. The history of mankind . -. How little the hard pressure of necessity can do to call forth a greater activityin satisfying those demands for shelter and food, which are most imperious wherethe climate is most harsh and the plant and animal world most scanty, is shownby the case of the Fuegians who, incredible as it may sound, build not more, but. Caves of the Bushmen less, than more favourably situated races. So, too, the Tasmanians must be indi-cated as having been the most backward of all Australasians in hut-building. InAustralia itself it is surprising to see how it is just in the warmes
. The history of mankind . -. How little the hard pressure of necessity can do to call forth a greater activityin satisfying those demands for shelter and food, which are most imperious wherethe climate is most harsh and the plant and animal world most scanty, is shownby the case of the Fuegians who, incredible as it may sound, build not more, but. Caves of the Bushmen less, than more favourably situated races. So, too, the Tasmanians must be indi-cated as having been the most backward of all Australasians in hut-building. InAustralia itself it is surprising to see how it is just in the warmest regions thathut-building has made most progress ; while it is most wretched in the coldestparts, where the hut is in fact a protection rather for the fire than for the people.\\ hen we find a similar fact recurring elsewhere, as we do in South America andSouth Africa, it establishes with all the force of an experiment that it is not theschoolmistress need that has most power to compel a progress towards culture,but that it is only in a tranquil development guaranteed by peace and plenty thatthe higher stages, even in the matter of hut and housebuilding, can be reached. What is required above all is continuity. Nomadism strikes deeper than werealise into the lives of even agricultural races. The famous art of constructingdwellings rapidly
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