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IN 1827.
A CENTURY OF. REVOLUTION, "
Thirty years had to elapse, and evidence had to be gathered from acores of caves, before scientific
KING'S ENGLISH.
WORK.
men were convinced that the Catho- NEW EDITION OF VALUABLE He priest was right. By means of now his fossil remains we have traced man backwards through a
often
Professor Sir Arthur Keith whole geological epoch, thus prov-The King's English." By H. W. and F. G. Fowler. 380 pages. (Conservator of the Museum of the ing that, instead of his history be
ing confined to a space of six thou-
Complete 2nd edition in full Royal College of Surgeons, Eng-sand years, it must cover a period
cloth. (Clarendon Press, times that land; FR.S., D.S.C.; President which is a hundred
Oxford.) Elect of the British Association) amount. And so unlike are these writes in the "Evening Standard": early fossil men to all existing The best testimony to the forms of humanity, so primitive are value of this book Hes in the In a diary or "remembrancer" they, that we give to them the circumstance that, after 28,000 kept by my predecessor a century name of "Man" with diffidence. coples of it had been sold, a second
In 1827 intelligent people regard- ago there are, sat down not only ed the evolutionary theory of man's edition, has.80 soon been called occurrences connected with his origin as a repulsive jest, but in for. It is notorious that writers office, but also events of public in 1869, when Darwin began to unload in English seldom look into a terest.
Under the date of Mon- his argosies of evidence on the ine grammar or composition book; tellectual market of his time, the the reading of grammars, is re- day, May 21, 1827, no mention is public was forced to realise that pellent because, being bound to made of a momentous discovery by the day for jest was past. And so be exhaustive on a greater or young Professor Baer, of the Unt. It has come about at the present less scale, they must give much versity of Konigsberg. For it was day that there is not a serious space or to the unnecessary; and
are anthropologist who is not a follower composition books in 1827 that Baer found what of Darwin. The anthropologist, useless because they enforce
like every other man, is a snob at their warnings only by fabricat heart, and would rather believe him. self to be a fallen angel, but thated blunders against which every the facts are too strong for him. tyre feels himself quite safe. The Nor is this change of conception principle adopted in the present likely to do men harm, for they will, work has, therefore, been (1) to under its guidance, the more readily pass by ail rules, of whatever detect and eliminate all traces of a absolute Importance, that are "jungle inheritance" from their im- shown by observation to be sel- pulses, behaviour, thoughts, and dom or never broken; and (2) to illustrate by living examples, deeds.
What of Man's future? If we with the name. of a reputable have risen from a state of apedom, authority attached to each, all how much higher may we rise? In blunders that observation shows reader, making a forecast the weather ex- to be common. The pert la beset with a myriad of however, who is thus led to contingencies, but his difficulties suspect that the only method are as nothing compared with those followed has been the rejection which envisage the anthropologist i who dares to: assume the role of of method will find a practical prophet. Like the weather expert, security against Inconvenience the anthropologist, if he is wise, in a very full index. confines his forecast to the imme- diate present.
generations of anatomists had sought for In vain-the human ovum, that microscopic speck of protoplasm which is the starting
point of every human Hfe.
What was a marvel among the learned pandita of 1827 is an every day sight in our modern labora- tories, The drama which trans- forms the fertilised ovam into the ripe child was almost unknown in 1827; every "act" and almost every "scene" is known to-day. For the anthropologist it has been a cen- tury of extraordinary progress.
The "Evening Standard" need not feel piqued because my Pepy sian predecessor. William Clift, omitted to chronicle its birth, for he makes no mention of the fact that a baby in Essex had just been christened Joseph Lister; that Huxley, a schoolmaster at Ealing, had a son, Tom, who had just cele- brated his second birthday: that Dr. Darwin, of Shrewsbury, had an idle aon at Edinburgh University, named Charles; nor that a young barrister named Lyell was carrying with him, while on circuit, a book -written by a Frenchman named Lamarck, who entertained the wild notion that living things had been created by "natural means," and that man might be only a trans- The discoveries of the last afty the tales of the exploits and adven- muted ape.
In 1827, although no years help us to answer this ques-tures of the most famous detective one was aware of it, the Evolution: Examinations of the prehle la fiction. tionary storm was brewing.
Our lives become more and more artificial, and on every alde we hear men and women declare that rushing to work in tubes, being jestled in lifts and trams, being confined to offices and workshops, and to spend nights in cinemaa and theatres, is not the kind of life for
Intended which Nature What, then, are the natural condi- tons of man's life?
them.
