Note CL — Chapter XX · RULES OF EUGENICS

The brutality of Nietzsche’s philosophy has never attracted normal people, even if they had the assurance that the offspring of the brutal mating will turn out to be supermen. This assurance can not be given. The lessons of history teach just the contrary. The artificial breeding of the Spartan warrior led to the sterility of every progress of culture, science, art or commerce, while the chaotic panmixia of Athens did not prevent this town of only thirty thousand inhabitants, two-thirds of them slaves, to become the spiritual centre of Greece and the teacher of untold future generations in art and science. But for Athens and its panmixia, Sparta’s history would have remained unwritten and its people buried in oblivion, like many another nation that is known by name only. The most vaunted Spartan vigor has not left the least sign of a monument, chiseled, written, carved, or stained, to record Sparta’s very existence. Sparta’s vigor was the vigor of the bull or the elephant.