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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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beast-stage, or lowest man-stage up to its present
condition. Assuming a tropical, sea-level condi-
tion as that best suited for first development, it
may fairly be concluded that the inhabitants of
relatively high altitudes and high latitudes have
passed through a relatively wide range of ancestral
experiences, and hence carry with them to their
modern and difficult seats an average temperament
resulting from widely varied influences. Thus, in
the most central marrow of his bones, in the most
hidden promptings of his soul, the Tibetan may be
urged by secret influence from the sun-heated slime
of the Euphrates delta, from the salty breath of
Aral plains, from the freezing winds of Siberian
forest, from the heavy exhalation of Indian jungle.
However composite he may have been when first
he wrestled with niggard nature in the Tsang-po
valley and its even less hospitable neighbour-lands,
he has, since that time, been singularly free from
miscegenation, and has had time to develop a type
strongly marked by the very special conditions
which surround him. A similar isolation may be
noted of peoples in the far north, of the Arab in
his inaccessible deserts, of the Abyssinian in the
northern part of his high plateau, of the Chinaman
in the core of his valley empire, of the African pig-
my in his undesired forests.
Unique physical features have, in each case, de-
veloped unique human traits, which shall be found
ineradicable within periods of ordinary historical
view. The process of "benevolent assimilation"
may then wisely be restricted to the control of
external relations and the introduction, slowly, of
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