In A Very Real Sense, People Who

Animals Struggle With Each Other For Food Or For Leadership, But They Do Not, Like Human Beings, Struggle With Each Other For Thatthat Stands For Food Or Leadership: Such Things As Our Paper Symbols Of Wealth (money, Bonds, Titles), Badges Of Rank To Wear On Our Clothes, Or Low-number License Plates, Supposed By Some People To Stand For Social Precedence. For Animals The Relationship In Which One Thing Stands For Something Else Does Not Appear To Exist Except In Very Rudimentary Form.

How Anybody Dresses Is Indicative Of His Self-concept. If Students Are Dirty And Ragged, It Indicates They Are Not Interested In Tidying Up Their Intellects Either.

Republicans Are People Who, If You Were Drowning 50 Feet From Shore, Would Throw You A 25-foot Rope And Tell You To Swim The Other 25 Feet Because It Would Be Good For Your Character. Democrats Would Throw You A Hundred-foot Rope And Then Walk Away Looking For Other Good Deeds To Do.

People Who Think Of Themselves As Tough-minded And Realistic, Among Them Influential Political Leaders And Businessmen As Well As Go-getters And Hustlers Of Smaller Caliber, Tend To Take It For Granted That Human Nature Is Selfish And That Life Is A Struggle In Which Only The Fittest May Survive. According To This Philosophy, The Basic Law By Which Man Must Live, In Spite Of His Surface Veneer Of Civilization, Is The Law Of The Jungle. The "fittest" Are Those Who Can Bring To The Struggle Superior Force, Superior Cunning, And Superior Ruthlessness.

We Live In A Highly Competitive Society, Each Of Us Trying To Outdo The Other In Wealth, In Popularity Or Social Prestige, In Dress, In Scholastic Grades Or Golf Scores. One Is Often Tempted To Say That Conflict, Rather Than Cooperation, Is The Great Governing Principle Of Human Life.