developers,
stimulators and inhibitors of the endocrines, as well as investigators
of the individuals who have not enough or too much of one or some of
them. Prisons will have the same function, only they will be named
detention hospitals. The raising of the general level of intelligence
by the judicious use of endocrine extracts will mean a good deal to
the sincere statesman. The average duration of life will be prolonged
for an enormous mass of the population. If the prevention of war
depends upon the burning into the imagination of the electorates
what the consequences of war are, a high intelligence quotient and
revaluation of life will count for a good deal.

Man is the animal that wants Utopia. So long as human nature was
looked upon as fixed constant in the ebb and flow of life, a Utopia of
fine minds could be conceived only by the dreamer and poet. The desire
for such a Utopia could only be regarded as a tragic aspiration for an
impossibility. The physiology of the internal secretions teaches that
human nature does change and can be changed. A relative control of its
properties is already in view. The absolute control will come.

Nor need anyone fear that the science of the internal secretions in
its maturity will signify the abolition of the marvelous differences
between human beings that create the unique personalities of history.
A derangement of the endocrines has been responsible for masterpieces
of the human species in the past and will be responsible for them in
the future. The equality of Utopia can be the equality of the highest
and fullest development possible for each of its inhabitants. The
applications of endocrine control will not necessarily interfere
with the life of the individual. There will be breeding of the best
mixtures of glands of internal secretion possible. And there will
be treatment for those born with a handicap, or who have become
handicapped in the life struggle. There will be a stimulation of
capacity to the limit. But beyond that, compulsory equalization is a
theorist's bogey.

The internal secretions are the most hopeful and promising of the
reagents for control yet come upon by the human mind. They open up
limitless prospects for the improvement of the race. A few hundreds of
investigators are engaged upon their study throughout the world. That
is one of the ironies of our contemporary civilization. A concerted
effort at the task of understanding them, backed by the labors o