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Ellsworth Huntington
American
Educator
Born:
Sep 16
,
1876
Died:
Oct 17
,
1947
America
Any
Been
Great
Home
Man
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We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington
Love
Nature
Learning
Beauty
Too
Healers
Greatest
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
Ellsworth Huntington
Beginning
Back
Characteristic
Must
Environment
Go
Source
Very
Any
Human
Race
Uniform
Human Race
Widespread
Adaptation
Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.
Ellsworth Huntington
Man
Strong
Other
Waxed
Way
Circumstances
Only
Through
He
Adverse
Most
Sure
Passed
Survived
America
Again
Certain
Many
Zone
The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.
Ellsworth Huntington
Home
Man
Evidence
Has-Been
General
Points
Outward
Inward
Been
Human
Movement
Central
Region
Asia
Migration
Original
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
Ellsworth Huntington
Great
Rapidly
Variations
Point
Because
Becoming
Climate
Spread
Mammals
Central
Asian
Convinced
Origin
Largely
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.
Ellsworth Huntington
Today
Past
Relation
Earth
Favor
Evolution
Rapid
Poles
Conditions
Than
Form
In The Past
Less
Preserve
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
Ellsworth Huntington
People
Mountains
Guide
Although
Greatest
May
Dwell
Where
Regions
Plains
Migration
Numbers
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.
Ellsworth Huntington
Man
Soil
Mountains
Other
Easy
Blessings
Passage
Metals
Climate
Stimulating
Rocks
Fertile
Iron
Plains
Across
Coal
Shower
Level
The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
Ellsworth Huntington
Three
Aboriginal
Columbia
Chief
America
Centers
Coast
British
British Columbia
The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
Ellsworth Huntington
Animal
Stupid
Buffalo
Surprisingly
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
Ellsworth Huntington
History
Man
Record
Environment
Another
Migration
Aspect
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.
Ellsworth Huntington
Life
Winter
Impossible
Made
Easier
Respects
Almost
Abundance
Sort
Dry
Although
West
Any
Regions
Plains
Much
Farming
Farther
Many
Many Respects
Rains
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.
Ellsworth Huntington
Journey
Made
Thirty
Hundred
States
Part
Takes
Days
Any
Turkey
Miles
Many
United
United States
Four
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
Ellsworth Huntington
Scale
Has-Been
Tested
However
Been
Extensive
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