Jack London. Sea wolf (№ 294204)

"I could extract this person from the works of Spencer?" - I thought. Well enough remembering the teachings of this philosopher, I know that altruism is the basis of his ideal of human behavior. Obviously, Wolf Larsen took from his teachings that met his own needs and desires and rejecting everything that seemed to him superfluous.
_ What else you've learned? - I asked.
He frowned, apparently choosing his words to Express his thoughts, remaining still not expressed. I felt uplifted. Now I tried to penetrate to his soul, just as he was accustomed to penetrate into the souls of others. I researched a virgin area. And strange - strange and frightening - sight has opened my eyes.
- In short, "he began," Spencer says, first of all a man should care about their own welfare. To do so morally good. Then, he must act for the benefit of their children. And third, it needs to take care of the welfare of mankind.
- But the highest, the most reasonable and correct course of action, 'said I,' will be when people care of themselves and their children, and all mankind.
I would not say, he replied. - I do not see any need or common sense. I rule mankind and children. For their sake, I no received would. This is all slobbery nonsense - at least for someone who doesn't believe in an afterlife, and you owe it to yourself to understand. I believe in immortality, altruism would have been for me a profitable occupation. I would God knows how to exalt his soul. But, not seeing ahead nothing is eternal except death, and having at its disposal only a short time while I move and roam the yeast called life, I would do immoral, bringing any kind of sacrifice. Every sacrifice. which would deprive me of a moment of fermentation, would be not only stupid, but immoral in itself. I should not lose anything, must the best possible use of leaven. Will I have to sacrifice or will to care only about themselves at that period I measured while I make a particle of yeast and crawling on the ground after waiting for me an eternal immobility would be neither easier nor harder.
In this case, you are an individualist, a materialist, and hedonist.