The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-05
THE COMING MAN.
He Will Have No Teeth and Perhaps
Will Be Without a Nose.

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From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
| A recent writer insists that the use of the
teeth for grinding food, as well as for cut
| ting it, will be given up by degrees, and the
human race of very refined civilization
will wholly have ceased to use gross foods.
The tendency is certainly in that direction
We have undergone vast changes since the
savage state that allows an individual to
devour and digest forty pounds of meat in u
day. Our babes, to- be sure, are still born
with proGruding abdomen, characteristic
of the savage that carries vast amount of
pabuluIu wnen he can get it., preparatory
to fasting when he must; but our children
soon lose this characteristic. We can eat
but small quantities and are less and less
able to digest grosser sorts of food. The
| necessity Of readjusting our habits to our
ability is apparent from the breakdown OF
the civilized stomach.
The savage can digest anything; we are
dyspeptics under the slightest proyocation.
Our carnivorous habits are outlasting our
carnivorOus teeth. Nature, by taking
away our tearing teeth, hints to us that we
must use less meat. We face the problem
Of a break down of civilization-a check to
all further progress, unless we adjust our
food to our needs. Education under civil
cation has enlarged the brain fQurfold, and
in like ratio refined the teatuM aud less
ened the teeth.
The Neolithic man, who Inhabited Europe
before the Aryan stock emerged from Asia,
wore his teeth off to the roots without de-
cay. The adjustment of teeth has been
very great in different races. The Egyp-
tians were mostly vegetable eaters and had
jaws set square together like herbivorous
animals. But, no. discussing the probable
ties further, let us see what tue face of the
coming man will resemble The brain
widens out the forehead and the loss of teeth
narrows the jaws. We shall, therefore.
lose the contour of the face which is now
admired, and shall have wedge-shaped faces.
These Will be the style in the twenty-fifth
century, quite to the exclusion of the broad
jaw of the present, as that has displaced he
fashion of the prognathous jaw. The pro-
truding jaw and prominent teeth Of some
existing tribes appear to us hideous Oar
own laws will doubtless seem no less so to
our remote successors.
The nose has already undergone total
Transformation. 1t has lost its open, alert,
outreaching capacity, and can no lon ger
scent such odors as the Australian nd
Soudanese catch. But it is refined to a new
class of duties and can smell new class of
odors. An Australian can get down OH all
tours and track sheep, but he cares moth
ing for a jack rose or an Easter lily. But
the nose is still more transformed in offic . to
help make out the intellectual profile. The
ewes of civilization are taxed beyond all
comparison with former ages, and arc in
volved in many. diseases and organic
changes. The tendency is to mako the
organ round and shorten the range Of
vision. Much has been said about our loss
of hair, and the causes assigned to ba ldness
are as many as the doctors who discu IS. 1t
is evident, however. that the brain IS in
some way responsible for the tende ncy to
lose the hair. and it is very probable that it
is in the main the result of undue heat in
the cerebrun, congestion arising from over
taxation Of the brain cells.