Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...civilized man as a child is. The negro remains a grown-up child as regards the higher powers and faculties of the human race. This is strikingly exemplified in the experience of those engaged in teaching the negro, both in the West Indies and the United States. The little negroes up to the age of about twelve years are quite as sharp-witted and quick to learn as the white child, and are often precocious. But when the years of puberty are approached a change comes over the child. It is as if a potent voice said, "Thus far and no farther." The intellect and reasoning powerseem to be suddenly arrested, the lower faculties and animal nature receive an impetus, and the clever child too often settles down into the dull and gross adult. This sudden change is accounted for by the fact that the negro brain is at this time arrested by the premature closing of the cranial sutures and lateral pressure of the frontal bone, the result being that the average weight of the negro's brain is ten ounces less than that of the Caucasian. CHAPTER X. BARBADOS AS A HEALTH RESORT, AMUSEMENT AND RECREA T1ON. Barbados is one of the most salubrious places in the world; the great extremes of from hot to cold, such as is experienced in many winter resorts, as in Florida, Italy and the south of France, being here unknown, its climate is especially adapted to make it an agreeable and advantageous winter residence for those afflicted with lung and throat trouble, who have to spend that season of the year out of England or the United States. The strongest argument in favor of the salubrity of Barbados is the fact, that the records of the garrison therefor the last twenty-five years show that it is the healthiest station at which British troops are quartered anywhere in...
