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0038 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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in part the result of racial characteristics due to past
environments, and in part the result of present geographic
conditions. Climate, the relation of land and sea, the pre-
sence of mountains, the location of trade routes, and the
suitability of a region for agriculture, mining, or manu-
facturing are all potent factors in determining sociological
conditions. The dependence of history upon geography
is equally great. In recent years there has arisen the so-
called "bread and butter school" of historians, who hold
that the deepest cause of historical events is the necessity of
mankind to subsist. The ambition of kings, the hatred of
race for race, the antagonisms of religion, may agitate the
surface and cause the waves which seem to us so porten-
tous; but far down below all these there is the unending
struggle for bread. It is this primarily which makes men
work. It manifests itself in the discontent of the poor
peasants of Russia, in the disputes between labor and capi-
tal in America, and in the bitter cry of the famine-stricken
millions of India and China against the foreigners who
seem to rob them of bread. An increasing supply of food
has made Egypt contented and prosperous during the
last few decades. Scarcity of food, present or prospective,
for its increasing population has brought Japan into con-
flict with Russia, and is bringing it face to face with the
United States in California, where the Japanese coolie is
said to take the bread from the mouth of the native-born
American laborer. According to this view, geography is
clearly the basis of history, for the productivity of a country
depends upon geographic facts, especially upon climate.
In saying that geography is the basis of the anthro-