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intelligence vary with the demands made on a population 

 for forethought, ingenuity and craftsmanship. Where 

 climatic conditions or philanthropic assistance do away 

 with the necessity for obtaining shelter and clothing 

 by personal exertion, and where the resources of Nature 

 and the good humour of society provide all that is 

 required in the way of sustenance, there is no survival 

 value in the possession of such qualities as industry 

 or skill, sobriety and frugality, and, given a sufficient 

 number of generations, these qualities will assuredly 

 show signs of decay. 



Here then we have the reason why a study of 

 anthropology is of such supreme importance to those 

 who take upon themselves the responsible work of 

 directing a nation. One type will survive and multi- 

 ply in conditions that are fatal to another. An 

 alteration of the conditions will affect at once the 

 relative chances of survival of two interacting species ; 

 and every piece of legislation, every effort of social 

 enterprise, is practically a weighting of the scales for 

 or against one variety as compared with another. 



The tall blond Teutonic race tend to disappear as 

 soon as they reach the enervating shores of the Medi- 

 terranean Sea, although they persist a little longer in 

 the cool uplands, which more nearly resemble their 

 northern place of origin. City life is also found to be 

 destructive to the fair-skinned stocks, who are among 

 the most successful colonists of the open spaces of 

 Canada and the United States. The negro and the 

 Indian die of consumption in northern climates ; the 

 white man suffers increasingly from disease as he goes 

 south, and has to be hurried off to hill stations and 



