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exception in Asiatic countries. The love of truth for truth's 

 sake is not a 'general human characteristic, but one of tin- 

 exceptional traits of the modern European mind, developed 

 slowly by many causes, chiefly by those of habits of accuracy, 

 which physical science does so much to foster. Outside 

 Europe and her colonies, it is easy to manipulate records, 

 because such manipulation shocks no one deeply, because the 

 people are told nothing about the matter, and because, even 

 if they were told, they have neither the means nor the inclina- 

 tion to be critical." 1 Siebold places the home in Japan,- but 

 Rein- 1 speaks unhesitatingly against a Japanese origin. Maize 

 is not used largely as a food in Japan, and but two varieties 

 are known there. The Japanese name (to-morakoshi or nau- 

 bau-kibi, grain of the southern barbarians, Portuguese or 

 Spaniard) clearly indicates a foreign origin. 



All these arguments come to naught when thoroughly 

 sifted, and do not in the least militate against the American 

 origin of maize. 



1 Chamberlain, Things Japanese, 164. 



2 Siebold, Verhandl. Hatav. Genotsch, XII. 



; Rein, Petermann's Geogr. Mittheil, 1S7S, 215-17. 



