

ofhunters and of warriors, for artificialism to meet with anything moreappreciative than

agood natured sarcasm. He who has to hunt for his family-dinner every forenoon(and

seizeland on which to build his shelter) is not over likely to enthusiasticallyswallow the

depravedtheoria of self-renunciation; or pledge unbounded allegiance to aself-appointed

Ringof tax-gatherers & masquerading as political philanthropists. Hemaintains his own

inherentindependent royalty, as long as he CAN;and never surrenders, except before

absolutelysuperior force. Even then he vows limitless vengeance and obligates his sons

andsons' sons, to undying hatred against the domination and spoliation, of his

conquerors.

 

 

 

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InEvolution there is no finality. It is operating always in some form;endeavoring to blot

outinferior organisms, and perpetuate more perfect types. Like the gods ofAntiquity, it

isboth a Destructive and a Creative. The Powerful of the past were overthrown bythe

morePowerful of the present; and in strict sequence, the Powerful of to-day must be

overthrownby & the more powerful of to-morrow.

 

All"moral' dogmatisms and religiosities, are positive hindrances to the evolutionof the

HigherManhood; inasmuch as men who honestly grasp at Morals, do not as energetically

graspat Power & power being essentially non-moral. Consequently the strugglebetween

thepropertied and the propertyless classes, is not as keen as Nature evidentlyintends it to

be.The moral man is a feeble antagonist to non-moral generalship. He foolishlypermits

                                                

20

 Latinroot-word of servant. Applied indiscriminately to mules, eunuchs, slaves,philosophers, historians,

scribes, prisoners-of-war and working-cattlegenerally.

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talkativepersonalities (with sharper perceptive qualities), to wield unlimited Authority

overhim; under numerous plausible pretexts, and deliberately plunder him of his

Property.

 

Thereis far and away too much weepful MEA CULPAabout the average mannikin. Hence

thewoes of the world! & Hence the origin of the morbid craving by Dwindlingsfor what

theycall 'a peaceful solution of the social problem.' Weak natures are terrorizedat the

ideaof what 'might happen' in a death grapple with entrenched adversaries equallyas

strong,if not stronger than themselves. That is the true reason why rich men are so

anxiousat all times to avoid discussion, and "maintain the Peace' and why poor men&

'hungerwith fatness around them, and thirst while the waters flow near: for 'the Lawand

theGospel hath damned them, and dulled all their senses with fear.'

 

Thefact is that both sides are afraid of each other & afraid of the onlyrational solution.

 

Mycurse be upon the white-livered and the meek: the shameful dwindlings &who call

themselvesthe 'virtuous' the 'law abiding' the 'righteous' the 'godly;' the 'obedient

ones!'May civilization pump its vile narcotism through the flaccid ventricles oftheir

pigeon-hearts!May they inhale brain-leprosy through the open windows of their

Temples-of-Soot;and may the open windows of their noisome swineries and splendid

Ergastlui,be unto them living tombs! May they "earn' their bread (also that of their

conquerors)by the slimy sweat of dishonored brows; and may they perish at last like

abandonedcurs! May they vegetate in poverty and die in contempt. May the evil works

oftheir "genius' be ploughed under with Babylon and Ninevah; Anahuac and Rome!May

theannals of their dismal domination become, as the folk-tale of a fearsomenightmare

thatonce rolled over the brain of Mankind; & finally dissipating itself"midst thunders

andlightnings and the breaking up of the great deep! Verily! Verily! let them havetheir

Reward!

 

Itis customary for atrophied minds (like Bluntschili) to urge that thepromulgation of

suchgrim thoughts "endanger the foundations of Society.' Even supposing that to beso,

whatis Society anyhow, that its 'foundations' should not be threatened? Is'Society'

somethingimmaculate, something divine, something anointedly ultra-human &

somethingthat must be safeguarded, right or wrong? Is it another sacred Mount Moriah

Temple& a Urim and Thummim & an Ark of the Covenant & a SanctumSanctorum,

ormerely 'an asses head hidden behind a veil?' Why should the phrase 'Society in

danger'be equivalent to the proclamation of a rigid taboo or a fanatical crusade? Why?

 

Societyis altogether a matter of convenience & an implement & anexpediency. It is the

creationof man and what man manufactures he may modify or destroy.

 

Societymay be defined as an agglomeration of carnivorous and herbivorous animals,

seekingtheir natural prey and browsing along on whatever nutriment they pick-up. It is

nothingmore than a "herd' of two legged cattle and there's nothing supernaturallydivine

abouta herd. Indeed the word herd always suggests Gadara. Human swarms have been

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integratedand disintegrated ten thousand times ten thousand by the centrifugal and

centripetalenergy of individuals.

 

Societieshave risen and Societies have fallen; but man, the Unit & the germ-plasm&

persists;with the rising of the sun, and the fall of the tides. Man is not only the"clay,' but

alsothe "potter' & the paramount determinant. His fate is in his own handsabsolutely,

withinthe length of his tether.

 

'Tothe Strong all laws are cobwebs' (Solon) and when Society becomes irksome tothe

Strongthey may dissolve it; nay it is their positive duty to dissolve it; otherwiseit

becomestheir master and consequently their enemy and oppressor. 'Society in danger'

thereforeis merely the hysteria of the megalomaniac.

 

Society(in some shape) must exist, as long as there are two human beings left alive;for

companionshipis as natural to the homo, as swarming is to the bee. When however the

word'Society' develops into a synonym for socialistic restraint, then it becomes a

menaceto the Evolution of the Type and ought to be broken up accordingly &without

overmuch ceremony. Friendship is necessary and ennobling, but impersonal despotismis

destructiveof all dignity and manly virtue. 

 

Thereal danger is, that innocent and natural combinations for mutual pleasure,

comradeship,profit, and defence, may transform themselves gradually into organized

majority-boxtyrannies & enslaving institutionalisms of the most dictatorial and

obnoxiouscharacter. When Society is thus transfigured into a vast blackmailing

corporationthe lives and property of its component units are absolutely at its mercy, and

ittherefore ought to be disintegrated, consciously, deliberately, pitilessly, andat whatever

cost.Freedom cannot be bought too dear, for life without liberty is pandemonium.

 

Governmentand Society are two distinct entities, and care must be taken not to confound

them.Society is the growth of mutual tolerance, friendship, and physical obligation;but

"government'arises from physical force applied by the Strong to the control and

exploitationof vanquished foes. The sanction of government, is the same that holds good

throughoutthe whole zoological and heliocentric scale & the sanction of materialmight.

That"sanction' should always be under test; because the most abject weakling may

brandisha sword; but we do not know he is a weakling until another sword in the grip of

aMan is pointed at his throat.

 

Beowolf,a Saxon song-master, apostrophising 'the Sword,' voices this primeval

Organonas it was instinctively understood by our ancestors.

 

'Thewar-thing! the comrade! father of honor, and giver of kingship! the fame-smith!&

thesongmaster! Clear singing! clean slicing! sweet spoken! soft finishing! makingdeath

beautiful& life but a coin & to be staked in the pastime; whose playing ismore than

transferof being. Arch-anarch! chief builder! prince and evangelist! I am the will ofGod!

Iam the sword!'

 

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Itis only in ages saturated in atmospheres of brain-wrecking artificialism& in

consumptivecommunities steeped to the very lips in elemental error & that senile,

degrading,anthropomorphic myths and manias are substituted for hard, bitter Common-

Sense.(All great truths are 'hard' and 'bitter,' but Lies, to the morbidly inclined,are

sweeterthan wild honey.)

 

Oneby one we abandon Realisms & to follow FATA MORGANAS. We aremortgaging our

destinyto the Pawnbrokers of Decadence. Behold! & the legerdemain of the Orient

demonetizesthe Manhood of the West!

 

 

 We fight like women, and feel as much,

 The thoughts of our heart we guard& 

 Where scarcely the scorn of a god couldtouch,

 The sneer of a fool hits hard,

 The treacherous tongue and the cowardlypen,

 The weapons of curs decide & 

 They faced each other and fought likemen; 

 In the days when the world was wide.'21

 

 

Andyet the world is beautiful & as beautiful as a blushing maiden dreamingof her first

lover.'Fair laughs the morn and soft the breezes blow' and MEN only await CAPTAINING

to& capture and possess. 

 

 

 

MANHOODIS DEMONETIZED

 

 

Thislittle pamphlet has been issued not for private profit, but to assist inuprooting the

alienand pernicious Ideals that have been for long centuries corrupting the bloodand

corrodingthe brain of Europe and America. Conventional moral dogmas and political

standards-of-valueare, like wooden idols, the work of men's hands. They have no real

basisin nature nor have they any supernatural sanction. Every one of them has been

carvedout of a wormeaten lie, a brazen assumption or a madman's dream. They are

impositionsmost insolent. Why should we bow down even in formal adulation before

imbecileand unnatural principles invented thousands of years ago for the enslavement of

orientaldecadents? Have we not given lip-service long enough to false heroisms, andfool

evangels?Why feign the possession of slave virtues?

 

Whycontinue to glorify untruths that we know to be untruths? Why should men of

sterlingworth obey any other man's "thou shalt'?

 

Letus return to Nature for our moral standards!

                                                

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 Henrylawson. Angus & Robertson, Melb. Australia.

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Letus search our own hearts and brains for the true meaning of Right andWrong. 

 

Weare living and dying (mostly dying) in a poisonous environment of deep seatedmoral

dementia,social disease and political illusions.

 

The"Righteous and the Just'! hypocrites! deceivers! Enemies of all that is noble,

courageousand manly!

 

Destroyersof self-assertiveness! Annihilators of heroism! Would that I had a legion of

demonsto wring their necks.

