klings and inefficients who perished according to
biological law on the ragged confines of life. They were the unfit. In
spite of their cunning philosophy and of their antlike proclivities for
cooperation, Nature rejected them for the exceptional man. Out of the
plentiful spawn of life she flung from her prolific hand she selected
only the best. It was by the same method that men, aping her, bred race-
horses and cucumbers. Doubtless, a creator of a Cosmos could have
devised a better method; but creatures of this particular Cosmos must put
up with this particular method. Of course, they could squirm as they
perished, as the socialists squirmed, as the speaker on the platform and
the perspiring crowd were squirming even now as they counselled together
for some new device with which to minimize the penalties of living and
outwit the Cosmos.

So Martin thought, and so he spoke when Brissenden urged him to give them
hell. He obeyed the mandate, walking up to the platform, as was the
custom, and addressing the chairman. He began in a low voice, haltingly,
forming into order the ideas which had surged in his brain while the Jew
was speaking. In such meetings five minutes was the time allotted to
each speaker; but when Martin's five minutes were up, he was in full
stride, his attack upon their doctrines but half completed. He had
caught their interest, and the audience urged the chairman by acclamation
to extend Martin's time. They appreciated him as a foeman worthy of
their intellect, and they listened intently, following every word. He
spoke with fire and conviction, mincing no words in his attack upon the
slaves and their morality and tactics and frankly alluding to his hearers
as the slaves in question. He quoted Spencer and Malthus, and enunciated
the biological law of development.

"And so," he concluded, in a swift resume, "no state composed of the
slave-types can endure. The old law of development still holds. In the
struggle for existence, as I have shown, the strong and the progeny of
the strong tend to survive, while the weak and the progeny of the weak
are crushed and tend to perish. The result is that the strong and the
progeny of the strong survive, and, so long as the struggle obtains, the
strength of each generation increases. That is development. But you
slaves--it is too bad to be slaves, I grant--but you slaves dream of a
society where the law of development will be annulled, where no weakl