Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-04


colored account of what the future man
is to be like. He does not say how soon
| this man is to exist, but all his sugges-
lions are based upon the development
which has taken place in the past and
is going on now.
| He believes that the future man viii
be larger physically and mentally than
the man of today and is pronounced In
his criticisms of the old Greek sculptors
who, he says, gave their models entirely
too much leg. The present generation
will be interested to know that the pro-
| fessor eliminates the bald headed man
| in his demonstrations. The future man
| is also to have better teeth. He is to
| live till he reaches the century mark.
| According to Professor Bruner, the
greatest progress that man will make
is in the realm of mind and this will be
a direct impetus to physical progress,
for he will appreciate his innate pow
ers and protect himself from disease
and decay. While his senses will be less
acute than now, they will be more re-
fined and he will hear more sounds,
smell sWeeter scents and see a greater
number of colors. All his senses will be
educated to detect beauty. He will In
vent thought-saving machinery and
there will be no drudgery such as a
man must contend with now in getting
an education.
1--WE have every reason to believe
| that man will continue to develop along
the same lines in the future as In the
past" he says. I'VE may safely pre-
dict that the grain will play pre-
eminent part in this development and
for this reason will undergo great i'm
provement and evolution.
ut is not probable that new organs
will be developed or that organs now
having functions will be greatly modi-
fed or lost Such changes will be un-
necessary, because man adapts his sur
roundings to himself and makes 1t I'M
necessary to adapt himself to his en-
yironment.
Notwithstanding this general sta
hility of body, however, past history
indicates that numerous changes in
structure will take place. Among these
is the loss of the floating ribs, and there
may be greater degeneration at the up
ger end of the thorax.
graded from a grasping organ, sue:
as we find in certain apes, to a mere
ambulatory appendage, will probably
suffer the loss of the fifth toe, and the
man of the future will be a four-toed
animal.
"rhe future man will not die of APP
pendicitis Even at the present time
in persons over 60 years of age the APP
pendix was closed in over SO per cent Of
the cases observed, and this reduction
has already begun in embryonic life.
The 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.
"Correspanding to the increase of
the compleXity of the brain, there Will
come a prolongation of the period of
infancy and development of the indi-
vidual man; that is to say, 1t will re-
qure much longer time for the brain
to reach maturity and to work out the
more complicated communication be-
tween it's different parts.
Man will never develop wings be-
cause their use would be too ex-
travagant employment of vitality. He
completes with lower animals with me-
chanical appliances and thus demon
strates his superiority in every direc
ton. Nor will he develop into hairy
creature, for it will always cost less
vital energy to manufacture and wear
clothing than to cultivate natural fur.
THE future man will be more inven
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spoken language will be more econom-
ical. We are painfully alive to the
fact that the English language is NOT
phonetic in it's photography. Some
day it will be SO.
1.-THE substitution of mechanical fol
hand typesetting will serve as long
step. There will be language in
which there is a term to express each
distinctive idea. Man will talk and
write as we'll as think more rapidly
Thought saving machines will re-
lieve the future man of much of his
present routine of brain work. Mathe-
matical work and all such drudgery
will be performed by mechanical de-
vices.
Thought thus saved will be ex-
pended In other pursuits. The memory
of the future man will be of greater
range, but less acute as to useless de-
tails. Today we remember hundred
things to each one thing remembered
by the savage, but of that one thing
the uncivlized man can remember
more details.
"The eye of the future man will have
a greater range of vision, but will be
less acute, and it will become less of a
telescope and more of panoramic
camera, and man will see colors not
now perceptible to US, colors above the
violet and below the red. He will also
perceive more tints, shades and tones
CT all colors, and he will hear higher
and lower pitches of sound than we can
hear
1.-The sex of the future man will be
rredeterminable For time there will
be preponderance of one sex and then
of another. The first generation will
probably show preference for boys.
"Preponderance of the males will re-
suit in demand for more females, and
there will consequently be a reaction in
favor of women in the second genera
ton. But eventually the sexes will be
equally divided as to numbers.
1.-THE sense of feeling will become
more delicate, The future man will
suffer more than we of today from heat
or cold when exposed to either, but his
greater sensitiveness in detecting app
preaching changes in temperature will
enable him to better protect himself