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An Introduction to the Study of Modern Geography, With a Chapter on the Geography, With a Chapter on the Geography of the Christian Church
Henry Hopwood
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-21.
ISBN 9781150643019
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1846 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECTION VI. GEOGRAPHY OF MANKIND. 97. Varieties of the Human Race. -- Man appears to be the only creature that is naturally capable of inhabiting all possible varieties of situation and climate on the earth's surface. These, however, react upon him, and produce corresponding varieties in his physical constitution. How different a being is the Esquimaux, who, in his burrow amid northern ices, gorges himself with the blubber of whales, from the spare Numidian, who pursues the lion under a vertical sun ! And how different from these -- the skin- clad fisherman of the icebergs, and the naked hunter of the Sahara -- are, on the one hand, the pampered inmates of Eastern harems; on the other, the energetic and intellectual inhabitants of the cities of Europe! Moral influences concur to widen these differences. " Let us imagine for a moment, " says Dr. Pritchard, "a stranger from another planet to visit our globe, and to contemplate and compare the manners of its inhabitants; and let him first witness some brilliant spectacle in one of the highly-civilized countries of Europe -- the coronation of a monarch -- the installation of a St. Louis on the throne of his ancestors, surrounded by an august assembly of peers, and barons, and mitred abbots, anointed from the cruise of sacred oil brought by an angel to ratify the Divine prerogative of kings. Let the same person be carried into a hamlet in Negroland, at the hour when the sable race recreate themselves with dancingand barbarous music: -- let him then be transported to the saline plains over which bald and tawny Mongoles roam, differing but little in hue from
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