It is true, human opposition would undoubtedly prevent their tilling it, but Nature, at least, would not present quite such constitutional obstacles as she wisely does with us.
The individual's mind is, as it were, an isolated bit of the race mind.
The same set of traits will be found in each.

Mental characteristics there are a sort of common property, of which a certain undifferentiated portion is indiscriminately allotted to every man at birth.

One soul resembles another so much, that in view of the patriarchal system under which they all exist, there seems to the stranger a peculiar appropriateness in so strong a family likeness of mind.

An idea of how little one man's brain differs from his neighbor's may be gathered from the fact, that while a common coolie in Japan spends his spare time in playing a chess twice as complicated as ours, the most advanced philosopher is still on the blissfully ignorant side of the pons asinorum.
We find, then, that in all three points the Far East fulfils what our theory demanded.
There is one more consideration worthy of notice.

We said that the environment had not been the deus ex materia in the matter; but that the soul itself possessed the germ of its own evolution.