 

Acrucified Jew slave (terrorized under Authority) is set up as a god, as astandard of

measurementfor all mankind. That is why personal valor and nobility of thought are at

sucha tremendous discount. 

 

Christendomis in bondage! Manhood is demonetized! Our race is betrayed!

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CHAPTER VI: LOVE, AND WOMEN, AND WAR.

 

 

 

Thebest fighters are the best race-producers. This is the verdict of Biology andthe

instinctivebelief of the whole Feminine world in general.

 

Inthe molding of Organic Nature into all its diverse forms, Love and War (withtheir

attendantpenalties and correlated consequences) are the two most potent factors. Battleis

thefurnace-alembic that has been consciously provided for chemically separatingthe

animateRefuse from the Gold. Sexual desire is the amalgam that thereafter unites the

goldenparticles, perpetuating for ages and ages the selected qualities & ofphysical

beauty,vigor, bravery, endurance & or vice-versa. 'I am convinced (writesDarwin) that

naturalselection has been the main, but not the exclusive means of modification.'

 

Thesame thought has been gemmed in a more sentimental but equally suggestivesetting,

byDryden: &  

 

 

'Happy,happy, happy pair,

Nonebut the brave,

Nonebut the brave,

Nonebut the brave deserve the fair.'

 

 

Heraclituscondensed it into the terser dictum "strife is the PARENT of things.' Even

Solomon(the hoary old kingling) chanted it in characteristic Oriental strophes: 'Loveis

strongerthan death, the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehementflame.

Manywaters cannot quench love, neither can the flood drown it & JEALOUSY IS AS CRUEL

AS THE GRAVE.'

 

Fightingis the method whereby the most fitted to propagate conclusively prove the fact.

Animals,plants, birds, reptiles, and fishes, all exist in surroundings of unending sex-

rivalryand warfare & so do men. Organic life is one ceaseless round of Love andWar.

Sexualismand slaughter go hand in hand.

 

Bacteriabutchers bacteria & germ wars with germ & shark eats the shark& tigers

strugglewith tigers & the lion rends lion & eagle kills eagle, and manfights man, for the

favorof the female & or the plunder of the vanquished. 'Peace on earth andmercy mild'

ismere lunacy-babblement. Even sheep the most 'Christly' of animals wagetremendous

duels& in due season.

 

Thereis no other earthly passion so fiercely, savagely, egotistic, as sexual desireand it is

thephysical basis of all human 'Love' & even the most ethereal and romantic.

Everywhere"the season of love, is the season of battle,' and when the fires of sexualism

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burnlow in nations or men, they are as unfit for freedom, as they are unfit toreproduce

theirkind.

 

Topinardexplains how sexualism operates among Vertebrates of the deep: 'The male

Artocephali(sea-bear) arrive at the Falkland Islands in November, and scatter out along

thebeach. In December the females arrive, and immediately violent battles arebeing

foughtin all directions for their possession. Family life follows exactly as among

humans.If the females behave badly, the male chastises them: they crouch as his feet,

seemto beg his pardon, and shed copious tears. At times the male and female weep

together.'

 

Ageographer and naturalist of world-repute (A. R. Wallace) proclaims a series ofsimilar

facts& facts that are not new to observant minds: & 

 

'Amongthe higher animals it is a very general fact, that the males fight together forthe

possessionof the females. This leads...to the stronger or better armed males, becoming

theparents of the next generation, which inherits the peculiarities of theparents; and thus

vigorand offensive weapons are continually increased in the males, resulting in the

strengthand horns of the bull, the tusks and shield of the boar, the antlers andfleetness of

thestag, and the spurs and fighting instinct of the gamecock. But almost all maleanimals

fighttogether, though not specially armed; even hares, moles, squirrels, andbeavers,

fightto the death. The same rule applies to all male birds. From this very general

phenomenon,there necessarily results a form of natural selection, WHICH INCREASES THE

VIGOR AND FIGHTING POWER OF THE MALE ANIMAL; THE WEAKER BEING EITHER KILLED,

WOUNDED, OR & DRIVEN AWAY.' &as among men.

 

Inhis 'Descent of man,' (page 564), Darwin makes a similar general statement:& 'With

socialanimals, the young males have to pass through many a contest, before they win a

female,and the older males have to retain their females by renewed battles. They have

also,as in the case of mankind, to defend their females, as well as their young, FROM

ENEMIES OF ALL KINDS, and tohunt for their joint subsistence.'

 

Amongthe Vertebrates, the king of the herd (or pack), selects himself by his battle-

prowess& upon the same 'general principles' that induced Napoleon to place theIron

Crownupon his own brow & WITHHIS OWN HAND. All the RegalHouses of the world

havebeen founded by fighting-men, and upheld by & fighting-men; just as in the'brute'

creation.The chief recommendation to both animal and human Chieftainship, is fighting

capacity.The 'common herd' instinctively feels that a GOODfighter possesses all the

requisitevirtues of GOOD leadership, and leadership is exactly what theywant. By

conquestalone can an animal-king be deposed; and his vanquisher is ALWAYS his

successor.As long as his sight, hearing, strength, and courage endures, he is absolute

lord,judge, procreator-in-chief & BUT NOT ONE MOMENT LONGER. "Theking's dead, long

livethe king' is a biological affirmative.

 

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Thisis the Natural Order. The un-natural order is to appoint feeble but eloquent

rhetoriciansas Chief Magistrates (or constitutional kinglings). This latter plan is adopted

onlyby human swarms in eras of senility and wholesale decadence.

 

Politiciansare everlastingly 'fighting each other (if we believe the sensational headlines

ofour editorial DAILYLIAR) but that kind of warfare is a sham intendedto deceive. No

real'fight' ever takes place between them. What they call "fighting' is gamblingwith

'Ayes'and 'Nays;' playing pitch-and-toss for the booty other men win and the harvests

othermen garner. Hark! do you hear them frothing at the mouth, loudly professing their

'divineenthusiasm for Humanity.' For what? In order that they (squalid scoundrels that

theyare) may sit on the seats of the mighty and steer the nation down to hell while

puttingmoney in their purses with taxes and blackmail. Nations have always risen to

theirhighest pitch of fame and prosperity under the guidance of mighty men of valor,self

selected:and they've sank to the lowest depths of degradation and dishonor under the

diabolicaldomination of elective rhetoricians. (Their ravages are not so obtrusive in

Americaas in Europe, because territory here has been so vast & practicallylimitless).

 

 

 

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Womeninstinctively admire soldiers, athletes, king's nobles, and fighting-mengenerally,

aboveall other kinds of suitors & and rightly so.

 

Nothingso lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped'

ina personal encounter with a rival. Among all classes of females this sentimentpersists.

Thebest bid a man can make for the admiration of any woman (even the most pious)is a

displayof undaunted physical prowess.

 

Youngwomen have an instinctive detestation for the 'good young man that died' kindof

adorer,and they positively abhor the pale coward & even though he be a bloodrelation.

Strength,energy-of-character, ferocity, and courage, she admires in her possiblehusband,

aboveall other qualities combined. Even to be carried-off by force is not repugnantto her

feelings,if the 'bold bad man' is in other respects acceptable.

 

Shepines to be "wooed and WON' (or asit were) she likes to feel that she has been

mastered,conquered, taken possession of & that the man who has stormed her heartis in

allrespects, a MAN among men. This suggestive female idiosyncrasyis rhythmically set

forthby an anonymous writer thus: & 'Down a winding pathway in a garden old,tripped

abeauteous maiden, but her heart was cold. Came a prince to woo her, SAID he loved her

true;maiden said he didn't, so he ceased to woo. Came a perfumed noble & droppingon

oneknee; SAID his love was deeper, than the deepest sea. Butthe winsome maiden, said

hislove was dead, and the perfumed noble, accepted what she said. Came a dashing

Stranger,took her off by force: said he'd MAKEher love him, and she did & of course.'

 

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Conquersomepersonalities by obtaining possession of the best and handsomest females

raiseup as a rule, conquersome descendents. Hence the origin of Great Races. Second-

classmales are driven by necessity to mate with second-class females; and in strict

sequencethird-class males select partners from feminine remainders. (Hence the

stereotypednature of servile Castes).

 

Superiormales TAKE racially superior women, and inferior malesare permitted to

duplicatethemselves, per media of inferior feminines. Each class reproduces its kind (on

average)and if the ordained struggle for earth's Good-Things is not artificiallyinterfered

with,the leading classes are periodically called upon to maintain their pre-eminenceat

everyturn, by Might or be swept away, enslaved, supplanted, expropriated by thebraver

andbolder Animals.

 

Aristocracieshave always originated in War. Sham ones grow up (like mushrooms) in

timesof peace. No 'Aristocracy' ought to be allowed to dominate one moment longer,

thanit is unable to maintain itself, by the edge of the Sword. Again, subordinatedclasses

shouldnot permit themselves to be mastered by Usurpers who cannot fight. It is the

NaturalOrder for first-class men to dominate second-class men and for second-class men

todominate third-class men & but the classes are self-selective; byconflict. Someday

inferiorbreeds will be remorselessly exterminated, as useless and noxious vermin.

Behold!I judge the future by the evolutionism of the past.

 

Womencongregate at athletic sports and gladiatorial contests; impelled by the same

universalinstinct that induces the lioness to stand expectantly by, while two or morerival

malesare ripping each other to pieces in a rough-and-tumble & for herpossession. The

lionesssubmits, as a matter of choice, to the embraces of the Victor; and in the most

fashionablesociety, the stalwart footballer or the dashing soldier, has practically

unlimitedselective powers, among the marriageable maidens of his own particularset. 

