Psychology Of The Nations

Psychology of The Nations By A. L. KIP Ube fmfcfietbocfeet press mew iorfc 1902 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION vii DIVISIONS OF LAND AND WATER . . . i JAPAN 5 CHINA 8 KOREA AUSTRALIA 20 TASMANIA AND NEW ZEALAND .... 25 THE EAST INDIES 27 INDO-CHINA 34 INDIA 39 AFGHANISTAN AND BALUCHISTAN ... 47 PERSIA x ARMENIA AND MESOPOTAMIA .... 54 ARABIA 60 PALESTINE 63 SINAI AND EDOM 66 SYRIA 68 ASIA MINOR 71 RUSSIA AND SIBERIA 74 NORWAY AND SWEDEN 81 DENMARK AND ICELAND 84 iii iv Contents PAGE GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND .... 87 FRANCE 9 BELGIUM 103 NETHERLANDS 105 GERMANY 108 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 114 SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 118 ITALY 122 SWITZERLAND 126 GREECE 128 TURKEY 133 EGYPT 136 THE EASTERN SUDAN 143 TRIPOLI 148 ALGERIA AND TUNISIA 149 MOROCCO 152 THE SAHARA 154 SENEGAMBIA 156 GUINEA 159 FRENCH CONGO AND KAMERUN . . . .162 CONGO FREE STATE 166 GERMAN EAST AFRICA . . . ., . 168 PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA AND BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA j t THE TRANSVAAL AND THE ORANGE STATE f 173 CAPE COLONY 174 GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA AND BECHUANA LAND i ANGOLA, T Contents PAGE UNITED STATES 179 CANADA 186 MEXICO 190 GUATEMALA AND BRITISH HONDURAS . . 192 HONDURAS AND SALVADOR 195 NICARAGUA 197 COSTA RICA . 199 ISTHMUS OF PANAMA . . ., .201 COLOMBIA ........ 203 VENEZUELA . 205 GUIANA 207 BRAZIL . 210 BOLIVIA . 213 PARAGUAY 215 URUGUAY .... 217 ARGENTINA 218 CHILE 220 PERU . 221 ECUADOR . 223 THE POLAR REGIONS ., . . .225 OCEANICA 226 CONCLUSION 230 INTRODUCTION IT is well known that every nation is differ ent from all the others and the question therefore arises, What is the central and causal national difference, from which all the minor differences flow as consequent effects These respective variations cause a nation to developsome one emotional or intellectual faculty more highly and preponderatingly than any other nation but what is this particular, idio syncratic faculty It is the aim of the present book to solve these problems of national psychology. It is generally acknowledged that natural environment is the determining factor in the production of both the bodily and the mental condition of a people who dwell continuously in any one place. A knowledge of the corre spondence of a country is consequently neces sary to explain the character of its inhabitants viii Introduction and therefore this volume is practically a book of geographical correspondences. Aside from the elements of racial characteristics, Social conditions, and historical eras, all the primary and distinctive traits of a people are referable to the influence of their country as a geo graphical division and while the correspon dence of a land remains the same whether inhabited or uninhabited, still the organized units of the international political fabric are an index of the constituent working of the faculties of the mind. While many of the theories advanced in these pages may seem novel, and even strange, if they agree with all the important facts in the case they are as worthy of credence as any of the accepted scientific theories. It is be lieved that the ideas presented will be found not only to explain all the essential facts in regard to the countries discussed, but also to constitute the only satisfactory basis for an understanding of the real character of the different peoples of the globe, as well as of their relative position and usefulness in the great organism of the whole. Historical geography, with its expansions andcontractions of territory and its changes in the population and prosperity of tracts of Introduction ix country, presents an accurate picture of the varying mental phases in the whole lifetime of the race and the individual and in the rec ords of history and historical geography the enlightened observer can readily trace the processes of evolutionary pyschology in human growth. The present extent of the several countries of the globe is typical of the exact constitution of the different faculties of the mind of the race at its present stage of de velopment...