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extracts to combat the ills that we now suffer. 

 In any case it seems not improbable that at least 

 for a long time conscious effort will be directed 

 toward correcting unbalanced departures from 

 the types of face that for thousands of years 

 past have been considered good-looking. From 

 all this it appears probable that a thousand years 

 from now the average adult white person's face 

 will not be profoundly different from what it is 

 today. 



But what of the human face a million years from 

 now.^ — a short period compared with its entire 

 history. If present tendencies continue unchecked 

 the white people of those days will for the most 

 part have lost all four of their wisdom teeth so 

 that their total number of teeth will be twenty- 

 eight. This will tend to make their jaws some- 

 what slender. If they no longer eat meat and 

 vegetables but take prepared extracts as food, 

 their jaw muscles and jaws may be further weak- 

 ened. Their brain capacity on the average may 

 be considerably larger. Even under the operation 

 of restrictive eugenic principles there may be at 

 least as great a diversity in normal white faces then 



as there is today. While some of those people 



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