ARISTOGENICS 381 



Service to the human race is expressed in terms of that which favors first 

 racial longevity, for without continuance there is no possibility of anything 

 else; second, the health of the race, its efficiency; third, its serenity. 



THE RACE-MAN 



This is best understood by visioning the human race as an organism: 

 its organs as the associations of men (nations or otherwise) which function 

 in the general welfare; its cell units as men; its life, their actions; its thought, 

 their individual and mass thinking and feeling; its memory, the folk ways, 

 records of the past in voice, print and durable structure; its speech, the 

 radio, the screen and the press; its history, dimly defined; its destiny 

 unknown. 



Races are born, sicken and die. Cities, states and nations of high organ- 

 ization have reached manhood, old age and death. 



Our World Man has developed arteries, nerves, voice, consciousness and, 

 as we have recently noted, a capacity for feeling pain, and a sense of need of 

 centralized thought. 



This is a concrete conception. It is more simple to think of the World 

 Man's integration, his health, longevity, happiness, efficiency and service, 

 and to conceive merit to be that which aids these excellent things. The 

 greatest or the best are those who serve best to these ends. 



This, I think, is the law and the gospel of every living religion, and the 

 tendency of much of our physical and biological science. It provides the 

 basis of a clear cut working program of Aristogenics, and gives clear point 

 to all the strivings of mankind. 



The task of Aristogenics is to seek and to study these men of greatest merit 

 who best have served or who best are serving the human race. 



GREATNESS 



The elements of greatness of service include quality, extent, power and 

 continuance of the effect of the life and work of the individual upon the 

 World Man, and service is judged by these tokens. 



In the past there have been men who have done great and durable good. 

 They rose like mountains on the horizons of history: mountains made of 

 our own earth, rooted upon it and pointing skyward. 



There are men now still living who are recognizable as great in service to 

 mankind. They are distinguished by the currently discernible effects of 

 their works: their words, writings, messages, discoveries, leadership, inspi- 

 ration and the like, diverse elements which go to make men happier, wiser, 

 more biologically sound and continuing, and the World Man likewise. 



