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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.

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.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

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.

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

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.

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.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

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.

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.

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.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

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.

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

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