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be after the 20th century, according to 

 the pseudo-scientists of that age. 



"The Man of the Future," he said, 

 " will be a toothless, hairless, slow-limbed 

 animal, incapable of extended locomotion. 

 His feet will have no divisions between 

 the toes. He will be very averse to 

 fighting, and will maintain his position in 

 the foremost files of time to come solely 

 upon the strength of one or two peculiar 

 convolutions in his brain." 



Mr. Kay-Robinson, undeterred by the 

 wise warning of the cautious judge to a 

 hasty friend, " Give your conclusions, but 

 not your reasons," propounded his fanciful 

 theory respecting the Man of the Future, 

 on the ground that the Darwinian theory 

 of Evolution must be true as regards the 

 human race in the past, alleging, with 

 the usual assurance of the sceptical school, 

 that- 



" No man of thought can honestly deny 

 that his (Darwin's) genealogy of the 

 human race is in the main reconcilable 

 with fact, with science, and with religion ! ! ! 



