Arizona republican., 1901-08-08
MAN IN THE FUTURE.
To Be a More Perfect Animal in Every
 Way.

Way.
 | Here is a cheering message to you. to
 your children, 10 their children and to all humanity. It is a story. wonderful anl unique, of the future of mans mind aUi body, told by scientist who has made the study of ,hc human race q life work. He is the optimist of opuimists. "Wiu there ever be a superhumln rare?" I yesterday asked Prof. w. J.. ! McGee, ethnOlCgist in charge of Uncle 1 Slm's bureau of ethaology.
 ! As far into the future as l can see man will still be man. The general progress of humauization is one to | which there is absolutely no end. With | man intelligence is now the sole factor | which win determine development. He | lives In an era of the artificial. and is no longer subject tJ his natural envir- Onment No other organism can ever CH.er and compete in that domain of in telleyt and control of surroundings He l is developing upon highe- planes, but is compelled to progress along certain | lines.
 Man will never develop wings, for | instance. because their use would be a too cN,rayagdut vase of vitality.
 When. with the mechanical appliances devised by his intellect, he competes with lower annals be demolstrates his superiority in every direction. He will not develop into hairy creature be- cause it will always eos; less vitality to make and wear clothing than to cul- tiyatc natural fur.
 BETTER BRAIN MECHANISM.
 'rhe future humln race will have a much better brain han ours. Mans brain is improving constantly. There are two sides 10 man-the brain side and the hand sidp. More and more nerve activity is gong into the hands: also to the feet to some extent. We have better organized nerves than those of primitive man. Your hand knows much more than that Of any savage. When you were liltle boy you couldn't write without ScreWIng up your mouth | The hand and brain are going forward together. Man will write more and more rapidly with both pen and type writer. We today cen write more rap- idly than our ancestors of three genera | tious ago, While you are taking notes on this interview your hand is moving automatically while your brain itself has a half dozen different thoughts as to future questions you will ask me. as how best to transcribe my lan- guage in popular form. etc. Such q
 complication of functionings was be- yond the power of cur ancestors.
 Future man will invent and create | more things. His written and spoken | language will be more economical. We | are painfully alive to the fact that En- l glish is not phonetic in it's orthography. The substitution of mechanical eror | hand typesrtting will be a long step. | There will be a language in which there
 is a term merely to express each dis | tinct idea. Man will talk and write as | well as think more rapidly No. I do not believe he will ever talk or write i quite as fast as he can think. Some | poor thinkers can now talk faster than I their ideas can flow, but they contrib 1 ute little to human happiness.
 Thought saving machines will TO-
 lievc future man of much of his pr.s- ! ent routine of brain work Practically ! ''' ''''''' l'l'l'd. NbIhs IpI instance, | will be done for him by mechanical de- | vices. Thought thus saved will be cx- 1 pended i'm other pursuits"
 GREATER RANGE OF MEMORY. But do-s not the fact that absent
 mihdedness increases with intcllec, in-
 dicate that the coming race will have | an impaired memory"
 The scientific man today is not ab- | sent-minded, but the scholastic is. | But scholastics very often affect ab-
 -miEdednesS as a badge of dis | tin. ton to be admired by the multi
 tude, just as some of the socially am
 bilious affect gout as mark of aris- 1 tocraCy.
 "Fhe memory of the future will be
 one Of grater range although not so l acute as the us less details along one | line. Today We ren2mber 100 things | to each one thing remembered by the
 savage, but of that one thing he can | rem mber more details, The most stupid man | ever knsw w could remem-
 ber, word for word nearly all conver-
 sations he had ever carried on and
 could repeat them down to the fourth
 and fifth 'Sez r and 'Ssz he This
 man, like the savage and primitive | man generally had developed his mem ory along one line. But 1t had no | range, To better understand what
 mean by range. let us take up the fu-