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    California and the Californians
    California and the Californians
    California and the Californians
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    California and the Californians

    By David Starr Jordan

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      California and the Californians - David Starr Jordan

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      Title: California and the Californians

      Author: David Starr Jordan

      Posting Date: September 4, 2009 [EBook #4755]

      Release Date: December, 2003

      First Posted: March 12, 2002

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CALIFORNIA AND THE CALIFORNIANS ***

      Produced by David A. Schwan. HTML version by Al Haines.

      California and the Californians

      By

      David Starr Jordan

      President Stanford University

      The Californian loves his state because his state loves him. He returns her love with a fierce affection that to men who do not know California is always a surprise. Hence he is impatient of outside criticism. Those who do not love California cannot understand her, and, to his mind, their shafts, however aimed, fly wide of the mark. Thus, to say that California is commercially asleep, that her industries are gambling ventures, that her local politics is in the hands of professional pickpockets, that her small towns are the shabbiest in Christendom, that her saloons control more constituents than her churches, that she is the slave of corporations, that she knows no such thing as public opinion, that she has not yet learned to distinguish enterprise from highway robbery, nor reform from blackmail,—all these statements, and others even more unpleasant, the Californian may admit in discussion, or may say for himself, but he does not find them acceptable from others. They may be more or less true, in certain times and places, but the conditions which have permitted them will likewise mend them. It is said in the Alps that not all the vulgar people who come to Chamouny can ever make Chamouny vulgar. For similar reasons, not all the sordid people who drift overland can ever vulgarize California. Her fascination endures, whatever the accidents of population.

      The charm of California has, in the main, three sources—scenery, climate, and freedom of life.

      To know the glory of California scenery, one must live close to it through the changing years. From Siskiyou to San Diego, from Alturas to Tia Juana, from Mendocino to Mariposa, from Tahoe to the Farallones, lake, crag, or chasm, forest, mountain, valley, or island, river, bay, or jutting headland, every one bears the stamp of its own peculiar beauty, a singular blending of richness, wildness and warmth. Coastwise everywhere sea and mountains meet, and the surf of the cold Japanese

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