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE..
On June 16 Mr. Murray will publish a new volume of Sherlock Holmes stories by A. Conan Doyle entitled The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. This volume completes the amazing career of the great- Sherlock and thus brings to an end
toric sides of Britain have shown Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, who No one knew better than my pre- that our predecessors, down to the succeeded Colonel Repington as decessor how dangerous it was to middle of the third millennium BC, military expert of the "Daily Tele- entertain certain mild notions then wandered in scattered bands and graph," gives in his book the Re- He had heard lived on the natural produce of making of Modern Armies which rife in France. Abernethy, the president of our land and shore. Excavations have Mr. Murray has ready for publica college, publicly accuse. William shown that at 4,000 B.C. the people tion shortly, a non-technical survey Lawrence, surgeon to St. Bartholo- of Egypt and of Mesopotamia were of the new problem of warfare, and mew's Hospital, of "propagating already leading highly artificial warning. His main theme is that opinione detrimental to society" and lives: they were tiling fields, keep infantry attack has now become im possible and that we are maintain- "loosening the restraints on which ing herds, and building towns. the welfare of mankind depends," because in his lectures at college Lawrence (afterwards Sir William Lawrence) had had the temerity to declare that "the Mosaic record was incompatible with the phenomena of zoology."
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11,
DAILY CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
1927.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert
but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonétio spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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18-Member Parlament
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44-Tricks.
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Pamesto berat
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B-A liquor (pl.) S-Rug
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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Think as well as read. I know people who read and read, and, for all the good it does them, they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have
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Preston, Headmaster of Malvern they could "grub" from the earth construct the type of military College... and what they could catch as hun- force required by modern condi- ters. And the further back we go tions.
Mr. Murray will publish immo- Lawrence published his lectures in time the worse we find man
pamphlet entitled on "The Nature of Man" as a book, equipped as "grubber" and as hun-diately. B
Thoughts on the drink Question by but a decision given by Lord Eldon ter, In 1828 withdrew all rights from The truth is that as soon as 'An Ordinary Man' who disbelieves, the author because, the book con- man's brain began to enlarge, and for both technical and political rea- tained "writings which contradicted he escaped from that state in which sona, in any system of public Beriptures." This book, as Huxley the ape is still confined, he aban-management. He believes that the said of it in 1894, "might now be doned the "life of nature," and be only way the Trade can ensure its read in a Sunday school without gan to live under "man-made" or future is for it to raise the level surprising any one." No instance artificial conditions, and these con- of public houses throughout the could better illustrate the change ditions have gone on becoming more country, as has been done in the artificial ever since. Carlisle area, and thus get rid of which has overtaken publie and and more legal opinion since 1827. We have Man is the most domesticated and the scandal of the mere drinking become more tolerant-more in- most adaptable of all animals; we shop.
Six well-known volumes by clined to be led by evidence rather see no signs which indicate that than by tradition.
his powers of response are being Horace A. Vachell are to be added In my predecessor's diary for exhausted; There is no return to to Mr. Murray's 8/6 net- Library, 1827 Is preserved a letter which a state of Nature possible for man The titles are John Verney, Her marks the very first step in a move-unless he is prepared to dispense Son, The Face of. Clay, Loot, Fish- ment which has led us back almost with all those parts of his brainpingle and The Pinch of prosperity. to the very dawn of man's origin, which make him a rational being. It is written by the Director of the Why should we seek to return, Geological Survey to introduce "the when the poorest pauper in Eng Rev. F. McEnery, of Torquay, who land is better fed, better, clothed, has devoted much time and attenbetter housed, than was the richest tion to the investigation of the man in England five thousand years bones. in Kent's Hole, Torquay."
Mr. McEnery was then Catholle ago Every step back means less priest at. Tor Abbey: deep In the floor of Kent's Cavern he had found stone weapons fashioned by man lying side by side with fossil-bones
of everything for every one.
Can the dend return? In Bir. Tresidder Sheppard's new historical romance, "Here Comes an Old Sal lor," shortly to be published by Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton, the mediaeval monks of Reculver Ab bey are faced with this question.
of extinct animale, and drew the THEIR SECOND SUMMER THE haunted by elusive memories of the
revolutionary Inference that man and they had been contemporaries. Dean Buckland, who was final ir biter in such questions in 1827 pooh-poohed the priest's discovery because it was then a revealed and accepted truth that animals of ex tinct types had lived before the Flood, while man did not reach Eng land until long after.
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