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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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