OUR BEST FEATURES 



the manipulation of any less nutritious form of 

 food. 



The amelioration of our features we owe not so 

 much to the savage, furry little beasts that first 

 bore the name of mammals, nor even to the earlier 

 primates, who despite their large eyes and large 

 brains still retained a fox-like snout and long jaws; 

 but chiefly to the gentle pro-anthropoids who first 

 took to a diet of fruit and buds and so acquired 

 many modifications of the lips, jaws and dentition, 

 which they transmitted to the earlier and less 

 progressive races of men. 



How much arrogance, deceit and wickedness would 

 have been spared the world, if men had realized that 

 even the most imposing human faces are but made- 

 over fish traps, concealed behind a smiling mask but 

 still set with sharp teeth inherited from ferocious pre- 

 mammalian forbears. 



History of The Nose 



Why do all men, anti-Darwinians included, have 



noses? Why does the human nose, both externally 



and internally, have precisely the same parts, only 



differently proportioned, as the noses of the gorilla 



and the chimpanzee? Why are man and ape, 



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