3. The law of our instincts is diametrically opposed to the social code. 4. It is through his instincts that man is most completely and most dangerously what he really is. 5. Once given a temperament it can never be changed. There is no moral progress, no conversion possible from evil to good. 6. Biology controls our body and contradicts social ethics. 7. Consequently our social organization, ethics, politics (and why not the whole of our civilization?) are biologically and chemically false. 8. All principles and institutions which ignore bio-chemical man and which are not deeply rooted in instincts and physiological necessities are false. _Also spake Zarathustra!_ Auguste Comte, before Dreiser, had given biology as a required foundation of social ethics but he finally felt the necessity to build a moral and religious roof upon the house. All the hounds of materialism and romanticism unleashed can be heard howling in the decalogue of Dreiser. Rousseau before him, with Helvetius and _tutti quanti_ among the eighteenth-century encyclopedists, had raised before him the law of nature against the law of the mind. The result, as Thomas Carlyle proved, was the guillotine and Armageddon. Are we going to deny all the efforts of the saints, the ascetics, the heroes, the philosophers, the artists, to undo the patient and painful and slow uprising of mankind out of the primitive slime, to save Clyde Griffiths from the electric chair and restore the Dinoceras? Society may be wrong in forcing golf upon mankind for a substitute to the _vie dangereuse_ or in finding a reservation for the Apaches in prison, but who will seriously complain? Let us bless the good Providence who gave us a chance to learn football and baseball as a catharsis to soothe and purge our temperament. To follow Dreiser’s ethics would be very much like courting cosmic suicide, and let us wish that the rattlesnake and the shark will last not as a rule but as exceptions among us, so that we ourselves may also have a chance to express our temperament and a chance to survive. All of us can safely enjoy the sight of wild beasts at the zoo or in the “movies.”