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Show MODERN MAN NOT A WONDER. Shows Little Advancement Over Prototype Pro-totype of Ancient Days. Alfred Russel Wallace, the well-known well-known English scientist, says that modern man Is not superior to tho man of ancient times. He writes: "The general Idea that our enormous advances in science and command over nature serves as demonstration of our mental superiority to the men of earlier ages Is totally unfounded. The evidence of history and of the earliest monuments alike goes to Indicate In-dicate that our Intellectual and moral nature has not advanced In any perceptible per-ceptible degree. In the second place, we find that the supposed gn;at mental inferiority of savages Is equally equal-ly unfounded. The more they are sympathetically studied the more they are found to resemble ourselves In their Inherent Intellectual powers. "Even the so long despised Australian, Aus-tralian, almost the lowest In material progress, yet show by their complex laneniarrp thMr Alahorfttf anrlnl rAcu- latlons, and often by an innate nobility no-bility of character, Indications of a very similar Inner nature to our own. If they possess fewer philosophers and moralists, they are also free from so large a proportion of unbalanced minds idiots and lunatics as we possess. , "On the other hand, we find in the higher Pacific types men -who, though savages s regards material progress, are yet generally admitted to be physically, intellectually and morally our equals, if not our superiors. . . . Thirdly, we have no proof whatever that even the men of the stone age wore mentally or morally Inferior to ourselves." |