He argued that “it is only the under-dog … that believes in equality. It is only the groveling and inefficient mob that seeks to reduce all humanity to one dead level, for it is only the mob that would gain by such leveling.” Once he had sufficiently dethroned Demos, he went on to attack Christian charity. According to Mencken, the Übermensch had the perspicacity to recognize, and the courage to accept, that Christian charity weakened the “race,” for it “maintain[ed] the useless at the expense of the strong.”
