each will feel assured that in this respect they know the last word.

And, in obstinate blindness, this people will wag their poor heads,
and attribute their diseases not to simian-ness but to civilization.


The advantages that any man or race has, can sometimes be handicaps.
Having hands, which so aids a race, for instance, can also be
harmful. The simians will do so many things with their hands, it
will be bad for their bodies. Instead of roaming far and wide over
the country, getting vigorous exercise, they will use their hands
to catch and tame horses, build carriages, motors, and then when
they want a good outing they will "go for a ride," with their bodies
slumped down, limp and sluggish, and losing their spring.

Then too their brains will do harm, and great harm, to their bodies.
The brain will give them such an advantage over all other animals
that they will insensibly be led to rely too much on it, to give it
too free a rein, and to find the mirrors in it too fascinating. This
organ, this outgrowth, this new part of them, will grow over-active,
and its many fears and fancies will naturally injure the body. The
interadjustment is delicate and intimate, the strain is continuous.
When the brain fails to act with the body, or, worse, works against
it, the body will sicken no matter what cures doctors try.


As in bodily self-respect, so in racial self-respect, they'll be
wanting. They will have plenty of racial pride and prejuice, but
that is not the same thing. That will make them angry when simians
of one color mate with those of another. But a general deterioration