The Washington times., 1922-12-30

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future Aolds IN store.
BY EUGENE LYMAN FISK. M. d.,
medical Director, Life Extension
Institute, New York.
tcopyriEht. 1922: by Cosmopolitan News
NEW YORK. Dec. 30~By 2023
the average life of man could be
increased to 100 years. In individual
cases 1t could be increased to $50,
perhaps. 200 years. y
There is no biological law to limit
the. life span.- Science has already
increased the life span OF certain
animal organisms 900 times.
During the past century eighteen
years have been added to the lie
aOf. man, due to progress IN medlcal
science and sanitation.
1t is possible for science TO bring
about an, additional increase in LIES
span. during the next century, as
wefizas place life on a much higher
plane.
The age of youth might be car
ried up to thirty years and man
capacity for work maintained until
he is seventy or eighty. The phys
ical appearance OF human beings
might also be changed to some ex-
tent. ~"
I do not say that all this Will
happen by 2oa3. but I say it is pos
sible,
. Physical Changes.
Assuming that science Is not
: checked in its researches, am WILL
ing to. predict, without fear Of con-
:tradiction in the dim ages. that in
. the course Of 500 years the human
race will present changes as to
physical condition as well as envi'
sTopment, that will render human So
ciety g entirely unrecognizable TO
sthose OF the present era.
I In other words, we must view the
apossibilfty of super-existence In
which there necessarily would be
struggle and suffering and conflict,
but an enormously amplified intel
ligence and living capacity wholly
beyond the criteria now in our pos
session for judging the worthwhile
ness of life.
BY that time communication with
discussed, might be carried to a
point of relieving the world OF sur
plus population by means OF express
projectiles directed to some favor
ably-situated planet.
Time Means Nothing.
The passing Of time does not bring
about mans death. Time mas noun
ing to do with 1t. Barring accident
or injury all organisms die through
fault in their structure or their
adaptation; because they are pols-
oned, infected or>deprived Of essen
tfal factors that ;Sp(.intain life..
DIR. Alexis Carrel, of the Rookie
Teller Foundation. twelve years ago
took a connective tissue from the
heart of a chicken embryo. Since
then he has kept it alive in his lab
oratory and 1t has constantly re-
produced other tissue. DR.. Carrei
periodically washed the cells ana
protected them from infection or ad-
verse external factors of any kind.
In short he protected them from
what it Is inaccurately called tne
ravages of time"
The same care and protection
. could be applied to human beings,
mot so effectively, however, because
human beings are So much more
complex.
AT the present time the human be.
ing stands in great need Of care and
scientific help II the race Is not to
degenerate. :
Our showing at the start Of 1923
Is nothing to boast of, in fact we
stand Inundated before the brute
What can we, as thinking or.
20 hn fttnOla Qni-
mails as to our custody of human
bodies and human lives? True, we
have cut down the death rate. both
in war and peace. from certain dis.
eases, whi.s at the same time In
creasing the efficiency of our en-
gines of destruction. We have cut
down the death rate in places for
merly pestilential. But the fact
that we talk so much about these
things Is a pitiful commentary on
the ages of Ignorance and neglect
through which we have" passed,
while deceiving ourselves with the
mechanical trappings of civilization.
Man I'm Poor Shape.
. In spite Of science, culture and the
intellect of man, the genus homo"
is carrying at present greater bur.
den of disease. misery and starva.
ton than any otner animal or
Out Of 25o,ooo physical examina
ttons at the Life Extension Institute.
not a single perfect man or woman
has been found.
It may seem that with the present
record of the human race, little hope
can be looked for in the future. /
do not believe that Is true. Tre-
mendous strides can be made once
the public consciousness is aroused
The human body should be audited
periodically, just as businesses are
overhauled. Anr eugenics is a science
to reckon with. II mans intelligence
cannot, in the course Of time, reduce
the stream Of gross deficiency by
some means Of controlling breeding,
then will the real job have to be left
to some higher race Of organisms yet
to appear.
Delicious!