HAS WANKAD ADVANCED 9] HOW DO WE COMPARE WITH OUR ANCESTORS? _ Intellecjually It may Be Claimed Mankind Has Made Great Advances. Every now and then i a has a fit of dejection, and begins to ask itself whether it is worth while, and whether the average _ twentieth-century man would not have a happier time of it if he could be transplanted back into the sav- agery in which his ancestors lived 4 of years ago. ome distinguished A an pro- fessors have recently 'sag: an ing the question afresh, and it is curiots how widely they agree that mankind has made rather a bad bargain in adopting civilisation. Medical opinion holds emphatical- ly that, as healthy aninials, we are not to be compared with our savage ancestors. We are steadily losing |' teeth, hair, and, toes. We are ravaged by indigestion--a disease which, with its consequences, one professor has called far too heavy a price in itself to pay for civilisa- tion. Our sanity, too, is steadilly oe underminded by nervous dis- "None of these maladies were known in primeval times; nor was zonsumption, another scourge of sivilisation. In spite of the brilliant deeds and discoveries of medical ind surgical science, the civilised world is simply undermined with disease. Civilisation, in fact, is unhealthy, and these centuries of disease have permanently weaken- ed the human body. A savage ter- ribly mangled by a tiger will pee er steadily without assistance fro wounds which even the healthiest of Europeans, under the most skill- ed medical attention, could not sur- vive for an hour. A VISION OF THE FUTURE. In fact, medical opinion declares that the civilised man will, after a few thousand years more of civilisa- tion, be a toothless animal, with small, shrunken legs and arms, and a massive, 'bald head, with large, half-blind eyes. Even though the average man of to-day undergoes more physical suf- fering in a month than his far-off ancestor did in a lifetime, it may be claimed that intellectually mankind has made tremendous advances. That is true; but intellect does not add to all-round happiness. The professors of philosiphy are of opinion that if the finer modern brain gives a wider circle of plea-| © Bures, it also makes sorrow more bitter. Our more sensitive nerves, too, find causes for worry and de- pression in trifles that would fail to make any impression whatever on a simpler, stupider brain. Then the digestive troubles, from which practically every civilised man suffers more or less, cloud and darken the capacily for hap- piness. The civilised world affects superiority to the childlke glee which makes a savage stand on his head or dance when he is pleased ; but that, say the philosophers, is simply a sign that civilisation has dulled men's capacity for joy, and made them poorer. ' TAKING TROUBLES SIMPLY. Are we an improvement eon our savage ancestors morally? That is @ point on which opinions are more varied. There certainly seems in civilised countries a spirit of kind- finess and charity that is not common among savages, who are usually quite indifferent to the sufferings of others. The spirit which has pro- duced the great charitable organ- Isations, and which is shown, to take only one instance, in the gen-) eral hatred. of eruelty to animals, must ave quite incompre- hensible in' 4] ahys "before civilisa- tion. The erie J "that young children often showtto 4 als weaker than 'themselves is simply a cast-back to primeval days. Education and the example of their elders soon drive this cruelty out. But another school of png points out that, from the point of view of personal happiness, this tendency to enter into the 'suffer- ings of "others has been a loss, not again, Our savage forefathers not, ,only took their own troubles more | simply than we do ours, but refused to add the sufferings of others to their own; or, rather, their brains and imagination were so undevelop- ed that they were incapable of doing Sa, "DODDS " SUE oS--lil Si, so, 'It probably did not matter a pin to the American or English- man of the Stone Age whether his son lost a leg in a fight or not. Our ancestors took other people's trou- bles easily. a. RAILWAYS IN AFRICA. The Enterprise of the Germans on the West Coast. The Deutsche Kolonialblatt, print- ed in Germany, publishes the in- formation that the Central African Railway, starting from ar-es- Salaam on the West Coast, has now reached the station of Tura and is now only eighty-three miles from Tabora, says the London Standard. laying down the line at the rate of sixteen miles a month, so that it would reach Tabora in the: spring of next year, or nearly two years earlier than was expected when the scheme came before the Reichstag in 1904. At that time, it may be re- membered the concession was ap- proved as far as Morogoro, and the line first reached this place in Oct- ober, 1909. It was then decided to prolong it for another 460 miles Tabor The first part of the new section was difficult, and at the beginning of 1910 the work had only got as far as Kideten, a little more than eighty miles. From here onward, however, a vast tableland stretches almost to Lake Tanganyika, and the 330th mile is now under construc- on, There is little doubt that when Tabora is reached the line will be further prolonged to Oujidi, on the lake, as soon as the Reichstag has approved the extension. Although the line has a certain commercial value, its principal object is politi- cal, and it must be looked at in con- junction with the great scheme of the late King of the Belgians for a transafrican line which he placed before the Geographical Congress of Brussels in 1876. It lay dormant for many years, but has lately been taken up again seriously. At present the Belgian-Congo Railway runs from Matadi to Leo- poldville, and from there a steam- er service goes up the Sankuru iver 1,124 miles from the Atlantic coast to Lussambo. There remains a little more than 460 miles between Lussambo and Lake Tanganyika. Igian company, styled the Company of the Upper Congo and African Lakes, has already com- menced operations by surveying for a line from Lukuga to the lake at Cabalo, and is applying for a new concession to join Cabalo and Mutombo, thus corpteting the Bel- gian-German chain of railway and aeitaee services across the contin- "i is calculated in Belgium that the line from Cabalo to Mutombo could be finished in 1914, which is about the date the German line line should reach Oujidi. That this is no "wildeat" scheme is proved by a recent announcement in the Kolnische Zeitung that the capital | * of the above named company was to be raised from £2,000,000 to £3,- 000,000, in order to bring the ter- minus at Tanganyika opposite the German one. 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