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Written in seven chapters, including "The Spinning of the Web," "Love and Women and War," and "Man the Carnivore," this book begins with a pre-emptive assault on its critics entitled "All Else is Error." Its last chapter opens with a poem that shares its name with this book, describing "silent Semite rings" and claiming "a curse is on their cankered brains" after pairing quotes by Bismarck and Darwin with the author's own advice, "All men are created equal is an infernal lie." The former editor of The Tribune, a New Zealand radical named Henry Desmond, is often called the author of this book, though some accounts try to show that Ambrose Bierce or Jack London were actually responsible. For 10 points, name this polemic in support of the survival of the fittest as the basis for human morality, which caused a stir when it appeared in 1896 attributed to the mysterious "Ragnar Redbeard."
Written in seven chapters, including "The Spinning of the Web," "Love and Women and War," and "Man the Carnivore," this book begins with a pre-emptive assault on its critics entitled "All Else is Error.
{Might is Right}