68 MAN : 



is cast, is, like most moulds, a mineral one — tlie soil 

 and its properties ; and tlie power which melts the 

 metal, and shapes it to the mould, is the mfluence of 

 temperature, whether it he a man cast by God, or a 

 spoon cast by man. The sun and the earth, climate 

 and soil, are the great ethnogenitors." What but 

 the influence of new conditions that has developed 

 the Yankee form, features, and habits from the old 

 Anglo-Saxon stock of Western Europe? and what 

 but the same cause that within three or four genera- 

 tions has begun to stamp new features on the British 

 Australian'! What but different geographical posi- 

 tions that evolved the Welsh, the Scotch, and the 

 Irish Celt from the original Celtic stock of the East t 

 and what but the same power, acting through untold 

 ages, and concomitantly with the principle of ascen- 

 sive, development in time, that has stamped the still 

 broader characteristics of Caucasian, Mongolian, and 

 Malay? We say concomitantly with the principh of 

 ascensive development in time, for it must never be for- 

 gotten that external conditions are but secondary 

 factors, and that there is a higher law overruling the 

 appearance of life in time than that which determines 

 its distribution in space. 



- So far then as geographical conditions are con- 

 cerned, man enjoys no immunity from their influence 

 any more than other species, and if he has a wider 



