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Excerpt from Vikings of to-Day: Or Life and Medical Work Among the Fishermen of Labrador
Surgeon to the London Hospital. Examiner in Surgery at the University of Cambridge. Chairman of the Hospital Committee of the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen.
AT the present time - near to the close of the nineteenth century - we are being constantly reminded, with somewhat unpleasant persistence, that the human race is degenerating and that the changes of decay are most marked among the most civilised people. It is among the young men especially that these uh welcome signs of the times are assumed to be the more noticeable. It is claimed that the splendid physique and the heroic courage of the British race are both deteriorating, and that those who seek for the time of noble deeds and sturdy hearts must turn back to the days of Elizabeth - to the stirring times of Drake and Raleigh.
There is said to be no longer a field for that pluck and daring, or for that determination and persistency, which at one period made the name of the British famous throughout the world.
It would be idle, in this place, to inquire into the substance of these moanings and regrets, and it would be reasonable perhaps to allow that there may be some real or apparent element of truth in these lamentations over the man of the present.
Be this as it may, it will be agreeable to those who are most concerned in these forebodings to turn to the record contained in this volume, while those who view with some disgust the fashion able youth of the day, with his many effeminacies and affectations, will find in the pages which follow some wholesome relief to their distaste.
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