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The Coming of Superman Is it said
that when the supramental descends, it will come with such an overwhelming and
irresistible force that all humanity will be changed forthwith, that is to say,
all men whether they wanted it or not, sought for it or not, would be
automatically transformed? It cannot be so: it is a comfortable doctrine
putting a premium on laziness and inertia. There
is no necessity for all men turning into supermen, the normal human race
disappearing altogether. Mankind need not become extinct like the ancient
Mammoth and Mastodon in order to give place to Superman. Both the races can
dwell together; earth is wide enough. Man has appeared; for that reason the ape
has not disappeared, although it is said man came out of the ape genus. The superman
will come and live with his new law of life; man too will continue with his
human dharma. Not only so, they need not be separated into watertight
compartments, there may be interaction or interchange between the two. With the
coming of Superman there will naturally be a descent of harmony and peace and
happiness and goodwill into the earth's atmosphere and mankind is likely to be
benefited by it. The conditions of life will be changed and will affect man's
life too. An element of light and joy and tranquillity will enter into
humanity's normal dealings. And man, on his side, may offer his services as the
recruiting ground of the super-race. Furthermore, the whole of Nature being a
unified movement, no level of creation being totally separate from others, the
change may very well touch the animal and even the vegetable kingdom. The plant
may put on, for example, a luminous or greener tint and the animal may develop
a happier and livelier spring.
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be less scarcity, dearth, aridity, fewer convulsions and catastrophes on earth.
Always,
however, exceptions are possible. Even now, where conditions of life are
happier and things are expected to be more smooth and harmonious, there exist
people who are by nature so obscure, quarrelsome and turbulent that they are
not touched at all and go on in their way finding always occasions to quarrel
and fight and create trouble. They will be in the midst of the new humanity as
Hottentots or Head-hunters – aborigines and savages – are today in the eyes of civilised humanity.
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