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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XXIII, 27 November 1897, Page 717

The dominant race of the future, according to Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yale Peabody Museum, is to be the .Japanese. His conclusion is not the result of pure speculation, but has been reached by careful study and logical deductions from established facts. From the beginning of life the struggle for existence has been won always by brain and not by brawn. That is why man survived. W hen man was a hairy animal, only a grade above the giant ape, there roved over the earth's surface monsters so gigantic as to be almost inconceivable now. But they had scarcely brain enough to forage for food. Primeval man, on the contrary, had a comparatively large brain, and so he conquered the monsters of the plain and jungle, and survives to-day, the lord of creation. But now comes the question: Which of the many races of earth will dominate the others? Professor Marsh finds that the Japanese have the largest brains. ‘The big brain has won at every stage of the world's history,’ he says, ‘and there is no apparent reason why it should not continue to win in the future.’ The time lock for tobacco boxes has been invented by an American. The box is divided into two compartments, one for the tobacco and the other for the. mechanism which controls the lock. In this way the smoker has access to the tobacco only at fixed times during the day, and. therefore, if he has sufficient strength of mind to keep out of a tobacconist's shop in the interims, this little instrument is calculated to prevent his abuse of the weed.