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4. Did the missionaries impart instruction in the uses, habits, 
and arts of civilized life P and if so, with what effect P 
5. Are the Aborigines apt at, and did they make rapid pro¬ 
gress in, learning the elements of knowledge ? 
6. Are they able to advance beyond the elements ? and if not, 
is the cause a physical one ? 
7. Is there any physical bar which prevents the race from 
elevating itself in the social scale ? 
8. Has any existing civilized race acquired knowledge of the 
arts of civilization in less than several generations ? And if 
civilization be not gradually and spontaneously developed, is it 
possible to force it rapidly on any particular race without caus¬ 
ing its destruction or decay ? 
9. On first contact with a civilized race aboriginal races 
usually retire or give way, but no decrease in numbers is at first 
perceptible. At what period did the decrease in number of the 
race reported on become perceptible ? 
10. Was any taint in the blood or other cause of decay known 
to exist in the aboriginal race before they came in contact with 
civilized men ? 
11. Were the women in the habit of using any particular 
food affecting their reproductive powers? (The Maoris do.) 
12. Can the decay of the race be partially attributable to 
sudden change in the habits of life, want of the excitements 
proper to savage life, and listlessness resulting from passions 
subdued (but not eradicated), in obedience to the commands 
of the Christian religion and enlightened laws ? sucb change 
having been enforced before u culture ” and a knowledge of the 
arts of civilization has provided other pursuits and enjoyments. 
13. If No. 12 is answered in the affirmative, would the same 
consequences have ensued if the change from savage to civilized 
life had been gradually developed instead of having been stimu¬ 
lated by contact with a superior race and rapidly effected ? 
14. What effect, in causing disease, has a partial change of 
diet and dress ? i. e. is disease produced by the occasional use 
of European clothing and a sudden return to the nakedness of 
savage life ? by temporary residence in towns and a return to 
the smoky, unventilated cabins used by savages ? 
15. What have been the effects of scrofula, smallpox, typhus, 
and other diseases unknown before the arrival of white men ? 
16. What remedies were used by the Aborigines ? or did they 
refuse all remedies ? 
17. To what extent have diseases affecting the sexual organs 
been introduced by white men ? 
