The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-23
Man Not negenerating The Mod
ern Egyptian as Big as the Egyp-
tian Of Thousands of Years ago
The Modern Englishman Bigger
than his ancestors.


here never was ielnSiOn with
less evidence for it, except perma-
nent lmpr, sSi"n among mankind,
which IL often the result, not If at.-
cnmuIated experience, bur of an
everrenewel discomfort with the
actual state things. There is not
the slightest evidence anywhere
that man was ever bigger, stronger,
switter or more enduring under me
same coIuitiuhs of food and eli
mate than he is now.
As TO blgue>s, the evidence is
positive. Modern Egyptians are as
big "a the mulnme> who were CON
querors in their day, and mod,,n
Englishmen are b'g ger. There are
not In existence thousand coats of
arrnor Which al EngI sh regimen,
could put on Very few m"dern>
can use ancient swords. becau>e the
hits are too small for their Il nd>.
Endless wealth aud skill were ev-
pended IN picking gltdlatnr>, aud
there is go evidence that a man
among them was - big or as strong
rs Shaw. NJ k. Ie;on, 10 Saur.
no picture, indicates that men In
general We're ever bigger. The
Jews OF TODAY are rs large rs they
were III Egypt, or larger The pe"-
pile of the Roma.na have all th,.
bearing and more than the size OF
the Roman sole ierv. No feat II
recorded AS usual with Greek ath-
letes which English acroba,s could
not perform now.
There is no naked savage tribe
which naked Corni >hnnen or York
shiremen could not strange. No
race exists OF which a thousand
men similarly armed would defeat
an English, or Ge' mn, Or Russian
regiment of equal numbers Moth
ing Is recorded OF our foretathtr>
here IN England hich EngIi>hm.n
conld not du, unless it it he some
feats of archery, which were he re
suit OF a long training OF the eye
continued for generations The
most ciyl'izrd AMI luxurious family
that ever existed, the European
royal caste, IL physically a. big, a.
healthy. and as powerful "a ANY PEG
pie of whom We have any account
that science can cert. Theirs )
Frenchman is CR>.tr's Gan. in a.
bodily conditions, aud with increas-
ed power OF ke, ping aIvr, which
may be partially owing to improved
conditions of living, bnt is probably
owing sill more to developed vital
ity. There i no evidence that
even the feeble races are feebler
than they became after their first
acci!matIzatIon.
The Bengalee was what we know
him twelve hundred years ago, and
the Chlnamau was represented on
porcelain ut a he i now before
the birth OF Christ. No race ever
multiplied like the Anglo Saxon,
which has had no advantage OF
food. Physical condition depends
on physical conditions, and why
should race better fed, better
clothed, AID betre housed than 1t
ever was before degenerate? Be
cause il eats corn instead of Der
RESP Compare the California and
the Digger Indian? Because it
wears clothes? The wearing of
clothes, if burden Some-which the
experience of amy doctors IN India
as to the best costume OF marching
makes exces~iv ely doubtful, they de-
claring unanimously that breechlcss
men suffer from varIcose veins, az
men wearing trousers do rot-mu>t
operate AZ permanent physical
training. You carry weight habit
ually. Because they keep indoors ?
Compare English professionals with
TasmaGian savage, living in idenni
cally the same climate, but living
out Of doors.
The conditions of civilization not
only do not prohibit Capt. Webb,
who would have out walked, out |
swum, or strany'ed amy German
that TacItus ever romanced about, |
but they enable h'm TO 1--we to 20 in /
stead of diving al 10, AZ 1900 years !