The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-06-24

Human Progress Has Ended

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NAL. i has been pointed al e ID
confusion that a fiea ~ r. q
1000 times It's height. vfS,s5:'! 4! "
man needs pole to 70 onlv ~ b
his six feet. In proportion X 81 ~
size, man has not as much isesszz Y
power rs an ant; he cannnt 49, IS
20 fast as Ay. He has al = -
ed to see In the dark like ia ~ 81
But It is lucky for man nm q. Is
ancestors did not concentrate r. 4
beating the monkeys at tree ~
letics or the horse at foot rar;ss n
II they had, we should not to1ss
be much farther advanced thss n. !.
animals we might have emulaisS
Mans progress is supposed a !. !
due to the use Of his brain. and ~
fact that he has developed ~,
hands and two feet instead a. fr--
OF one or the other. The oNssss !
clues to ancient man 50 far m.
covered are part Of skull. ! tnirA,
bone, and two teeth. These M,
found in Java, and judging ~ ~
stratum of soil in which they vses
lying, biologists decided that "a
man lived 100000 years ago. Pithe.
canthropus, as the scientists calles
the antique Javanese, was 1 an
developed man, thcsgh with MIN
ape-like features.
The Javanese man Of q hall mn.
lion years ago is a mere modern
compared with some Of the snfmaIa
whose skeletons have been dug mn
and classified. Six million wan
ago, in the age Of reptiles, fourth.
ed the armored dinosaur, which ID
most people is the symbol Of prs-
historic times. BUT even the dinos
saur Is young as the age Of thu
world goes. DR.. Walcott q ~
Smithsonian Institution estimate
that animal life started on the sazff
4l,140,000 years ago. Some tins
between then and the very receuf
Javanese gentleman man got Ill
start.
Father Pithecanthropus :
| Science is still looking for ths
ancestors of Pitkscanthropus, buE
it is not looking for a missing LINK.
between man and the modern mona
key, because anthropologists do nd
think man is descended from apes,I
Darwin is often misQuoted on thiL
point. What Darwin said was that.
man and apes evolved from . COM
mon ancestor. Some scientists hole
that there were probably number
Of early animals which branche&
OF from the unknown ape-like A..
cestor and that any one Of them
might have developed into . sus
perior being. but that somehow 81
| except man failed to make the most
of themselves, or became the sped-
allied beings of the jungle. :
] Mr.. Gidley explains that in tho
far-Off times man was not Tho
husky giant we imagine. but 4
| smaller creature; that he lived IN
trees and used his hands to cling
by, and his voice for vague chat.
terings. Then for some unknown
reason, possibly because the fots
ests disappeared through souas
change of climate, this prehisteflc
man came down from his trees. II
was curious, and so he picked e
things and examined and explores
Then he showed his fellow citizelS
his remarkable discoveries, thus
developing communication. whica
is one of the greatest aids to prog
ress. His fellow men. crude q
they were, profted to some extern
4 by the researches of the early IN
vestigators. Gradually 'intelligenc'
grew, grunts and squeals were Or
!, ganized into speech, and in TN
course of million years or So I'M
} superior creature OF today va
: evolved.
: This is the story OF man .
: pieced together from the bones INA
i. science has dug up and the bone
: it hopes some day to find. 1t y .
l most scientists the only planslov
, theory, though there are still SOM
: people who hold out that seeing
: believing and that when they s g
: the animal that man descenoe'
e from they will put more ialln
: evolution.
!. Meanwhile, if man has no imme
9 date prospect of growing a tmi
0 leg or a second crop of hair. ne
e said to be changing in another ~!
Professor Gidley says that the teu
: dency is for the races of the cart
!. to blend as civilization spreaas.
e The Bushmen and Igorrotes may !
e the next few aeons develop I'M
e desirable mates for races now "a
e in advance of them in civilizauvl
d and finally, in the course OF y
h next million years, it is lhous &
possible that all the races Oh -
earth may be merged into one GU
l. posite type. 1t is an excl.ln ~
S thought-until we reject that noa !,
s Of us will be here to see tne "oi'
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