"It was not until the vile venereal diseases of the white sailors and traders caucasian diseases, the inordinate use of liquor spread among the people that deteroration set in. These and other caucasion diseases, the inordinate use of liquors plentifully supplied by the white man and a variety of other debasing influences undermined the constitution of the people with astonishing speed; thus the primitive Hawaiian, with fine physical and mental traits of the greatest primitive promise, is disappearing, and in a few years will have vanished forever." ~ The Physique of the Ancient Hawaiians, from the August 1917 edition of the 'Scientific Monthly' column 5, #2.