It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it.

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

A rational process is a moral process.

It is not fools that I seek to address.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.