in hysterics.  “The tooth-ache,” said Roger Williams of the New England tribes, “is the only paine which will force their stoute hearts to cry”; even the Indian women, he says, never cry as he has heard “some of their men in this paine”; but Lewis and Clarke found whole tribes who had abolished this source of tears in the civilized manner, by having no teeth left.  We complain of our weak eyes as a result of civilized habits, and Tennyson, in “Locksley Hall,” wishes his children bred in some savage land, “not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books.”  But savage life seems more injurious to the organs of vision than even the type of a cheap edition; for the most vigorous barbarians—­on the prairies, in Southern archipelagos, on African deserts—­suffer more from different forms of ophthalmia than from any other disease; without knowing the alphabet, they have worse eyes than if they were professors, and have not even the melancholy consolation of spectacles.

Again, the savage cannot, as a general rule, endure transplantation,—­he cannot thrive in the country of the civilized man; whereas the latter, with time for training, can equal or excel him in strength and endurance on his own ground.  As it is known that the human race generally can endure a greater variety of climate than the hardiest of the lower animals, so it is with the man of civilization, when compared with the barbarian.  Kane, when he had once learned how to live in the Esquimaux country, lived better than the Esquimaux themselves; and he says expressly, that “their powers of resistance are no greater than those of well-trained voyagers from other lands.”  Richardson, Parkyns, Johnstone, give it as their opinion, that the European, once acclimated, bears the heat of the African deserts better than the native negro.  “These Christians are devils,” say the Arabs; “they can endure both cold and heat.”  What are the Bedouins to the Zouaves, who unquestionably would be as formidable in Lapland as in Algiers?  Nay, in the very climates where the natives are fading away, the civilized foreigner multiplies:  thus, the strong New-Zealanders do not average two children to a family, while the households of the English colonists are larger than at home,—­which is saying a good deal.

Most formidable of all is the absence of all recuperative power in the savage who rejects civilization.  No effort of will improves his condition; he sees his race dying out, and he can only drink and forget it.  But the civilized man has an immense capacity for self-restoration; he can make mistakes and correct them again, sin and repent, sink and rise.  Instinct can only prevent; science can cure in one generation, and prevent in the next.  It is known that some twenty years ago a thrill of horror shot through all Anglo-Saxondom at the reported physical condition of the operatives in English mines and factories.  It is not so generally known, that, by a recent statement of the medical inspector of factories, there is declared