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Show - 77i "T"(eBeeMSMSMj '''sisV FUTURE OF SAVAGE I ' BRAIN ONLY NEEDS DEVELOPMENT DEVELOP-MENT AND CULTIVATION, Scientists In Convention In London Express Bell'jf That Aborigines of World Are Better Endowed En-dowed Than Supposed. In many of tho out-of-tho-way cor-norn cor-norn of tho world nro to bo found savngo peoplos upon whom tho world spends llttlo thought and concerning whom tho general opinion prevails that they are llttlo better mentally thnn tho beasts of tho Holds among which they dwell, tint thoso snmo savnges found dofondors recently among tho foremost scientists of Europe Eu-rope who had gathorcd in London. Thero noted scholars presented arguments argu-ments to provo that In many cases the nborlglnos of tho world wore not so far behind civilized man In respect to untural brain power ns the world has boon wont to bellevo. No less than n snvnnt thnn Principal Jevons ot the Durham university, spooking to the lowor culture Bectlon of tho history of religious congress In London, advanced tho remarkable proposition Hint to oxchnngo tho environment en-vironment of the snvngo nnd tho civilized civ-ilized mar, of Europe would demonstrate demon-strate In n few generations thnt tho former would nccustom his ways and himself to civilization Just ns certain ly ns tho whlto man, surrounded only by wild nnd sn,vngo conditions, would lapso Into the wnys ot tho nboriglne. Then enmo n scries of astonishing propositions. L, T. Ilobhouse, professor nf sociology soci-ology nt London university, compared tho skill of tho Polynesian with thnt ot nn Engllshmnn. Ho ndmltted that t! o brain icsurvolr of tho savago was Just ns great as thnt ot tho llrlton, and ho further conceded thnt tho natural llfo ot tho savago spared him many of tho weakening Impulses thnt rosult from tho vices ot tho mnn of clvlllzntlon. Tho only causo ot tho undoubted mcntnl superiority ot tho Engllshmnn he conceded was becnuso tho Inttor profited by tho Intellectual bequests ot previous generations, whllo the Polynesian rcmnlncd nt tho samo mcntnl level ns his rcmoto ancestor. This was qulto nn admission for nn Englishman to mnkc, but It was cast In tho shade by the report ot Prof. Dlochmann, n German savant, who told how ho had boon studying tho nrts of hypnotism and suggestion, which nro now taking a moro potent plnco In tho medical beliefs of tho modern world, Tho profossor told how ho had boon astounded to find that tho savugos of innny centuries hnd through their medlclno men long oxorclscd thoso arts of Influcnco and suggestion that havo tho effect of curing a person of III through tho brntn rather than through the body. 'LH Another expert sneered at the self' H superior poso of the whlto man, and H recallod how In England until the H eighteenth century there was a bollet H In mnglc, nnd that not much moro ILLI than n century nnd n half ago persons H suspected ot witchcraft wero burned iH In many civilized countries. jLH He argued that considering the sit- iLI perlor ndvnntnges of tho white man's H countries the progress made wns fat H from being great enough In compart- H son to permit tho patronizing ot tho jJ savngo In nil parts of tho world. H Hut the most wonderful of nil tho arguments for tho possibilities of tho ILI savngo wero purely mathematical, lLB They represent tho researches of Prof, H Sollns, a noted German scholar. ILH He adduces tho law of dimensions to iHLI show that thero Is no reason why tho A Maori savago should not somo day be tho H equal ot his whlto brother, provided jH that brain capacity counts, Ho oven demonstrated that no lm-measurable lm-measurable chasm exists between pro-historic pro-historic mnn nnd tho cultivated citizen to-day. Prof, Sollas tnndo nn oxhnusttvo sorlos ot measurements. Tho Jesuits ho nttnlnod surprised him, for ho ex- iaLfl pectcd lo find tho skull ot tho modern jH mnn ot education would demonstrate beyond cavil thut ha enjoyed advnn-tngos advnn-tngos with which tho savago could uover hopo to catch up. What he did And wns exactly the rovorso. iH Ho found thnt tho men of tho so- iLI called Neandorthal rnco and tho Poly-uoslan Poly-uoslan or Australian typo of blacks, who really represent tho lowest typo iLH of mnn, nro In reality ot the samo family. Tho savago Is n hotter man, mental- 'Ll ly, thnn ho hns received credit for. 'H |