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

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

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

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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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• No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

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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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• The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

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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 Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

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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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• Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

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Ellsworth Huntington (33)

Birth:	16th September, 1876
Death:	17th October, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Professor, Writer

About

Ellsworth Huntington was born in Galesburg, Illinois, USA. He was a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth and economic geography. He served as President of the Ecological Society of America in 1917, the Association of American Geographers in 1923. He was one of the early twentieth century’s most prolific science writers. He wrote of his Asian experiences in Explorations in Turkestan and The Pulse of Asia. Leader of the Yale expedition to Palestine and Asia, he published Palestine and Its Transformation in 1911. These researches produced several works, including Civilization and Climate, The Human Habitat, and Mainsprings of Civilization. He graduated from Beliot College in 1897. He then studied at Harvard University in Massachisetts for two years.

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