Show NOT degenerating mankind in no of Becom lne a clare of it appears from the results of scientific measurements recently made in france that the average stature of man is neither increasing nor decreasing the skeletons of the men who inhabited france at a period when europe was alic home of lions elephants rhinoceroses rhinoceros es and reindeer are of very nearly the same size as those of the french people of today to day yet says youths companion the surroundings amid which these early men lived were remarkably different from those enjoyed by their suc their best abodes were caves md to hold possession of them they biad to wage warfare upon such fierce beasts as alie saber toothed tiger and the cave bear without our modem weapons it would seem that they should have possessed superior bodily powers but there is no evidence that they did they had human cunning however which always prevails over brute strength later came the ancestors of the bauls and franks and they seem to have slightly exceeded the cave men in stature and also to have been a trine taller than their modem descendants one interesting fact shown by the measure ments is that there has been a perceptible gain in the stature of women as compared with that of men since the days of the tiger fighters in france taken as a whole this evidence shows that there is no danger that mankind will become a race of dwarfs and no likelihood of their developing inan pinn ts |