The New Constitutions of Europe (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The New Constitutions of EuropeConstitutions are at best only the skeletons of bodies politic. But like most skeletons they are of fundamental importance. They determine the height, the solidity, and something concerning the shape, general contour, and functional possibilities of the bodies they support. It re quires the superb imagination oi a Mr. Wells to be fairly certain that, when or years ago the Heidel berg man was in operative possession of his now famous jaw-bone, the sabre-toothed tiger was declining and the lion was spreading over Europe, or to construct a con vincing story of the civilization of the Neanderthal men from the skeleton of a youth who apparently was deliberately interred in a sleeping posture with his head on a number of ¿int fragments. But it requires no osteologist to tell us that living bones are of importance, not only in respect to their articulation one to another but also in respect to the motive forces that govern their activities. An exhibit of skeletons is not devoid of in terest and of instructional potentialities, the veriest lay man can distinguish the frame of a quadruped from that of a biped, or the skull of an ichthyosaurus from that of a man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.