44 Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.