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I SEE by your review of the National in the last number of NATURE, p. 162, that Prof. G. W. Prothero, in his “Address on History,” takes occasion to notice Buckle's “History of Civilisation.” “Buckle,” he says, “in illustrating his theory that national character depends largely upon food, attributes the weakness of the Hindoos to an almost exclusive diet of rice. A striking but misleading generalisation, for, as Sir H. Maine has pointed out, the great majority of Hindoos never eat rice at all” Buckle, however, never said anything of the kind; and since no author wrote more clearly than he did, it is evident that the Professor, like many before him, has not taken this extract at first hand.
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HUTH, A. Science and History. Nature 51, 176 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051176b0
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