PREFACE 



all too man-like apes is somewhat nervously 

 stressed. 



Nor can the author hope for much favor from 

 the public, that wants only results and is willing 

 to spend a billion dollars annually on cosmetics 

 and safety razors. For this book does not pretend 

 to tell how to improve one's face but only how and 

 why one has one. 



At best then it can only hold a magic mirror up 

 to proud man and bid him contemplate his own 

 image — a composite of an infinitely receding series 

 of faces, — human, prehuman, anthropoid, long- 

 snouted, lizard-like, — stretching back into the 

 shadows of endless time. 



IX 



