The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-02-15

mails much as they are expressed
by men, which Darwin takes as
proof Of mans kinship with the
animals.
And practically all human be-
ings express the same emotions in
the same way. Fear, contempt,
surprise, anger are shown idend-
cally on the faces of North Amer
ican Indians, South African BUSH
men, half frozen natives of Terra
del Fuego, Eskimos on the north
ern ice, impatient dandies in Lon
don or Paris.
The fact that human beings, in
cluding maniacs and microcephalic
idiots that never learn to speak.
all express emotion in the same
way, means according to Darwin,
IAN argument in favor of the sew
eral human races being descended
from o single parent stock, which
must have been almost completely
human in structure, and to large
extent in mind, before the period
at which the races diverged from
each other"
One theory affirms that all
human beings came from one orig-
nal stock, and were divided in
color, size and character by differ
ences In cffhate, BY the "struggis
for life" That is the theory ex-
pressed by Darwin above.
Another theory declares that
semi-human beings appeared at DIFF
ferent periods on different parts Of
the earth, developed in different
wpv7 and that accounts for differ
ences and hatreds between races,
Mongolians, Aryans, Semites, Afri-
cans, etc. H.N
Please yourself concerning that
theory. Here are facts about your
emotions, how and why you ex-
press them, as set forth in his
book by Darwin.
A man feels proud of himself
when he sneers az an inferior or.
an enemy. He lifts his lip on the
side of the object despised. AS he
sneers and lifts the lip, he un-
covers the canine tooth, his longest
and sharpest. He does exactly
what his half brother the wolf
does when the wolf sees an enemy.
The sneer that .uncovers your
tooth descends from the day when
an animal lifted his lip to bite the
enemy, without biting his own lip
in the process.
You will still continue to sneer
after learning that your sneer i'm
itates the wolf uncovering his Bit
ing tooth. We cannot overcome
that which was born in us millions
of years ago. Everyone, falling
to the ground, puts out arms and
hands to protect himself. 1t is
difficult for man to avoid doing
this when falling voluntarily upon
a soft featherbed. Try 1t.
We shut our eyes and jump back
when frightened by an object close
TO the face. We cannot overcome
It, even when we know there Is no
real danger.
Darwin's experiment on himself
he thus describes:
81 put my face close to the thick
glass-plate in front of puff-adder
in the Geological Gardens, with the
firm determination of not starting
back If the snake struck at me;
but as soon as the blow was
,struck my resolution went for
nothing, and I jumped a yard or
two backwards with astonishing
rap'dity. My will and reason were
powerless against the imagination
of danger which had never been
experienced"
On the other hand. the thing
that you do naturally and newt
ably, you sometimes cannot do
when you want to do It,,
Testing this, Darwin says:
II laid a small wager with
dozen young men that they would
not sneeze il they took snuff, al
though they all declared that they
invariably did so; accordingly they
all took a pinch, but from wishing
much TO succeed, not one sneczed,
though their eyes watered, and all.
without exception, had to pay me
the wager"
When you want to do a thing
you often cant do II. That makes
Il hard for many to swallow a pill
without drink of water. III they
did not know the Mill WAS there