ABSTRACT
The merest tyro in the study of organic evolution can see that the doctrine of survival of the fittest, or natural selection, makes some of the most morally objectionable characteristics manifested by animals and men the ladder by which all true progress has been attained. F. W. Nietzsche, the notorious philosopher of the superman, was one of the most outspoken in his bald glorification of the bloody ladder of natural selection as the only means of progress. George Paulin rightly charges that Darwin’s theory was an attack against the concept of a benevolent Creator and a designing Intelligence. In other words, Darwinism had always represented nature as wholly indifferent to the happiness of the individual animal, and as contemplating only the slow, long-drawn out evolutionary process, the individuals being constantly sacrificed on the mirage of an alleged “far-off divine event”.
