414 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



A firm believer in the Old Testament, he does not care to turn the 

 first leaf of that gospel which brings good tidings to the poor — 

 and the Providence in whom he believes will exercise great caution 

 before he interferes with anything belonging to a southern gentle- 

 man. 



Granting, then, all that may be fairly claimed for the fact that 

 the two immigrating columns which originally settled the territory 

 of the United States were representatives of different social grades 

 in their common English homes, and admitting the difference in the 

 motives which animated them — the one being material interests, 

 the other an idea — we see that under the influences of two parallel 

 climate zones, the descendants of a common lineage have been 

 converted into distinctly different t3qoes of men, and without at 

 least a very wide departure from truth we may conclude that the 

 separation, alienation, and political antagonisms which have been 

 developed among the American people, are the legitimate results 

 of the climate influences of this country. Cold and heat have 

 resolved the original settlers into two typical forms, intensifying 

 the Teutonic traits of the one, and developing the same qualities 

 in the other that have been seen in ancient people inhabiting the 

 same climate zone on the eastern hemisphere. 



If, then, we arrive at the conclusion that, like all other forms of 

 organic life, man must yield to the control of nature's laws, it 

 may well be asked if there be no remedy by which ho can avert 

 or neutralize their unwelcome and disastrous social and political 

 consequences. Among the more obvious agencies which may be 

 employed for this end, is the use of the various appliances of 

 modern civilization by which an artificial climate is produced. 

 Man can shield himself against the discomforts of cold with better 

 success than against the annoyances of heat. A cold climate 

 may, therefore, by artificial means be made to approximate the 

 natural temperature of a warmer one. The artificial climate of 

 our northern cities, at least to all such persons as can command 

 the requisite means, is but a little lower than the mean tempera- 

 ture of Savannah. As our civilization is developed the results in 

 this direction will be increased till the wide climate differences of 

 our countr}' will be made to approach a mean condition. With 

 this will also come the consequent change in our physical and 

 intellectual organization, and uUiinately the future populations of 

 this country may attain political unity. 



In the opinion of Prof. Draper, the answer to tlie question forced 



