presently Great Britain, being reduced to law and order under one crown and livii^ in a condition of isolation and (relar tively) of internal peace, the cultural growth of that country took a relatively peaceable direction. The dominant note of everyday life was industry and trade, not dynastic politics and war. This nar
< Sen Chapter IV. sboTe.
' Cf. Keane, Man, Pent and Preunt, ch. XIV. ; W, Z. Ripley, Raett */Kurope; Lapouge, L'Aryen; MoDWliua, Les tempi prthiitoriq»ie§ tn Sutde, etc. ; AudNas Hansen, Mennakctlitfftetu jElde.
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tional experience gave as its outcome constitutional government and the modern industrial technology, together with the animus and the point of view of the modem materialistic science. The point of departure for the more recent, current situation, therefore, la a twofold one : (1) the British peaceable variant of the Western culture has contributed constitutional methods and natural rights, together with the machine technology brought in under