ON LANDSCAPE AND LIFE 



the differences between them? Is it edu- 

 cation? Education has grown out of his- 

 tory and literature. What have been back 

 of these? Away down at the root the 

 primary and irresolvable difference is chiefly 

 one of landscape and of climate; — and 

 climate is one-half landscape and the other 

 half the result of landscape. 



We can institute a similar comparison 

 on our own soil. Hardly could men be 

 more unlike than the cowboys of New 

 Mexico and the careful close-fisted sons of 

 New England. Yet the cowboys and the 

 New Englanders are own brothers. Some 

 of them slept together in the same trundle- 

 beds, and went to the same schools. 



We can see the effects of landscape in 

 our own friends. Mary Winthrop has never 

 been the same since she went to live in 

 Colorado. The large mountains have 

 taught her to regard the great qualities in 

 life; but they have made her neglectful of 

 her manicure set. Paul and Harvey Hud- 

 son were as much alike as two brothers 

 usually are when they used to go to school 

 in Schoharie County, New York; but they 

 are decidedly different now. Paul has lived 

 twenty years in Concord, New Hampshire, 



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