Speaking of Rocks 



stock breeding we know fairly well 

 "where we are at" in this reproduc- 

 tion work, but with humans the eu- 

 genic proposition languishes. Hence 

 we need expect no race of poets nor 

 philosophers; not even a breed of 

 pugilists with protruding chins. Just 

 a grand pot-pourri of anything and 

 everything that has gone before in one 

 mad mixture blended "for better or 

 for worse ! " 



Now, if we only had some way of 

 handing ourselves down in good gray 

 limestone garb for the information of 

 future generations, men might make 

 better progress in their own develop- 

 ment. We know exactly how a De- 

 vonian Hipparionyx proximus looked, 

 but you couldn't reconstruct accurate- 

 ly so comparatively recent a human 

 product as say Alexander the Great 

 to save your life; saying nothing about 

 your own great-uncle and his wife. 



After all, what does it matter? It 

 makes little difference to me now or 

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