The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-03
SAVANTS SCHEME TO DEVELOP
A Perfect HUMAN BEING
Special to The sG1oha

Special to The Globe.
PARIS, Jan. 2.-If the ideas of M.
Sevre, of the French Academy of Sci
ences, are put into operation, the honor
Of developing the highest type of hui
man beings yet prOpagated will rest
with the United States.
The distinguished anthropophagist
has started negotiations through the
proper authorities with view to the
endowment and regulation Of a colony,
under the auspices of the Worlds An
thropologicaI Society, to be established
at a favorable point in California.
. The purposes Of the society will be
the development by proper breeding,
and every known scientific means of
physiological and psychological train
ing, of a race of superior human be-
ings
The idea, as far as have been able
to CLEAN from the distinguished savant
will be to make development the para
mount purpose of all, q sine qua non
to which all to be, admitted to the in
stitution must irrevCcably surrender
themselves.
Stirpiculturists CT all nationaIities
are interested in the latest endeayor to
push the lines of human Advancement
few centuries ahead Of the normal
as it is hoped will be achieved by the
experiment. 1t is also supposed the
lessons so learned viii be of eventual
benefit to the entire race, as many
theories impossible Of application under
ordinary social conditions will be
given an unqualified test.
I'VE expect" said the professor, Gin
q generation or two to have produced
living types as far ahead Of the very
finest now existing as these are Of the
lowest at present perpctuated.
AS far as we can judge, the human
race Ell masse has not made any par
ticular strides since the dawn Of his
tory. "The Egyptian fellaneen Of the
earliest times, say 5000 years age,
was very much of the same physical
and mental capacity as the NAVY Of
the present time.
"All this might have been corrected
aeons ago, if the human race had look
ed an inch beyond it's nose.
"a few thousand years ago. down
in the Greek peninsula, q handful OF
men and women started in to teach
the rest of the human race what it
could do with itself by the applica-
ton of common methods of everyday
life, but they soon became the object
of jealousy by other peoples for, sad
to state, the human race loves me3i-
ocrity.
THE cry of democracy is only the
cry of the worm, the universal leveler.
Take your own country Where are
genius and material progress Sc much
ridiculed as they are by your dema-
gogueS, who rule you through the press
or forum. 1t would seem to be a crime
in America to be distinguished. Your
great men roll over each other to pros
trate themselves before the great deity
of equality. We have outIived such
cant here, largely; but not 50 in Amer
lea, although you are ahead of the
world in many -WaVS
But that is irrelevant. It is net to
criticise what is, but to make sonIe-
thing better that we dream.
I'm the last fifty years we have seen
marvels accomplished in the develop
ments of plant life. The vegetable
kingdom has been invaded by the
devoteeS of science with wonderful re-
suits. In the animal kingdom prog
ress has also been made, and magnifi-
cent breeds of horses and dogs COM
peting for h0nors at our shows should
stimulate the public mind Immediately
to the great task confronting humanity
of redeeming itself.
Instead of allowing p0isons to de-
velop generation after generation in
the blood they must be killed. The
poisons which breed immortality and
a desire for intoXicatiOn of the senses
are abnormal, the outcome Of mental
and physical miasma, and there is M
mere reason for their existence than
for the universal existence Of small
poX, if those ruling the human race
will only say so.
I'm the past there has been too much
reliance placed upon the idea of D-
vine aid and regeneration. Man has
lost his own divine instincts and how
ed himself down before everything.
from the serpent to the ass. But he
begins to see his mistake. His powers
are not lest, but merely neglected. He
already sees the possibility of trans
forming his knowledge of science into
a magic wand; and of conquering the
material by the mental. His attributes
of gedhood are manifesting themselves.
He has learned to flash thought
through the air, and to dc many mar
velous things in the past decade.
Nov to fit him for the tasks which
the future will impose upon him. for
the moral responsibility that his new
place in nature will require, the educa-
ton and environment of ordinary life
and ordinary schools is not sufficient
ly advanced.
According to existing civilization
and curriculums just so many hundred
thousand human beings of the same
mediocre type are launched into the
world daily through these channels.
There is no special attempt made tc
advance beyond the common plane,
except in the acquisition of some skill
which can be turned to financial ad-
vantage.
THE goal before all eyes is the mon
ey bag; by its influence all considera-