370 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



no gravel with which to grind their food, but if you 

 change their diet to hard food, which requires grinding, 

 they will also eat gravel and the stomach will gradually 

 change into the ordinary gizzard. 



What do all these things show? Simply this, that the 

 individuals in charge have not only sense enough to pro- 

 duce a particular kind of machine, but when it is neces- 

 sary they know how to change it in such manner as 

 circumstances may require and that nothing takes place 

 by chance. It is very likely that some day man will be a 

 toothless and hairless animal. Things are tending that 

 way very rapidly. 



The following from my daily paper I believe tells the 

 truth : "The reason man has so much trouble with his 

 teeth is that nature has concluded teeth are an extrav- 

 agance for human beings and she is taking them away 

 from us. This is the theory of Dr. Lloyd Marix, a Lon- 

 don physician, who believes that man will eventually 

 become as toothless as a baby and be glad of it. When 

 man cracked nuts and bones and gnawed roots, to say 

 nothing of his enemy's jugular vein, he had little or no 

 tooth trouble. His jaw was, at least, a third bigger and 

 protruded beyond his chin and even his nose. The teeth 

 themselves were big, hard and more numerous. But 

 nature has given man of today a bigger body, and what 

 is still more costly of energy a bigger brain. She has 

 economized where she could, taking toll from the hair, 

 teeth, nails, appendix, of anything that could be spared. 

 A hairless, toothless race without toe or finger nails will 

 be the final result, according to Dr. Marix. The gums 

 will probably increase in height and act as a brace to the 

 lips and be available in the way of substitutes for teeth, 

 as organs of speech. Absence of teeth should be a bless- 

 ing because by that time man is certain to have his chew- 



