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inheritance.

It is a birthright sufficiency of wealth to provide from the ape. Every living thing not only for himself but also for ia compelled to earn a livelihood, his descendants of many succeed- or dlo.

Far froin being a curse, ing generations, thus rendering It the fulfilment of this essential con- optional for his children to exer-: dition of life brings to organised cise their instincts for toil. I ba beings their highest enjoyment. ilave most sincerely that a father' In the case of man it is not eat-can do a son no greater Injury ing which gives the maximum of than that of depriving him of the [By Sir Arthur Keith.) pleaaure, but the labour and ex-exercise of the best of his inborn After the reading of a paper to citement which the chase entails. instincts, and yet, I admit, It is that few of us; if it a learned society comes the dis- How deeply rooted the food-search-'an injury cussion or debate. Those who par-ing impulses are implanted in threatened us in our youth, would ticipate in it rarely pursue the human nature and how much man atruggle to avoid. Capitalism pro- main argument of the opening, enjoys their exercise may be not. vides our inherited instincts with paper, but solze upon some attrac-led from the fortunes paid by the their best opportunities and also tive but subsidiary detall, thus wealthy for the privilege of labour. with their worst. Under our syr- tem of accumulated wealth, civilis- side-tracking the real. objective of ing as fishers and hunters.

ed life was rendered possible be-

the discussion. Of this I have had

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recent experience. In an address, There is no evidence of a golden Chuse, nathuman' communities be- given to the British Association age in any phase of man's history come larger and denser, those in- when it met in Leeds in the au-an age when he had me ly to born feelings which we call sym- fellow feeling became tumn of last year, I surveyed Dar-open his mouth and the fruits of Pathy or win's theory of Man's Origin and the earth fell into it. The more ever more urgent in their mant cited overwhelming evidence in closely we study the lives of primi, festation. The older, selfish Adam favour of its truth, Then in a lective neoples, the more do we see gave place more and more to his ture given to the University of that it is one of toll-an unceas-newer, higher, and more altruistic #children. Warm feelings will al- Manchester in May last I followed ing struggle for a bare and pre-

There ways master cool reason. up the position thus gained by carlous subsistence. Anthropold showing that if we accept Darwin's npes are in no better case; their can be no greater mistake than to

think that man theory, then we must reinterpret life in the jungle is a daily round the realms of pure rationality. all those faculties and qualities of of toil:- Man's mind to which we give the The lot which falls to the Afri- collective name "Human Nature.")

Having prepared my lesture, my can anthropoids is a round of toll, Hitherto human nature has been wet day and fine.

Their chief eye happened to fall upon a letter "The Times," interpreted by all, save profesned plenaurea of life centre round, which appeared in biologists, as a creational endow their search for food. The same April 24, of this year. The letter EVERYBODY KNOWS ment. Divines have written many lot falls to every tribe of native was written by Lord Riddell, and crudité and eloquent treatises expeoples; their greater brains en-

from it I learned that the "morbidi dis-1 plaining how man has come by his hance enormously, not only their extension of parental care" special gifts of mind and body.

powers of obtaining a supply, but cussed in the part of my lecture also the enjoyment which the exer-Just cited was known to lawyers as the "dead hand." I had approach- the opening paragraphs of cise of these powers confers upon!

natudent of my argument at Manchester it was them. It may seem that the in-ed the matter as

human ovolution while Lord necessary for me to touch on what stances I have cited from African physiologists in particular, and jungle and the Australian bush Riddell discussed it as lawyer and medical men in general, know con- are far removed from our mode of statesman. We both found reason, our respective points of cerning the working of man's brain life, and yet the evidence Is com- and of

its living manifestations plete that every one of us comes view, to regard the effects of the "doad hand" as altogether evil. known as "mind." In this part of of ancestors who only a few thou- my argument appeared the follow-sand years

"The system," says Lord Riddell, ago wrung a living

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It also tends to create a class of annultants or rentiers who are a social menace.",

In short, the brain is a piece of Australian natives continue to do.type. It robs the beneficiaries of living machinery; it consumes fuel We have inherited the mental out-enterprise, energy, and a sense of and transmutes energy into feel-fit of hunters and of fishers; their responsibility, ing, thought, and memory. If we instincts are still ours. withhold the supply of oxygen or Even amongst anthropoid apes y complaint is that the "dead fuel, the sources of its energy, the there is à "leisured class"-the hand" is a modern form of cruelty brain ceases to act just as cer-very young. They are a "eapital which deprives deserving young tainly as a fire cesses. to burn charge" on the suckling instinct

men and women of the chief, when its supply of air or fuel is the mother ape. Among native;

source of happiness-the need to shut off. Medical men can find no peoples this "capital. charge" has exercise the most basal of their' grounds for helieving that the greatly increased, for amongst inborn faculties the chief source brain is a dual organ-a, com-them children are dependent on

of human happiness. pound of substance and of spirit.parental instinct until they reach Every fact known to them compels boyhood and girlhood. Thereafter

