

INFERIOR SENSES OF EUROPEANS. 85 



replace " economy of growth " in causing diminu- 

 tion. x 



INFERIORITY OF SENSES IN EUROPEANS. 



" The inferiority of Europeans, in comparison 

 with savages, in eyesight and in the other senses," 

 is attributed to " the accumulated and transmitted 

 effect of lessened use during many generations." ^ 

 But why may we not attribute it to the slackened 

 and diverted action of the natural selection which 

 keeps the senses so keen in some savage races ? 



SHORT-SIGHT IN WATCHMAKERS AND 

 ENGRAVERS. 



Darwin notices that watchmakers and engravers 

 are liable to be short-sighted, and that short-sight 



1 For the importance of panmixia as invalidating Darwin's 

 strongest evidence for use-inheritance namely, that drawn from the 

 effects of disuse in highly-fed domestic animals where there is 

 supposed to be no economy of growth see Professor Romanes on 

 Panmixia, Nature, April 3, 1890. 



2 Descent of Man, p. 33. 



