OUR FACE FROM FISH TO MAN 



type, but among civilized peoples the lateral type with 

 near sight and emotion are often rulers of great ability. 

 The lateral type rulers are popular and aware of the details 

 of the immediate situation but are not apt to perceive the 

 great principles of the future. So the linear type Presidents 

 of the United States are honored long after their terms of 

 service, but are often not popular during office, on the 

 other hand, lateral type Presidents perchance of equal 

 ability and equal greatness have been the idols of their 

 time but leave nothing to be remembered in the future. 



The Face of The Future 



In the United States the Indians as a whole 



have not readily adopted the ways of the white 



man and with few exceptions have not been 



absorbed into the general population. Hence by 



outside political and economic pressure they have 



been forced into relatively small reservations where 



a great increase in their numbers seems improbable. 



Except in very limited regions Indians have 



seldom been able to compete for a livelihood with 



a more or less antagonistic white population. It 



is hardly likely therefore that a thousand years 



from now the Indian features will be very common 



in the population of the United States as a whole. 



The negro population, on the other hand, is much 



larger. But the negro is peculiarly liable to 



certain fatal diseases and particularly in rural 



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