“ Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. ”
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
~ G. Stanley Hall
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.