Sweep aside those parasites of subsidized classrooms, who live on the profits
of the mind of others and proclaim that man needs no morality, no values, no
code of behavior. They, who pose as scientists and claim that man is only an
animal, do not grant him inclusion in the law of existence they have granted to
the lowest of insects. They recognize that every living species has a way of
survival demanded by its nature, they do not claim that a fish can live out of
water or that a dog can live without its sense of smell—but man, they claim,
the most complex of beings, man can survive in any way whatever, man has no
identity, no nature, and there’s no practical reason why he cannot live with
his means of survival destroyed, with his mind throttled and placed at the
disposal of any orders they might care to issue.
Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and
preach that the highest virtue man can practice is to hold his own life as of
no value. Do they tell you that the purpose of morality is to curb man’s
instinct of self-preservation? It is for the purpose of self-preservation that
man needs a code of morality. The only man who desires to be moral is the man
who desires to live.