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yielded by the Paraguay Indians already named, may be 

 joined some given by Mr. Brough Smyth in his characteriza 

 tion of the Australian. He &quot; is not one to bear burdens, to 

 dig laboriously, or to suffer restraint; &quot; and he has no &quot; such 

 hands as are seen amongst the working classes in Europe. 

 An English ploughman might perhaps insert two of his 

 fingers in the hole of an Australian s shield, but he could 

 do no more.&quot; The implied adaptation of hands to the daily 

 use of tools among the civilized, must have been very grad 

 ual ; and the disinclination to use relatively feeble hands in 

 work, must have been a continual restraint upon production. 



Again, there is the defect of emotional nature, shown, as 

 before remarked, by inability to sacrifice present to future. 

 Says Mr. Brough Smyth of the Australian &quot; He likes to 

 exert himself when exertion is pleasurable, but not for ulte 

 rior purposes will he slave as the white man slaves, nor 

 would he work as the Negro works, under the lash.&quot; 



Besides deficiency of the needful feeling, there is defi 

 ciency of that intellectual process whence foresight arises: 

 there is no adequate recognition and balancing of means 

 and ends and values. Of the North American Indian Mr. 

 Dodge remarks: 



&quot;He has not yet arrived at that stage of progress when a day s 

 work has a definite value. When considering the value of any article 

 his first thought is, Can I make it myself ? and if so, the number of 

 days it will take him to do it is a matter of no consequence.&quot; 



Yet a further hindrance arises from his readiness to bear 

 privations, and accept the rudest satisfactions. A savage 

 who can tolerate the falling of snow on his naked body, is 

 less prompted than a higher man would be to exert himself 

 in getting clothing. When Humboldt tells us that the 

 Guahibos &quot; would rather feed on stale fish, scolopendras, and 

 worms, than cultivate a little spot of ground; &quot; or when we 

 read of the Hudson s Bay Eskimos that &quot; the blood of the 

 deer is often mixed with the half-digested mass of food in 

 the stomach of the animal, and the stomach, with its con- 



