840 Causes and Course of Organic Evolution 



and even farm sewage. The exami)les of Berlin, Manchester, 

 and other cities in solving this question open up future possi- 

 bilities for improvement that can scarcely as yet be estimated, 

 and that time only will reveal. Under the present wasteful, 

 immoral, and irreligious competitive system the consideration 

 or practical solution of such questions is side-tracked, while 

 the beneficial results that would ensue are largely minimized 

 for interested reasons. Socialized and cooperative superman, 

 guided and energized by a quickened cogitic and spiritic en- 

 ergy, will apply himself with alacrity and success to such prob- 

 lems. Already the admirable work being done, against often 

 adverse conditions, by agricultural colleges and institutes in 

 quickening the proenvironal outlook, is best guarantee that 

 a great awakening is near at hand. 



When one considers and compares many of the above ques- 

 tions on their already realized side, and in view of the un- 

 doubted expansion they will undergo in the near future, the 

 mind begins to estimate how enormously man has extended 

 his dominion over the forces and the objects of nature. But 

 more striking still are the possible combined activities that 

 one individual may exercise within an hour or two, if a few 

 wise arrangements be made for the exercise of these activities. 

 Thus, seated in a room appropriately arranged, the modern 

 superman of a city might talk with friends hundreds of miles 

 apart; might next by electric connection start all of the machin- 

 ery of a large manufacturing town; might next dislodge thou- 

 sands of tons of rock by electric spark; then pass a cable message 

 to the other side of the world; next dictate some letters that 

 would in a few days start removal of thousands of tons of 

 merchandise across thousands of miles of ocean; he might 

 then take a trip of a few miles through midair and within 

 half an hour return to speak to a friend for a few minutes in 

 Atlantic mid-ocean, and conclude by reading the world's news 

 of the previous day. 



Such immediately realizable possibilities afford a glimpse 

 into future developments of superman, especially under a 

 synthetic social system. 