 

Nonation, no empire, has ever fallen & no race has ever been enslaved, BECAUSE it

delightedin manly sports & in the hunting of boars and lions, and men & indeadly

tournaments& in dueling & in prize fighting & in gladiatorial combats& in scenes of

'crueltyand blood.' No! not one! (Nature is cruel & a million times more cruelthan man

everwas). But dozens of "civilizations' have perished shamefully, ignominiously,

BECAUSEof the spreading canker of personal cowardice & gendered by effeminacy,

luxury,usury, laboriousness, statecraft, superstition, "culture,' and peace.

 

Wantof daring & enfeeblement of physique & meanness of mind &fear of danger and

dreadof death (sure signs of racial deterioration) have NEVER ORIGINATED withathletic

tournaments,nor wars of conquest, nor gladiatorial games. When Clericalism abolished

the"holmgang,' the pride of Norland silently waned away: when it abolished the

Olympiangames Greece rotted into decay; and when it banned gladiatorial contests the

EternalCity 'had its day.'

 

Bull-dogvirtues are bound to triumph in the long run and they can only be developed (if

developedat all) by daily practice from youth up. Hence the necessity of "brutal'football

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&"brutal' warfare & "brutal' personal encounters & "brutal' thoughtsand "brutal'

combinations.(The word "brutal' is written here because it is popularly misunderstood

andused as a missile.) The "brutal' races have always been victorious races& the

greatestmen have always been supremely "brutal.' (Alexander, Sesostris, Caesar, Titus,

Nero,Bonaparte, Cromwell, Grant, Bismarck, Cecil Rhodes.)

 

Theword "brutal' in real life means the reverse of effeminate. A man is brutal whowill

notturn the other cheek. WHAT IS IT THAT 'BRUTES' DO THAT IN NATURE, IS WRONG?

 

Emersonperceived this pivotal anachronism clearly when he declared: Nature is erect,

butman is fallen.' Christlings are forever using the word "brutal' to terrorizeeach other

butwho are they anyhow? Are they not the scum, the dross, and offscourings, and

creepingthings, of the Aryan migrations & mere shrieking, blubbering, fulminating

dwindlingsof the very lowest intellectual development? Let Emerson again be put on the

witnessstand. He may be considered fairly impartial. Hear what he has to say:& 

 

 

'Thewaves unashamed, in difference sweet,

Playglad with the breezes; old play-fellows meet.

Thejourneying atoms primordial wholes,

Firmlydrawn, firmly driven by their animate poles.

 

Sea,earth, air, silence; plant, quadruped, bird;

Byone music enchanted; one deity (nature) stirred.

Eachthe other adorning, accompanying still;

Nightveileth the morning; the vapor, the hill.

 

Mancrouches and blushes, absconds and conceals,

Hecreepeth and sneaketh, he palters and steals. 

Infirm,melancholy, jealous; & glancing around; 

Anoaf, an accomplice; he poisons the ground.' 

 

 

Athleticcontests (and combats of all kinds), have a powerful influence in moulding for

thebetter, the personnel of all participants therein. He who MUST meetworthy antagonists

face-to-faceand defeat them or be himself defeated, ennobles his own mentality &

unconsciously.Courage, coolness, intrepidity, purity of blood, and mental balance, are

theathlete's first requisites. He must therefore be individualistic, self-reliantand calmly

resourceful;i.e. he MUST be brave.

 

Thebrave man is ever generous, frank, outspoken, dauntless. His brow is open& his

stepfearless and firm & his bearing self-poised, leonine. He looks at youwithout a

tremor& sums you up at a glance, and in business affairs, his 'word of honor'is more

bindingthan a Shylock's sealed bond. He may not be an erudite philosopher & a

profoundscholar & nor an eminent elocutionist & (nor be troubled over muchwith the

'saving'of his soul) but he is more than all that & HE IS A MAN. Hence, everywhere he is

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firstfavorite, especially with the feminine gender & whose sexual instinctsare as true to

Natureas the needle is to the pole.

 

Whata tremendous difference is noticeable, between the self-contained bearing ofthe

bronzedsoldier; and the creeping suavity of the chalky-skinned shopkeeper & the

vilenessof the Hebrew money-lender & the sweet milk-and-honeyness of the venomous

pastor& the base obsequiousness of the lean hireling & the boorishness ofthe ungainly

peasant& and the fat sleek cunning of the tax-eating political? Who can lookupon them

(bunchedtogether) and honestly affirm, that & fighting does not tend to improvethe

stamina,beauty, vigor, and seed of the race?

 

Healthyanimalism is the foundation of all virtues whatsoever. Diseased bodies produce

diseasedminds. Hence the noxious degeneracy of the average "genius.' Hence also the

shriekingmadness of the blinded multitude. Average "civilized' men are more or less

abortionsanyhow & pre-natal megalomaniacs. Sane men could never be induced to

worshipan Idol (made out of a mendicant Jew) nor would they consciously erect in the

nameof Progress, State sausage mills for chewing up their own flesh, and suckingtheir

children'smarrow bones. (Deranged minds while being very susceptible to suggestion,

possess& no initiative.)

 

Itis the gibbering 'geniuses' that are luring mankind down to eternal damnation.If these

monstrousmattoids had been smothered the day they were born & the earth and theair

wouldhave been purer, to that extent. Have they not inoculated the human race with

everymalady; while proclaiming nostrums and 'infallible remedies' & for each

incurabledisease?

 

Frompulpit, platform and library, they ray out their maniacal babblement; andrabbles,

madderthan march-hares, suck it all in, with open-mouthed wonderment?

 

Hark!do you hear consumptive fiendlings coughing out their literary pestilence inthe

Highplaces of the World? They would cure 'the sufferings of the submerged,' would

they?

 

Vainis the medicament that expels no contagion! Vain also is the rhetoric thatcures no

humanwoe!

 

 

 

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Womentake supreme delight in the roll of warlike drums & in the marching ofthe

military,in reading the poems and romances of "battle, murder and sudden death.' (Police

Gazettesare mostly supported by women, because of the sensational homicide reports.)

 

Frenchwomen (even against their deep patriotic sentimentalism) admired the fine

physiqueand marital bearing of the German troops, that poured through Paris in '71. The

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contrastbetween the tall, clean-skinned German Conquerors and the dwarfishness of the

FrenchNational Guards was then most strikingly displayed. In France all "brutal'sports

areprohibited. Clericalism there has had full sway for centuries and nowmajority-box

socialism(also cynical squalid sensualism) is all the rage.

 

Whereversoldiers conquer in war, they also conquer in love & after the first paroxysm

ofrevengeful patriotism is over. Women of vanquished races are usually very proneto

wedwith the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle. 

 

RudyardKipling, in one of his popular ballads touches upon this ethnic peculiaritywith a

masterlyhand: & 'By the old Moulmein Pagoda looking eastward to the sea, there'sa

Burmagirl a settin' an I know she thinks o' me; for the wind is in the palm-trees,and the

templebells, they say: & "Come you back O British Soldier, come you back to

Mandalay.'

 

Afterthe battle of Senlac, Norman adventurers were the "prey' of fair-haired Saxon

maidens.To this hour, wherever soldiers or men-o-wars go, amorous dusky daughters of

conqueredIslands, absolutely leap into their arms. New Zealand Maori women married

Britishofficers, soldiers and sailors in thousands and when the regiments were senthome

manymen remained rather than break up their families. At Gibraltar, Spanishsenoritas

literallystorm that rock-ribbed fortress to get at the 'widow's-sons.' The loves of Red

Indianmaidens for Pale Face warriors may some day find a Homer, to clothe them with

immortality.Already many have become world-famous; notably the epic of Pocahontas

andthat erratic filibuster John Smith. Since the marriage of Strongbow to Eva the

admixtureof Celt and Sassanach blood has proceeded continuously from the same root

cause.In garrison towns it is a matter of perpetual witticism the preference whichfemales

ofall strata display for soldier lovers.

 

Whatmodern Gaul requires to reinvigorate her ethnic stamina is wholesale andlimitless

conquestby some Northern Race. The conquerors by seizing all the land and movable

propertywould become immediately a ruling caste, attracting to themselves all the best

femininesof France. This infusion of new blood would not strengthen the inherited

physiqueof the invaders but it would certainly invigorate the structural physique ofthe

defeatedtribe.

 

Nohand should be stretched forth to shield a self-poisoned breed of humans fromutter

subordination,for an undue preponderance of weakly organisms is not desirable. It is

goodthat they should be swept away and it is better that they should be swept awayby

warthan by pestilence & as in China and India. Enslavement or annihilationis the just

rewardof wholesale physical debilitation. The Blackfeet's ruthless warfare againstthe

DiggerIndians was in strict accord with the Cosmic Plan.

 

Thestory of the past literally bristles with illustrations of ethnic displacement,carried out

(unconsciouslyperhaps) as herein set forth. But to resume the personal factor. Breseis,

afterher 'dearly beloved' had been slain by Achilles, consoled herself with theself-

delightfulfact that the slayer would take her, as spoil, to his own bed. The Valkyries

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(Norsebattle-maidens), married only with their conquerors. After the storming ofTroy,

therewas very little ceremony over the union of Ajax and Cassandra, in the temple of

Minerva.All through the Illiad epic, women are at once the property, the conqueror's

prize,and the inspiration of all the Homeric Warriors.

