trength of Mind and Arm]

Man is the centre of organic life, and it is easily seen that his race
is far superior to the others. Their skins are not the same colour,
their ships are not so mighty, their cunning with weapons is infinitely
less. His race is dominant by strength of mind and arm.

The dark-skinned races must be taught civilisation, with fire and sword,
with cannon and bayonet, with crime and death. They must be civilised
before they can be happy. The naked savage who sits beneath a palm tree,
with his hut in the distance, while his wife and children hover around
him, is happy only because he is too ignorant to know what happiness is.

In order to be rightly happy, he must have a fine house, carriages, and
servants, and live in a crowded city where tall buildings and smoke
limit one's horizon to a narrow patch of blue. He must struggle daily
with his fellows, not for the necessaries of life, but for small pieces
of silver and bits of green paper, which are not nearly as pretty as
glass beads.

The savage, unaccustomed to refinement, stabs or beheads his enemy.
Civilisation will teach him the uses of poison, and that putting typhoid
germs into the drinking water of an Emperor is much more delicate and
fully as effectual.

[Sidenote: The Sublime Egotism]

From this small circle, it is only a step to the centre and to that
sublime egotism which has been named Vanity.

Man repeats in his own life the development of a nation. He progresses
from unquestioning happiness to childish inquiry and wonder, from fairy
tales of princes and dragons to actual knowledge; through inquiry to
doubt, through faith to disbelief, through civilisation to decay.

He is not content to let other nations and others races pursue their
normal development. He insists that the work of centuries be crowded
into a generation. And in the same manner, the growth and strivings of
his fellows call forth his unselfish aid. Having infinite treasures of
mental equipment, gained by superior opportunity and wider experience,
he will generously share his noble possessions.

[Sidenote: Personal Vanity]

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself,
unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not
feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most
minute detail.

We know how their houses should be arranged, how they should spend and
invest their money, how they should dress, how