Show CLIMATE AND Ciu nACTER observe the inhabitant of german switzerland I 1 everything is neat about his dwelling liia his wells and springs s are arc clean his stock of fodder und and mancie substantial his hia garden hiim the spirit of order lie canice with him into the administration of his family and into the public affairs of the village the cultivators tiva tors and laboi labo eis icis of the south of europe on oil the other hand never subject themselves to fixed rule in the winter even the washerwoman pursues her avocations by night as well as by day these people of the south fictile within their houses only for slumber which they take it at tile the odd houis suiting them best thus to the man of the south his house is never in an indispensable thing for lie can exist comfortably wherever he finds the sun suit a tiec and a spot unmolested by an ail enemy but to vanquish the man of the north it is only necessary to obtain possession of his dwelling in the south richness of soil and a fine climate makes the inhabitant not only wealthy in various products but he has also jeisme to bestow on their cultivation ti in the coith a narion variety and a climate which antei diets during the months of winter prevent the inhabitant of that eliat legion 0 from devoting himself to agricultural I 1 labor for much of the time that the southern man gives to it it is evident then says our author that the system of in the north gives to the homebound roan man leisure lor for thinking and famois the growth of the intellect and the propagation of ideas while in ill the south bicad sunshine and the senses in constant activity send thoughts out into the of realities and objective beauties to the furuie is a re mat kable ti ait in the southern chaine ter how can call pic caution be gen gonei el abed in a climate producing a harvet harvest almost every month in the year it is is as true today to day as when the author wrote that throughout italy for instance it is customary to consume the whole days provision even in hote botelis 1 and well families such a thi tiling ig as laying in a stock of any at ai tide is almost unknown literally from hand to mouth is the manner of life in the north on the other side the necessities of life and the manner of providing for them are as far apart as if sc separated prated by an immense abyss during the season when the fountains of nature at c scaled bythe the cold win winter ter accordingly theitis is for the man of the north a season consecrated to forethought and reflection the necessities of life stimulate his thinking faculties unties lie ho must construct houses for protection against the season of famine tile in tile south continual crops tile the unfading luxuriance of foliage and flowers and her over bountiful present keep out of mind and wit out of sight 0 the future A thirst for vengeance is also a pio eminent trait of the southern character as distinguished from that of tile the not coith th especially amon among the inferior classes vengeance is is a passion peculiar to people i tiled by the imagination tile the habit of being constantly f face tee to faco face with external objects without any compensating pen sating 0 of tile thoughts alts wi within thill gives tile a prodigious conti cont control iol ol 01 and consequently the passions which they call out the self control of in an instable ini table in ill the north is such that in duels arnon among the norwegians Norwegia ns tor for instance knife blades of only a certain length were used and each combatant held liis his weapon so as to inflict indict no deeper wound than that which the stipulated measurement of liis his blade would allow it is said that no instances were known of this to ic galation gu lation having been violated even in tho the heat of contest perpetual ie ic sent sentiment ment is moreover a distinguishing mark of the southern charac character tc memory but resuscitates our experiences the remembered things odthe of alie imagination ate aie stamped with passion and while a man of the north drawing his feelings through his reason becomes gradually quiet in thinking in 0 of the object of his rage thus Thu time which calms down the man of reflection does docs but furnish fuel to the man mail of imagination Z tile the man mail of the north turns his thoughts within himself and reflects the man of the south opens his whole soul and body to the external and tells the man mail of the south will sooner attain a higher degree of civilization than the man mail of the north but the latter advancing slowly fixes him himself selfon on sure principles of reason leason tile tho man mail of the north neglecting his education degenerates faster than the man of the south for the latter lias has always the education of the outer and of the passions in tile south chiv civilization ebbs and flows rapidly that of tile the foith based on principle plin ciple is slower blower in its march infinite in in its flight M 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