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The English immigrant lives in the same climate as the Australian or Tasmanian, but he has not become like those races; nor will a thousand years, in most respects, make him like them.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The English immigrant lives in the same climate as the Australian or Tasmanian, but he has not become like those races…”
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Bagehot argues that environmental factors do not necessarily change the essence of different races over time.
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