The Geographical Review, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In these three instances, to which many others might be added, the physio graphic law of frontiers is exemplified. Frontiers are, as it were, snap-shots of the life Of nations. Being an expression of that life, they can temporarily only, or as a symptom of decay, follow the valleys of main rivers. Main rivers are arteries Of national life which cannot, without exposure to fatal blows, be Situated on the periphery Of a living organism. Hence the vital expansion of a nation always tends to proceed beyond the valleys toward the watersheds.

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