GOD-LIKE MAN
obesity is decided evidence OF degEneFacy. LONDON, Monday. Obesity is the most decided example of degenerative atavism, Said Dr. Leonard Williams, an authority on human fatness and the stages of life, in a lecture on man's atavistic tendencies. The fat man, • he said, was ilriitating the hibernating habits.of his animal ancestors and accumulating vast stores of internal provisio'ns — a subconscious preparatiori for the wiriter's fast, which never arrived. Dr. Williams attributed mari's sense of beauty, and especially of female beauty-, to his transcendental brain, and his ability^to speak, to his decision to walk on two legs. If he had remained a qtiadruped, he Would not have develop'ed that central nervous system which is the seat of such god-like qualities as he .might justly claim to possess. So much vital energy was necessary to make the negro blaeic that he had not mUch left to develop his central nervous system. This ' accounted for the dark races' childlike character. Dr. Williams attributed the pastwar tendency to effeminacy in men to a revulsion froni everything male.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 January 1932, Page 2
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