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and bright-coloured cloths ; they wear necklaces, 

 and even nose-rings, but are not seduced by in- 

 tellectual gifts more useful to the individual and 

 the race, because they do not shine so much. 

 Between the psychology of some States and that of 

 savages, it is only a question of degree, and evolu- 

 tion is the same first sensory, then intellectual or 

 moral. 



In presence of these data, what idea have those 

 countries whose mortality is so great as to be 

 criminal ? What excuse, if any, do they allege ? 

 The State cannot excuse itself with economic 

 conditions, for civic life provides muscles for agri- 

 culture, industry, and even for the defence of their 

 countries. So the State cannot screen itself behind 

 a want of resources without perpetrating an 

 absurdity ; it cannot allege ignorance, for here are 

 the facts and means of which other cities and 

 nations have availed themselves to obtain such 

 beneficial results, and against positive facts no 

 discussion is possible. So if neither want of 

 resources nor ignorance can be pleaded, we are in 

 a position to accuse the State that submits to a 

 mortality above the average of the crime of Use 

 patrie. All the medical academies and all the 

 medical congresses that refrain from denouncing 

 these facts fall short of their lofty mission. 



Starting from the principle that we live in a 



