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...only one item in the long education of Alexis Carrel. Science had taught him what human beings are and. with that knowledge, he felt that he had been exalted into a mystical invisible ruling class-a class which, if given the worldly power to match its intellectual prestige, might bring humanity to its full flower. Therefore in his Man, the Unknown Dr. Carrel solemnly proposes a High Council of Doctors to rule the world for its own good...
Council of Doctors. The active Carrel imagination envisages a ''thinking centre'' patterned on the U. S. Supreme Court to which the political leaders of the world would come for their orders. Candidates for this omnipotent body would start studying for the job at 25, would not be eligible for membership before they were 50. Dr. Carrel describes his Council's operation thus...
...Carrel hints that he would make a good member of such a High Council. Writing of himself in the third person he says: "He has observed practically every form of human activity. He is acquainted with the poor and the rich, the sound and the diseased, the learned and the ignorant, the weak-minded, the insane, the shrewd, the criminal, etc. . . . farmers, proletarians, clerks, shopkeepers, financiers, manufacturers, politicians, statesmen, soldiers, professors, schoolteachers, clergymen, peasants, bourgeois, and aristocrats. The circumstances of his life have led him across the path of philosophers, artists, poets, and scientists. And also of geniuses, heroes...
Democratic Error. As a High Councilor, Dr. Carrel would promptly correct ''an error'' concerning democratic equality. Says he: "This dogma is now breaking down under the blows of the experience of the nations. It is, therefore, unnecessary to insist upon its falseness. But its success has been astonishingly long. How could humanity accept such faith for so many years? The democratic creed does not take account of the constitution of our body and of our consciousness. It does not apply to the concrete fact which the individual is. Indeed, human beings are equal. But individuals...
...mighty flight of fancy Dr. Carrel does not pause to explain to men of lesser minds just how, as a practical political matter, these titanic reforms are to be brought about. Nor does he adduce any historic arguments to prove that doctors make great governors of men, perhaps because such arguments are difficult to find. U. S. experience with doctors in high office (e. g. New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland and Representative William Irving Sirovich) Dr. Carrel apparently realized would not help him make his point...