Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . degree of phys-ical degeneration. That the climate ofIndia is effeminating in its effects onman has been plainly demonstrated byactual observation in modern times. It THE INDICANS. —RESO URCES. 707 is a general law that the subsidence intoagricultural life from the nomadic pur-suit, with its accompanying excitementsof the chase and tribal warfare, exercisesa deleterious effect on the physical con-stitution of man.
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . degree of phys-ical degeneration. That the climate ofIndia is effeminating in its effects onman has been plainly demonstrated byactual observation in modern times. It THE INDICANS. —RESO URCES. 707 is a general law that the subsidence intoagricultural life from the nomadic pur-suit, with its accompanying excitementsof the chase and tribal warfare, exercisesa deleterious effect on the physical con-stitution of man. It is a change from awider and freer and less toilsome modeof activity, from a life of hazard andwild excitements, to the more localizedand more laborious methods of the hus- tending the activity of human may be called the science of dietis still in its infancy. To importance ofno class of students is the ^-supply in relation to race subject of greater inter- character,est than to those who are curious in his-torical and ethnic inquiry. What is thelaw of the maintenance of life by food?What shall be eaten as most conduciveto strength, to longevity, to the support. ASPECTS OF INDIAN LIFE.—Repose at Noonday.—Drawn by F. Regamey, from nature. bandman. It is not meant that the ag-ricultural life is without great value inmaintaining the physical vigor of thosewho follow it, but the toil and tamenesswhich are inseparable therefrom are notfavorable to the highest developmentand greatest vigor of the human are here again on the very borderof that world-wide problem of the rela-tive effect and value of the differentfoods in sustaining the vigor and ex- of all the virile energies of man ? Whatmay be known scientifically on this sub-ject over and above that simple folklorewhich the untutored experience and tra-dition of human kind has transmitted toour age? Foods have been subjected to a scien-tific classification. They are divided byphysiologists into hydrocarbo
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