wish origin.

Athletic sports are not of necessity conducive to long life, even if
they are to temporary robust health; but there is no mistaking the fact
that the sedentary and in-door life of the average Jew is a deteriorator
to health and life, and especially among that class of families who are
poor and keep no servant; from heredity and home education having
adopted unhygienic customs, in which they have grown up,--in these a
total disregard for all ventilation forms a part. Were an uncircumcised
race so to live, scrofula and phthisis would be the inevitable result.
This difference of results I have witnessed more than once as existing
among the two races coming from the same European nationality, where
their disregard to ordinary rules of hygiene, induced by climatic
causes, especially ventilation, were alike in both the Semitic and
European descendants of the one nation, the purely European being more
prone to consumption and scrofula. It is interesting to note the
difference in the moral, mental, and physical conditions induced by
creeds; it would seem as if it should not make any difference. The
generally accepted idea of religion is that it should raise the moral
standard of all those nations who practice religion; but the results
are very peculiar, as we are forced to admit that reformation in
religion has not always been a reformation in morals. Take Great Britain
for example; if illegitimacy is any criterion of the moral state of
those professing creeds, we find the least among the Jew; next among the
Catholic; next comes the Episcopalian; then last the Presbyterian,--the
oldest creed showing the greatest moral tendency, and that of poor Knox,
which is the youngest, showing the least. This has certainly its
physical effects, that are not without its influence in producing a
greater or lesser length of life. The evolution of religion has here
induced a lower moral tone and a resulting physical degeneracy.

As observed by alienists, religions of different creeds have different
tendencies in inducing insanity, both as to ratio of population and as
to manifestations;[66] the Protestant, when unbalanced by religious
cause, is generally controlled with some idea that shows itself in wild
and erratic attempts at scriptural interpretation, caused by want of
fixed dogmas and the unending splittings that are forever taking place
in the new faith, and the persistent, intrusive, and belligerent spirit
of proselytism t