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A Systematic View of the Formation, Discipline, and Economy of Armies
A Systematic View of the Formation Discipline and Economy of Armies Author:Robert Jackson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: after a given rule, to the operation of corresponding causes, in the collective body, as in the individual. SECTION III. Locality, BESIDES the differences... more »!, now stated, as attaching to mankind from the distinction of race, the excess or defect of the animating principle of heat, connected with latitude of climate, there are found to exist other varieties or shades of difference and resemblance, according to locality; that is, according to Lo the specific qualities of soil and situation, under the same, or nearly the same, parallels of latitude. The chief divisions relate to atmosphere, as wet or dry; to a soil, fertile or barren; to an aspect of country, champaign, hilly, or mountainous. The effect of these different qualities of air, soil and situation is strongly manifested in the vegetable production; it extends to the brute animal; and the influence is felt even in man. In champaign countries, of a rich soil and moist atmosphere, cl the animal production, whether man or beast, attains the full an limits of its natural growth. The human race, in such places, is usually tall and straight in figure; the muscular or fleshy parts large, but frequently flaccid, with a tendency to favour the deposition of fat, which, filling up the interstices between the muscles, even covering their surfaces deeply, robs the countenance of expression of character, and animal movement of dignity and grace. The body possesses force; but it is a brute force, connected with weight; bodily action is not energetic, and mental operation, though correct, is generally slow. Where Dry and barren. tamous. Effect of loca- man attains maturity, in this manner, under the action of causes of little comparative variety, the impression or routine of animal movement has necessarily a correspondi...« less