The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-10
SOME OLD TIME GIANTS.
Rate Of Growth increased by
Certain Kinds of Exercise.
RACES OF TALL NEGROES IN AFRICA.
Inhabitants of Limestone Regions Taller
than tie Average Interesting Facts
About the Inheritance of Stature.
by RICHARD a. PROCTOR.


There are many who regard certain sayings
III the Bible as mjunctions to men to attempt
no advance and to make no researches. When
they read the words, Tho poor We have always
with you" they are prepared to teach that any
attempts to raise the poor from poverty are
necessarily sinful. Because Christ told his
hearers, with most perfect truth, that they
could not tell whence the wind came or with
er 1t went, the attempts of men like Maury
and Myer to track the courses of the winds are
to be regarded rs n sort of rebellion against tho
will of Him who is POLITICALLY described in the
Bible as holding the winds in the hollow of
his hand. Christ asked in like manner, (Which
OF yOu by taking thought can add n cubit to
his staturo?" and therefore some regard the
growth OF each and every person as something
predetermined and prcdcSiined, which can i'll
no way Uo affected by careful thought as to
diet, exercise and place of abode TO say moth
ing of a principle of election by which later
generations may be modified, and great grand
children grow greater by inheriting in concen-
trated degree the greater stature of their male
and female progenitors.
Yet at a first view there seems no reason why
stature should not be increased as well as the
size of the chest or the girth of the individual
limbs. 1t is true that in developing the chest
the action of inferior organs is called directly
into play to increase the span Of the chest-en-
closing bones and integuments by mechanical
action, while III developing eirth of limbs the
the flesh is increased on to which exercise and
food appear TO act more directly than they can
be expected TO act on the bones, and especially
on ~ toI,n ~ ~ II may ~ ~
a. W r l,io ~ W tii'
vented which would act directly on stature.
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mn, ,ioH M W. may DISMISS lHe
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w riiueI VIII thdI Duik was at
,aii.ea' "lla'-af cona!uohs resulting only IN
,,oS ilt li'1o' .lona hou!o
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regions "'eiG H-gH are itiIcI tiidl inc average
~ 4'''a ~, Ill 0DS0i' =" 'I"V 'ney are wanting
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3 .g ~, ~ IN cGhee .loh With my
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- t-'t i'''5i, ~ inc Nheh we see races
"a 49, 'S' " ~ Ga' ~ ~, S'loI example,
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