SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 5 



measures which are both simple and inexpensive, the 

 Anglo-Saxon will find life in the tropics more healthful 

 than in the temperate zones, and tropical countries which 

 offer a much greater return for man's labour than do those 

 of the chilly temperate zone, will be in the course of the 

 next two or three centuries occupied and populated by the 

 white races. Such an unpleasantly cold spring as that 

 which all Europe endured last year makes one wish 

 that the tropics generally were already arranged by 

 Colonel Gorgas for our reception, and provided with a 

 sanitated white-faced population. We could go and live 

 there, warm and comfortable, all the year round, enjoying 

 the rich luxuriance of tropical nature without fear of either 

 chill or fever. 



