OUR BEST FEATURES 



Looking Backward 



The mobile mask in front of men's brains began 

 to attract our attention when we were babies and 

 continues to fascinate us as long as we live. 



Its signals have vital meanings to us: we vari- 

 ously respect, admire, love, hate or are bored by it. 



But we cannot escape it. It dominates litera- 

 ture and with its mystical symbolism it broods 

 over religion. 



Let Science interrogate the sphinx, let her expose 

 the intricate and delicate mechanism by which 

 the mask is operated, let her even show that the 

 human face, with all its charms, is but the end of 

 a long series of useful improvements upon simple 

 beginnings. 



Yet the transformation of the face from fish to 

 man will lose none of its wonder. 



Our hearts will still move to the flashing glances 

 of youth; nor will we cherish less the serene, 

 beloved countenance of old age. 



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