 

Itis notorious that when Roman and Greek matrons discovered no parental virilityin

theirdebauched consorts; they deliberately made advances to the blonde-bearded

barbarians;who had been imported from the frontiers (prisoners of war) to wrestle in the

amphitheatre.Many a dark-eyed patrician "maiden of Italia' throbbed with secret joy, at

theduel-victory of her favorite fighter; and many another has wept her eyes out,as the

greedyremorseless sand, drank up the hearts blood of her "dying gladiator.' American

women'spassion for marrying foreigners, arises more or less, from similar instincts.

Americanborn men evince an alarming tendency towards impotency. (Vide census

returns).An immense number of them are "old before they are young' and a very large

proportion(more especially in the cities) are lean lantern jawed profligates, or leering

bald-headedwrecks.

 

Thenoblest born maids and matrons of Rome vied with each other for Caesar's smile&

whenhe (after killing one million men, and enslaving two million, became Imperator.

Queenswere proud to be his concubines; and one of his own natural sons (without

knowingthe fact) helped to assassinate him. The love scandals of David, Solomon, Aaron

Burr,Sigurd the Volsung, Hercules, Jupiter, Apollo, Jehovah, Isis, Sir Galahad,Charles

II,Henry VIII, Bonaparte, Alexander, Raleigh, and that dashing triumvir MarcAntony,

haveaffected, for better or for worse, the whole world.

 

"Betterthe mistress of a king, than the wife of a subject,' was a saying once popular

amongstEuropean women, in the ages when kings were really kings of men & when

theywere mail-clad sword-swingers & mighty men-of-valor. Modern 'kings' are

simulacra& dilettante, scarecrows, & robed in purple, and paid liberalsalaries to

impersonateregalism for the delectation of the vulgar. Marionettes are they! &fitted

onlyto lay foundation-stones & utter vicarious homilies & read offtype-written

deceptions;or now and then dress up in swashbuckler accoutrements, to review Messrs

Rothschild,Ikelheimer, Bleichroder & Co's pr¾torian guards, marching by in serried

column& with nodding plumes and bannered panoply of war.

 

Modernkings are degenerates; even more so (if that be possible) than their laborious

subjects.They have allowed all kingly Initiative to be wrested from them; by the

diabolicalcunning of that "plastic d¾mon' the Jew banker & thatMephistophelian 

manipulatorof National Debts and National Credits. Kings have not been equal to the

occasionand resultantly they and their brain-drugged subjects are 'bonded' to the

Israelite.The Jew has been supinely permitted to do & what Alexander, Caesar,

Nusherwan,and Napoleon failed to accomplish & crown himself Emperor of the World;

andcollect his vast tributes from "the ends of the earth.' From the Mississippivalley to

theplains of the Hoang-Ho & from Spitzbergen's icy uplands to New Zealand'siron

shores& his satraps bear sway, and his tax-gatherers pillage, ravage, and rob.As long as

theAryan Race bows down (even nominally), at the Sign of the Cross or vacuously

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endeavors  to "keep the commandments,' it ishopelessly entangled & it is delivered up

&a burnt sacrificial offering & to the dolabra of the sons of Jacob& Jacob the

supplanter.

 

Maimonidesthe philosopher of Hebraism boldly suggested this view to orthodox

Talmudists:& "The teachings of the Christian Church' he proclaimed "tend to bring to

perfectionall mankind, so that they SERVE Jehovah with one consent. For, since the whole

worldis thus full of the words of the Messiah; of the teachings of the Holy Writ,and the

Commandments,these words have spread to the ends of the earth, even if any man deny

thebinding character of them now.' Which being interpreted meaneth: &Tolerate O

childrenof Israel, the false religion of the Crucified Prophet! It will serve your endsmost

admirably.When the tribes of the West "serve Jehovah with one consent' & Behold!

theyshall also serve you. Christ shall "bring them to perfection,' and ye shall putthem in

bonds.They have made you weep and suffer; ye shall make them drip tears of blood; for

theLord your God hath said it.'

 

 

Nineteencenturies of evangelization (with a Hebrew bible as basis) has resulted in&

what?The political, social, financial, and philosophical domination of & theHebrew.

Westudy his falsified chronicles, his melancholy literature, and his prophetic

outpourings;as if alone, in such a nauseous heap of rubbish and stench the SUMMUM

BONUMwas to be found. Not an acrechangeth hands & not a battle-ship lifts an anchor

&not a ploughshare cleaves the soil & not a president vetoes a Bill& not a diplomat

signsa protocol & not an emperor waves a saber, without direct inspirationfrom the

hiddenHebrew Potentate. Behold! & 'the King is in his counting-house, countingout his

money'& and such a king! Israel is absolute dictator, because he is absoluteProprietor.

Thegold AND THESILVER and the credits of theworld belong to him, and as long as he

hirespoliticians to utilize the military arm of "government,' in the collection ofhis

"loans'& in the defense of his ironclad safety-vaults, he is an irresponsibleJehovah-

Jirah.But should Force ever fail him, 'the lean dogs outside the wall' will leapsnarling

uponhim and spoil him of his spoil; that the fittest may survive.

 

"TheJews are ministers of Gold & Great Bankers who see in the People and theState a

mineto be worked.22 'Our life blood is drawn from us by theseharpies of finance and the

gamingtable, who mock us with illusions, while they strip us of our all.'23 'The harm

whichthe Jews commit does not come from individuals, but from the very constitutionof

thesepeople; they are locusts, caterpillars, which ravage France, to whom commerce

oughtto be prohibited.'24

 

Theseare two distinct yet parallel species of the parasitical Semite: & Thefirst,

representedby Marx, LaSalle, Stepniak, and Jesus-the-dreamer: the second, by Goshen,

Rothschild,Baring, and Iscariot-the-Banker. Between them they've practically

extinguishedcivil liberty and personal independence, wherever they have been sheltered.

                                                

22

 M.Anatole L. Beaulieu, REVUEDEX DEUX MONDES'96

23

 Wilson,Financial Editor, INVESTORSREVIEW, Lond.

24

 EmperorNapoleon the First & Quoted by Presense.

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Viperlike, do they not bite the very mam¾ that gives them suck? What have they ever

doneto Gaul but eat her heart out; and Gaul was first to 'emancipate' them? Whatare

theynow doing to Germany, Russia, England, America, Africa, Australia? Poisoningthe

brain-cellsof the enslaved multitude while taking-in-pledge & the plough and theharrow

&the millstones and the mill.

 

Overnations and empires and colonies in vassalage, hangs the Idol-sign of theBrazen

Crucifix(that cures no ill.) Over a world in bondage looms the dread shadow of theThree

GoldenBalls.

 

 

 

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Asthe stars and the suns and primordial atoms, attract each other by odic force,so do

handsomewomen and brave men. The nerve cells of splendid feminines and resolute

warriorsvibrate in rhythmic unison. Between them there is a mutual free-masonry, that

neither'creed' nor 'culture' has ever been able to eradicate; because it is part ofthe

cosmicplan for evolving a higher, and yet a higher type.

 

Womenkindmobilize in battalions-of-beauty, at football matches, ball tournaments,

aquaticcarnivals, and sham battle; just as feminines of 'Auld-langsyne' gathered atthe

archery  sports & the Colliseum combats& the Olympian games, and the Neolithic war-

dances.In their worship of the warrior, Indian squaws, lionesses and ball-room bellesare

inharmonious accord.

 

Evenin years of peace (peace may be considered a temporary truce & a partial

suspensionof the struggle for survival) civilians in female society are at a heavy

discount,when the gold-braided naval lieutenant or the "Captain-in-his-whiskers' is

prowlingaround. At balls and receptions, the marital uniform carries all before it

sexually,(more especially if there be a MAN inside)just as it does among the head hunters

ofBorneo, the cannibals of the Congo, the redskins of Oklahoma & or thegruesome

savagesof Chicago.

 

Universityprofessors (priests disguised) and supersanct demagogues, may rail in florid

proseand honeyed lines of rhyme, against "militarism' and the "horrors of war,' butthey

might,much more logically, rear-up on their hind legs and bray furiously at the beltsof

Orion;or kick out in silly desperation, at the glancing spears of the NorthernLights.

 

Thoseliterary "luminaries' (whose business is to dwarf public opinion) withspectacles on

theirnoses & madness in their cerebrums & congestion in their livers& saplessness in

theirbones & fear in their hearts and pens between their snaky fingers, arenever

enthusiastically'selected' by virile women. When these poor miserable manlings

(genius'sthey name each other) do happen (by some lucky chance), to get a woman, they

makeher life a torment, and scarcely ever leave any progeny behind them, for thedoom

ofdegeneracy is upon every nerve and filament of their bodies. Who ever heard ofa

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lovelornvirgin risking her life, or her reputation, to mate herself with asanctimonious

creeping-thing,or bespectacled savant? Did you ever look upon a great drama wherein

thehero did not do a bit of fighting? Prince Charming is ever a performer ofgallant

actions& he conquers giants & outwits knaves & slaughters monsters& pulverises

wickedenchanters and is an all round perambulating Terror to the wicked & thatis to

sayto 'the other fellow.'

 

Arecent account of the Indian mutiny, states that the first outbreak (atMeerut), was

precipitatedby "a splendid native girl, hung with jasmine garlands' who womanlike,

tauntedher sepoy lover by hissing in his face, when he came to visit her: & 'Weof the

Bazaarkiss no cowards.' He left her in a rage and went out to recklessly precipitatethe

Insurrection,that ended by the blowing of 'the defeated' from the mouths of the

conqueror'scannon.

