Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . 712 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. table shrinkage of the muscular parts ofall animals. Man subsisting on such afood will become assiduous in his ap-plication, even persistent in his may be lithe and active, supple-jointed and quick in movement, but hewill be essentially weak in his skeletonand muscular structure. Here we have the fundamental condi-tions which have divided the Aryan raceThe Hindu body in India from the Iran
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . 712 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. table shrinkage of the muscular parts ofall animals. Man subsisting on such afood will become assiduous in his ap-plication, even persistent in his may be lithe and active, supple-jointed and quick in movement, but hewill be essentially weak in his skeletonand muscular structure. Here we have the fundamental condi-tions which have divided the Aryan raceThe Hindu body in India from the Iraniansthe result of the ^ from the great races long discipline ° of nature. of the Wcst. The Hindu body is the result of a long discipline in. HINDU JEWELER AT WORK,Drawn by A. de Neuville. the hands of nature. It has been con-stituted under the enervating influencesof a semitropical or wholly tropical cli-mate, combined with the results of thesubstitution of the carbohydrates for thehydrocarbons and nitrogenous foods ofthe great northern peoples. As the man is individually, so is histribe, his nation, his race. Same laws hold . . ^ of the race as of India IS not wanting m thethe man. display of activc and per- sistent industry, but the industry it-self is as feeble as it is persistent. The tremendous energies displayed by someof the Western nations in their mas-terful struggle with an adverse envi-ronment in subordinating the forces ofnature, in organizing the astounding ap-paratus of commerce, in planting politicaldominion even at the distance of thou-sands of miles from its central source,are set in vivid and exalted contrastwith the timid and effeminate exer-tions peculiar to the same stock ofmen as they have grown int
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