MAN’S FATE
HE CAN LISTEN & LEARN. “There is no question of man remaining as he is,” said Mr H. G. Wells in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. “The question is whether he can adapt himself with sufficient rapidity to become either a progressive super-Homo, an ascendant species, or one of a series of degenerating subhuman species, or whether he will fail altogether to . adapt himself, and end altogether. Is there anything in the case of this creature we call Homo sapiens to justify our belief that he will have a different fate? There is. And it lies in his gift of speech. Almost entirely, but not entirely, in that. He can be told things. He can listen and learn. No other animal can do that. He can adjust himself a thousand times more rapidly than any other animal.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1941, Page 5
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