The great question in China for thou sands of years has been the question of subsistence. The Chinese are a people who have increased and kept up their nunbers constantly to the limit of subsistence withlut the interposition of any intelligent restraint. Civil wars. faiine. pestilence. infanticide. adol emigration have from time to time served to relieve the pressure of human life upon the means of subsistence. but as soon as the pressnilr has lucen relieved. by these or any other means. the measure of increase has again been tilled to the utmost limit. so that China has been an overpopulated country for thousands of years. In this persistent dreary straggle for existence the law of the "survival of the fittest" has had full play. and from the process of induration which has been so long at work a race of men has resulted whose vital organism is adapted to the smallest needs of human life. with a capacity for physical endurance equal to that of the most stalwart races. During the thousands of years of training which this race of mel has undergone. in which they have been accustomed to incessant toil and insuflicient food. the individnals who were too weak to endure the strain have fallen out. and none but the " fittest" have stirvived to become the progenitors of their race.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizes about the Chinese people's struggle for subsistence and their adaptation to minimal needs.