The Man of the Future.
Professor Yung, of the Geneva Uni- , versity, believes that the time is com* \ ing when human beings will have no , legs to speak of. What with cycling, ' the great end of civilisation now seems * to be to enable us to move about i ■without using feet or legs. It is fast t getting on to electrical hackney } coaches and rudder balloons. The { tendency is to throw all the muscular activity into the hands and arms, Professor "iung believes that the future human creatures will have the merest survivals of nether limbs, and , arms of great strength. Teeth probably will be dwarfed also by the \ constant use of soft foods that need j not be chewed, but as the march of intellect will increase in pace, the \ brain will develop. Ot course, the \ standards oi beauty with these anatomical changes will alter. When they do, a person with a set of teeth such as would now excite the admiration of a dentist would almost seem a beast of proj.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 99, 20 October 1894, Page 4
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