disposed of in a single massacre, and nobody left but those who at present call themselves the workers, these {380} workers would be as helpless as a flock of shepherdless sheep, until out of themselves a new minority had been evolved, to whose order the majority would have to submit themselves, precisely as they submit themselves to the orders of the ruling classes now, and whose rule, like the rule of all new masters, would be harder, and more arbitrary, and less humane than the rule of the old. THE END _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh._ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some exceptions noted below. Original small caps are now uppercase. Italics look _like this_. The original sidenotes have been removed, being redundant with the Table of Contents. I produced the cover image and hereby assign it to the public domain. Original page images are available from archive.org; search for “b21508343”. Page xxvi. The page reference in ‹often remember it, • 285› was changed to ‹284›. Page xxx. The page reference in ‹wealth that raises them • 329› was changed to ‹326›. Page 70. The word ‹negligeable› was changed to ‹negligible›. Page 159. The word ‹Where-ever› was changed to ‹Wherever›. Page 240. The phrase ‹orginal processes› was changed to ‹original processes›. End of Project Gutenberg's Aristocracy & Evolution, by W. H. Mallock