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- "A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of ..."
- "According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a ..."
- "After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window ..."
- "Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other ..."
- "Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the ..."
- "Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest ..."
- "America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. "
- "America is the last great goal of these migrations. "
- "As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants ..."
- "At some time or other, long before the Christian era, a ship belonging to one ..."
- "Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. "
- "Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent ..."
- "Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded ..."
- "For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment ..."
- "From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical ..."
- "Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of ..."
- "History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to ..."
- "In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the ..."
- "In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's ..."
- "In view of the energy of the Norsemen, the traces of their presence in the ..."
- "It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in ..."
- "Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly ..."
- "Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of ..."
- "No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment ..."
- "Numerous tests indicate that in the lower mental powers there is no great difference between ..."
- "Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all ..."
- "The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. "
- "The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America. "
- "The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of ..."
- "The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity. "
- "The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's ..."
- "The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they ..."
- "The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. "
- "There is a scarcity of indications of preglacial man in the New World and an ..."
- "Thus climatic variations are among the most powerful factors in causing natural selection and hence ..."
- "Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different ..."
- "Today the voracious maw of the daily newspaper is eating the spruce and hemlock by ..."
- "Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the ..."
- "We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. "
- "Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours ..."
