A New Humanity, Or, The Easter IslandJ.B. Lippincott, 1905 - 360 pages Novel concerning an attempt to establish a community of advanced human beings, supermen, to replace homo sapiens. |
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Page v - What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal : what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going.
Page v - You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now man is more of an ape than any ape.
Page 350 - I am quite at a loss to understand how it was that so clever and clear-headed a man should ever have found his way into an asylum.
Page 317 - The war can only be successfully prosecuted by the destruction of slavery, which was made the corner-stone of the confederacy. This is the second time in the history of the world that a rebellion of property-holders against the lower classes and against the government was ever carried on. The Hungarian rebellion was one of that kind, and that failed, as must every rebellion of men of property against government and against the rights of the many. One of the greatest arguments which...
Page 123 - The man who wrote what I have just been reading to you is not yet lost. Don't you think so? Cure your old relative. But let me walk my own paths.
Page 315 - She put her head on one side and looked up at the clock on the wall.