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1031. The fact that the female form has undergone a 

 very material change within the last 20 years, and that 

 this change has been caused by the pressure of stays on 

 parts of the system which are of the utmost importance 

 to the nutrition, and consequent growth, and health of our 

 species, cannot, and will not be denied by any competent 

 witness. And that we shall become a stinted, puny, and 

 short-lived race, in consequence, it requires no more in- 

 spiration to predict, than it does to foretell that starvation 

 will produce dwarfs in infancy, and emaciation in adults. 



1032. The effects, indeed, are already visible in the 

 number of pale, dwarfish, and crooked children, which 

 may be seen in the schools and streets of all our cities, and 

 many of our smaller towns and villages. And whoever, 

 having been interested in the welfare of the rising gener- 

 ation, will contrast, so far as she can recollect, the aspect 

 of a school composed of both sexes, at the present day, 

 with the appearance of the same number and ages, 15 or 

 20 years ago, cannot, we think, but be convinced, that 

 that there has been a great deterioration in our youth, both 

 in respect to form,, size, and healthy looks. 



1033. And who, we inquire, would not expect to see 

 such a change in our race, when they behold such a meta- 



Fig. 136. Fig. 137. 



Venus de Medicis. A Modern Lady. 



morphosis in the better half of our species, as to hnvi? 

 produced from a stock like that represented by Fig. 136, 



