History In Its Broadest Aspect Is A

With Every Throb Of The Climatic Pulse Which We Have Felt In Central Asia,, The Centre Of Civilisation Has Moved This Way And That. Each Throb Has Sent Pain And Decay To The Lands Whose Day Was Done, Life And Vigour To Those Whose Day Was Yet To Be.

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.

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.

Except On Their Southern Borders The Great Northern Forests Are Not Good As A Permanent Home For Man.

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.