Is it not rather a menial rule — a coward rule — a best-policy rule?
Why is it ‘right’ for one man to do unto others as he would have others
do to him and, what is right? If ‘others’ are unable to injure him or ‘do good’ to him, why
should he consider them at all? Why should he take any more notice of them than of so
many worms? If they are endeavoring to injure him, and able to do it, why should he
refrain from returning the compliment? Should he not combat them, does not that give
them carte-blanche to injure and destroy him? May it not be ‘doing good’ to others, to
war against them, to annihilate them? May it not also be ‘good’ for them to war against
others? (Again, what is ‘good’?)

Is it reasonable to ask preying animals, to do unto others as they would be done by? — If
they acted accordingly would they, could they survive? If some only accepted the Golden
Rule as their guiding moral maxim, would they not become a prey to those who refused
to abide thereby?
Upon what reasonable and abiding sanction does this ‘Rule’ rest? — Has it ever been in
actual operation among men? — Can it ever be successfully practiced on earth — or
anywhere else? — Did Jesus Christ practice it himself upon all occasions? — Did His
apostles, his ‘sons of thunder’ practice it? — Did Peter the boaster do so, when he
‘denied Him’ for fear of arrest at the camp-fire? — Did Judas the financier, when he sold
him for net cash? Also, how many of his modern lip-servants actually practice it in their
daily business intercourse with each other? How Many?

These questions require no formal answering. They answer themselves in the asking. And
here it must be remembered that the best test of a witness, is cross-examination. ‘Do unto
others as you would have others do to you.’ No baser precept ever fell from the lips of a
feeble Jew.
It is from alleged moralisms of this sort, and fabulous ‘principles’ that our mob orators,
our communards, revivalists, anarchists, red-republicans, democrats, and other mobworshippers
in general derive the infernal inspiration that they are perpetually hissing
forth. Even the subversive pyrotechnic watchwords of their mephisto-millennium, are to
be found in the ‘holy gospels.’ Is it not written, ‘and God sendeth angels to destroy the
people?’ — Behold! these men are the ‘angels’ that He sends: — politicians and
reformers!