Historic Elements in Virginia Education and Literary Effort

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Excerpt from Historic Elements in Virginia Education and Literary Effort: A Paper Read Before the Virginia Historical Society, Monday, December 21st, 1891The key to Virginia's intellectual past, and consequently to her after development, lies in large measure in what science teaches is true of individuals - and, as we might infer, also of a collection of individuals, like the State - namely, the principles of heredity and environment. What is the origin of Virginia's people? What are the sources of her various race-elements? and how has the further history of these elements been affected and modified by climatic conditions, by geographical divisions, by the physical contour of the land, by peculiarities of soil, nay, further, by traditions and customs and habits, that manifestation of a man's self arid a nation's existence from which neither ever seems to break completely away.Cast a glance upon the map of Virginia and note the divisions of to-day, politically, materially, and industrially, varied and diverse. Five divisions will indicate roughly these differences: First, the Tide-Water, including the parts contiguous to the navigable streams, second, the Southside, third, the Valley, fourth, the Southwest, and fifth (I shall add for our present purposes), West Virginia.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.