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tea. If we go to Wiltshire, we find the ill-paid labourer knowing that by the use 
of tea he is enabled to do the greatest amount of labour with the least amount 
of waste. We also find that the poor, hardworking sempstress has discovered 
the same fact. She knows that it is the best food she can take. How is it 
that these people find out these things ? I was told once by an inspector of 
prisons that he had made an experiment in which he put 400 men on oat- 
meal and milk, and 400 others on tea ; and he found that those to whom 
the oatmeal had been given had lost in weight, while those who received tea 
had lost nothing at all : the alkaloid in tea, coffee, and cocoa prevents 
waste of muscle. These marvellous human instincts lead us to the 
conclusion that man comes not from the lower animals by any educational 
process or any education of instincts, and prove that while man possesses 
instincts m common with the brute species, he has something which the 
rate species do not possess ; for the latter cannot be educated— they never 
can improve their instincts, nor, on the other hand, do they ever lose them 
or become in any way degenerated. 
{ f; eV m Dr ■, TH0RNT0N -*- The Periplvs of Hanno, and Herodotus’s account 
ot the 1 roglodytw, seem to contain instances of savagery known to the Greeks. 
But the GonlUe of Hanno were most probably apes,— the name perhaps 
derived from gar and jalal, meaning “ howling monsters ” in Punic The 
Troglodyte were apparently a very early Hamitic colony, degenerated, through 
want of communication with their fellow-men, both in physical character 
and m language ; and this is, therefore, an argument in favour of Mr. Reddie’s 
\ ^ Thornton was unable to remain sufficiently lono- at the meeting to 
make these remarks, which he has since been good enough to f3 
insertion in l the Journal of Transactions. In addition to what he has stated 
rj- re S ar( ^ s tbe Troglodyte, I would beg leave to observe, that the allusion 
S G thl P r exktf GS t0 th f\ does not 1 seem t0 “^icate any actual knowledge 
mixed un ^ cha f a f er .’ but only hearsay, and so little of that- 
mixecl up, too, with so much besides that is incredible— as to nmnnnt in 
nofhmg He tells us in the same place of the Lotophao-i whose kine feed 
backwards because they have horns so bent forward and downwards that 
he says— « Theorem g ? Un ? lf , th .® an ™f! s endeavoured to advance. Then 
1 lie Cxaramantes hunt th6 Ethiopian Troo'lnrlvf-aa in p™, i 
fwhlm m / he E 7 thio ? ian Tr °gl°dytes are the swilest of foot of all men 
0 / whom we have heard any account given. They feed upon serpents and 
one'iice hutory '. ° r as { acts w ithin the writer’s actual knowledge’ *Tlnt 
b t f men might m his day chase another in four-horse Sariots miiht 
t enough , but to speak of employing “four-horse chariots” for ilia 
ST"ktw7 r W°es Were d“ f ¥ teS V f do‘?d“the f wh 
tMs^emted htrsav ’> mav tell T ■’ ^ folm ? llti ™ of fact for 
riles as fithin to®, *° H °f°f tus ’, \ Sto rlly upon 
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