Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
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The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.