But it has always been silenced by the same question: what kind of person is this Superman to be?
And so, if the Superman is to come, he must be born of Woman by Man's intentional and well-considered contrivance.
The cry for the Superman did not begin with Nietzsche, nor will it end with his vogue.
However, it cannot be denied that one of the changes in public opinion demanded by the need for the Superman is a very unexpected one.
But neither alternative is worth changing for: Samson is no more a Superman than Calvin.
Man does desire an ideal Superman with such energy as he can spare from his nutrition, and has in every age magnified the best living substitute for it he can find.
The proof of the Superman will be in the living; and we shall find out how to produce him by the old method of trial and error, and not by waiting for a completely convincing prescription of his ingredients.
To cut humanity up into small cliques, and effectively limit the selection of the individual to his own clique, is to postpone the Superman for eons, if not for ever.
Therefore marriage, whilst it is made an indispensable condition of mating, will delay the advent of the Superman as effectually as Property, and will be modified by the impulse towards him just as effectually.
Nietzsche's Superman is a convenient figure by which for the moment to throw into relief the point I have in mind.
But indeed the Superman does not "mean" this or that: it can merely be approached from different points of view with different degrees of sympathy.
I have mentioned the Superman because Wells himself has reached a conception of aristocracy similar in certain respects to that of Nietzsche but in others wholly antagonistic.
But there are other wills," she persisted, "wills over which the superman may conceivably have no control.
But the superman creed is, "be yourself, realize yourself, no matter how cruel you may have to be in order to do so.
Your superman, at least the kind of superman you portray, is petrified.
Let us look both at the alleged natural law and the German creature so camouflaged by it that he deceives himself into believing that he is really the superman that his philosophy paints him.
She had been struck from the first by his great stature and powerful physique, which were just what she imagined that Nietzsche's ideal Superman would possess.
If I have not been as much of a Superman as I could wish, you may still find that I have profited by your teachings.
He meant the human laws and customs and prejudices which a true Superman should soar above.
Edna looked forward with interest to the Count's next visit; his performances with the dragon had impressed her greatly in his favour, and she had begun to think that he might have the makings of a Superman in him after all.
He insensibly imbibed the Nietzsche doctrine that the immorality of the Superman may be as colossal as his strength and that the slave-evangel of Christianity was superseded by a sterner law.
They seem to think that to have put the critics right about a few lines in Sophocles, or to have discovered a new chemical dye, dispenses the German Superman from being bound to humanity, truthfulness, and honor.
But, according to Nietzschean principles, are they not equally good in so far as they enable the superman to refine and elaborate his scale of combat?
If the Base goes down, Superman goes with it, and we've lost an opportunity that will never come again in our lifetimes.
By the end of the following week, laboratory furniture had been installed and the first trickle of potential staff members was coming in to see what Superman was all about.
And you haven't got as much time now as we thought you had when Superman began.
Let's say a small celebration feed for the whole crew when Superman is completed.
In the meantime a Wheel would be built, the public would be mollified, andSuperman would continue on--to what unknown ends Paul didn't know.
It was two weeks later that General Oglethorpe made his first visit since Superman got under way.
It's been a toss-up whether to close Superman and put everything we had on the new Wheel, or leave it open in the hope of getting something out of it.
So we've got to do two things: We've got to give active support to the rebuilding of the Wheel, and we've got to develop some kind of show that will convince Oglethorpe that Superman is giving him what he wants.
And your iron-hard, errorless Supermanis going to be the most emotionally sensitive creature you can produce.
His endorsement of Project Supermanwas enthusiastic.
We have hopes of producing them within a very short time if Project Superman is allowed to continue.
He'd all but insulted the General and told him he had no intention of producing the iron superman the Space Command contemplated.
Project Superman could get about its business of preparing men for the stars.
But there still remained a problem and it was this: When the superman at last appears on earth, what then?
Will there be another super-superman to follow and a super-supersuperman after that?
They talked of Naumburg and the days of long ago and the fiery prophet of the superman became simple Brother Fritz.
The ideal superman then is merely a man in whom instinct works without interference--a man who feels that it is right to live and that the only knowledge worth while is that which makes life longer and more bearable.
The superman will be the final flower and ultimate expression of the earth.
When, at last, truth reigned supreme and there were no more errors, the supermanwould walk the earth.
