The Philosophy of Jack London

Last Sunday Marcel brought in an excellent printout that gave an overview of the philosophies that influenced Jack London. Here is a brief excerpt and the link that will take you there: http://london.sonoma.edu/Essays/philosophy.html

In a September 7, 1915 letter Jack London wrote, "As a boy, the first heroes that I put into my Pantheon were Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Later on I destroyed this Pantheon and built a new Pantheon in which I began inscribing names such as David Starr Jordan, as Herbert Spencer, as Huxley, as Darwin, as Tyndall."
In this brief excerpt, Jack London mentions most of the men who influenced his often complex, and sometimes contradictory, philosophy. Major figures not mentioned in this particular letter are: Karl Marx, Ernst Haeckel, and Friedrich Nietzsche.