privately know to be obsolescent makeshifts, and to affect the
deepest veneration for creeds and ideals which they ridicule
among themselves with cynical scepticism. No individual Siegfried
can rescue them from this bondage and hypocrisy; in fact, the
individual Siegfried has come often enough, only to find himself
confronted with the alternative of governing those who are not
Siegfrieds or risking destruction at their hands. And this
dilemma will persist until Wotan's inspiration comes to our
governors, and they see that their business is not the devising
of laws and institutions to prop up the weaknesses of mobs and
secure the survival of the unfittest, but the breeding of men
whose wills and intelligences may be depended on to produce
spontaneously the social well-being our clumsy laws now aim at and
miss. The majority of men at present in Europe have no business
to be alive; and no serious progress will be made until we
address ourselves earnestly and scientifically to the task of
producing trustworthy human material for society. In short, it is
necessary to breed a race of men in whom the life-giving impulses
predominate, before the New Protestantism becomes politically
practicable.*

*The necessity for breeding the governing class from a selected
stock has always been recognized by Aristocrats, however
erroneous their methods of selection. We have changed our system
from Aristocracy to Democracy without considering that we were at
the same time changing, as regards our governing class, from
Selection to Promiscuity. Those who have taken a practical part
in modern politics best know how farcical the result is.