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.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

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.

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

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.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.