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Title: What about ideas?
Review: It seems as though the placement of rocks and trees must have prevented many cultures from having their Leonardo, Smith, de Tocqueville, Jefferson, Michaelangelo, Shakespeare, Aristotle, Madison, Raphael, van Mises, Hayek, Einstein, and van der Rohe. I suppose the civilization-altering ideas of these men are not the products of genius, but, rather, the inevitable product of the earth. As if springing up from a volacano, the ideas that transformed the world (observation and reality over fantasy, capitalism, etc.) and gave some cultures clear and indisputable superiority over other cultures had little to do with the people, but only in their placement on the earth. A neat argument for someone who needs a "white Europeans just got lucky" speech.
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