THE CALL OF THE LAND 



ilate the elements received from abroad. In 

 addition to this should be noted that emi- 

 gration to the United States did not set in 

 in earnest until about 1830, by which time 

 there was already a solid substratum of 

 10,000,000 of whites, with institutions and 

 traditions of their own, and with ability to 

 inoculate the newcomers with a spirit of 

 sturdy self-respect. The newcomers, it 

 should be added, were generally of a qual- 

 ity superior to the avalanche of mere for- 

 tune hunters which about 1850 submerged 

 the youthful Australian society, too feeble to 

 react upon it successfully. As opposed to 

 this, the essential traits of the American peo- 

 ple were developed by 1830, and although 

 somewhat modified survive today." 



Herding by foreign-born men and women 

 in the United States is of two kinds; the 

 spontaneous, which implies no prejudice 

 against American things, and the purposive, 

 which springs in part from a determination 

 not to be of us though among us. The first 

 is either a mere incident of immigration- 

 new arrivals going to centers of their coun- 



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