Lord Riddell la concerned, I am; [the inference that mind, spirit, my argument proceeded thus:~~

soul are the manifestations of a

glad to note, with the evil influ- Let us look for a moment at the ence exerted on the State by the living brain just as flame is the dominion which such instincts, in "dead hand." For no State can manifest spirit of A burning

herited from a simian ancestry stand still and live: every prosper- candle. At the moment of extinc has obtained over the emotions, ing State is in the throds of evolu tion both flame and spirit cease to feelings, and ideals of the highly-tionary change. No testator can have a separate existence. How- ever much this mode of explain enacted that parental

civilised brain. We ourselves have foresee what the needs of his coun-

care shall ing man's mentality may run coun- endure until our children

try, his city, or his family may be have In the generations. which suceced ter to long and deeply cherished reached the age of fourteen; if we him-for the law of evolution will beliefs, medical men cannot think otherwise if they are to believe the can afford it we give our instinc hold its way in spite of all he can tive impulses a longer lease of life do through the exercise of the evidence of their senses. It is and fend for our children until! only when they accept a physiolo-they have become grown men and Riddell has also studied this pro- ¡"dead hand." It is clear that Lord gical interpretation of man's men- котел. How far this extension blem from a progressive or evolu- tality that they can diagnose and has been brought about by an tionary point of view, for he urgea understand the nature of man's mental ailments and take effective exercise of reason and how far by that "the legal profession have that driving power which we call steps for the prevention and for "class pride." I will not attempt trious, energetic community than more to expect from a free; indus- the relief of disasters which so to decide. but the latter feeling is from one bound at every turn by often overtake modern humanity. certainly not a negligible factor. red tape."

Nay, under our capitalistic system,

The attention of my critics has it has become quite 2 common been arrested by this paragraph, thing for a man to accumulate a which is merely a statement of an orthodox and modern medical opinion; my main argument. has been altogether overlooked. My aim was to give a reinterpreta-| tion, not of human death, but of human life. For if man was not) made perfect but has reached his [present estate by a slow ascent of

the evolutionary ladder, then we' have to seek for an altogether different explanation-a Darwinian, explanation of the basal qualities of his mind-his instincts, his in- born desires, his emotions, pas sions, and feelings. We find the beginnings of human mind in the crude manifestations seen amongst apes and lower animals. In brief we have to interpret human nature In the light of its evolutionary nature.

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This much is certain: that i capital is essential for evolution. It is often thought that capital or the accumulation of wealth is a recent human discovery. It was the discovery of capital which made civilisation possible. In a recent book ("Concerning Man's Origin") I have sought to show that Nature discovered the uses of capital at any early stage in the! development of life, and that her; bighest productions, including man himself, are the result of this dis- covery. Without capital, there can! be no progressive evolution.- "John O'London's Weekly."

*See "English Review," June,

1928.

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August 20, 1928.

Mr. B. M. Armstrong.

Her children is a never-ending source of joy and a never-falling Now, until man made his appear-responsibility to the fond mother. ance on earth, animai mentality! It not infrequently happens that

concerned with

minor ailments of the child distress

Sir Basil and Lady Blackett, Mr.): triple search-a search for food, a search and puzzle her; she does not know and Mrs. A. E. Bryan and Children, for a mate, and a search for en- just what to do, yot feels them not Messrs. L. C. Beard, Jr., R. L. joyment. Round this triple search serious enough to warrant calling, Boffa. man's brain, his faculties, and in the doctor. At just such times "mind" have developed. They as these it is that Baby's Own have become enhanced in range Tablets are found to be mother's and power far beyond anything greatest help and friend. that has ever been seen amongst

Most of childhood's' maladies arise in the digestive tract. anthropoid, apes.

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work by gantly cleansing the Writers of fiction and authors of bowels and sweatening the stomach,

and correcting New York Utopias often forget that man is relieving colic an. animal subject to the impera digestion. When teething is the M tive demands of hunger and of trouble, there is nothing else like pata with his! thirst. The author of Genesis, did them to quickly allay the pains him a divorce, and the other not make this omission; he realis, and to help the teething process. missed the sult ed that an explanation had to be They, check diarrhoea, cool fever, given of why man is compelled to expel worms, soothe the nerves and against Mrs. [labour. He explained labour as a promote peaceful health-restoring

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