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with agriciilturfil man when pressed by his foes, and on this account 

 a cliff-linikling stage of culture is limited to no race or country. Its 

 existence is purely a geological question. 



The Southwest is thus full of ruins of former abodes of farmers, 

 some of which were inhabited by a single clan, others by several 

 clans. Each has had its own history or its own episode in the 

 general histoiy of the struggle of nomadic robber and sedentary agri- 

 culturist. Aimlessly to himself, perhaps, but in obedience to a law 

 of development, man has drifted from place to place to escape his 

 enemies, xintil he has been molded into the peculiar culture which we 

 call Pueblo. This culture is a highly specialized form, and is the 

 direct outgrowth of the peculiar climatic conditions of the Southwest. 



