So that we are not accused of overkill, let us acknowledge in advance that we know that the superior viability of Capitalism renders any arguments regarding human evolution superfluous and unnecessary. We simply like to illustrate the connection between natural and economic laws.

1. No species, no matter how highly evolved, can go against nature in the long term without bringing about it's own destruction. Man, to survive, must arduously study the laws of nature, because he is the only species on Earth possessing the ability to temporarily violate these laws.

2. Some who have raised a lion and a lamb to lay down with each other have claimed that this is the natural way for these creatures. Of course it is, when people are giving the lion three big meals a day.

3. The truth seeker will reason deductively from universal principals to their proper application in specific instances. Those not at one with truth will usually reason backwards inductively from exceptional particular instances to false general premises.

4. The laws which govern human interaction are interwoven with the laws of the ecosphere, are every bit as mysterious, and like the latter, are far too complex to permit regulation of the consequences which proceed from them. Indeed, the affairs of men and of nature are one, and any attempt to unnecessarily regulate either is dangerous. One breech of natural law will produce a distortion which seems to call for yet another breech, and so on. The only way things can be "regulated" in a way consistent with survival on this planet is through a policy of non interference with nature in the first place.

5. Man is an animal to be sure, but he is also something a bit more than just that. He is usually able to admit ignorance and, by his own volition, to develop himself intellectually and spiritually. By contrast, he also possesses the one characteristic which will allow him to deceive himself enough to destroy, first his Liberty, then his environment, then himself, and that characteristic is rhetoric.

6. Rhetoric, in contrast to logic based upon truth, is often used by the average individual to quickly rationalize the "rightness" of inaction relative to sweeping social change. Action in such areas might of course, interfere with activities of a frivolous nature, or sometimes even with pursuits of truly great and enduring human significance like ball games.

7. Congenital traits in human beings result from one of four known causes: heredity, random genetic mutation, intra-uterine conditions, or events during birth.

8. Notice how we refer to a quiet, serene baby as "good," and to a baby who cries all the time, as "bad." These casual labels reveal deeper truths.

9. Environment does not play the part in determining human behavior which many would like to believe. Intrinsic good moral character will often resist and win out against immoral upbringing in the long term. Sometimes good moral character will even temporarily over react, as in the case of the approach-avoidance conflict, where a cowardly parent will produce a war monger child or vice versa in the short term, until life teaches maturity and balance.

10. We can all think of people, who from early childhood, manifest true seriousness and wisdom. We can also think of people, who even in advanced age, manifest only frivolity and low self-importance. One already knows much from the time of birth. The other learns almost nothing from a lifetime of experience. In a multi-media culture where we are all bombarded with vast amounts of information, these individual differences do not reflect the influence of environment alone. Let us note that those who think that society can be remade simply by changing peoples' environment for one generation, usually disgrace themselves further by advocating fanatical and un-Libertarian methods.

11. Natural selection is the principle that organisms manifesting physiological or behavioral traits having little survival value, will reproduce at a lesser rate than other organisms because they will not live long enough to do so. This will ultimately cause the trait to die out in the species where it occurs, unless the particular organisms manifesting the non surviving traits are given artificial sustenance that will prolong their lives and periods of reproduction.

12. Among non human species, non self-sustaining individuals are those, which for any reason, are unable to behave in a way consistent with their own survival in the long term in the context of a natural ecology relatively undisturbed by man. Nature eliminates such creatures through natural selection, and allows evolution to progress. Evolutionary progress depends just as much upon the non breeding of these individuals, as upon the breeding of self-sustaining individuals.

13. When non self-sustaining organisms are sustained artificially and end up reproducing when they would have not otherwise, then evolution stops and devolution has begun. Devolution is the reversal of evolution. The detriment to evolutionary destiny is even more greatly magnified if the evolutionary expression of self-sustaining organisms is encroached upon in the process.

14. Non human species on Earth are evolving in directions different from man, and must be allowed to do so normally. Ironically, the primary danger to this occurs as the indiscriminate proliferation of humans begins to reflect man's interference with his own evolution. Allowing a non human species to evolve normally does not entail finding a way to sustain the weak elements within that species, nor does it consist in murdering their natural predators because of the alleged "cruelty" with which these predators take their prey. It simply involves leaving them alone.

15. Predation of non human species by man may strengthen or weaken a species, depending upon which members of the species are killed. This in turn, is often determined by the method of predation used. The outdoorsman or professional hunter should contemplate these matters deeply. Should not this ancestral joy in hunting also be available to future generations?

16. Among human beings, non self-sustaining or unproductive individuals are those who lack the ability for whatever reason, to behave in a way which is consistent with their own survival in the long term under the conditions normally prevailing in a totally free society without having to make unjust encroachment upon other people or the environment.

17. Briefly stated, a self-sustaining or productive member of the human species is simply one who is capable of surviving in a perfectly free society without needing to make unjust incursion against the Liberty of others.

18. Nature is able to systematically ascertain non self-sustaining members of animal species and to eliminate them through natural selection. Man is the only animal able to temporarily gainsay nature in this regard, because man is the only species whose unproductive members have ambitious champions possessing rhetoric.

19. It seems that among "nice" or "civilized" people, it is quietly and conveniently forgotten that evolution applies as much to humans as to any other species. Cowardly religions even falsely teach in many cases, that evolution is merely a theory. In actuality man has reached the point on the evolutionary ladder where he not only can, but to survive must, will the direction of his own evolution. This can only be accomplished by working with nature, not against it.