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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
"I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was."
"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
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"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."
"Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential."
"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."
"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."
"Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution."
"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."
"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."
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