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

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    certainly possess a population of several millions ; and being highly favoured by natural advantages, will extensively influence by their maritime power, not only the savage and _half-civilized inhabitants of the Indian and Chinese Archi- pelagoes, but the migrating stream, ascending from the Australian colonies, will re-act upon the whole of the Eastern world, and even invade the very territory of China itself. In South Africa, a similar increase of popu- lation, and a similar progressive advance in settling and colonizing within the interior, and along the Eastern coast, is constantly going on; and it is not probable that Aden will long continue to be the only British settlement in the neighbourhood of the Arabian coasts. At present it is impossible to foresee fully the prodigious influence which all these colonies and settlements, belonging to the British races, and almost co-extensive with the globe itself, will mutually exert upon each other. In proportion, however, to their number, their population, their intercourse, and their prosperity, so will this mutual re-action be great, and favourable to each and all. These conditions having hitherto steadily increased, promise well and greatly for the future. | The future re-action upon the mother country of all these millions of British race in the F 2