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0046 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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lower, has less rainfall, and bears only a sparse growth of
grass in the early spring, we at once bring in the element
of relation between the organic and the inorganic, and the
study becomes geography. For the purposes of geography, it
is only necessary to understand enough of the plateau, the
plain, and the grass to gain a clear conception of how the
one acts on the other. If animals inhabit the country, they
must be such as can live on grass, or can prey on their grass-
eating companions. Further, if the plain is waterless in
summer, and the plateau is deeply buried in snow in winter,
the animals must perforce migrate, and a new geographic
factor is introduced. When man enters the region, he finds
it too dry in one part and too cold in another for agricul-
ture. Hence he must live upon animals, either as a hunter,
or, when the population becomes a little denser and the wild
animals diminish in number, as a shepherd. In either case
he must wander from place to place. Such a nomadic life
induces certain habits as to cleanliness, eating, traveling,
sleeping, working, resting, and the like. The habits in
turn develop certain moral qualities, such as gluttony al-
ternating with abstemiousness, hardihood under physical
difficulties, laziness, hospitality, and others. Thus the phy-
sical features of the region give rise to certain kinds of
vegetation, which in turn determine the species and move-
ments of animals, and so cause man to adopt the nomadic
life. And man, because he happens to be a pastoral nomad,
develops certain habits, physical, mental, and moral,
which, taken together, constitute character. Geography,
it seems to me, cannot logically be content, as many geo-
graphers would have it, with the mere description of physi-