The power to fuse was wanting.

Capability to evolve anything is not one of the marked characteristics of the Far East.

Indeed, the tendency to spontaneous variation, Nature's mode of making experiments, would seem there to have been an enterprising faculty that was exhausted early.

Sleepy, no doubt, from having got up betimes with the dawn, these dwellers in the far lands of the morning began to look upon their day as already well spent before they had reached its noon.

They grew old young, and have remained much the same age ever since.