Capitolo 21
existence is only preserved necessarily incessant from jobs and to
severe disparity; a world out of what everything the more noble and more beautiful
living creatures have mercilessly been pressed; a world where nothing
great you/he/she has been or you/he/she can be; a world condemned by his/her physical lake
the conditions to eternal poverty, uneasiness and bleakness. For green
fields he has snow and musk of reindeer: to sing birds and flowers,
the ptarmigan and the tundra. As him never form some adaptation
the conception of the glory of the life--of the means from that the animal and
vegetable organisms first they grew and did they bloom? As him the frame to
him some reasonable portrait of civilized society, or of the origin
and development of human faculty and human organisation?
Rather the same, although clearly in a degree extremely mitigated, it is
the disadvantages under which he/she works the moderate and pure education,
when it compared with the education unconsciously drunk in to every attentively reads
from an intelligent mind in tropical climates. It is to fully understand
this instructive and pregnant importance of the Tropics that we have to consider
with us as great a part tropical conditions have borne in the
development of the life in general, and of the human life and society in
particular.
The Tropics, we have to attentively remember, it is the norms of nature: the
things of way are above all and they have always been. They represents to us the
the condition common of the whole world during of big long the greatest part of
his/her whole existence. Not only it is them anchor in the most severe sense
the biological head-quarters: they is also the standard or central
typists from that we have to explain the whole rest of nature, both in man and
beast, in plant and animal.
The moderates and arctic worlds, on the other hand it is a lake passing
accident in the history of our planet: a development of hole-and-angle; a
special result of the great Glacial epoch, and of that enormous slow