 

Asagents provocateurs women have never been surpassed by men. Cornelia trained up

hertwo brilliant sons, with a view to hurl them against and overturn the Roman

Oligarchs;a city harlot led the SANS-CULLOTES of the French Revolution. Queen Boadicea

ledher own army of painted Britons against the, then all-conquering Legions ofRome. A

femaleepileptoid (since canonized) dressed herself in iron armor, mounted awar-horse,

andurged her demoralized countrymen & to the forcible expulsion of an alienarmy. In

Americanwars the feminine has also played her part with eclat; and she delights (above

allother women) in tracing her own and her family's pedigree to RevolutionarySoldiers,

Pirates,Filibusters; and through them to the mailclad knights and heroes of long ago.No

PublicLibrary in this Republic is without its complete set of Stud-Books, and noneare

deeperstudents thereof then & woman. Instinctively comprehending thedeterminant

powerof heredity, these students are vaguely endeavoring (in their own peculiarway), to

solvethe renowned Spencerian Synthetic: & 'Having seen that matter isindestructible,

motioncontinuous, and Force persistent & having seen that Forces are everywhere

undergoingtransformation; that motion always follows the line of least resistance; is

invariablyrhythmic; it remains to discover the similarly invariable formula, expressing

thecombined consequences of actions, thus separately formulated.'

 

Herod'swife and daughter, and their secret alliance for getting John the Baptizer'shead

choppedoff, must not be overlooked; nor the calculated "brutality' with which Jaeldrove

thattent-peg into General Sisera's cranium, when he slept. The folk-fable ofDelilah and

Samsonis also to the point. In many respects women have proved themselves more cruel,

avaricious,bloodthirsty and revengeful than men.

 

Womenare also remarkably good liars. Deception is an essential and necessary part of

theirmental equipment. They are inherently deceitful. Men however reckon upon that

anddiscount it well in advance. Without deception of some sort, a woman would haveno

defensewhatever, against rivals, lovers, or husbands. We must not forget that women

reallyhate each other & intensely. 

 

Itis as natural for women to prevaricate, as it is for man to resent a blow onthe face. It is

theirweapon. Hence they take up with false religions, priestcrafts, superstitions,much

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morereadily than men. They like to play the hypocrite, and pretend to be 'O soholy,'

whentheir secret thoughts are carnal, self-centered and materialistic. When women

THINK,they think falsely & when they follow their instinct, they do exactlywhat nature

intendedthem to do & limited of course by the inevitable "man' & "the brutethat he is.'

 

Womenare beautiful animals, delightful companions, affectionate mothers, sisters,and

wives,kind-hearted friends; but they are & born dissimulators.

 

Awoman is primarily a reproductive cell-organism, a womb structurallyembastioned by

aprotective, defensive, osseous network; and surrounded with the anten¾, andblood

vessels,necessary for supplying nutriment to the growing ovum or embryo. Sexualism

andmaternity dominate the lives of all true women. To such an extent is this so,that they

havelittle time left (or the inclination) to 'think' and therefore they've neverfitted out

ab-initiowith reasoning organs. Probably this is what Mahomet alluded to, when he

sententiouslyaffirmed that 'women have no soul.' (Even in man, the soul is probably a

fiction,but in women its absence is an absolute certainty). Women are made sexually

attractiveto equilibrate their lesser masculinity. It is man & the warrior's& business to

supplytheir wants; and select the best of them, for his own enjoyment and the

propagationof his seed. They will not object & except in a giggling,semi-sentimental

sortof a way, because they comprehend their own incapacity for self-mastership, and

logicalbusiness methods. They are never touched with any sense of personal

responsibility;are mere babies in worldly concerns & hysterical, well supplied with tear

glands,verbal mechanism & but lovable always. Slaves and women are notoriously

incompetentof self-control & of holding their own in "business' & when notinspired

andassisted by male friends. They are intended by nature to be loved and defendedbut

notto be 'equalized.'

 

 

 

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Whentheir passions are stirred, women have performed deeds of heroism (and ofterror),

thateven a man with nerves of steel, would hesitate at. They have fought on sea andland,

thebravest of the brave. They have led armies and ruled empires, and been criminalsof

thedarkest dye. Messalina, Aggrepina, Amestes, Charlotte Corday, Elizabeth ofRussia,

Jael,Fulvia, Theroigne de Mericourt, Jezebel & the Borgias; have all madethemselves

moreor less infamous. "Terrible is the rage of the billows & terrorizing isthe fear of

poverty,but more terrorizing than all things is the hate of a woman.' (Euripides).Pseudo

scientistshave lately investigated 'The Female Offender' with anthropometric accuracy,

buttheir methods are puerile and unsatisfactory. Their very "first principle' isfalse. They

beginby assuming that the 'criminal type' is to be found in gaols & a mostsuperficial

andunscientific assumption. ONLY CRIMINALS WHO FAIL ARE FOUND THERE; and by far the

largestproportion of them do not fail. Naturally enough, successful criminals have not

been'investigated' by Messrs Ferreri, Lombroso, Havelock, Ellis, et. al. That beingso,

theirsagest conclusions are vitiated. Indeed it is an accepted truism amongcriminals and

police,that "only the fools are caught.' Many of our most eminent men in law,medicine,

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science,religion and statesmanship, are criminals & criminals of the mostatrocious

description.The difference between the man who rules in the Castle, and the other man

whois chained in the castle-dungeon, is the difference between success andfailure. There

isa strong affinity between the criminal and the conqueror. If Washington forexample,

hadfailed, he would (most probably) have been hunted-down, and hung as an outlawand

traitor.However he "won' by FORCE, andconsequently became a mighty potentate. King

Davidwas a sheep-stealer and blackmailer, until he triumphed. Then he became 'a man

afterGod's own heart.' William the Norman was also a criminal, and fifty per cent ofhis

invadingarmy were exiled outlaws; but by conquest he became king of England, and his

followersblossomed into nobles.

 

Hencethe Spencerian dictum: & 'the sole truth that transcends experience, by

underlyingit, is the Persistence of Force. This being the basis of experience, must bethe

basisof any scientific organization of experiences. To this an ultimate analysisbrings us

down;and on this a rational synthesis must be built up.' (First Principles, page62).

Criminalsand statesmen are visible embodiments of the Persistence of Force? Now that

beingso; scientists should define, unmistakably, what they mean by 'crime,' before

commencingto elaborately tabulate "the criminal type.'

 

Butwhether a criminal is successful or not, he seems to have a peculiarfascination for

women.He who 'risks his life to advance his fortunes' may reckon beforehand upon

unlimitedfeminine approval. If he SUCCEEDS and becomes a millionaire, a chancellor, a

president,or a king; he has only to "hold up his hand' to be literally "rushed' by the

handsomestfeminines in the land: and even if he fails bravely, women will gather in

shoalsto visit him in gaol, besieging him with bouquets and proposals of marriage,even

atthe gallows. In Michigan a law has lately been enacted, to prohibit femaleadorers,

fromsending flowers to condemned murderers, burglars, and bank wreckers. Lombroso

sayssomewhere that 'good and passionate women have a fatal propensity to love bad

men;'but with characteristic want of the logical faculty, he abstainsenthusiastically,

fromdefining "good' and "bad.'

 

BelleStarre, the border bandit (who died in a fight with State troops) was thedaughter of

aguerilla chief. She selected her numerous husbands from the bravest dare-devilsin her

band,and on the slightest sign of cowardice, they were discarded. 'I do LOVE a fellow

whoshows grit,' was a common expression of hers.

 

Aprinted catalogue of the sanguinary duels, that have been fought throughjealousy,

wouldnot be less than fifty miles thick. (The mythical Cain and Abel are supposed to

havequarreled over some ante-diluvian young woman's charms; and she must have

marriedCain.) If the duels between the animals, plants, birds, fishes, germs, and

infusorians,for possession of the female, were also added thereto; this planet would not

containthe first chapter of the first volume. Women like to be able to say that twomen

havefought over them. All female animals display a similar peculiarity.

 

Bushrangers,freebooters, rebels, pirates, have never lacked for love romances. Plays and

novelsby the thousand have been written upon their escapades, and are always

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perenniallypopular. From the Arabian Nights down to Marie Correli and Ouida, it is one

longrhythmic lilt of "Love and Women and War.' Women authors are specially prone to

glorifyin their heroes, beauty-of-form, daring, hardihood, and resolution.

 

JesseJames and his reckless band of outlaws, also had their famous love adventures.The

motherof the James boys had her arm torn off by the explosion of a detective's bomb,

thrownthrough her bedroom window, in the darkness of the night.

 

Thememory of 'Brennan on the Moor,' (and his dashing inamorata, who 'handed him a

blunderbussfrom underneath her cloak') is still as green as the hillsides of Innisfail.Like

Mahomet,Tell, William Wallace, Caesar, and Napoleon, this famous outlaw's popularity

restedon & a suggestive economic fact: & 

 

 

 'He never robbed a poor man,

 Upon the king's highway;

 But what he'd taken from the rich,

 He gave unto the poor;

 So bold and undaunted,

 Was Brennan on the moor.'

 

 

Thoughnot cast in the American mould, Mr. Brennan was somewhat of a 'practical

statesman.'Decidedly!

 

Accordingto Inspector Shaak's very cleverly written pamphlet; each of the Chicago

bomb-throwershad his own romance. An heiress supplied money for the defence of one,

whomshe proposed to marry: but the most daring and logical of them all (whendefeated)

'fellupon his sword,' like unto Brutus and Cato and Saul. That is to say, he blewhis own

headoff with explosives brought to him by his lady-love. It is also noteworthy thathe

wasthe son of a Crown Prince. Heredity therefore may have had much to do with the

magnitudeof his concept. INSE MAGNA RUUNT.

