The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-12
HAPPY NAN OF The FUTURE.
PROF. BRUNER TAKES A LOOK
FORWARD AT THE RACE.
Mankind TO he Better OT In Ever, Respect.
lie Thinks-To BE wiser and stronger
and 10 Live Longer brains TO lie
More Acute and Perceptions keener.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. Ii.-Henry l., Bruner,
professor Of biology and geology at Butler
College has prepared a rose colored account
OF what the future man Is to be like He
doe not say how soon this man is to exist,
but all his suggestions are based upon
the development which has taken place in
the past and is going on now.
He believes that the future man will
be larger physically and mentally than
| the man of to-day INC is pronounced in his
criticisms Of the old Greek sculptors who,
be ga avs. gave their models entirely too much
leg. The present generation VIII be IN
terested TO know that the professor elm
mates the bald-headed man in his prog
nostications. The future man is also TO
have better teeth. He Is TO live TIL ne
, reaches the century marx.
According to Prof, Bruner, the greatest
proqress that man will make is In the realm
OF mind and this, will be a direct impetus
IN nhvsical progress, for he will appreciate
his innate powers and protect hlhseh
from disease and decay. While his senses
will be less acute than now they will be
more refined and he will hear more sounds.
smell sweeter scents and see a greater num-
her Of colors. All his senses will be educated
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saving machinery and there will he no
drudgery such as a man must contend win
now in getting an education
I'VE have every reason TO believe that msn
will continue to develop along the same
lines In The future as In the past ne says
aWo NAV safely predict that the grain
will play a preeminent part n TINS deNeiop-
ment and for this reason will undergo
- axvnlnttnn
1T is not probable that new organs will
be. developed or that organs now having
lN,nctio ions will be greatly modified or lost.
Such changes will be unnecessary because
man adapts his surroundings to himself and
makes Il unnecessary to adapt himself
to his environment.
Notwithstanding this general stability
OF body, however, past history indicates that
numerous changes in structure will take
place. Among these is the loss oil the fioat-
ing ribs, and there may be greater degeh-
| GRAFTON at the upper end OF the thorax'
THE human foot, which has been de-
graded from a grasping organ sudn as we
find in certain apes, 10. a mere ambuiatory
a~ppendage, will probably suffer the loss OF
the fifth toe, and the man Of the future
will be a four-toed animal.
-The future man will not die OF appen-
dicitis. Even at the present time in per-
sons over 90 years OF age the appendix
was closed In over 30 per cent OF the cases
observed, and this reduction has already
begun In embryonic life.
dThe most marked Improvement In man
will probably effect both the quality OF the
brain and It's size. The latter has steadily
| increased as man has advanced from lower
to higher spheres Of development.
Corresponding TO the increase OF the
complexity of the brain, there viii come a
prolongatfon Of the period OF infancy and
| development Of the individual man. that
IL TO say, II will require a much longer time
for the brain TO reach maturity and TO work
out the more complicated communication
between its diff erent parts.
MAN will never develop wings because
their use would be a too extravaganza enl-
ployment Of vitality. He completes with
lower animals with mechanical appliances
and thus demonstrated his superiority IN
every direction. Nor will he. develop
into a hairy creature, for IL will always cost
less vital energy 70 manufacture ahu wear
clothing than 10 cultivate natural iur'
"The future mar will be more inventive
and creative. His written and spoken
Language will be more economical. We are
painfully alive TO the fact that the fngish
language is not phonetic in It's o~rthography'
Some day IL will be so.
typesetting will serve as a long step. There
will bea language in which there II term 70
express each distinctive idea Mar Mlh
talk and write as well AZ think more rhI,iuIy'
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routine OF brain work. Mathematical work
and all such drudgery will be performed
by mechanical devices
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in other D%rrsuits. The memory 81 the
future man will be Of greater range, nut
lees acute az 20 useless details. To-Day
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