RACE OF SUPERMEN.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13823, 20 September 1913, Page 2

RACE OF SUPERMEN.

A dream of a. race of supermen who j should replace man "as he is at present, "a mere.caricature of tho ideal," by a being "perfect in form and supreme in moral and intellectual endowment," occupied the attention of the section' on medical siociology. a'i tho conference of the British Medical Association at Brighton: Dr Harry Campbell said such an ideal was theoretically possible, though he admitted it was for many reasons impracticable. - "The efforts of the medical profession," said Sir James Barr, "have been almost devoted to tho present generation, without proper regard for the future/.: •_. ■ . . -..,. ! "The. Spartans and .the Zulus suc-'cetxk-d in raising' magnificent races, | but their methods were too barbarous, for the present day. There are now fcoitiei splendid races of modern savages ijm tho Balkans, men of whom any nation might feel proud, i ."We. cannot always approve of their j methods,'; but theii- methods are not so reprehensible aS'"'tfi©/ bullying tactics of so-called civilised. Europe over a hanclf;iil of ■ Montenegrins: .' _-_: ; "If wo are to retain our. -vast possessions w© inusfc '.raise a more manly breed,'a better ruling stock than those .which no>v direct the destinies of tlk> Empire. We must-breed not only for physique, but for: moral and intellectual capacity. " /;