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0462 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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have fallen to-day. The nations of cool, moist regions were
barbarous and weak in the past, but have risen to power to-
day. And those such as Greece and Spain, and perhaps
Italy, occupying regions between the two extremes, hold in-
termediate positions in civilization; they are behind the cool,
moist countries of Switzerland, England, and Germany, they
are ahead of the arid lands of Persia, Arabia, and Algeria.

It has often been said that civilization has advanced from
east to west: it would be truer to say that it has advanced
from south to north. In the Old World, the earliest coun-
tries to enjoy a high state of development were Egypt and
Babylonia, situated about thirty degrees north of the equa-
tor. Next Persia rose to prominence, not much farther
north, to be sure, but located at a higher elevation, where
the climate was cooler. About the same time, Syria, Greece,
and Carthage, lying between thirty-five and forty degrees
of latitude, became dominant powers. The next step was
roughly five degrees farther north, to Rome. After the fall
of the Roman Empire, there was for a few centuries no
nation worthy to be called a world power. Then, when the
Dark Ages passed away, France, Austria, and the states
of southern Germany, all of which lie between forty-five
and fifty degrees from the equator, took up the traditions
of Rome. Finally, during modern times, the northern na-
tions of England, Prussia, and Russia have risen to places
of power. In America, there has been a somewhat similar
progress from south to north. First, at the beginning of the
Christian era, Yucatan, in latitude twenty, became highly
civilized; then in the Middle Ages, Mexico and the Aztecs,
five degrees farther north; and to-day the United States and