re, endure more than any barbarian race of them all.
This day the gentle Sandwich-Islanders are wasting like snow-wreaths, in
contact with educated races. This day our red men are being swept before
advancing civilization like leaves before the breath of the hurricane.
And it requires no prophet's eye to see, that, if we do not give the
black man education as well as freedom, an unshackled mind as well as
unshackled limbs, he, too, will share the same fate.

To all this it may naturally be objected, that the reason so many savage
races do not display the greatest physical stamina is not so much
intellectual barrenness as their vices, native or acquired,--or because
they bring no wisdom to the conduct of life, but dwell in smoky huts,
eat unhealthy food, go from starvation to plethora and from plethora to
starvation again, exchange the indolent lethargy which is the law of
savage life for the frantic struggles of war or the chase which
diversify and break up its monotony. Allow the objection; and then what
have we accomplished, but carrying the argument one step back? For what
are self-control and self-care, but the just fruits of intelligence? But
in truth it is a combination of all these influences, and not any of
them alone, that enables the civilized man to outlive and outrival his
barbarian brother. He succeeds, not simply because of the superior
address and sagacity which education gives him, though that, no doubt,
has much to do with it; not altogether because his habits of life are
better, though we would not underrate their value; but equally because
the culture of the brain gives a finer life to every red drop in his
arteries, and greater hardihood to every fibre which is woven into his
flesh. If it is not so, how do you explain the fact that our colored
soldier, fighting in his native climate, with the same exposure in
health and the same care in sickness, succumbs to wounds and diseases
over which his white comrade triumphs? Or how will you explain analogous
facts in the history of disease among other uneducated races? Our
explanation is simple. As the slightest interfusion of carbon may change
the dull iron into trenchant steel, so intelligence working through
invisible channels may add a new temper to the physical nature. And thus
it may be strictly true that it is not only the mind and soul which
slavery and ignorance wrong, but the body just as much.

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