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pitals. The raising of the general level of intelligence by the 

 judicious use of endocrine extracts will mean a good deal to the 

 sincere statesman. The average duration of life will be prolonged 

 for an enormous mass of the population. If the prevention of 

 war depends upon the burning into the imagination of the elec- 

 torates what the consequences of war are, a high intelligence quo- 

 tient and revaluation of life will count for a good deal. 



Man is the animal that wants Utopia. So long as human na- 

 ture was looked upon as fixed constant in the ebb and flow of 

 life, a Utopia of fine minds could be conceived only by the 

 dreamer and poet. The desire for such a Utopia could only be 

 regarded as a tragic aspiration for an impossibility. The phy- 

 siology of the internal secretions teaches that human nature does 

 change and can be changed. A relative control of its properties 

 is already in view. The absolute control will come. 



Nor need anyone fear that the science of the internal secretions 

 in its maturity will signify the abolition of the marvelous differ- 

 ences between human beings that create the unique personalities 

 of history. A derangement of the endocrines has been responsible 

 for masterpieces of the human species in the past and will be 

 responsible for them in the future. The equality of Utopia can 

 be the equality of the highest and fullest development possible for 

 each of its inhabitants. The applications of endocrine control 

 will not necessarily interfere with the life of the individual. 

 There will be breeding of the best mixtures of glands of internal 

 secretion possible. And there will be treatment for those born 

 with a handicap, or who have become handicapped in the life 

 struggle. There will be a stimulation of capacity to the limit. 

 But beyond that, compulsory equalization is a theorist's bogey. 



The internal secretions are the most hopeful and promising of 

 the reagents for control yet come upon by the human mind. 

 They open up limitless prospects for the improvement of the race. 

 A few hundreds of investigators are engaged upon their study 

 throughout the world. That is one of the ironies of our contem- 

 porary civilization. A concerted effort at the task of understand- 

 ing them, backed by the labors of tens of thousands of workers, 

 would, without a doubt, accomplish as much for humanity as 

 the vast armies and navies that consume the substance of man- 

 kind. If we could not obtain Utopia then, we might, at least 

 by abolishing the subnormals and abnormals who constitute the 

 slaves and careerists of society, render the human race less con- 

 temptible and more divine. 