 

Anotherof these slave-betrayed, mob-abandoned enthusiasts was the brother of an

AmericanGeneral, and seems to have led a wandering adventurous life; finally falling

"head-over-heals'in love with a Southern quadroon; who still zealously fans the embers

ofher dead husband's agitation (limited of course by police censorship.) Whenevershe

risesto speak in this city, she is surrounded by stenographic-mouchards and by armed

officersof the 'Law' in picturesque uniforms.

 

Bydirect command of the People, two of those men were choked to death and twoothers

hadtheir necks neatly broken; amid reverberating shouts of worldwide approbation.Their

"Power'was not equal to their "Logic,' and consequently they were snuffed-out instrict

accordancewith the Law of the survival-of-the-fittest. "They who make half-revolutions

digtheir own graves' is an old Cromwellian proverb, that they had evidently failedto

properlyconsider.

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Thusthe vibrations of Matter and Motion are to be seen in all social phenomena; and

RegalAuthority is upheld by the combined strength of arm and brain, THAT GAVE IT BIRTH.

'Man,like every other animal must remain subject to a severe struggle.' (Darwin.)

 

Lovein sexual relationship, Power in social adjustments, Polarity and Magnetism in

physics,Gravitation in astronomy, and Might in ethics, are exact synonyms; &correlated

phasesof one primary Assertive & 'the Persistence of Force.' SE NU SAN & SO NA SI. The

Sultanof Turkey has been melodramatically described by W. E. Gladstone, that 'Grand

OldSpider' as & 'the Assassin of the Century,' and yet the women of the East(even

thoseof Armenia) would claw each others eyes out, for half a chance to enter hisharem.

 

Dr.Jamieson, the South African freebooter, and his chief, Cecil Rhodes, though

unmercifullyabused and denounced as wicked criminals, are continuously being deluged

withwritten proposals of marriage, from heiresses on both sides of the Atlantic.These

twomen, by Force and Diplomacy, 'stole' two million acres of the finestagricultural and

pastoralland in Africa: together with gold mines, silver mines, copper mines, diamond

mines;also vast herds of sheep and cattle.

 

Theycarried fire and sword into the strongholds of their enemies & shot'gods' with

rifle-bullets& cut the throats of priestly sorcerers in scores & shed the bloodof

'adversaries'like water; and reduced the defeated Kaffirs to a respectful condition of

'constitutionalfreedom.' There is no cant and hypocrisy about Cecil Rhodes! & None!

Heis a man made whole & blunt as Napoleon or Bismarck. He is (in his ownsphere) of

the Caesar, Cromwell, Darwinian stock. Believing implicitly in the survival of the fittest,

he is the despair of the priestling and the terror of the politician. He laughs at their

parchment Laws and shrieking Editorials & he rides rough-shod over their Golden Rules

&he scorns their Sermons on the Mount & he spits upon their Tabulated

"Commandments.'He TAKES what he wants, if he has the Power & not otherwise. He

doesnot beg & he does not pray & he does not 'steal.' No! & hegoes direct for what

hewants and 'annexes' it, if he can. Nor does he weep crocodile tears, over the

"enslavement'of races that Nature manifestly stamped with inferiority. In days long gone

by,such men were the norms of Anglo-Saxondom. Now! Alas! they are astounding

exceptions. 

 

Ifthis Republic had produced one Cecil Rhodes forty years ago, the Civil War(provoked

byidiotic emotionalism) would never have been fought. (Civil wars are necessarythen a

countryis overstocked, but these States were not over populated in 1862.) Instead of

"Soundingthe Jubilee' for plantation "niggers,' he would have Sounded it for his own

Race;by sending Grants and Shermans, not to plunder and devastate the Shenandoah

valleyand the home of Washington, but to seize, conquer, and re-colonize, South and

CentralAmerica, from El Paso to Cape Horn.

 

 

 

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Amongthe Norse and Germanic forefathers, it was considered the saddest disgrace that

couldbefall any matron; to be the mother of a weakling, or a laggard in war. Onlyfor the

debasinginfluence of priestcraft THAT would be felt by modern women & of allgrades.

Romanmatrons have died of broken hearts and even drowned themselves in shame, at

thepoltroonery displayed by a son. If past generations had to depend on the sweetgirly-

girlyfragile young thing of to-day & or the lean 'lady graduate' for itsreproductive

Ova,we would long ago have became a swarm of ring-tailed baboons. Poor things, they

alsofeel their artificiality & feel it in their hearts; when they look uponthe spindle-

shanked,mutilated males (scarecrows of men) that they are expected to 'love, honor, and

obey.'

 

Overintellectualism (bad enough in man) transfigures women into freaks. The more

AnimalNature a maiden possesses; the more of a true woman she is & the betterwife

andmother she will make. Culture and refinement are horrible substitutes, for thegrand

oldmatronly virtues & beauty, naturalness, purity, maidenly hypnotism.Intellectualism

rendersmore sensitive. Sensitive persons are very excitable, timid, and liable todisease.

Overcultivation of the brain cells undoubtedly produces (in both sexes) physicaldecay

andleads on towards insanity.

 

Women'snoblest occupation is not merely to read erotic novels, pound the fiddle, waltz

divinely,or fry steak and onions, but to BREED MEN, toraise up a race of unsubdueable

fighters& fighters for their own hand. Her vilest occupation is to duplicatean¾mic

poltroons,creeping Judas's, laborious jackasses. Therefore if she desires her sons to be

brave,bold and successful in the battle of life, she should see to it that herhusband is not

acoward or a slave: and men ought also 'ware of marrying slave-minded women.This

pointis simply set forth in the Saga of Olaf Trygwason. Earl Rognwald had adegenerate

son,who returned from a Viking-cruise without bringing any plunder. This was

considereda shameful disgrace by the family. Earl Rognwald remarked: "MY son is not

likemy forefathers.' So he fitted the young man out afresh, saying to him: &"I shall be

pleasedif you come not again; but I have little hope that you will ever be an honor to

yourkinsmen, for your mother's family are all thrall born.' Have moderns everimproved

onthat thought?

 

Thereis nothing particularly inviting about barren, dyspeptic, blue-stocking "New

Women,'in pants and spectacles; talking idiotic snuffle through their noses; withbusts

madeof adjustable india-rubber; with narrow or padded hips, and 'wheels betweentheir

legs,'scorching across the curbstones like mad. When such women are "captured' what

goodare they? They won't even breed; or if they do so (by accident) their punyembryos,

haveto be delicately nurtured into life with steam-heated incubator-mechanism and

afterwardsfed and weaned on "the bottle.' The sons of such women & bottle fed

abortions& of what good are they?

 

Itis women of this kind (unnatural monsters they are) that cause so much domestic

unhappiness.They have been 'educated' along false lines, filled with bookish

artificialism,and thereafter when called upon to take up their maternal duty, they are

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organicincapables. Hence the divorce court scandals & the fruit of wholesale

degeneracy& encouraged by State interference with domestic affairs.

 

 

 'Our times, in sin prolific, first

 The marriage bed with taint have cursed,

 And family and home & 

 This is the fountain head of all,

 The sorrows and the ills that fall& 

 On Romans and on Rome.' &(Horace).

 

 

Graduallythe curse of "Law' invades the privacy of every home. It encourages emotional

femininesto defy husbands, and Deify an irresponsible Authority. In other words it

deliberatelypromotes unfaithfulness and unlimited free-love. It undermines the

husband'sControl, but at what a dreadful cost? With the 'equalization' of women comes

wholesalepanmixia & scientific concubinage, State-regulated polyandry, and the

poisoningof all inter-family intercourse. When average women find in Statute Law a

'deliverer'and a 'champion' more powerful than their husbands and brothers, they

becomeboth unfaithful and profligate & especially if 'well educated.' Then itcometh to

pass(as in all ages of connubial decadence) 'no man knoweth his own father.' Is notthat

thepractical tendency of the times? Again, is that "tendency' itself not thehorrible result

ofState-Paternalism & of majority-box dictation & of Statecraft andPriestcraft? The

Churchlives by the functional emotionalism of women. Thus the Individual wanes and

theState GROWSMORE AND MORE. In NATURAL society, every woman's husband is to her,

bothpriest and king. When the baleful shadow of politics and preacherisms, loomsover

themarriage bed, dreadful days are at hand.

 

Purityof blood has played (and is yet to play) a leading role in the drama of racial

evolution.Races held in bondage are necessarily mongrelized, degraded, "equalized.'

Homelinessis one result of bad breeding.

 

Whena higher type allies itself by marriage with a lower, it paves the way for itsown

ultimatedegeneracy. When Spartans and Athenians mixed themselves with imported

Asiaticand Egyptian slaves, their downfall was foretold; and when 'Equality' became

themotto of Christian Italy; Latins, Asiatics, and Negroes miscegenated, evolvingthe

modern"Dago' & who slaves for the descendents of the men his ancestorsconquered.

Whata fall? Modern Greeks and Italians, with their dark complexions, curly hair and

sensuallips, show distinct traces of the Negro and Asiatic blood, that (with the

emancipationof the Servi) was poured into their forefathers' veins. Hence their failure in

thestruggle for mastery. Hence their conquest by Goth, Mongol, Teuton, Turk andSlav.

Afriend of Winwoode Reade's, tells a tale full of meaning. As an Africanexplorer, he

oncecame across a native tribe (the Joloffs) remarkable for their comparative fine

appearance.He asked one of them, 'how is it that everyone whom I meet here is good

looking,not only your men but your women?' 'That is easily explained, (was the reply)

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ithas always been our custom to pick out our worst looking ones, and sell themfor

slaves.'

