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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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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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The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
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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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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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Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
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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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In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
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It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.
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From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
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Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
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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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The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
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