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THE author describes the “struggle for existence” in somewhat lurid language, as a preparation for the introduction of the doctrine of his master, Schopenhauer. The weak go to the wall, the fit survive. In a few millenniums there will be nobody but the happy strong. Life is a game, a gladiator-fight, and the survivor is the best. The process is unmoral or immoral, but “the end justifies the means.”
Schopenhauer-Darwin: Pessimismus oder Optimismus.
By Gustav Weng. Pp. 189. (Berlin: Ernst Hofmann and Co., 1911.) Price 2 marks.
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H., J. Schopenhauer-Darwin: Pessimismus oder Optimismus . Nature 85, 403 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085403a0
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