The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-08-24
MAN AND CLIMATE.

The London Spectator, in an article which Is brief as it IS forcible, thus annihilates the often-reiterated theory that vigorous men ure produced by cool climates, while hot cll- mates enervate the race:
 "The notion that man fourishes best Tn temperate cline survives all evidence to tne contrary, and will be repeated with perfect cooness by the man who has just informed you that the two most perfect of earthly cli- mates, the Tasmanian, which IS the English climate etherealized, and the Californian, which is the Greek climate cooled, produce the two fecb,est races of mankind. The na- tive Tasmanian and the Digger Indian are with the Veddah the lowest specimens of hu- manity hitherto observed. 50 lar as the very imperfect evidence attalna5ie will prove, the physical qualities, strength, size courage, and, perhaps, industry-we doubt ii that IS . physical quality, but it is coTnted as one are independent of cliD2ae altogether, and specially independent Of the thermometer.
 ~The biggest and strongest race of earth, sbe Nusian of the Upper Nile, fourishes in h..S that almost boiled Verne, the traveller, wko has most carefully observed his wonder grl muscular development, and can live and srow fat in the smcke-rooms from which the most pewer2sl Englishmen are carried out fainting and half dead. Kaiser Williams PomeranEans arc scarcely the equals of these in phisioue, and are not when they chose more steadily industrious. A huDal of Constantine pie orCairewould carry a railway-porter on his sboalaer and all his baggage besides, and Beayalee boatman would row London wa terrnan, as far as endurance is concerned into sn apoplectic fit. The Bengalee is weak and the Peguan is not brave, but the Malay, born under precisely the same conditions, the very conditions to which Macaulay attributed the effemnacy of the Bengalees, has the courage of a ferret, the activity of monkey, and the endurance of a thoroughbred horse. Some day or other, when we reign in Cairo, Englishmen will officer an army of Arabs, men bred in desert where the sun seems to hate human beings and pursue them with kind of conscious pitilessness, and then Asia will know once more why the Moor seemed to the mailed knights of France and Spain so terrible an enemy. Few human beings are so powerful as the Parsees, whose wrestlers de- feat picked men from the British army, and they have dwelt for ages m climate to which that of Italy is cold, and for two cen turies in Western India; and none are so in dustrious as the Chinese of the South, the men of those streming superheated Deltas where the.earth being water, the men, on the populartheory, should he women.
 The Peruvian is a soft creature, but his climate is cooler than that of the regions Panama and Guiana, where the bravest and fiercest of aborigDes, the Carlo, still maln- tains his hereditary freedom. Out of the softly enervating climate as we Northern CTS deem it, of Central Italy came the stern- est, bravest, and most efficent human beings that ever walked the world, the fighting Ro- man patrician, who, after thousand years of heat, and luxury, and stated voluptuousness, was still the most formidable officer with whom an enemy could come in contact; and he was outdone in courage by the men who swarmed up from the blazing slopes of Paes- tine and the fierce heat of Idumea to defend the Holy City. The Scotch and the Swedes are confessedly manly people, able to toll, and to battle, and to endme; but they are not manlier, or braver, or more enduring than the planters bred in those sweltering rice-swa,nps ot South Carolina, or the hot sbarrens' of Georgia or the hotter lagoons and morasses and flooded jungles of Louisiana, where upon all accepted conditions men ought to degenerate into towards.
 "The Delawares bred in temperate eli mate. were not braver than the Seminoles of Florida, or so brave as their far-away kins- folk, the Caribs of Panama and the negro transported out of the tropics distinctly loses nerve We think that heat demoral- izes, but when Spain anticipated Britain and conquered and colonized the continent; when 300 ruffians, led by brutal pig, ,jobber, tram pied down a semi-civilized empire with mill ions of inhabitants, Spain was as hot as it is now. We speak of the exceptional prolific ness of the Anglo-Saxon who is now sending an army of 100000 men year to people America and the Southern continent, and never feels the loss. But who peopled India and Southern China, and the Southern shore of the Mediterranean and Spanish America, except races who must have lived for ages under the sum It was not under hard gray weather that the Temple of the Sun rose in Baalbeck, or the columns of Luxor, or the Coliseum-monuments all of them, of human industry as we'll as of human skill and domi- neering energy. Grant that the work was done by slaves, it is not by the feeble that slaves are held in slavery"