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generates disease. 33*(32) Mr. Sproat, who in Vancouver Island closely attended to this subject, believes that changed habits of life, & food which always follows from the advent of Europeans, induces much ill-health. He lays, also, great stress on so trifling a cause as that the natives become "bewildered & dulled by the new life around them; they lose the motives for exertion & get no new ones in their place." 34*(33)

The grade of civilization seems to be a most important element in the success of nations which come in competition. A few years centuries ago Europe feared the inroads of Eastern barbarians, now any such fear would be ridiculous. It is a more curious fact, that, not formerly waste away as Mr. Bagehot has remarked, savages did before the classical nations, as they now do before modern civilized nations; had they done so, the old moralists would have mused over the event; but