...detailed, that of Mr. Brigham the more general. Miss Semple states in the beginning her conclusion : " The most important geographical fact in the past history...been their location on the Atlantic opposite Europe ; and the most important geographical fact in lending a distinctive character to their future history...

...detailed, that of Mr. Brigham the more general. Miss Semple states in the beginning her conclusion : " The most important geographical fact in the past history...been their location on the Atlantic opposite Europe ; and the most important geographical fact in lending a dittinetive character to their future history...

...westward. A recent history of the United States cast in terms of geography opens with the statement: "The most important geographical fact in the past...been their location on the Atlantic opposite Europe ; and the most important geographical fact in lending a distinctive character to their future history...

...once impresses the reader with the world relations involved in tracing the history of such a people: "The most important geographical fact in the past...been their location on the Atlantic opposite Europe; and the most important geographical fact in lending a distinctive character to their future history...

...factor in history, is only a factor. and that no more in history than in mathematics can the outcome lx> inferred from a single factor alone. Though all that...ships and their compass, the friends they left behind, the habits which engendered their trade, the purposes which brought them hither, and the plans which...

...who warmly recognized the worth of anthropo-geography, and the eloquence of Miss Semple's paper, but argued that geography, though a factor in history,...on the Atlantic opposite Europe,'' we are in danger <>f forgetting; that she speaks, not of a condition, but of an achievement, for what has made the story...

...who warmly recognized the worth of anthropo-geography, and the eloquence of Miss Semple's paper, but argued that geography, though a factor in history,...location on the Atlantic opposite Europe," we are in clanger of forgetting that she speaks, not of a condition, but of an achievement, for what has made...

...environment, it must never be forgotten that he, too, is a factor, and oftener the active than tinpassive, the multiplier than the multiplicand. Recognition...ships and their compass, the friends they left behind, the habits which engendered their trade, the purposes which brought them hither, and the plans which...

...denote either an act or the result of an act ; it may mean a placing or a place. When Miss Seinple tells us that " the' most important geographical fact...ships and their compass, the friends they left behind, the habits which engendered their trade, the purposes which brought them hither, and the plans which...

...conditions, among which are geographical position, natural resources and the character of the population. "The most important geographical fact in the past history of the United States," says a distinguished anthropo-geographer, "has been their location on the Atlantic opposite Europe;...