Are We a Declining Race ? 



serious question. It may be that it is yet a far 

 cry from the present condition of the human race, 

 to that predicted by Mr. Kay Robinson or Dr. 

 Veresaeff, yet it must be acknowledged that we 

 are a very long way from physical perfection, 

 and it may be that there is not so vast a 

 difference in the two conditions as there is in the 

 present state of the human race and that which 

 prevailed among the barbarian inhabitants of 

 Europe prior to the Roman Conquest. This 

 question it would of course be difficult to decide, 

 but by what we may gather from the frag- 

 mentary evidence handed down to us, these 

 barbarians must have been exceedingly robust. 



