. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . l ^, ^ \ 1 The Eng- ireer growth. Many other peoples soon began to lish rootsplay each its indispensable part in making this of Americancomposite nation. Even in the closing colonialperiod. Frenchman, Dutchman, German, gave us muchof our blood and our thought; and, later still, Norseman,Irishman, and finally Slav and Latin, besides their con-tributions in music and art, have made the sinew of our 1 2 THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA national life. But the forces that have shaped that life —the institution-building forces — were supplied by th
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . l ^, ^ \ 1 The Eng- ireer growth. Many other peoples soon began to lish rootsplay each its indispensable part in making this of Americancomposite nation. Even in the closing colonialperiod. Frenchman, Dutchman, German, gave us muchof our blood and our thought; and, later still, Norseman,Irishman, and finally Slav and Latin, besides their con-tributions in music and art, have made the sinew of our 1 2 THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA national life. But the forces that have shaped that life —the institution-building forces — were supplied by the earlyEnglish settlers. American history has no primitive period. The earliestcolonists had command enough over nature not to be con-trolled by her to any such degree as were thecai in- early Greeks or Latins or the primitive English fluences: \^ their old liome. Nature has counted for less,and man for more, than in Old-World , our early history has- to do with the Appalachiancoast only, and that fringe of the continent is more like the. Lines of Equal Temperature in America and Europe. European homes of the early colonists than is any otherlarge district in America. The lives of the English settlerswere far less changed by removal thither than if they hadcolonized the Mississippi valley or the Pacific coast. But the Appalachian coast does differ from the Europeancoast of the Atlantic in two matters that vitally influencedcolonization. In the first place, the summers arehotter and the winters colder than in fevers in one season, and unforeseenfreezing in the other, ruined more than oneattempt at settlement. Captain George Weymouth explored Climateof the Appalachiandistrict GEOGRAPHY AND SETTLEMENT 3 the region near the mouth of the Kennebec In the springof 1605, and l)rought back to England glowing reportsof a bahiiy climate like that of southern France ; butthe colonists who, trusting to this account, tried to settlethere a little later,
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