actual--greatness of man's life. Greatness is not yet man's verity but his vocation, his true and idiomatic destiny. Greatness? This is a man's strength of will; the unfolding of a free personality. To say _I will_ is to be a man. All human values are embraced in this _I will_. To produce men who can say _I will_ is at once the task and the test of culture. This _I will_ is the climax and goal of man. In this _I will_ vanishes every fearsome and disquieting _I must_, every compulsion of outer necessity. Not the passive adjustment of man to nature, but the active adjustment of nature to man; nature outside of him and nature inside of him--that is human calling and human culture. Vanishes, also, every _I ought_. Man refuses to be ridden by a duty spook, but subordinates even duty to himself. Duty, too, is for the sake of man, not man for the sake of duty. In the depths of his own being, man reserves the sovereign right to speak his _yes_ and his _no_ to duty. To his own will he subjects all good and all evil taught him by others, past or present, and thus occupies a standpoint "beyond good and evil." Lord of the Sabbath? Yes, but lord also of standards sanctified by their antiquity; lord of all the standards of life; lord of all that has been written or thought or done. "And thou, O lord, art more than they!" Thou--thou alone--art central and supreme and sacred and inviolable. "Bring forth the royal diadem and crown him lord of all!" But not yet! Alas, there are no such lords, no such will-men, personality-men! Such men are not _Gegenwartsmenschen_, present day men, but _Zukunftsmenschen_, future day men; not reality but task--our task. That future man will surpass present man as much as present man surpasses the monkey which he in his development has left behind. We are bridges from monkey to superman. Superman! In him at last, at last, all that is unliving, unfree, withered and weak, all that is sickly in man, shall be obliterated; and all the forces that are great and creative shall be unfolded and molded into cultural values. This is the meaning of the superman of Friedrich Nietzsche. Malice and ignorance have vied--vainly we may now hope--in caricaturing it. The way to superman is the rugged, steep mountain path up to conscious deed and mighty achievement; not the gentle incline down to stupid indulgence, indolent disposition, enervating or bestial impulsive life. Not that! Superman is precisely the man who overcomes the man of today aweary of life and athirst for death.