296 Heredity and Eugenics 



ites, a family of which hundreds have been supported in 

 the almshouses and jails of Indiana. From this complex 

 came also some of America's greatest statesmen and war- 

 riors, the Randolphs, the Marshalls, the Madisons, the 

 Curtises, the Lees, the Fitzhughs, the Washingtons, and 

 many others born with the instinct to command. Such 

 are the descendants of the high-spirited cavaliers. It might 

 have been predicted that the future state would be "the 

 Mother of Presidents," and that in a civil war the severest 

 battles should be fought on her soil. 



Farther north, at Manhattan Island, a settlement was 

 being made by another sort of people: a band of Dutch 

 traders. The fur trade with the Indians waxed profitable. 

 The more venturesome established trading-posts up the 

 North River, even as far as the present site of Albany; 

 others went east as far as the Connecticut River. They 

 maintained friendly relations with the Indians, as the main 

 source of their wealth, and under their protection estab- 

 lished trading-posts, even along the valley of the Mohawk. 

 Little wonder that such blood, under the favorable environ- 

 ment of an admirable location, has created the commercial 

 center of the western world. 



On the bleak coasts of New England were being founded 

 settlements of idealists, men who were willing to undergo 

 exile for conscience' sake. They included many scholars 

 like the pastor Robinson; Brewster who, while self -exiled 

 at Leyden, instructed students at the University; John 

 Winthrop, "of gentle breeding and education"; John 

 Davenport, of New Haven, whom the Indians named 

 "heap study-man." Little wonder that the germ plasm 

 of these colonies of men of deep convictions and scholar- 

 ship should show its traits in the great network of its 



