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The Superman Idea
The claims of these organizers of
humanity raise another question which I have often asked them and
which, so far as I know, they have never answered: If the natural
tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit
people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these
organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their
appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they
believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the
rest of mankind? The organizers maintain that society, when left
undirected, rushes headlong to its inevitable destruction because
the instincts of the people are so perverse. The legislators
claim to stop this suicidal course and to give it a saner
direction. Apparently, then, the legislators and the organizers
have received from Heaven an intelligence and virtue that place
them beyond and above mankind; if so, let them show their titles
to this superiority. They would be the shepherds over us, their
sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are
naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully
justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof
of this natural superiority.
Clark Simmons, Webmaster
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