. Not counting the cost : in three volumes . CHAPTER X. IN PARIS. Evolutionists tell us, and our own experiencehas taught us, that improved conditions ofliving are conducive to the maintenance andpropagation of the human race. Yet we oc-casionally meet with instances—as in the caseof the Australian blacks—where the substitu-tion of clothes and houses for bare bodies andthe naked earth has the unexpected result ofdestroying rather than preserving the indi-vidual. If, on the other hand, we apply theexperiment in an inverse sense, and take anordinarily healthy man in the prime of lifewho has been
. Not counting the cost : in three volumes . CHAPTER X. IN PARIS. Evolutionists tell us, and our own experiencehas taught us, that improved conditions ofliving are conducive to the maintenance andpropagation of the human race. Yet we oc-casionally meet with instances—as in the caseof the Australian blacks—where the substitu-tion of clothes and houses for bare bodies andthe naked earth has the unexpected result ofdestroying rather than preserving the indi-vidual. If, on the other hand, we apply theexperiment in an inverse sense, and take anordinarily healthy man in the prime of lifewho has been born in what is called the lapof luxury—who has had his coats made atPooles, and his rooms warmed by hot-water[ 30] NOT COUNTING THE COST 31 tubes—and place him in the same conditionsas those which surround the primitive man,we shall find, to our surprise, that he willadapt himself admirably to the new order ofthings—that he can subsist upon fish androots, can sleep upon the ground, can makeshift with the skins of wild beasts for
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