74 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



scientific breeding on a universal scale of the 

 Nietzschean superman. There have been those 

 who have imagined that the greatest revolution in 

 the history of humanity still lies implicit in Galton's 

 conception could it only be applied to the world 

 by the methods of the German General Staff ! 



Galton called his new science Eugenics. Its 

 object, in his own words, was " to deal with all the 

 influences that improve the inborn qualities of the 

 race and develop them to the utmost advantage/' 1 

 The author has as clear a view of his requirements 

 as the German General Staff had of theirs. He 

 found no difficulty whatever with his standards of 

 the best specimens of the race. Even the animals 

 in the Zoological Gardens, he said, might be expected 

 to know the best specimens of their class. This 

 remark was the keynote of the scheme. The best 

 qualities to be bred from would, he intimated, 

 include those such as health, energy, ability, and 

 the like; in particular, the aptitudes required to 

 obtain supremacy in the struggle for success in the 

 various professions and occupations. It was in 

 the purest form the Darwinian science of the selec- 



1 In connection with the research fellowship in the University 

 of London, endowed by Galton in 1904 for the promotion of 

 Eugenics, the subject was defined as "the study of the agencies 

 under social control that may improve or impair the racial 

 qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally." 



