I think I might be repeating myself, but hey, with over 31,000 posts (over 1,000 times the number of flavors at Baskin-Robbins), I am entitled to do so. What I’m referring to is this 130 year old school text from my bookshelf, which was a highly-esteemed science guide for the young men and women of Britain in the late 19th century. You will note that it was the recipient of the highest honor at the Chicago Exhibition and Educational Congress of 1893.
As the students learned about the world’s climate and geography, it started to go into a, shall we say, interdisciplinary topic of how climate affects national character.
I think you can see where this is going.
Two things to emphasize here: first, I’m sure it’s not necessary to mention I am not promoting these points of view by sharing them here, and second, the above isn’t a pamphlet handed out by the Klan. It’s a respected, widely-distributed science book from the United Kingdom.
At any given moment in a person’s life, most people figure they know what’s true and what isn’t, and at any given moment in a culture’s life, it figures it finally has things figured out, unlike the poor saps who lived a hundred years ago. But neither the persons nor the cultures have ever been correct about those assumptions. And neither are we.
