However, man is a social creature and his society does not pride itself on selfishness; this kind of statement is usually followed by strong words and protest. ... This need for superiority can be applied Darwin's theory of evolution; that only the best will survive and mate with other superiors. ... Man is all too willing to give up his integrity and virtues to be accepted into a social situation. ...
One of the important changes in this respect, especially since the late 1860s, was the accelerating appearance of larger articles on British political, social or cultural matters, usually taken from the Russian or French press, or re-translated from Russian or French translations. ... Excerpts from his bestseller "Self-Help", obviously translated from the Russian, ran authorless in the first 30 issues of the newspaper Pravo in 1867, and therefore came to figure in the mind of the reader as some sort of anonymous sacred reading, a set of important lessons in general morality and social optimism...
"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....
