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...spite of the evidence presented to the contrary in Mencken's Green Book of Aphorisms, one can rationally suppose that the genus homo Americanus, who is so used to gathering meaning from ordinary tables, box scores and bond quotation lists will prove equal to the task of supporting an annual change of time. At any rate the people have received a new right of untold possibilities, for now they can set their clocks when and where they choose with no fear of chiding from a law-stricken conscience...
...past and present: Upton Sinclair and his reforming ilk; all Moral Laws and Categorical Imperatives, since they involve a thing called "conscience" unknown to pure science; all sociological dialectics; all philosophical disquisitions and systems., even the most materialistic, since they all promise but never perform modifications of the genus Homo; all religions, calling as they do for the exercise of powers unknown to physics, mathematics and biology; all psychology?even behaviorism, from which the "psyche" is removed?since it has yet to demonstrate its actuality in a finite universe; all shrewd, unassailable Axioms, Methods, Customs, Creative Intellects, magazine articles...
...Richet- Brentano's ($2). Because he drinks, drugs, smokes, wears earrings, has venereal diseases, tattoos, castrates, circumcises, lets mosquitoes live, fears free trade and death, martyrs his great, razes his forests and does not talk Esperanto, and because all the while he knows better, therefore, fumes Prof. Richet, homo sapiens is homo stultus, most stupid of animals, God's idiot. Most of which is the ranting of a dyspeptic physiologist. Whole herds of bison, seals, penguins and other contented animals are cited in contrast to homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment the author neglects...
...world emaciated, pale-faced neurasthenic high brows. . . . We believe in athletics but we are not interested in ... a few giants . . . We believe in college life, as it is called . . . but we are not interested if this side of college produces only sleek, well-fed bipeds of the genus homo (by courtesy) sapiens, whose most obvious contribution, to a waiting and anxious world is their ability to serve as models of the youth so familiar with ready-made clothing advertisements...
...found in Java. They are probably not less than 500,000 years old. Study indicates that the creature walked partially erect, had a brain volume about half way between man and the gorilla. The skull recently found at Taungs, South Africa, is reported as of this general type. ¶Homo heidelbergensis. Two jaws found near Heidelberg are probably about 400,000 years old. They are apelike, with manlike teeth. ¶Eoanthropus dawsoni; Fragments of two skulls, part of lower jaws and teeth were found near Piltdown, England. They are about 375,000 years old. They show a semi-human head...