Where nature shows the rough hand, the sons of men are apt to respond with kindred roughness.

The amenities of life spring up only in mellow lands, where the sun is warm and the earth fat.

The damp and soggy climate of Britain drives men to strong drink; the rosy Orient lures to the dream splendors of the lotus.

The big-bodied, white-skinned northern dweller, rude and ferocious, bellows his anger uncouthly and drives a gross fist into the face of his foe.

The supple south-sojourner, silken of smile and lazy of gesture, waits, and does his work from behind, when no man looketh, gracefully and without offence.