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have called me a hard man but I think that they are wrong. I have always tried to be a just man and to do those things rightly which I have felt I was put on earth to do. What is there wrong in that? Man can only be called civilised insofar as he obeys established rules. And rules may only become established if they have been found to be right and just. So much that is termed ‘human’, ‘compassionate’, ‘kind’, is in actuality weakness, evasion of natural law, an act of selfishness.
I soon discovered that my father was a weak man. He bowed down before my mother; he sold his foundry; he allowed his family to tear him away from his right as a man to carry out his destiny, even his pleasurable destiny, for I believe that had he had the courage of his beliefs and had gone away to Af
