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Cooloy a t in th-ir interpretations. The impor- 



tant thinuMo I-.-MI. mi'.-r ve are dealing with so- 



a social organization whi.-h 1ms had an organic growth 

 dependent upon n conditions. It is our primary 



obje< * issify and enumerate these conditions, i 



assign fixed and dogmatic causal n-latimi> among them. 

 PhvMcal rn\ iromm-nt may affect the human individual 

 as an milm-nce causing modification in structure or func- 

 tion, it may a< to or retard physical and in- 



growth hy tln i of propi-r nutriment, 



and it ma\ art a> a Bekottfi au r '-n-y .j.-t. rminini: 



Miination. Altlmuirh anthmpnlnj -anl th 



ft. nn of tin- h.i.ly as tin- mo-t >talN- <-harart.-ri>tic of any 



L:iv-ii rnce or type, imitations havr IMM-II fnimd wlii-h 



show that unl-r nm rahlc (Mivimnmrnt tin* physical 



a iacr may impnivr. Tin- iiivestigatinn^ 



of Oonl.l and haxt-r during the War of the KVhrllioM have 



shown that t srntativ.-s of Kump.-an natimialitii-s 



bom in - hiirln-r than tin- r-preaen- 



talives of the same nationaliti.-s horn in Kuropr. It 



wasassunK'd that h.-ti.-r nutrition and improved hygienic 



and (, nomic conditions in general might increase the 



stature of a people. 3 These conclusions were confirmed 



by Bowditch's m.-a-ui of th< school cliildn-n of 



n and hy othrr inv- ns of similar natun-.* 



. rvidrnr.. lias also been ltain-d from the 



stu.i T.owditrh fouml that 



B was an increase of statmv, heginning with the 



children of unskilled laborers, and in ^ among 



Gould, B. A.I*rr*ti<rali** in t*' Military mmd 



<>f America* Soldton, N.- York. 1*09; and Baxter, J. H. 

 8tat /ico/ <in.l Anthropological, Wmrfi., 1875. 



.Mlitoh. II. P.-fA On. Utrrm, 8lk l*al Report 8t*t* M. 



<ltk of J/aw.. Boston, 1877; Me bo BOM, op. cit . ch. ii. 



