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give moving expression to universal feelings. It is, in truth, 

 a " terrific wrench." To leave (forever, as it may seem) the happy 

 scenes of childhood and youth, associated with all the sentiments 

 of the prime — its golden dreams and first love, the growing passion 

 for knowledge, the dawn of religious faith, visions of wider horizons, 

 the stirrings of ambition and the hopes of future usefulness — and to 

 settle in a new, strange land, perhaps half inhabited by savages and 

 but partially cleared, with incredible wooden houses and many things 

 still in the rough, is a unique experience. The psychologist in search 

 of fresh material for his much too impersonal science might be (but 

 is not) advised to cultivate the sensations of the immigrant who 

 lands at the antipodes and doubts whether he is rightly perpen- 

 dicular. A cry of joy leaps from him as he first hears and then sees 

 the skylark mount, and feels that, after all, he can not be far from 

 home. But it is long ere he is thoroughly acclimatized, and if he has 

 emigrated late there is to the last a consciousness of " something 

 wanting." 



XI. Animal and human migrants follow the southing sun. 

 Swallow, lemming, bear, and wolf are forerunners of the Auvergnese, 

 Switzer, and Laplander who descend from mountain to plain as 

 winter approaches, and of the invalid who seeks the sunny Kiviera 

 or the rainless Nile. The first Spanish and Portuguese colonies were 

 planted on the same southerly slope. Then Europe spread its wings 

 for a bolder flight, and the drift of emigration has since, as it mainly 

 had ever, been toward the setting sun. Yet the direction is by 

 no means uniform. The Hellenic migrations poured downward 

 through Greece and, overflowing into the ^gsean islands, colonized 

 Asia Minor. The Hellenization of Asia by Alexander was a move- 

 ment toward the east and south. The Gauls marched eastward to 

 Galatia. A regression of the Teutonic race under Charlemagne in 

 the eighth century founded the two great German dynasties of the 

 present day. The Crusaders, Venetians, and Genoese conquered and 

 colonized eastward. The largest wave after the American has taken 

 a southeasterly course to Australia. Smaller streams of French, 

 Italians, and Spaniards flow to Algeria and Tunis, and a mixture of 

 nationalities to Madagascar, while East Indians pursue nearly the 

 orthodox line to Guiana and Mauritius, or diverge to the Straits 

 Settlements and Fiji. An increasing volume of emigration is being 

 directed south and southeast to South Africa or due east to China. 

 But these will prove only eddies and backwaters in the steadily 

 westing current. It will be by America that the European nations 

 will return to their fabled birthplace. 



While the drift is apparently overmastering, the exact direction 

 is often, as with birds, a matter of accident. Tyrians were driven 



