BRITISH ASSOCIATION
THE REVOLUTION OF MAN.
LONDON, September 4. “Nobody has ever given the reason why man ceased to be an ape,” Dr H. S. Harrison told the British Association at Bristol. “Man did very well before he was man at all,” said the speaker. “Though our belief in his ascent remains unshakable the reason why the ape men became an artisan has eluded us. Man’s artificial environment has expanded with civilisation, but his brain has not undergone a like inflation. The brain of the later Palaeolithic man appears to have resembled ours in all essentials. “A Cromagnon man born to-day might become a skilled mechanic or an able bishop. Man had no more need to become a mechanic than a theologian, though he drifted into both professions. He was given the means of earning a livelihood, and found himself commanding and inventing luxuries. “In producing a new, cunning, bigbrained animal with hands, Nature overshot the mark, and we are struggling with the consequences. Man did not need metals before he discovered them. Until then they did not exist even in his imagination.” Dr Harrison contended that the culture of the Amerioan Indians was essentially derived from outside sources. The explanation should be sought in the frequent contact with Asia from the times of the first migrants to an uncertain period, perhaps continuing into the early Christain era, as Professor Grafton Elliot Smith, of Australia, contends.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1930, Page 7
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