MAN DOOMED

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 5 December 1907, Page 3

MAN DOOMED

Will never rise again. “ Man will fall, because of his very development,” prophesies Dr. Emil Koenig, one of the most eminent of German physiologists. ‘‘ He will fall to rise no more; fall to revert to what he was before he became lord of creation.” Dr, Koenig, widely recognised as an authority, has published a startling pamphlet, which takes the darkest view of the future of the human man. Koenig says there is abundant evidence to prove that man has reached his highest development and is on the eve of reversion to his original type, or, at least, to some type far inferior to the existing one. Koenig points to the enormous increase of cancer as a prominent and present result of deterioration. He says cancer will probably be the plague from which the coming lower man will suffer most. He avers that there can be no real doubt that cancer is spreading rapidly, and the quickly increasing number of cases is directly attributable to modern man’s complex life.

The learned physiologist declares, too, that statistics show heart disease, in all its forms, to be increasing. The pressure of blood on the walls of man’s arteries and veins is greater to-day than ever it was, he says, and this great bloodpressure is increasing. The icsult is that the walls of human blood vessels are growing hard and “ chalking up ; their elasticity is diminishing ; so that if we go on leading our present full lives we will find in another generation or so that our blood vessels will be bursting or cracking. ’ ’ Equally disheartening is Koenig’s outlook for man’s stomach and his teeth. His stomach is growing feebler, losing its power to assimilate food.

As for teeth, the Berlin physiologist believes that in a comparatively short period man will be toothless.