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well settled from ocean to ocean, and by thoroughly American 

 people. The Irish immigrant had located almost entirely in the 

 city ; the German partly in the city and partly on the farm ; 

 and the Scandinavian altogether on the farm, chiefly in the 

 North Middle West. But in this period New England and the 

 Middle States had poured out their surplus populations to 

 establish new homes from Oliio to California, forming, in nearly 

 every case, the basic population in rural communities, towns, 

 cities, and states. The exceptions to this were so few, such as 

 the Swede and the Norwegian in Minnesota, as to be 

 disregarded. 



We now come to the great outstanding law universally 

 operative, — namely, the power resident in first settlers to 

 determine for all time the character of new communities. 

 Only in such a country as America is it possible to observe 

 and carefully study this law. It is a fact of almost startling 

 significance, the most interesting and enduring phenomenon 

 in the history of a new community. Boston is Boston and 

 New England is New England still, and they will remain 

 fundamentally as they are though farms be abandoned and 

 though they be invaded by myriad races of alien origin and 

 religion. " The men who came to New England included 

 scholars like Pastor Eobinson ; like Brewster who, while 

 self-exiled at Leyden, instructed students in the University ; 

 like John Winthrop of gentle breeding and education ; like 

 John Davenport whom the Indians named ' So-Big-Study-Man.' 

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

 deep conviction and scholarship should show its traits in the 

 great network of its descendants and establish New England's 

 re])utation 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 — liave 

 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 Erancisco." (Davenport, 

 p. 208.) 



Pennsylvania was settled by the followers of George Eox 

 under the leadership of William Penn ; by colonies of Germans 

 from certain principalities whose religious liie often expressed 

 itself in certain forms of quietism as non-combative as that of 

 Eox; and later by the virile Ulstermen whose Presbyterianism 

 was as rock-ribbed as were the everlasting hills of Scotland 



