Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization, considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history / by Robert Verity.

  • Verity, Robert.
Date:
1839
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    cause of the superior civilization—a point of view not yet sufficiently appreciated. CHAPTER X. ISOLATION OF RACES UNFAVOURABLE TO DEVELOPMENT. But where the physiological and moral ele- ments of these different races have entered into partial and unequal combinations—where the races have remained pure and in too unmixed a condition, we shall observe the resulting com- pounds more faulty, and of too special and narrow a kind; many of the civilizing principles of human society will be wanting. The national activity, in consequence, will have a limited and monotonous character; civilization and progres- sion will be weakly and insufficiently elaborated, those of Scotch and English extraction, as fully exemplified in the difference of social progress made by the Southern and Northern populations of the island. In France, also, where there took place a copious intermixture of the Frank and Germanic races with the old inhabitants, as in its northern provinces, the intelligence, the physiological value, and social condition of the population is much higher than in those parts where the Celtic races have remained pure and unmixed, as in Brittany, and many departments included between the Loire and the Rhone.