["The descendants of man will nourish themselves by immersion in nutritive fluid. They will have enormous brains, liquid, soulful eyes, and large hands, on which they will hop. No craggy nose will they have, no vestigial ears; their mouths will be a small, perfectly round aperture, unanimal, like the evening star. Their whole muscular system will be shrivelled to nothing, a dangling pendant to their minds."—Pall Mall Gazette, abridged.]
What, a million years hence, will become of the Genus
Humanum, is truly a question vexed;
At that epoch, however, one prophet has seen us
Resemble the sketch annexed.
For as Man undergoes Evolution ruthless,
His skull will grow "dome-like, bald, terete";
And his mouth will be jawless, gumless, toothless—
No more will he drink or eat!