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ing to be for some reason the standard to which 

 universal civilization is moving. 1 In this con- 

 nexion it has often been remarked, as we shall see 

 in detail later, that the type of face amongst peoples 

 of advanced civilization is quite distinctive in its 

 youthfulness. Progress from savagery to civiliza- 

 tion is marked by an increasing youthfulness of 

 appearance amongst typical races in the advance 

 upwards. Professor Chamberlain in his studies of 

 the child mind has laid emphasis on a conclusion 

 bearing in the same direction. The human child, he 

 considers, acquires a more apelike appearance as 

 it advances towards the adult stage. When the 

 individual enters upon that mature stage after 

 adolescence discussed by Mr. Bateson, in which it 

 is stated that the altruistic feelings begin to fail 

 and disappear, there has been lost in him what 

 Professor Chamberlain calls " the comparative 

 ultra-human characteristics of his early childhood." 

 The qualities foreshadowed in the child, he adds in 

 another chapter, " seem to be those which will one 

 day be the most valued possession of the race." 2 



Again it may be noticed that the instinct that the 

 qualities which reach their highest development in 

 the young are related to the highest standards of 



1 Man and Woman. 



1 A. F. Chamberlain, The Child : a Study in the Evolution of 

 Alan. 