 

Hybridism,south of Mason and Dixon's line, smoothed the way for the Lincoln invasion

of'62 and even in the Northern States (if the present olla-podrida intermixture,with

inferiorbreeds, is not somehow put and end to) similar invasions may be confidently

predicted.Our race cannot hope to maintain its predominance, if it goes on diluting its

bloodwith Chinamen, Negros, Japanese, or debased Europeans. Panmixia means BOTH

DEATH AND SLAVERY. Throughout South and Central America, human mongrelism is

rampant:(a half-breed is president in Mexico). The Latin race is hopelessly effete inboth

theold world and the new. Nations, like horses, are bred to win.

 

 

"Canyou reverse rules that stupid farmers heed,

Andmend the higher by the coarser breed?'

 

 

Tremendousindeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life.

Loveand glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength, and courage aredirectly

inspiredby sex-passions. In ballad and legend they are ever inextricably intertwined.

"Nonebut the brave deserve the fair' & "Faint heart never won fair lady' and"all is fair

inlove and war,' are age-worn proverbs.

 

Natureis saturated through and through, with the chemic potency of strife andsexualism.

Allthe world is male and female. The saint is the only hermaphrodite. Sexualdesire

inspiresthe male with nobility of bearing; and the female with instincts of motherhood,

devotedness,and song. The roar of the lion as he tosses his tawny mane, by the forest

water-hole& the neigh of the high-mettled stallion, as he rears at the halter, orleaps the

slip-rail& the deep challenging bellow of the shaggy bull, as he tears up thegrass with

hisstamping hoofs & the nightingale pouring piercingly into the azure vault,its magical

thrill& MAN decked in his shining regimentals, marchingforth to victory or death, with

drum-beatand bugle-song; all bear direct testimony to the sublime, beneficent, and all

pervadingMesmerism of Force.

 

Militaryrenown is now, and ever has been, the virtue of the mightiest animals. Self-

abnegationis the thesis of the slave. Christlingism is functional derangement of thenerve

centres& a madness & a disease.

 

Anational Redeemer has never been known to materialize, in the guise of a feeble

mendicant& an humble petitioner: but rather in the form of a mighty man-hunter, a

destroyerof tribal ravagers & a man who saith to his disciples "come on!' not "goforth!'

TheEmancipator is heard of at first, with secret delight, and some misgivings; but

afterwardswhen better understood, he comes on a war-horse with steel by his side; amid

theroll of saluting cannon, the throb of triumphal drums, the fierce blare oftwisted-

bugles,and the ringing huzzas of the People HE HAS ENRICHED by the exploitation of their

foes& for all-the-world loves a fighter; especially its sisters, its cousins,and its aunts.

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Liberatorsnever ARRIVE from circumcised Jewry, wearing halos, briarcrowns, uttering

shrieksof agonized despair; nor do they 'ride on a colt the foal of an ass,' throughthe

streetsof Zion. No! No! & that is the ideal of & dastards and dotards.

 

Inspite of all the century-old emasculating creeds, and debasing copy-book

commercialisms;the inbred popular conception of a Mighty Man is still a Sworded

Warrior& a king of men & a ruthless sweeper-away of blackmailers, usurers,priests

andusurpers.

 

'Whoshall be nearest, noblest and dearest, named with all honor and pride evermore?He

theundaunted, whose banner is planted on Power's high ramparts, and battlementshoar.

Fearlessof danger, to falsehood as stranger: looking not back, when there's danger

before.He shall be nearest, he shall be dearest; he shall be first in our heartsevermore.'

 

AVirginian love song expresses this grand old sentiment in its sexual form:& 'Rather

wouldI view thee dying, on the last red-field of strife; 'mid thy countries heroesdying,

thanbecome & a dastards wife.'

 

JohnRuskin (in an oft quoted passage) decidedly caught a passing glimpse of thesurging

logicthat lurks in armed conflicts: & "War is the foundation of ALL the high virtues and

facultiesof men. It is very strange for me to discover this, but I saw it to be quite an

undeniablefact. The common notion that peace and the virtues of civil life flourished

together,I found to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil-life flourish

together.'Decadence and Peace are concentric.

 

 

 

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Nextto the belted sword-swinger and the sturdy well-to-do athlete, the successfulmoney-

making"man of affairs' is especially attractive to the average female mind. He also(in a

lesserdegree) is a resolute professional fighter & a scalp-hunter & hisscalps being title-

deedsto land, farm-mortgages, bank credits, consols, shares and bonds. (Consols,shares,

andbonds, represent sub-divided portions of the battle-booty.) He also, climbs tosuccess

overhis prostrate rivals & for there is no other road. Success and money cometo him

only,when he has outwitted his rivals, and finally triumphed in the ruthlessrough-and-

tumbleof daily, hourly conflict. The 'Business Man' is a conqueror of the most

merciless,stony-hearted, and cruel kind; but we must not blame him for that. If he

displaysa particle of human sympathy, with the multitudinous victims of his business

methods,he is immediately out-generaled, bankrupted, ruined by rivals, with more ironin

theirstrategy & more hardness in their hearts. A kind-hearted man is always afailure in

'business,'and he is always a failure in 'war.' War means thorough-going smashing-up

ofyour opponent, so that he may be prevented from smashing you up; and it is'ditto,

ditto,ditto,' in all the parallel phases of Commerce and Trade.

 

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With'money in his purse' the successful business man is able to support a family,and

rearup his children in an environment of comparative freedom, and women are sharpto

perceivethis. In such matters the female mind is preternaturally acute. Except insexual

mattersa women has no more brains than a cock-sparrow & but in questions ofmarriage

andlove, she is an expert. Other things being equal, women prefer a rich-man to apoor-

manfor a husband & and they are scientifically justified. He who is withoutwealth

amidstunlimited quantities of it, is either a coward, a born slave or a lunatic; andno self-

respectingwoman should marry such an imbecile.

 

 

Theresolute and brave, never "hunger' to the grave

Thegallant and the bold, never lack for & gold. 

 

 

Withthe possession of an 'independence,' a man is free to materialize his ideals;and if

heis 'well born' it is impossible for his ideals to partake of the ignoble.

 

Goldis a fierce resolvent. It is the sublimated extract of Victory. It is theproperty & the

booty& of the Strong. 'Whoever has sixpence (writes Carlyle) is sovereign overall men

tothe extent of that sixpence; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teachhim,

KINGS TO MOUNT GUARD OVER HIM & to the extent of that sixpence.'Therefore all men

whowould obtain freedom must obtain wealth "by hook or by crook,' or as R. L.

Stevensonrhymes it: & "You also scan your life horizon, for all that can clap youreyes

on.'

 

Tobecome the child-bearer of a mere hireling, a day drudge, is the last resort ofa

sensiblefeminine. 

 

Dowerlesswomen never regard a poor lover with enthusiastic favour: except in

conventionalromances. Without being capable of logical reasoning, yet women

intuitivelycomprehend that 'there is oft a lack of courage in the race of bondmen.' If a

manpossesses wealth (no matter how obtained) he can pick and choose among the most

delightfuldarlings in the land: nay, he can even buy them (if he wants to) & by the

carload.Behind all the hypocritical veneer of piety and fashion; women of all ranks are

stilla marketable commodity. Whenever the supply exceeds the demand, they are

straightawaytransmuted into magdalenes, concubines, slaves (or 'new women'). When

fewin number (as in young colonies) they possess a certain proportion of selective

influence,but when for every eligible man, there is a score of eligible women, their

marketvalue dwindles, and instead of "selecting,' they become "the selected' or as

Darwinputs it: & "The sexual struggle is of two kinds. In the one it is betweenthe

individualsof the same sex, generally the males, in order to drive away or kill theirrivals,

thefemales remaining passive; while on the other, the struggle is likewise betweenthe

individualsof the same sex, generally the females, which no longer remain passive, but

selectthe more agreeable partners.' (Vide 'Descent of Man.')

 

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Ina reasonably natural Society, the most vigorous males would possess Propertyand

Power.Consequently (in accordance with the instincts of sex-attraction), they wouldalso

obtainpossession and impregnate, the best and handsomest feminines; leaving the ovum-

bearingresidue to be fertilized by the less vigorous males. In an unnatural system of

Society(such as the fiendish socialistic scheme, amidst which we now retrograde)

weaklings,dotards, and semi-madmen are deliberately permitted to retain Property

Privileges;that they are manifestly unable to defend IF PUT TO THE TEST. The "Law'

defendsthe Unfit. Consequently opulent weaklings preponderate in the selection and

retentionof the finest females. Resultantly the children of such unnatural unions seldom

reacheven average perfection. More often than otherwise they are a shame and amalison

totheir kindred. 'The sons of vicious and very corrupt men,' wrote Plutarch agesago,

'reproducethe very nature of their parents.'

 

Thisnation literally swarms with vile semi-idiotic mannikins (leprous wretches,damned

inthe womb) whose presence among us, is a standing menace to all things trulyGreat

andNoble. It is not by breeding meeklings and stunted profligates, that nobilityof

nationalcharacter is evolved. Why should diseased and ignoble animals (rich or poor) be

encouragedto populate luxurious wigwams, with fragile, an¾mic, bottle-fed, scrofulous

dwarfs;when nature demands their wholesale segregation & by the edge of thesword?

 

Dr.Haycraft suggests that Society should socialistically segregate the Unfit, butthat is

manifestlyout of the question, inasmuch as Society is incompetent to provide a testing

standard,sufficiently absolute and accurate, to decide satisfactorily who are and arenot

the'Unfit.' Nature however has provided that standard, and it is UNENDING CONFLICT

betweenrival interests: with women, power, and property as the contestants' finalprize.

Thesurest, fairest, and most scientific method of re-distributing monopolizedplunder,

andaccumulated & privilege is unlimited struggle.

 

Letthe Best Men win! Is that not the Logic of events of Science, of Fact and of Nature?

