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Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.
Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
Curiously enough man’s body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.
Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature’s stern urgency.
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth’s skeleton.
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
America is the last great goal of these migrations.
The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.
