Nowhere does the ancient doctrine--that differences or similarities in the various forms of life that inhabit different countries are due to corresponding physical differences or similarities in the countries themselves--meet with so direct and palpable a contradiction.
Bagehot critiques the ancient doctrine linking life forms to physical geography, citing contradictions.
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