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...campaigns of conquest all over the world. Her mining successes have provided her with funds for a great crusade; her versatility has been proved; and if her leadership can be enlisted, their causes is assured of victory, Mr. Shaw and the Wyf of Bathe will be vindicated, and the Superman will have...
...shows few signs of strain, and has gained ten pounds since he landed in this country. This means that he will be able to fulfill the real purpose of his mission to America. But we are no less amazed then relieved at this news. He must indeed be a superman who can put on extra weight while rushing to and fro between Kansas City and Boston on tours that new him at least six college degrees. Many an aspirant for a single diploma fails to gain an ounce, no matter how violently he may specialize in egg-nogs and carbohydrates...
Great is the nation which produces a Babe Ruth, and takes both pride and joy in the manifestations of his prow ness. The superman in baseball has arrived, and, thanks to the scientists, we know why he is a superman. May, we not hope that succeeding generations of Americans, profiting by a knowledge of the reasons for the success of our athletes, will develop to the full limit their eyes, their ears, their nerves and their muscles, and enter the game of life trained to knock out "home runs" in their chosen callings? The superman, whether in baseball, statemanship...
What can be done, that is not being done, to hasten the advent of the day when to fly will be a normal individual undertaking? Only careful propaganda designed to reach the general public who still regard the airman as a superman and the airplane as the invention of the devil, can hasten the day, and such propaganda is best produced by the formation of aero clubs and aero societies with attendant activities, until the passage of a machine overhead is so usual as not to cause even the field laborer to look up from his toil. "Per ardua adastra...
...terrible in a man who is the sounding bell of the world." If Tolstoy had let him, Gorky would have worshipped him; as it was he feared, despised, worshipped all at once, but fundamentally he was ever somewhat overawed by the realization that Tolstoy was a genius and a superman. "I saw him once as perhaps no one has ever seen him. He was sitting with his head on his hands, the wind blowing the silvery hairs of his beard through his fingers; he was looking into the distance out to sea. . . . In the musing motionless...