在美洲定居过程中，我们必须观察欧洲生活如何进入美洲大陆，以及美国如何改变和发展这种生活，并对欧洲作出反应。我们早期的历史就是研究欧洲细菌在美国环境中的发展。院校学生过于注重日耳曼血统，而对美国因素关注太少。边疆是最迅速有效的美国化路线。荒野征服了殖民者。它发现他在衣着、行业、工具、旅行方式和思想上都是欧洲人。它把他从火车车厢里拖出来，把他放进桦木独木舟里。它剥去文明的外衣，让他穿上狩猎衫和鹿皮鞋。它把他放在切罗基人和易洛魁人的小木屋里，并在他周围设置了一道印第安栅栏。不久，他就开始种植印度玉米，用一根锋利的棍子耕地，他大声喊着战争口号，用传统的印度方式割下头皮。 In short, at the frontier the environment is at first too strong for the man. He must accept the conditions which it furnishes, or perish, and so he fits himself into the Indian clearings and follows the Indian trails. Little by little he transforms the wilderness, but the outcome is not the old Europe, not simply the development of Germanic germs, any more than the first phenomenon was a case of reversion to the Germanic mark. The fact is, that here is a new product that is American. At first, the frontier was the Atlantic coast. It was the frontier of Europe in a very real sense. Moving westward, the frontier became more and more American. As successive terminal moraines result from successive glaciations, so each frontier leaves its traces behind it, and when it becomes a settled area the region still partakes of the frontier characteristics. Thus the advance of the frontier has meant a steady movement away from the influence of Europe, a steady growth of independence on American lines. And to study this advance, the men who grew up under these conditions, and the political, economic, and social results of it, is to study the really American part of our history. . .
在美洲定居过程中，我们必须观察欧洲生活如何进入美洲大陆，以及美国如何改变和发展这种生活，并对欧洲作出反应。我们早期的历史就是研究欧洲细菌在美国环境中的发展。院校学生过于注重日耳曼血统，而对美国因素关注太少。边疆是最迅速有效的美国化路线。荒野征服了殖民者。它发现他在衣着、行业、工具、旅行方式和思想上都是欧洲人。它把他从火车车厢里拖出来，把他放进桦木独木舟里。它剥去文明的外衣，让他穿上狩猎衫和鹿皮鞋。它把他放在切罗基人和易洛魁人的小木屋里，并在他周围设置了一道印第安栅栏。不久，他就开始种植印度玉米，用一根锋利的棍子耕地，他大声喊着战争口号，用传统的印度方式割下头皮。 In short, at the frontier the environment is at first too strong for the man. He must accept the conditions which it furnishes, or perish, and so he fits himself into the Indian clearings and follows the Indian trails. Little by little he transforms the wilderness, but the outcome is not the old Europe, not simply the development of Germanic germs, any more than the first phenomenon was a case of reversion to the Germanic mark. The fact is, that here is a new product that is American. At first, the frontier was the Atlantic coast. It was the frontier of Europe in a very real sense. Moving westward, the frontier became more and more American. As successive terminal moraines result from successive glaciations,3 so each frontier leaves its traces behind it, and when it becomes a settled area the region still partakes of the frontier characteristics. Thus the advance of the frontier has meant a steady movement away from the influence of Europe, a steady growth of independence on American lines. And to study this advance, the men who grew up under these conditions, and the political, economic, and social results of it, is to study the really American part of our history. . .
