Stefanson says of his newly discovered 'Blonde
Eskimo,' a people still living in the stone age: 'They are
the equals of the best of our own race in good breeding,
kindness, and the substantial virtues.'[17] Or again, heat
instead of cold may drive man to the utmost limit of his
natural affections. In the deserts of Central Australia,
where the native is ever threatened by a scarcity of food,
his constant preoccupation is not how to prey on his
companions. Rather he unites with them in guilds and
brotherhoods, so that they may feast together in the spirit,
sustaining themselves with the common hope and mutual
suggestion of better luck to come. But there is no need to
go so far afield for one's proofs. I appeal to those who
have made it their business to be intimate with the folk of
our own countryside. Is it not the fact that unselfishness
in regard to the sharing of the necessaries of life is
characteristic of those who find them most difficult to come
by? The poor are by no means the least 'rich towards God.'
At any rate, if poverty sometimes hardens, wealth,
especially sudden wealth, can harden too, causing arrogance,
boastfulness, and the bullying temper. 'A proud look, a
lying tongue, and the shedding of innocent blood'--these go
together."

On the whole, then, we may perhaps conclude that the natural bias of
mankind is towards kindness to his neighbour, however much the brute in
him may sometimes impel him to uncharitable words or actions. And
certainly this natural bias is intensified and made into a binding law
by the teachings of Christ. But there is the other point of view set
forward in the philosophy of Nietzsche--if indeed such writings are
worthy of the name philosophy. "The world is for the superman. Dominancy
within the human kind must be secured at all costs. As for the old
values, they are all wrong. Christian humility is a slavish virtue; so
is Christian charity. Such values have become 'denaturalised.' They are
the by-product of certain primitive activities, which were intended by
Nature to subserve strictly biological ends, but have somehow escaped
from Nature's control and run riot on their own account."

The prophets of this group of ideals, or some such group of ideals, have
no hesitation in telling us how they would direct the affairs of
humanity if they were entrusted with their cond