has become a trial to him as it is to the normal European. 
     It takes greater willpower for him to be faithful to 
     uninteresting work, and lack of interest brings fatigue.

     The author next turned to the changed attitudes to taste 
and sex and pain resulting from literacy:

     I suggest also that the nervous system of the untouched 
     African is so lethargic that he needs little sleep. Many of 
     our workmen walk some miles to their jobs, work well all 
     day and then return home and spend most of the night 
     sitting up guarding their gardens against the 
     depredations of wild pigs. For weeks on end they sleep 
     only two or three hours a night.
          The important moral inference from all this is that 
     the African of the old generation with whom we have