5o TRAINING AND EDUCATION 



WHAT is civilized man, and what is he not? A leopard 

 can mobilize greater outburst energy than man. An 

 antelope can run faster than man. The wolf can cover a 

 greater distance in a day than man. Man's eyesight is less 

 acute than the eagle's. Man's sense of hearing is less acute 

 than the deer's. Man's sense of smell is inferior to that of 

 wild and domestic animals. Man's teeth are inferior to 

 the teeth of every wild animal. Man's digestion is inferior 

 even to that of his domesticated animals. Man has monopo- 

 lized gallstones and kidney stones as well as peptic ulcer. 

 The skin of man, in comparison with the skin of wild and 

 domesticated animals, is soft, velvety, and vulnerable. 

 Man is the only animal that becomes bald. Man's blood 

 cells are subject to great fluctuations. Only man has 

 pernicious anemia. The bones of man are not so hard as the 

 bones of wild or domestic animals. The milk of civilized 

 woman is not equal to the milk of the wild and domestic 

 animals. Neither the wild nor the domestic animals have 

 insanity or psychoses or neuroses. For this array of powerful 

 facts we must seek a biological interpretation. 



Among all wild and domestic animals man is unique. He 

 is inferior in bones and joints, muscle, teeth and digestion, 

 skin and hair, sight, hearing, smell, and mother's milk. As 

 if this were not sufficient to establish his physical inferiority, 

 man is poised on his hind feet and possesses apelike hands 

 that have lost their power to assist him in running. This 

 impossible posture has existed so long that the breast has 

 been moved to a comfortable position to nurse his helpless 

 young; and the young of man are totally helpless for a 

 longer time than the young of any other wild or domestic 

 animal. 



Despite this large category of fundamental inferiorities, 

 man is more widely distributed over the earth than any 



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