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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: of the other, but the other by no means always accompanies the one.
So much for the cause; now for the effect which we might expect to
find if our diagnosis be correct.
If the evolving force be less active in one race than in another,
three relative results should follow. In the first place, the race
in question will at any given moment be less advanced than its
fellow; secondly, its rate of progress will be less rapid; and
lastly, its individual members will all be nearer together, just as
a stream, in falling from a cliff, starts one compact mass, then
gradually increasing in speed, divides into drops, which, growing
finer and finer and farther and farther apart, descend at last as
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