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Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
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The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
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Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.
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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.
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The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
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It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.
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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.
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The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
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The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.
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Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.
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From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
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We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
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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.
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