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Show SOMETHING WRONG WITH MAN. Selsntlit Points Out How His Life Is Much too Short. What Is tho matter with man? March Phillips points out that thoro la this peculiarity In tho condition of man, as compared with tho other mammalia, that Ids llfo Is shorter now than by analogy It ought to bo. In other animals the period of growth Is about one-tenth to ono-ilfteenth of tho whole llfo. The Hon, which Is full grown at five, lives for 70 or 80 years. Tlio dog, full grown at 18 months, Is as old at IB as a man at 80. Man, living liv-ing as long ns the lion, Is not full grown till 20. The- Bamo proportion would glvo man from 320 to 400 years. Thus his physical life Is not In this respect tho normal llfo. It Is cut exceedingly ex-ceedingly Bhort, and its brevity points to some primal falluro of vigor to tho prcsenco of somo nonnaturnl that Is, somo diseased condition sapping sap-ping his vitality. Prof. Vlrchow notes that if wo gathor together the wholo sum of tho fossil men hitherto known nnd put them parallel with thoso of tho present time wo decidedly can pronounco thoro are among living men n much greater nuiubor of Individuals who bIiow rclatlwly inferior typo than among tho fossils known of to this time. |