His superman is to give his will to live--or will to power, as you please--perfect freedom.
They are mostly the result of an attempt to describe a mind and will of more than human strength, but the superman thus idealized rarely works miracles of healing.
For the Buddha is not an Avatâra or a messenger but a superman whose exceptional intelligence sees that the Wheel of Causation and the Four Truths are part of the very nature of things.
Being a lone superman in a world of ordinary people mightn't be so pleasant.
Trying to see what kind of a bloke this toutedsuperman is, Stanton thought.
It looked as though they hadn't been able to make a supermanof Martin, but they had been able to make a normal and extraordinarily capable human being of him, he thought.
I protest against this attempt to turn a Napoleonic superman of literature, with a head like that head which Rodin has so admirably recalled for us, into a bourgeois chronicler of bourgeois mediocrities.
He does not conceal the fact that his type of man is one which is relatively superhuman--especially as opposed to the "good" man, and that the good and the just would regard his superman as the devil.
Once, when I whispered to a man that he would do better I to seek for the Superman in a Cæsar Borgia than in a Parsifal, he could not believe his ears.
So strange are ye in your souls to all that is great, that the Superman would be terrible in your eyes for his goodness.
The beauty of the Superman came unto me as a shadow.
Again, from the jargon of a prevalent Nietzschianism a doctrine at once like and unlike the teaching of that solitary thinker descriptions of the Superman are borrowed, and with these Strindberg is labelled.
During the week in which he expected his brother, he described him to a friend as a sort of superman to whom he looked up.
The coming of the superman means not an epidemic of personages but the disappearance of the Personage in the universal ascent.
The idea of the superman is an idea that has been developed by various people ignorant of biology and unaccustomed to biological ways of thinking.
Helped by a streak of antic egotism in themselves, they conceived of the supermanas a posturing personage, misunderstood by the vulgar, fantastic, wonderful.
The true superman comes not as the tremendous personal entry of a star, but in the less dramatic form of a general increase of goodwill and skill and common sense.
But now," he went on thoughtfully, "consider what would happen if we made a public announcement that we could cure Mekstrom's Disease by making a physical superman out of the poor victim.
It is not beyond the imagination to believe that your Mekstrom Superman might live three times our frail four-score and ten.
I might point out that our hypothetical superman might be able to stand a lot of rough treatment," I blurted.
Once cured, it made a physical superman of the so-called victim.
Until we can make every man, woman, and child on the face of this Earth as much physical superman as we are, our job is not finished.
Such a man overcompensates and becomes the frustrate; a ripe disciple for the superman theory.
This was to be his contribution towards the new kind of man or superman for whom he was groping.
It was by Blake's frank proclamation of the ego that he anticipated so much of what the modern apostles of the superman have made us all familiar with.
Similarly, we might unconsciously evolve along the opposite or Nietzscheian line of development--superman crushing superman in one tower of tyrants until the universe is smashed up for fun.
He is a Marxian one day, a Nietzscheite the next day, a Superman (probably) the next day; and a slave every day.
The sermon was almost fiercely theological, but through it all there was that wonderfully inspired look, that diviner mind, that "little more" which declares theSuperman to be in control.
For, at that hour ofsuperman control, the virtue of the spiritual erected and informed the physical.
Neither will your being a superman enable your body to retain life after I have pushed you through yonder door, dressed as you are in a silken tunic.
Also remember that, superman though you may be, your mentality cannot cope with the forces I have bearing upon you.
Being superman didn't keep the rest of your men from going out in my ray, and being a superman isn't going to save your brain.
They hadn't been able to make a superman of Martin, but they had been able to make a normal and extraordinarily capable man of him.
If the supermanwill come by natural selection, may we not leave it to natural selection?
If the superman will come by human selection, what sort of superman are we to select?
He is a Marxian one day, a Nietzscheite the next day, a Superman (probably) the next day, and a slave every day.
The superman would scarcely seem to redress the balance by getting rid of the same restraining virtues in favor of power.
But the superman himself is a most authentic descendant of the original genius in whom we first saw this passion dominant.
Yet in his inner spirit and in spite of certain minor eccentricities, Socrates was neither a superman nor a Bohemian, but a humanist.
The perfect efficient superman of business or profession begins to lag.
How do we know that the From-man is to be a Superman and not a Subman?
