"There is no justice, right, nor wrong; no truth, no good, no evil. There is no 'man's immortal soul,' no fiery, fearsome Devil. "There is no 'heaven of glory:' No!--no 'hell where sinners roast' There is no 'God the Father,' No!--no Son, no 'Holy Ghost.' "This world is no Nirvâna where joy forever flows. It is a grewsome butcher shop where dead 'lambs' hang in--rows. "Man is the most ferocious of all the beasts of prey. He rangeth round the mountains, to love, and feast, and--slay. "He sails the stormy oceans, he gallops o'er the plains, and sucks the very marrow-bones of captives held in--chains. "Death endeth all for every man,--for every 'son of thunder'; then be a lion (not a 'lamb') and--don't be trampled under." A valuable recent addition to the discussion of egoism is _The Philosophy of Egoism_ by James L. Walker, (Denver, 1905). We know of no American periodical which stands for Nietzsche's views, except, perhaps, _The Lion's Paw_ (Chicago) which claims to follow no one. In the last years of the nineteenth century Clarence L. Swartz published at Wellesley, Mass., an egoistic periodical called the _I_. This magazine is no longer in existence, but Mr. Swartz is very active in the International Intelligence Institute whose aims are universal language, universal nationality and universal peace. He still maintains the same philosophical view which he held as editor of the _I_, but his philosophical egoism has led him in far different paths from those of Nietzsche--into the paths of peace and not of struggle. He expresses his present conception as follows: "In the last analysis there is no right but might. Such is the common ordinary rule of every-day life, from which there is no escape, even were escape desirable. Any attempt to overthrow or circumvent or even dispute the exercise of this prerogative of the mighty is but to assert or oppose a greater might. Expediency always dictates how might should be exercised. Politically, I hold that the non-coercion of the non-invasive individual is the part of wisdom. The individual is supreme, and should be preserved as against society, for in no other way can evolution perform its perfect work." _The Free Comrade_ edited by J. Wm. Lloyd and Leonard Abbott, an avowedly socialistic and individualistic paper, originally under the sole editorship of Lloyd, stood for Nietzsche and his egoism, but can no longer be said to do so. [1] A. Tille, _Von Darwin bis Nietzsche_. R. Steiner, _Wahrheit und Wissenschaft_; _Die Philosophie der Freiheit; and F. Nietzsche, ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit_.