The answer rests with this and the succeeding generations. Given ten talents of opportunity, are we as a nation worthy to be made the rulers over ten cities? Provided with the raw stuff of a Super Race, can we mold it into "A mightier race than any that has been?" The past worked with things: the present works with men. "We stand at the verge of a state of culture, which will be that of the depths, not, as heretofore, of the surface alone; a stage which will not be merely a culture through mankind, but a culture of mankind. For the first time the great fashioners of culture will be able to work in marble instead of, as heretofore, being forced to work in snow."[23] Bulwarked by this pregnant thought, and assured by Ruskin that, "There is as yet no ascertained limit to the noblesse of person and mind which the human creature may attain," we press forward confidently, advocating and practicing those measures which will create the energy, mental grasp, efficiency, sympathy and vision of the Super Man and the Super Race.
[1] JOHN RUSKIN, _Unto this Last_--Essay II.
[2] WILLIAM B. YEATS, _Poetic Works_, Vol. II, p. 407. Macmillan Co., N. Y.
[3] FREDERICK NIETZSCHE, _Thus Spoke Zarathustra_, pp. 5-296. Macmillan Co., N. Y.
[4] CARL SNYDER, _The World Machine_. New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1907.
[5] PRESTONIA MANN MARTIN, _Is Mankind Advancing?_ New York, Baker & Taylor Co., 1911.
[6] G. BERNARD SHAW, _Man and Super Man_, p. 218-219. N. Y., Brentano's.
[7] HERBERT SPENCER, _The Data of Ethics_. Para. 97. N. Y., D. Appleton & Co., 1893.
[8] SAML. Z. BATTEN, _The Redemption of the Unfit_, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 14, p. 242 (1909).
[9] FRANCIS GALTON, _Memoirs of My Life_, p. 311. N. Y., E. P. Dutton, 1909.
[10] ARNOLD WHITE, _Efficiency and Empire_, p. 97. London, Methuen & Co., 1901.
[11] W. C. & C. D. WHETHAM, _The Family and the Nations_, p. 85. N. Y., Longmans, 1909.
[12] GUSTAVE MICHAUD, _Shall We Improve Our Race_, The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 72, p. 77 (1908).
[13] J. A. THOMPSON, _Heredity_, p. 331. N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908.
[14] GUSTAVE MICHAUD, _Shall We Improve Our Race?_ Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 72, p. 77 (1908).
[15] J. ARTHUR THOMPSON, _Heredity_, p. 308. N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908.