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a large range, to borrow a biological term, because each one procures his 
or her own daily subsistence. This oftentimes necessitates miles of roam- 
ing on sea and land. Just as this fact has led to conflicts in the past, 
and still causes them in the lower animals, so it will to-day in the higher 
communities. Example after example might be given where whole 
groups have become extinct because of these factors, but one will be 
sufficient. In Jurassic times in North America there lived the great and 
strange group of mammals known as the Dinosaurs—these were of such 
prodigious proportions and required such extensive ranging grounds 
(they were both herbivorous and carnivorous) that they became a menace 
to themselves. They disappeared because of their very unwieldiness, their 
own strength and power finally working toward their downfall. 
The trouble in Cebu is largely economic, and is a result of material 
causes. Physical factors such as I have outlined are deep seated and 
have been at work before governments and human laws were instituted. 
Naturally, the solution of the problems presented in this island lies in the 
reduction of the individual range, in division of labor, in putting into 
motion the host of units, human and material, now unorganized and 
idle. There is no danger, as it was once thought, that the community 
of interests, the introduction of machinery, etc., will cause some to be 
pushed to the wall in the economic struggle. 
With these will come new vocations, not known before, and they will be 
largely industrial, thus leading the native out into ever-widening circles 
of experience and larger and larger spheres of influence. 
To accomplish these things it will not be necessary for him to leave his 
natural home, but he must study the things about him—the topography of 
his country, that he may control economic conditions; the streams, with 
a view to utilizing their water power; the strata of the.earth, to mine from 
them mineral wealth ; the soil, that he may get the most from his crops. 
With economic conditions in a settled state, and that means a healthy 
state—the social and political phases will settle themselves. 
