AtD translation: This was spirit, after all.

[Joseph Tracy]

One of the words for people who are feisty and resistant to being bullied is ”spirited”.  Does that answer your question?
> On Apr 10, 2018, at 2:00 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> P172.26-32   Did something, something essential, happen to human
> personality above a certain removal from sea level? Many quoted Dr.
> Lombroso’s observation about how lowland folks tended to be placid and
> law-abiding while mountain country bred revolutionaries and outlaws. That
> was over in Italy, of course. Theorizers about the recently discovered
> subconscious mind, reluctant to leave out any variable that might seem
> helpful, couldn’t avoid the altitude, and the barometric pressure that went
> with it. This was spirit, after all.
> 
> What is being implied by the last sentence?
> 
> P.S.
> I've been working on a translation of Solaris for about a month. There's
> another book coming up as well, but I'll try to squeeze in some work on AtD
> whenever I can.
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