to the
segregation of the feeble-minded?
30. Why does a segregated group, like the feeble-minded, become an
isolated group?
31. What are other illustrations of isolation resulting from
segregation?
32. How would you compare Europe with the other continents with
reference to number and distribution of isolated areas?
33. What do you understand to be the nature of the influence of the
cradle land upon "the historical race"?
34. What illustrations from the Great War would you give of the effects
(a) of central location; (b) of peripheral location?
35. How do you explain the contrast between the characteristics of the
inhabitants of the Grecian inland and maritime cities?
36. To what extent may (a) the rise of the Greek city state, (b)
Grecian intellectual development, and (c) the history of Greece, be
interpreted in terms of geographic isolation?
37. To what extent can you explain the cultural retardation of Africa,
as compared with European progress, by isolation?
38. Does race or isolation explain more adequately the following
cultural differences for the several areas of France--divorce, intensity
of suicide, distribution of awards, relative frequency of men of
letters?
39. What is the relation of village and city emigration and immigration
to isolation?
40. What is the difference between a natural and a vicinal location?
41. In what ways does isolation affect national development?
42. What is the relation of geographical position in area to
literature?
FOOTNOTES:
[94] J. Arthur Thomson, _Heredity_, pp. 536-37. (G. P. Putnam's Sons,
1908.)
[95] From Francis Bacon, _Essays_, "Of Friendship."
[96] Adapted from Jean Jacques Rousseau, _Letter to the President de
Malesherbes, 1762_.
[97] Adapted from George Albert Coe, _The Psychology of Religion_, pp.
311-18. (The University of Chicago Press, 1917.)
[98] From T. Sharper Knowlson, _Originality_, pp. 173-75. (T. Werner
Laurie, 1918.)
[99] From Maurice H. Small, "On Some Psychical Relations of Society and
Solitude," in the _Pedagogical Seminary_, VII, No. 2 (1900), 32-36.
[100] _Anthropological Review_, I (London, 1863), 21 ff.
[101] _All the Year_, XVIII, 302 ff.
[102] _Chambers' Journal_, LIX, 579 ff.
[103] _The Penny Magazine_, II, 113.
[104] Wagner, _Beitragen zur philosophischen Anthropologie_; Rauber, pp.
49-55.
[105] "Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage trouvee dans les bois a l'age
de dix ans," _Magazin der
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