Though the Super Man may be met with occasionally in modern society, and though the qualities ascribed to him are manifest everywhere among those who have had an opportunity for their development; opinions still differ as to the possibility of producing a Super Race. An even greater difference of opinion is encountered when an attempt is made to formulate the means which should be adopted to secure such an end; yet there can be little difference of opinion as to the desirability, from a national as well as from an individual standpoint, of creating a race of Super Men.
The call of the present age for a Super Race is thus voiced by Yeats,[2]
"O Silver Trumpets! Be you lifted up, And cry to the great race that is to come. Long throated swans, amid the Waves of Time, Sing loudly, for beyond the wall of the World It waits, and it may hear and come to us."
We long for the coming of the Super Race. We aim toward this goal. Can it be compassed in finite time? Is Nietzsche right when he says,--"I teach you beyond-man." "All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves." "What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal." "Not whence ye come, be your honor in the future, but whither ye go!" "In your children ye shall make amends for being your father's children. Thus ye shall redeem all that is past."[3]
Shall we make amends to the future? Come, then, let us reason together concerning the measures which must be adopted to raise the standard of succeeding generations. There are three means which lie ready at hand: three sciences which lend themselves to our task: three tools with which we may shape the Super Race. They are:
1. Eugenics--The science of race culture.
2. Social adjustment--The science of molding institutions.
3. Education--The science of individual development.
The science of Eugenics treats of those forces which, through the biologic processes of heredity, may be relied upon to provide the inherited qualities of the Super Race. The science of Social Adjustment treats of those forces which, through the modification of social institutions, may be relied upon to provide a congenial environment for the Super Race. The science of Education aims to assist the child in unfolding and developing the hereditary qualities of the Super Man, provided through eugenic guarantees. Hence, Eugenics, Social Adjustment and Education are sciences, the mastery of which is a pre-requisite to the development of the Super Race.