The terrible myths of equality, of universal rights, of self-obliterating slave virtues are felo de se, the induced suicide of Man; the death of duty and self-assertion for the sake of the dross of Mankind. The modern world is erroneously described as "Civilization," but is it so when its great and banal products are submission, contentment, and blighted equalityism? This miserable pseudo-civilization, with its corroding charity, its cant, hypocrisy, wage-slavery, the sybaritle splendor of parasites and squalid misery of the producer. It is built on that grand myth, the intoxicating philosophy of total self-abnegation, built around a neurotic-nonentity, which was never alive except in the discerned imagination of hare brained hierarchs, deluded decadents, and persons of hypothetical intelligence. This ruinous Democracy of Slaves, the submissive death-empire, the plutocratic marauder, the murderer of Manhood and the demonizer of Heroism, I reject it! It is a curse, and incubus on the minds of the mutable many a nightmare of nastiness consisting of hoary hobgoblins, ghouls, ghosts, gore and gluttony—I reject it! It builds Peace-Palaces and parachutes swarms of swart invaders on to the land of our fathers, and calls itself virtuous and good, I reject it! From the yawning mouths of these hellish Universal Peace-Palaces come the armies of Peace: legions of bureaucrats, lawyers, priests, philanthropists, 'good citizens,' and blind-believers. They tout and pout their ridiculous and fatuous lies as truth and kindness; terrible, O! how terrible! Only men of steel can burn the rot out, only men of steel can excise the tumor, only men of steel can plant the victory-standard atop the ruined and wrecked field, standing incandescent and perilous, furious and glorious, the only solvent is—