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tacle ; the people of the elevated table lands of Mexico and Peru, 
are the only exception to this picture, and this exception goes far 
to establish the influence of the. vegetative and humid nature of 
the lower plains of America. For if these nations do not exhibit 
_ the same character of inferiority, if they have raised themselves 
alittle higher in the sphere of humanity, by the aid, perchance, 
of elements foreign to their own continent, it cannot ‘be for other 
cause than that, living in those heights, those aérial islands, 
above the influence of the hot and humid atmosphere, they have 
been removed from the potency sal its action. 
~ Such, gentlemen, is the order, the admirable connection of the 
tihehmena of nature with each ot er. The conformation and 
ee position of the New World give to it a hot and watery climate ; 
.~ this impresses its own character on all the organized creation.. 
» - Man himself, the one being preéminently free, is liable to its in- 
we fluence, in proportion as he neglects the exertion of those supe- 
‘ggiot faculties with which he is endowed for the conquest and 
«hs ubjugation of that nature which was intended, not to govern, 
- Tie ut to serve him 
We may rest, ‘then, in this eppeses that, as compared with 
“the Old World, the New World is the humid side of our planet, es 
ie ne “Sthe oceanic, vegetative world, the passive element that awaits ! 
% j the excitement.of a’ ‘livelier impulse , from without. Such is the 
erica of Nature, such was it t before the arrival of the man of 
“ the Old World. We know alteady, and we shall see better yet 
+ hg eafter, all that” his. mea intelligence has: been enabled to 
“upon nature.” 
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