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Show It's a Great "Sense" Now, we are informed as to the origin of trusts, malefactors male-factors of great wealth, vast aggregations of capital, the tendency toward concentration, and such. At Columbia University, Frof. Fred Tilney has long been studying the brains of apes and of early man and he is convinced con-vinced that the ape forefathers of the human race, in driving th giant beasts out of their caves, acquired the "possessive sense." Ape or Adam, there is no question about this "possessive sense" and its evolution, it being a predominating sense in ; both man and beast. Our Ape forefather, if any, got one cave and then went to getting all the caves he could get. Of course, he might be able to enjoy but one cave; but, once possessed by the possessive posses-sive sense, he got all that he could get. . Mr. Rockefeller could get all the enjoyment possible out of one hundred million dollars; dol-lars; but he gets five hundred, and is still getting. Adam, compelled to get his own bread, undoubtedly got all the bread he could. Indeed, the similarity of the operation of the possessive sense in ape and man is somewhat corroborative of Prof. Til-ney's Til-ney's claim that "if is indisputable that there was a definite pre-human stock capable of producing both anthropoid .and man." Their early brains were similar, at any rate. And, without the possessive sense, man would, likely, still be an ape, or an Adam, a hopeless inhabitant of trees, or a stupid, habitual victim of raw apples. |
