Though consequent enough upon a want of initiative, the results of this trait appear anything but natural to people of a more progressive past.

The proverbial collar and pair of spurs look none the less odd to the stranger for being a mental instead of a bodily habit.

Something akin to such a case of unnatural selection has there taken place.

The orderly procedure of natural evolution was disastrously supplemented by man.

For the fact that in the growth of their tree of knowledge the branches developed out of all proportion to the trunk is due to a practice of culture-grafting.
From before the time when they began to leave records of their actions the Japanese have been a nation of importers, not of merchandise, but of ideas.