From the testimony it is sale to conclude that at least a part of the observed toughness of the Chinese is attributable to special race vitality which they have acquired in the course of " longer and severer elimination of the leer Bt than our North Earopean ever experienced in t Snob selection foster not so much bodily strength or energy a recuperative power, resistance to infection and tolerance of unwholesome For many centoness the people of south and central Coias, crowded to-lages or walled cities, ised water from contaminated 8 of the rice n of ths scavenging pig or of vegetables stimulated by the contents of the cess-pool, huddled under low roofs, on dirt flvore, in filthy lanes, and slept in fetid dene and stifling ci Myriads accom) to the poisons genet ated by overcromdivg and hardly quarter of those born live to transmit their immunity to their children. The surviving fittest has been the type able to withstand fool air, stench, fatigue toxin, dampness, bad food and noxious germs. I have no doubt that if an Auerican population of equal vize lived in Amoy or Soochow as the Chinese there live, quarter would be dead by ud of the first summer. But the toughening takes place to the detriment of bodily growth and strength.
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