The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-08


branches with leaves wait week longer for mann
moth or rhinoceros to fall in Then they'd feed on the
esh sleep and eat again. and congratulate themselves on
being masters Of the EARTH the last word among living
things
&c. if the animals in this picture types of creatures
that lived side by side with this man. could have spoken
each would have said that he with his power was lord OF
Each could easily kill the man with blow of foot
horns trunk
But the real ruler was man. for he had learned to rely
on the THINKING power in that low forehead not on the
powerful muscles of neck or the cutting force OF
the doglike teeth and powerful jaws
Study carefully this face taken from osbOrns book
'Men of the Old Stone Age
This is the type of from whom the clvhzed oeng
so called of today descends.
Hs hair grows down upon his neck and back and upon
his chest He is all built for fighting as much an animal
as the beasts either side Of him unless you look closely
To see the difference between human being however
low and an animal look the eyes in these three pictures
Alone the eyes of the show that thought Is stirring
behind them
There is no capacity for pity there yet only faint
CLEAN of selfish animal affection But thought HAS begun
There is CURIOSITY there the desire to make spear with
sharper point the club with heavier end There Is the
desire for Improvement lacking utterly in all animals
~ this face Of vonr ancestor there is all the future and
accomplishment of the human including all that we
have done and all the marves uncomfortable to u.s. that Will
be accomplished by our successors
Brutal as it u.s. the face of this Stone Age says to
YOU SCI want to do better not satisfied as am The
brute faces on either side are satisfied, utterly
Dissatisfaction pushes this up. In half million
years changes the spear that he hurled twenty yards to
. riied cannon that will shoot seventy miles
= It moves him from in the rocks to palace OF
glass and iron lighted with the force of lightning and
heated with coal from the earth's interior.
Dissatisfaction takes him in submarine to the bottom
If the ocean, and in his flying machine to the freezing
heights of the air.
2 This man grunted and shrieked his signals to the
savage the valley We his descendants talk without
wires to our friend the under side of the earth
It was DISSATISFACTION with signs and grunts that
gave this the beginning Of spoken language.
Il was DISSATISFACTION with hieroglyphics picture
language that gave alphabet and literature dssas
faction with the papyrus scroll that gave the rotary
press that delivers ten million printed words in hour
There in nature two forces neither understood that
work constantly to prevent stagnaon They the power
Of gravity which untes matter to matter and the radio
active forces that send off through the particles Of
matter with the speed of light and terrific force.
In The nature Of there is habit which is like the
force Of gavitaon holding down keeping together
preventing too sudden change. And there il DIsSATIs
FACTION counterpart Of radio activity that prevents stag
nation, monotony and decay.
Pity the country individual in which no dssatisfac
on exists for ths~s have snA ~ IMPROVEMENT