The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-17
MN ~ THE FEAR MILLIOY.
What the Human Race is Coming to-Case
OF SweIled Head

Somebody In the Pail Mall Budget has
let his fancy take wings in the contem-
plation OF the time when all of the
sixty-hve million people in the United
States will be anything but humanity.
This romancer's theme is "The Man Of
the Year Million and. judging from the
accompanying picture. it Will take about
that long 10 complete the change. There
IS comfort in the thought that there is
some little time ahead for goOd-looking
fellows.
In his introductions this writer SAYS.
Accomplished literature is all very well
IN its way. but much more fascinating TO
the contemplative man are the books
that have not been written. These latter
are no trouble 80 hold; there are no pages
TO turn over. one can read them i'm bed
on sleepless nights without a candle.
one of the unwritten volumes Is a
big book by Prof Holzkopf. of the Uni
versity Of Weissnicbtwo. on THE Neces-
sary Characters of the Man Of the Re
mote Future deduced from the Exist
ing Stream Of Tendency"
Just as the bird is the creature Of
the wing and is moulded and modified
for flying so man is creature OF brain.
and must live by that and not by physi-
cal strength. Naturally. then that which
is animal i'm him must gradually dsap-
pear. as civilization. more and more.
becomes a fixed habit. He doesn't need
big muscles TO get "A living; nor big Jaws
TO seize his food and crush IT, His jaws
get smaller. his teeth and hair are soon
lost; trains and trolley cars render speed
unnecessary; he doesn't have TO hunt his
wife She hunts him. Wit. and rot
strength, is what he needs Hence the
IL. i'll 81 Ill
Science gives him the knife and fork.
There is no reason why il should not
masticate and insaliyate his food. Does
IL not now digest it with all the pepsin
compounds? Teeth win disappear
The eyebrow used 10 be a buffer TO
protect tho eye from savage blows once
eNtermiuate football and the ridge OF
bone over tho eve viii go the way Of the
hair on the pate.
In some Of the most highly developed
crustaceans the whole alimeutary canal
has soldihed into a useless cord. because
the animal is nourished by the food I'm
which it Swims. The man Of the year
million viii not be bothered with ser
wants handing him things on plates
which he win chew and swallow and
digest. He viii battle In an amber
liquid which will be pure food. 10 waste
matter. assiFilated through the pores OF
the skin. The mouth will shrink 90 a
rosebud thing: the teeth will disappear;
the nose will disappear-it IS not nearly
a. biz nov As il was I'm savage days
the cars viii go away They are already
folded mp nom what they were, and only
n little tip fast vanishing remains to
show that ages ago they we're long
pointed things which bent forward and
backward so catch the sound Of approach
ing enemies.
But the hands grow, for they arc OK
ponents OF the brain, and the great
soulful eyes.
Prof. IIolzkopf goes on To that gloomy
time when all animal life shall have
been superseded BY mechanical con-
trivances. on 10 the time when the earth
cools and the human tadpoles burrow
in the earth for warmth.
But the year million is far enough
away isn't ito