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0179 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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have come into close contact with the Russians seem to be
deteriorating. Laziness leads to dishonesty, and both tend
to insolence and vulgarity. A change of habits, too, causes
greater uncleanliness, for customs that may be harmless
where a camp is shifted every month or oftener, lead to
filthiness where a kibitka stays for six months or a year in
one place. Change of any kind is always difficult, especially
for people like the Khirghiz, who have adapted them-
selves completely to a type of physiographic conditions so
unusual as those of the Tian Shan plateau.

Not only the outward habits of life, but also certain men-
tal and moral qualities of the Khirghiz are due largely, if
not entirely, to physical environment. We will now take up
one or two among the many subjects where such a relation
does not at first sight appear, although I believe that it
exists. In determining the mental and moral character of
a people, no factor is more important than the position of
women, and the resulting character of the homes in which
the children grow up. If the position, and hence the char-
acter, of women is materially affected by physiographic
environment, it follows that a host of other characteristics
must be indirectly affected through the tremendous agency
of the home and of early training. I freely admit that
religion, heredity, tradition, and perhaps other unknown
factors play an immense part in determining the character
of a race, but these, too, in their origin and growth have
probably been greatly influenced by physical environment.
With that, however, we are not now concerned. It will be
enough to point out certain ways in which the physiography
of the Tian Shan plateau, working through the institutions