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Show i BACK TO PRIMITIVE TIME8. Nature Seeks to Draw Mankind, Declares De-clares Scientist. Nsture tends obstinately. Mlchelet ihlnks. to bring back toward primitive snlmallty. to unmake the civilised msn.itsys (instate Ijineon In the Qiisr-lerly Qiisr-lerly Review. It Is perhaps still her iln-am to have sons like her men sit nature Humanity, In Its earliest age could be but that and legitimately It hail then to take possession ot the world which had Just been born It massed In sternest combat with the I'tlniilUe. shAggy creatures, well arm ed with teeth and claws, that looked with contempt at this last horn of creation., crea-tion., without claws, unprotected by hair, all naked and unarmed To con quer these creatures man must be like I hem - He also must belong to this lower world or rslher he must take on the two natures -that Is to sa. he must needs become nt mice man and beast, possessed tif Instlnctlte craft as well us bloodthirsty fury The ilctot). which rested decisively, at an many points of the globe, with thu weaker, shows none the less the origins! superlorlt) of the rnnquered In the maiihensl. nt first controlled entirely en-tirely by physical fatalities, slept al ready as In the crysaHs tha true man, who walks upright and with his face to tho heavena." And thus true msn, llltlo by little, set himself free "To- risy mind Is decidedly the victor To the hesvy dresms of a troubled blood, to the energy of the brute, has suo-ceeded suo-ceeded the nervous II to of delicate. Intelligent In-telligent sensibility; In short, tho high er life" Hut tho btsst Is not dead, he must he wstchod. |