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0443 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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important aspect of the subject is found in the influence
which physiographic environment exerts upon human char-
acter. We have seen that the plateaus and deserts of Cen-
tral Asia entail upon the Khirghiz the nomadic life, and this
accentuates certain characteristics, such as hardihood, hos-
pitality, laziness, morality, and family affection. The oases
of the basin floors, on the other hand, cause the Chantos to
practice intensive agriculture; and the sheltered easy life,
thus made possible, seems to induce weakness of will, cow-
ardice, immorality, and the weakening of those ties between
parents and children which lead to careful training of the
growing generation. Doubtless religion and other causes
play an important part, but still there remains much of the
character of the Chantos and Khirghiz which owes its origin
more or less directly to physical conditions. This is probably
true of all races. Not that a single individual's character
in a civilized community is directly influenced to so great
an extent by the inorganic world around him. He inherits,
or receives through the training of others, most of what he is.
Nevertheless, inheritance is merely the summation of past
training: the training of the average man is strictly in ac-
cordance with the social order in which he is born; and the
social order owes much of its character to the sea, the plains,
the forest, the mountains, or the factory river, by which the
occupation of the majority of the people is determined.
Those who belong to the so-called upper classes of society
are apt to forget that the average man is limited by physio-
graphic conditions much more closely than they; and the
limitations become closer the farther back we go toward
the savage state. When all this is considered, it becomes