Show orn Man Wai Superior Clain w Biologists are arc repeatedly saying that mankind is retrogressing but considering the mind this statement statements s not true said Rudolph M. M Binder professor of sociology at New York University yesterday It may be that w we we are not much above the Magnon Cro-Magnon man by way war of developing develop develop- I ins ing new now physical characteristics characteristics and if thc they consider man as merely an anI I animal this situation may be de de- I Our little toes may have haye grown a little smaller and tho the big toe a little larger But nut what of it We Weno Weno Weno no longer use our toes to hang down from the branches of trees For walking or running we have a bettel better bet ter tel arrangement than the anthro- anthro pods I Our flOur teeth may h have ve diminished in size and In strength because we weno weno no nb no longer use the raw food of nature na un o ture ture That does not proVe prore that we weare are less well-nourished well than our Distant forbears Teeth after allare all allare allare are for mastication and if our present present present pres pres- ent teeth are sufficient for the food we e eat they serve their purpose Thre is a somewhere We Ve find a few teeth of primitive man In Ina ina a a good state of preservation under favorable conditions and we say that all primitive men must have had good teeth That Is a hasty I we do not nol knave w how many thousand of these people perished perished perished per per- because they could not chew the food they had to eat Wo read today of men and women women women wo wo- men reaching the age of 90 or w with ith their teeth still Intact If the they should be dug up 1000 years from now the future biologists could I come to the conclusion that the present generation must have had good teeth because these were ere the only onh- examples of teeth of this gener generation gener generation that the they foundAs foundAs foundAs found As to the general lowering of our sense organs other exceptions could bo taken to much that is heralded In the tho press Our sense organs are perfected proportion as aa they are used The savage may maybe may maybe be able ably to detect small changes in his path as ho he walks along stories tor es of how Indians and other oth oth- er r savage peoples find their way through woods and note there minor changes in the location of leaves and footprints are innumerable andare andare and andare are always entrancing These people have trained their eyes eJes for that particular particular particular par par- purpose Thees same people though would get a burning headache headache head head- headache ache if the they looked at a printed page pago for half an hour Our Our eyes ees have become perfected i along this line Whenever a CiVilized civilized civilized civil CiVil- man devotes himself to far far- sight as explorers and discoverers are compelled to do the they attain equal ability in both both In a number of cases they excel the native p people ople in reading the signs on the ground and become better bitter trailers than sav say ag ages It is only that we with witha a different application of our e eyes cs should lag behind native nathe people in ertain respects just as they lag behind be be- und hind us in others This does not mean that our eyes I are Inferior Peary Scott Amundsen Amund Amund- sen and others prove that if their eyes have to do the work for which i those of the savage are particularly trained they can do it in a very short time But mans man's civilization does not depend on these more or less crude Instruments of sense from the purely purely purely pure pure- ly physical point of view Civilized man is undoubtedly undoubted handsome than the savage is due chiefly chief chief- I ly to more regular and better meals to better protection of his body to more regular periods of rest These Theae achievements are products of civil civil- r Accompanying the changes mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- man has developed a finer nervous system which has enabled him to appreciate shades sounds colors and tastes of which the savage knows nothing The latter rejoice in the ma made e b by the tom-tom tom but I he would never appreciate appreciate appreciate a symphony He ma may delight in the crude drawing or the glaring color combination which he produced ed but ho cannot appreciate are fine color made b by civilized man These things are undoubtedly gain for the human of our nature pure puro and simple We Ve get more and finer finor enjoyment out of life Ufe than do does s the man of lower civilization There might not be so many trIangular triangular triangular trian trIan- gular lovo love affairs if there were were more square deals |