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0236 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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AT the foundation of Tibetan character there is
probably the Mongol nature; an East Indian
strain has come in from the rough watershed and
flat valleys of the trans-Himalayan world. To meas-
ure the relative value of these ethnic elements is
impossible. Nor is this greatly important in view
of a diminishing confidence in our ability to sharply
define the traits distinguishing those various stems
which constitute the early Eurasian family. The
lessons taught us by embryology indicate that the
differences must be less as we approach the begin-
ning of things, and we look more and more to
long-continued geographical and climatic effects for
explanation of existing divergences.
Even in adopting the highly probable theory of
multiple origins for our race, we are yet bound to
a recognition of the wide range and enormous force
of earth-environment lying between the pole and
the equator, between sea-level plain and mountain-
top, between rain-sodden swamps and arid desert.
So restless has man been, that history records not
a single example of a social body known to have
been subjected to *but one type* of physical environ-
ment during the period of its development from the
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