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l he vast majority suffer to some extent, particularly the women ; 
so if the parents are languid, debilitated, and generally anaemic, we 
must realise that the children do not derive that stamina which is 
transmitted in our natural homes. 
Two more authorities I quote, who speak with the weight that 
long residence in India and close investigation there justify. Sir 
K. Martin s opinion was that, although with care the European child 
may be reared in India up to five or six years, beyond these ages a 
physical and moral degeneration occurs ; the child then “ exhibits the 
necessity for change of climate by emaciating and outgrowing its 
strength,” and he considered the attempt to rear children up to and 
past youth is “ an altogether cruel and impracticable endeavour. 
Even those who are kept in India till live or six only exhibit a rest- 
lessness and mobility of the nervous system — a busv idleness — beyond 
their age, as compared with the habits of children of the same age born 
and bred in England. There is also a marked disposition to relaxation 
and to a loose relaxed state of the joints in such children, and to 
consequent lateral curvature of the spine.” 
Hear Fayrer’s following sentences : — “It has long been known to 
the English in India that children may be kept in that country up to 
five, six, or seven years of age without any deterioration, and in the 
higher classes of life with probably as little, if not less, danger to life 
than in England; for most assuredly in some respects — as, for example, 
scarlatina, measles, whooping-cough, thoracic complaints, and even 
dentition — they suffer less in India than in England. But after that 
age, unless a few hot seasons spent in the hills should enable parents 
to keep their children in India until a somewhat later age, to do so is 
always a doubtful proceeding.” 
Then wdiat type has been evolved as suitable to places of high 
temperature ? 
Examine the belt lying to the south and north of the equator, 
and note the c lour of those inhabiting the countries between Capri- 
corn and Cancer. They are all black or coloured. 
Professor Seeley, in his book on “The Expansion of England,” 
says, “ Nature has made the colonisation of India by Englishmen 
impossible by giving her a climate in which as a rule English children 
cannot grow up.” 
To come nearer home in support of this opinion, I shall read you 
an extract from a letter generously written to me by our sympathetic 
Governor, on his receipt of an address which some time ago I read as 
President of the Medical Association in the North — 
“ The question raised in your circular of queries to the medical 
men of Northern Queensland is one of much importance, and I think 
that the subject is one which may well engage serious attention for 
many years to come. 
“ Of course, as yet in Northern Queensland there has not been 
time for a second generation of pure Queenslanders, or, at all events, 
of pure Northern Queensland ers^ and 1 believe that in India the pure 
whites do not fail till the third generation. Indeed, the third genera- 
tion without fresh blood is almost unknown. 
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