. Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations, and their physical conditions : delivered at the Alexandra College . graphical peculiarities of Greece—Their consequences—The Greeks not a primitivepeople . . • • .176 CHAPTER Greeks—Homeric Society.—Their language—primitiveness—Traces of older history— The shieldof Achilles—Analysis of the pictures—Hospitality-Humanity—Comparison with the Malays . .201 Table of Co?ite?7ts. xi CHAPTER —Damp and dry forests—Forest gods—Forestpreservation by the Germans—Game laws—Descrip-tion of the German forest tribes—Low condition ofprimitive man
. Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations, and their physical conditions : delivered at the Alexandra College . graphical peculiarities of Greece—Their consequences—The Greeks not a primitivepeople . . • • .176 CHAPTER Greeks—Homeric Society.—Their language—primitiveness—Traces of older history— The shieldof Achilles—Analysis of the pictures—Hospitality-Humanity—Comparison with the Malays . .201 Table of Co?ite?7ts. xi CHAPTER —Damp and dry forests—Forest gods—Forestpreservation by the Germans—Game laws—Descrip-tion of the German forest tribes—Low condition ofprimitive man ..... 223 CHAPTER — Importance of their direction—Arme-nian Mountains—Alps—Gloom of the peasantry—Mr. Ruskins explanation—Political effects—Beauty 246 LECTURE of Colonization.—Great examples inAmerica—First method in California—Its history—.Second method at Utah—Its history—Summary—Permanent effects of race—Fixed types of counte-nance—Geography as an aid—as a hindrance—Ver-dict of Physiology—Results . . 266. PREFACEtwelvelectureson00maha
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