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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."

"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects."
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