Mankind (n.) has one task: to work continually at the production of individual great men — as in any species, the goal lies not in the mass and its wellbeing but in the scattered higher exemplars.
Mankind (n.) can no more pass over into a higher order than the ant or the earwig can rise at the end of its 'earthly course' to kinship with God — the becoming drags the has-been along behind it.
Mankind (n.) is a rope fastened between animal and overman — a rope over an abyss.
Mankind (n.) lies in ruins, scattered as on a battlefield or butcher's field: fragments and limbs and grisly accidents, but no human beings.
Mankind (n.) does not advance; it does not even exist — only a tremendous laboratory with a few successes scattered through the ages and untold failures.
Mankind (n.) under a common economic management of the earth will find its best meaning as a machine — a tremendous clockwork of ever smaller, ever more subtly adapted gears.
Mankind (n.) under the coming total economic administration of the earth will find its best meaning as a tremendous clockwork of ever smaller, ever more finely adapted cogs.
Mankind (n.) is not a whole with a total task but an indissoluble multiplicity of rising and declining processes — no youth, maturity, old age; thousands of years hence there may be younger types than ours.