Note 261 — Chapter XIII · CONFUCIANISM—I

"It is through conflict alone that the fittest can be selected, because it is through conflict alone that they are afforded the chance of manifesting those qualities, physiological and psychical, which make them the fittest. And, as a matter of fact, conflict is the law of Nature. It is no exaggeration, nor is it a mere figure of speech, to say that progress is accomplished through blood."—Chatterton Hill, Heredity and Selection in Sociology (A. & C. Black: 1907), p. 355.