Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

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

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.

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.

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.

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