That these results in the great characteristics of the people 

 are not accidental, or caused by original difference in race of 

 the populations of the several communities, is further shown 

 from the fact that those who have immigrated from one section 

 to another have, in time, universally assimilated in their char- 

 acteristics to the people of the section of their adoption. 



It can hardly be questioned that the great natural causes 

 which I have stated, especially climate, have determined the 

 agricultural productions of the country, and consequently to a 

 great extent the industrial pursuits of the people, and have 

 been largely instrumental in the production of these diversities 

 in the characters of the people of the several communities. 



Climate and the conditions created by or attending it have 

 been the great causes from which were originated the differences 

 in the temperaments, ideas, modes of thought, habits, customs, 

 and in the moral and religious sentiments even, of the people 

 of the several sections ; indeed, they may be denominated the 

 primary causes of the different types of civilization, which 

 characterize the people of the different great divisions of the 

 country. 



Consequently these natural causes, excepting so far as their 

 operations upon the characters of the people of the different 

 communities may be gradually, and to a limited extent, modi- 

 fied with their increased business and social intercourse, will 

 continue to exert their influences in the future, and substan- 

 tially the same differences in productions and in the characters 

 of the people will ever exist. 



Man cannot so far dominate over nature that he can create a 

 uniformity of products in the several sections of the country, 

 or compel homogeneity between the people of tlie different 

 parts. The people of New England may not desire to conform 

 in their modes of living, thinking and acting to the habits and 

 customs of the people of the Southern, Western, or Pacific 

 sections, and they cannot compel the people of the other 

 sections to conform to the habits and customs which they have 

 established for themselves. 



But these differences ija productions, and in the character- 



