ies will be quite so deformed and distorted.
Athletics they will watch, yes, but on the whole sparingly practise.
Their snuffy old scholars will even be proud to decry them. Where once
the simians swung high through forests, or scampered like deer, their
descendants will plod around farms, or mince along city streets, moving
constrictedly, slowly, their litheness half gone.

They will think of Nature as "something to go out and look at." They
will try to live wholly apart from her and forget they're her sons.
Forget? They will even deny it, and declare themselves sons of God. In
spite of her wonders they will regard Nature as somehow too humble to
be the true parent of such prominent people as simians. They will lose
all respect for the dignity of fair Mother Earth, and whisper to each
other she is an evil and indecent old person. They will snatch at her
gifts, pry irreverently into her mysteries, and ignore half the
warnings they get from her about how to live.

Ailments of every kind will abound among such folk, inevitably, and
they will resort to extraordinary expedients in their search for
relief. Although squeamish as a race about inflicting much pain in cold
blood, they will systematically infect other animals with their own
rank diseases, or cut out other animals' organs, or kill and dissect
them, hoping thus to learn how to offset their neglect of themselves.
Conditions among them will be such that this will really be necessary.
Few besides impractical sentimentalists will therefore oppose it. But
the idea will be to gain health by legerdemain, by a trick, instead of
by taking the trouble to live healthy lives.

Strange barrack-like buildings called hospitals will stand in their
cities, where their trick-men, the surgeons, will slice them right open
when ill; and thousands of zealous young pharmacists will mix little
drugs, which thousands of wise-looking simians will firmly prescribe.
Each generation will change its mind as to these drugs, and laugh at
all former opinions; but each will use some of them, and 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 wi