208 HEREDITY IN RELATION TO EUGENICS 



Further north, at Manhattan Island, a settlement was 

 being made by another sort of people; a band of Dutch 

 traders. The fur trade with the Indians waxed profitable. 

 They maintained friendly relations with the Indians, as the 

 main soTirce of their wealth, and under their protection es- 

 tablished trading posts up the North River even as far as 

 the present site of Albany and along the valley of the Mo- 

 hawk; while others went east as far as the Connecticut 

 River. Little wonder that such blood, under the favorable 

 environment of an admirable location, has created the com- 

 mercial center of the western world. 



On the bleak coasts of New England were being founded 

 settlements of idealists, men who were willing to undergo 

 exile for conscience' sake. They included many scholars 

 like the pastor Robinson, Brewster who, while self-exiled at 

 Leyden, instructed students at the University, John Win- 

 throp ''of gentle breeding and education," John Davenport 

 whom the Indians named ''So-big-study-man.'' ^ Little 

 wonder that the germ plasm of these colonies of men of deep 

 convictions and scholarship should show its traits in the 

 great network of its descendants and establish New Eng- 

 land's reputation for conscientiousness and love of learning 

 and culture. As it was almost the first business of the 

 founders of the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and New 

 Haven to found a college, so their descendants — the families 

 of Edwards, Whitney, Dwight, Eliot, Lowell, Woolsey and 

 the rest have not only led in literature, philosophy and 

 science but have carried the lamps of learning across the 

 continent, lighting educational beacons from Boston to San 

 Francisco. Nor is it an accident that on the soil tilled by 

 these dissenters from the Established Church of England 

 should be spilled the first blood of the American Revolution. 



Later, to the shores of the Delaware, Penn led his band of 



^ Cotton Mather, Magnolia III, 56. 



