
THE, KIND. OF, LANDSCAPES THAT, EXERTS A FORMATIVE INFLUENCE ON, CHARACIFR 
upon a mound with but a rude field-stone 
graven only with the dim initials of a still 
cherished name to mark his final resting 
place, or there another, by some kindlier 
chance remembered more enduringly, lies 
in the little private, walled-in burial lot hard 
by the scene of his sweat-won conquest, 
sentineled by the trees his axe has spared. 
They have mingled their dust with the soil 
upon which they labored for liberty and a 
living, but their work is not done, and the 
spirit and incentive which upheld them in 
their struggle have not gone down into the 
grave with them nor migrated from the land 
which nourished their New England con- 
sciences and their sturdy frames. It exists 
to-day and manifests itself as a vital and 
creative force in the lives of the Sons of the 
Settlers. 
It is in the culture and transmission of 
these invaluable ideals, long dormant, if 
you will, but reawakened in protest to a 
too intense devotion to business activities, 
that the East shall find its field for service. 
There is no chord in the category of 
human emotions more sensitive than that 
which responds to the magic word “‘ Home.”’ 
Sights and sounds and smells wherever met, 
- with trade or industries. 
to virtual decay in an economic progress 
however elusive, which call into being the 
throng of memories, grave and gay, which 
made it what it was, are welcomed into our 
inner consciousness and relished with a 
never-failing zest. Its appeal is universal, 
time-defying and all powerful. The traveler 
over seas, the cowboy on the range, the 
farmer on the prairie, the artisan in the city, 
each in his turn shall hear the call and feel 
the thrill and quickened pulse-beat of the 
voyager returning. 
It may not be that the mountains and 
valleys, the forests and upland pastures, 
the streams and lakes of old New England, 
call more loudly or more alluringly to 
those wanderers on the face of the earth 
who call it home than do other sections of 
this land of ours, but certain it is that a new 
spirit has risen to stir in the breasts of its 
people and summon back to the soil the 
strife-wearied of her children who would 
join in her regeneration. 
The mission of these Sons of the Settlers 
will be no less creative and constructive 
than that of their forebears of another 
century, but it will concern itself no longer 
These have passed 
