12 OUTDOOR STUDIES 
between a good idle constitution and a good 
working constitution, —since the latter often 
belongs to persons who make no show of physi- 
cal powers. But this only means that there are 
different temperaments and types of physical 
organization, while within the limits of each 
the distinction between a healthy and a dis- 
eased condition still holds; and it is that alone 
which is essential. 
More specious is the claim of the Fourth-of- 
July orators, that, health or no health, it is the 
sallow Americans, and not the robust English, 
who are really leading the world. But this, 
again, is a question of temperaments. The 
Englishman concedes the greater intensity, but 
prefers a more solid and permanent power. He 
justly sets the noble masonry and vast canals 
of Montreal against the Aladdin’s palaces of 
Chicago. “I observe,” admits the Englishman, 
“that an American can accomplish more, at a 
single effort, than any other man on earth ; but 
T also observe that he exhausts himself in the 
achievement. Kane, a delicate invalid, astounds 
the world by his two Arctic winters, — and 
then dies in tropical Cuba.” The solution is 
simple; nervous energy is grand, and so is 
muscular power; combine the two, and you 
move the world. 
One may assume as admitted, therefore, the 
