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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