MAN,— THE ANIMAL 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER 



MAN, THE ANIMAL 



There has probably been no time since the 

 Greeks philosophized concerning man, when there 

 have been as many remedial measures proposed 

 for his welfare as now. These measures run the 

 gantlet from the absurd "short courses" in 

 Americanization promising to make citizens in a 

 few weeks to the grotesque ouija board "com- 

 munications" from the spirit world. Certain sorts 

 of remedies for economic and human betterment 

 are as numerous as patent medicines and about as 

 efficacious. It would seem as if almost any novel 

 or strange or different idea when once found on 

 the printed page forms the nucleus for a cult or 

 school. 



It is not the writer's thought to discredit think- 

 ing and discussion but rather to furnish some 

 guide-posts to those who would travel out into 

 that unknown which ever lures on the human 

 mind. The unknown is a variously defined country, 