 

Whyshould Anglo-Saxondom doltishly stand guard over the copulations of opulent

decadents,and shoals of creeping unwarlike proletarians? 'Not is anyone so careless

(writesCharles Darwin) as to breed from his worst animals. Even savages, when

compelledfrom extreme want, to kill some of their animals, WOULD DESTROY THE WORST

AND PRESERVE THE BEST.'

 

 

 

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Thefit are not the individuals who merely inherit stolen property; or obtainpeaceful

possessionthereof by subterraneanism; but those who deliberately, and openly

proprietorisethemselves. If taboos were not so insanely reverenced, proprietors who are

incapableswould be unceremoniously pushed aside (most probably) to make room for

BETTER MEN.

 

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Ifthose "in possession' victoriously prove their capacity, then theirprerogatives cannot

beabrogated or abridged; but should they fail, then their vanquishers &presumably

bettermen & are biologically justified in dispossessing them. 'Let the best manwin' is

anassertive, at once popular, scientific and suggestive. The mastership of theAblest Man

isexactly what science and circumstances demand. In Nature an organism's right is

commensuratewith its mentality and physique. In the realm of Cosmic Law the only

Statuteof Limitations is superior Power.

 

A-PRIORI 'rights' are as non-existent as the gods,ghosts, and moral taboos of the pontiffs

andpastors. Therefore the police-officer's club (being in harmony with the dynamic

necessitiesof matter and motion) is part and parcel of the Divine Order. So are clubs in

general.& Men shall ring around each other, in a fierce unending strife; eachshall strive

to"beat' his brother, wile for wile, and life for life.

 

Iflegislative injunctions, and other bogey contrivances were wholly disregarded;then the

Strongestand the Boldest (therefore the Wisest) would by fertilizing the pick of thebest

damselsper marriage, transmit their own right-royal qualities to their immediate

descendents.Upon similar principles second-rate males would of necessity pair-off with

second-ratefemales. This by cumulative atavism, and interbreeding of underlings, would

graduallytend to eliminate, subjugate, and efface the seed of the servile-minded &the

superstitiousand the over intellectualized.

 

Hereditaryvirtues can only be maintained, by keeping them in constant use. Hence the

biologicalnecessity of unmerciful struggles between individuals and groups of

individuals.As with muscles and organs of the body, so human aptitudes are developed

byuse and attenuated by non-use. Nearly all the masterful qualities, mental andphysical,

thathave ever distinguished the elite of mankind, have originated in conflict.

 

Racialrottenness (the conjoint result of holy hydrophobia and State-regulatedhybridism)

canonly be eliminated by an intelligent application to the breeding of humanbeings &

ofthe principles of natural selection, conjoined with conscious rejection,culminating

fromtime to time in deadly conflicts. War is the most important phase of racial,sex and

tribalevolution.

 

Onepanic-stricken coward may cause the loss of a battle & and the loss ofone battle

maydecide for ages (perhaps for ever) the fate of a Race. Hence the necessity ofbreeding

menwho are fighters & fighters in their heart. Hence also the need oftraining them,

fromboyhood up, to conquer and overthrow their oppressors and personal enemies& at

anycost & at any peril. By no known alchemy can a race of warriors andfreemen be

evolutedout of a 'flock of bleating, baaing, lapping lambs, suckled on teats ofpriest-rid

dams.'

 

"Thequalities which have enabled the Teutonic races to play their wonderful part inthe

historyof Europe, are well displayed in the valiant sons of Tancred, of Hautonville&

WilliamIron Arm & Robert Guiscard & Roger, and the rest: who carved outkingdoms

forthemselves in Apulia and Sicily. They were a vigorous race, large of limb,stout of

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heart,tenacious of will; with abundant physical energy, taking their pleasures indrinking

andhunting. They had broad shoulders, fair hair, blue eyes; as we see in Anna

Comnenia'sportrait of the son of Robert Guiscard, Bohmend, Prince of Tarentum, who

was"a cubit taller than the tallest man; ...with blue eyes, his cheeks tinted withgolden

red.'(Taylor's Origin Aryan Race.) 

 

 

 

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Allhireling labor is corroding, corrupting, degrading, devilish. Cursed is thebrow that

sweats& for hire, and the back that bends to a master's burden. Calloused handsimply

callousedminds. 'Virtue in bondage,' what an insane paradox?

 

Thereis something mutilated about men who exert the strength of their body or mind,for

theenrichment of Taskmasters, and women are not slow to perceive it. Women arenever

deludedwith the maniac philosophy that 'Jack is as good as his master.' Indian squaws

haveno admiration for the 'brave' who has never taken a scalp; and white women have

evenless for the "bearded man,' who & amidst gold and silver by the ton& lives from

handto mouth, like a mangy cur.

 

Thebolder and more aggressive men are, the more women of all classes admire them&

andvice versa. Thus the surging ebb and flow of attraction and of gravitation isever

directedtowards & the impregnation of the Fair & by the Strong. Howglorious beneath

thesun is the union of the Beautiful and the Brave?

 

Soiledhands (if soiled for market hire or the payment of tribute) imply a soiledmanhood

&a biological organism of "low degree.' Labor performed for ones self ispassable &

whenperformed for others, it is utterly debasing & ruinous to brain and body.

 

Fromthe beginning of time, the defeated classes have ever been the laboring classes&

thetenants & the vassals & the sans-cullotes: and the conquerors(their heirs or assigns)

havealways provided (or hired) the priests, generals, taskmasters, and rulers. Thisis as

trueof the United States (a European colony) as it was of Thebes, Troy, Babylon,Persia,

Carthage,Rome.

 

 

 'Fallen from primeval innocence andease,

(Whenthornless fields employed him, but to please)

Thelaborer toils & and from his dripping brow,

Moistensthe lengthening furrows of the plough.

Invain he scorns and spurns his altered state,

Trieseach poor shift, and strives to cheat his fate;

Invain new-shapes his name; to shun the ill & 

Serf,hireling, help & the curse pursues him still;

Changelessthe doom remains: the mincing phrase,

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Maymock high-heaven, but not reverse its ways.'25

 

 

Theonly apparent difference, between the bond-servant of antiquity, and the'educated'

hirelingof today, is & the thorough-going lunacy of the latter. The ancient ServiKNEW

thatthey were held in bondage by force of arms; but modern slaves being born,maniacal

degenerates,don't know it. Indeed the free workmen of England and America, can be

comparedto nothing more appropriate than Ibsen's 'hero,' who fancied himself a

reigningmonarch (with the fate of empires in his nod) when inside a Cairo madhouse his

headwas ceremoniously encircled with a diadem of straw. (His brow is wet withhonest

sweat'is the National Anthem of the insane asylum).

 

Fromwhatever side we view him, the average hireling is a shameless contemptiblebeing.

Hecannot be classified among 'men,' any more than a capon can be classified as a

gamecock.Continuous drudgery stiffens his body & ossifies both his hand and brain&

makeshim an idiot in fact. Even when women (indulgent though they be) regard him asa

disdainfulobject, incapable of either great thoughts, great deeds, or of providing them

witha home. Hirelings are nearly always on the verge of pauperdom & alwayspraying,

howling,and weeping before their TASKMASTERS, crying out with a loud voice like spoilt

babies,'O don't hurt us & don't hurt us & we are so "good' & solaw-abiding & we

loveJesus so!' Capitalists, kings, and presidents never take these servile houndsinto

consideration& NOR DOSENSIBLE WOMEN. In grandaffairs hirelings are merely

inventoriedas so much raw material or so many head of cattle; and in sexual affairs, they

mustof necessity, mate themselves with second-rate women & who cannotpossibly find

anythingmore to their taste.

 

Whatwoman in her senses desires to be a breeder of drudges, lunatics, andsans-cullotes?

 

Thevery idea of 'Labor' is in chains and yokes. There is no dignity in a bent back& no

gloryin a perspiring brow & no honor in greasy copper-riveted rags. There isnothing

verydelectable in picks, shovels, and calloused paws. "Dignity of Labor!' &Dignity of

hell!

 

 

Whatis grand in a horny hand?

Whatis free in a bended knee?

Whatis brave in a pauper grave? 

Whatis bold in a lack of gold?

 

 

Oye generations of Christ-deluded imbeciles! Ye swarms of moonstruck meeklings!Ye

burntout cinders of men! & ye bleeding lambs! One day! One day! ye shall beflung to

thelions! Behold! I spit upon your Idols & your Opinions. Now would I pourmolten hell

throughthe ventricles of your soul.

 

                                                

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 "TheHireling and the Slave' & W. J. Grayson, 1856.

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'O wretched minds of men! O blind hearts! not to see in what darkness of life, and in

whatdangers, is spent this little term of human existence.

 

Foras children are frightened of fancied objects in the gloom, so we in broad daylight,

often fear what deserves no more to be feared, than the shadows the children dread in the

dark,and fancy they must exist.'

 

 

ENDOF BOOK I.

 

 

P.S. Book II will be issued when circumstances demand it.

 

 

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CHAPTER VI: THE LOGIC OF TO-DAY.

 

 

 

Might was Right when Caesar bled

upon the stones of Rome,

Might was Right when Joshua led

his hordes o'er Jordan's foam,

And Might was Right when German troops

poured down through Paris gay;

It's the Gospel of the Ancient World

and the Logic of To-day.

 

Behind all Kings and Presidents &

all government and law,

Are army-corps and cannoneers &

to hold the world in awe.

And sword-strong races own the earth

and ride the Conqueror's Car &

And LIBERTY has never been won

except by deeds of war.

 

What are the lords of horded gold &

the silent SEMITE rings?

What are the