Misc references

Just to clear out my Firefox tabs, I'm temporarily posting some notes from Google books here:

Nitobe Inazō on hygiene/衛生 in Japan refers to Faust in arguing that farming is the most "hygienic" of lifestyles somewhat dubiously quotes Mephistopheles, who says in an English translation of Faust:

Good ! would'st thou means that need
Nor gold, nor drug, nor witchcraft to possess?
Up, and betake thee to the field with speed.
Where thou the earth may'st hack, and dig, and dress,
To keep thyself and sense within the bounds
Of this thy narrow circle, duly care.
Nourish thy body with unseasoned fare,
Nor heed the idle riot that surrounds ;
Live with the beast as beast, disdain not thou
Thyself to dung the acre thou dost reap.
These are the best of means, in sooth, I know,
A man at eighty years still young to keep. 

From Faust; a tragedy by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Bowen, Charles Hartpole Published 1878 (pg. 109)

Unrelated to this, Darwin helped popularize a discourse of Ainu racial primitivity which we see in various Euro-American writings on the Ainu from around the time of the Japanese annexation of Ainu territories, and not long after this in Japanese writings. One N. Holmes responds to Darwin's writings on the Ainu, with reference to the contradictions and anxieties present in European race theory:

It is forcibly argued by Mr. Darwin that the earliest semi-human tribes were both bearded and hairy, and that their successors, in the course of time, by sexual selection, became more and more naked and beardless. Whatever the cause, the fact seems to be so, generally, with all the colored races to the present time. In this characteristic, the red Indians share with the Mongolian and Malayan populations. At the same time, they exhibit such well-marked differences in color, in the high nose, in the forms of the skull, and other peculiarities, as to distinguish them now from all other races of men. And this fact would certainly argue a separation from them for an immense length of time, if not an occupation of this continent since the beginning of the Pliocene period. Except the Ainos (most probably an isolated survival form a very ancient origin), the white race is said to be the most bearded and hairy of all. The suggestion of Mr. Darwin, that this character is due to a later reversion toward a primitive characteristic in the semi-human progenitors of all, is at least not inconsistent with the theory here maintained, viz., that the white race and color received its distinctive development from approximate types of darker shades growing lighter and lighter as in the course of migration from lower latitudes and levels they ascended to the fertile valleys of Central Asia; not suddenly, but as the slow effect of climates and conditions (together with inward causes) operating through a geological epoch, in which sexual selection may have continued to have some operation. (pg. 34)

From N. Holmes: "Geological and Geographical Distribution of the Human Race" in "Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Volume 4 (1878-1886)"

Just briefly, for future reference, related to both settler colonialism, race, and agrarianism, Brian Dippie's 1970 book The Vanishing American; Popular Attitudes and American Indian policy in the Nineteenth Century seems to be useful for understanding this topic. 

Similarly W. Arens' 1979 book The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy may be useful in unpacking the relationship between discourses of Ainu primitivity/savagery, and 19th century anthropological assertions that some or all of the Ainu had, at some point in the past, practiced cannibalism.