The Commercial Destiny of the Mississippi Valley

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Excerpt from The Commercial Destiny of the Mississippi Valley: A LectureAn examination of the subject reveals the fact that the menu tains and their domains have a mission to subserve for the civili zation of North America, essentially their own, and that the rivers, with the domain of the interior basin of the continent, have a mission to subserve, essentially their own, in the expanding growth of human power upon the wide area penetrated by their numberless tributaries. For in this country, as in all others, the character of the civilization must conform, in a great degree, to the character of the distinguishing topographical features which mark the surface of the continent. The mountain ranges, the boundless prairies, the plateaus and pastoral lands, the rivers and the lakes, will each produce types of civilization peculiar to them selves, yet essential to the unification of our continental civilization. The two great slopes of North America, the Atlantic and Pacific, will produce a civilization in many respects peculiar to the topo graphical character of each. So, too, will the Mississippi Basin be distinguished by many features of civilization peculiar to itself.Planting ourselves upon these fundamentaltruthsfounded in nature, we can easily survey the wide domain of North America.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.