Show men in 1000 A D A french statistician who ha ben studying the military and other records has found that in 1610 the average height of man in europe was five foet nine inches that in 1790 it was five feet six inches in it was five feet five inches and a fraction at the present time it is five feet three and three fourths inches it is easy to deduce from these figures a rate of regular and gradual decline in human stature the calculation that by the year A D the stature of the average man will be reduced to fifteen inches |