Q2. What is the climate for purely physical health?
The authors have seen that a mean temperature of 64°, a mean humidity of about 80 per cent, and frequent changes of temperature are the most desirable conditions for purely physical health.
Q3. What is the striking production of art and architecture in mediaeval Italy?
In mediaeval Italy, as in ancient Greece, Egypt, Rome, Syria, and Yucatan, the most striking productions of art and architecture usually represented the flowering of forces which had been in action for some time.
Q4. How many days would it take to get out a year's daily record?
With' the counting machines that are now used in large cities it would take a clerk only three or four days to get out a year's daily record even in New York.
Q5. Why should the Allies strive the more mightily to help Germany to set her house in order?
Because the Germans are so strong and live in such a wonderfully favorable environment, the Allies should strive the more mightily to help Germany to set her house in order.
Q6. What are the reasons for the relative shortness of the Jews?
indoor occupations such as tailoring, and life in villages instead of on farms are quite enough to account for the relative shortness of the Jews.
Q7. What was the effect of the changes in the size and variety of plants?
These changes were accompanied by a general reduction in the size and variety of the plants, and by a tendency for them to become hardier and to have thicker and less ornate leaves.
Q8. What is the reason the Jews intermarried with other races?
Later the Jews intermarried somewhat with other races in the early days of the Christian era, and also received some converts who werepresumably more or less blond.
Q9. What would happen if the farmer took much of his surplus to the warehouse?
As soon as the crop was harvested and the fallTHE PROBLEM OF TURKEY 225 work was over, the farmer would take much of his surplus to the warehouse.
Q10. What would the Romans do to gain more of the qualities that the authors associate with tropical countries?
The Romans would tend to acquire more of the qualities that the authors associate with tropical countries and to lose those that the authors associate with cool and variablecountries such as Scotland, Norway, and Canada.
Q11. What is the advantage of the fishes which could crawl to new pools?
those fish which could crawl to new pools also had a great advantage, for when a stream became low they could move down its bed from their own diminished pool to a larger one.
Q12. What is the reason why the pulsations of the past were caused by the sun?
It seems equally probable that while the slower climatic pulsations of the past may have been due to changes in the altitude of continents and mountains, the more rapid and marked pulsations were due to the sun.
Q13. How many deaths were there when the temperature rose rapidly?
This means that there were only sixty deaths when the temperature fell most rapidly, while there were 117, or nearly twice as many, when it rose most rapidly.
Q14. What is the way to understand the conditions under which man's mind evolved rapidly?
the best road to an understanding of the conditions under which man's mind evolved most rapidly would seem to be to inquire into the present relation of the sun and the earth, and to see what would happen if the present effects were magnified.