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of lordly qualities, cönfess that our " higher classes " appear tous to bear all tlio impress of " high breeding " in their featuresand frames — it being as easy to distinguish an English noblel'i'om an English navvy as it is to teil a blood-horse from acob.

It is but natural, too, that such should be tlie case: for it iswell known to physiologists that the superior housing and feedingof animals, called the " domestication " of them, tends not onlyto change the character of the tissues, but to modify the deve-lopment of the very bones themselves,— the pig, in its wildState, having its hinder legs considerably higher, and its backconsequently less straight, than its " dairy-f'ed" descendant.

It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that a race of peoplewho, like the aristocracy of England, have for a long courseof years neither had their bodies stinted by want or bad food,nor their tissues hardened by continuous labour, nor their skinand complcxions tanned by long exposure to the weather, shouldbe characterised by the most perfect regularity and softness offeature, as well as by the extreme delicacy of their hands and feet.

Surely such results are no more extraordinary than thatone should find among savage tribes a prevalence of highcheek bones and prognathous jaws ; oi", more stränge than that,the feet of slaves, whoso forefathers never knew the protectionof a shoe, should have a peculiar flat conformation by which todistinguish them.

Now, if there bo truth in the above principles, it must beconfessed that the Germ an nobles have few external marks ofwliat is called "blood" about them. But when we como tocontrast the State of domestic comfort in Deutschland with thatprevailing throughout our own country, and to see howdeficient the houses of the rieh are in all matters of comfortand cleanlincss, as well as Ventilation and sanitary regulations,as compared with those in England; and to notice, moreover,

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