A tripartite classification in which varieties of this phenomenon correspond to the Phrygian, Doric, and Lydian modes appears in the Method for the Easy Comprehension of History by Jean Bodin. Politics are compared to a “smooth file” in a chapter on this phenomenon, which reports on the examination of a sheep’s tongue with shrunken papillae. The Comte de Buffon theorized that “New (*) World (-5[1])degeneracy” was caused by this phenomenon. A treatise declaring that “the state (10[1])of slavery (10[1])is in its (10[1])own nature bad” (10[1])claims that slavery can only be justified by the laziness induced by this (10[1])phenomenon, (10[7])which causes different countries to adopt monarchical, (10[2])republican, and despotic governments. For 10 points, the Baron de Montesquieu’s (10[1])Spirit of the Laws attributes differences in national character to what meteorological factor? ■END■ (10[3])