What little coal mining is carried on elsewhere, as in Spitzbergen, is often done in order to bring more coal to the cyclonic regions. As a rule, however, the amount of coal mining outside of cyclonic regions is so small that coal is carried in large quantities from the United States and especially England to remote parts of the earth like China, even when those regions have supplies of their own which are not yet developed. , The presence of energetic people, as we have seen, is due largely to the stimulating effect of the varied climate of cyclonic regions. Let us see how this climatic condition, with the nelp of coal and iron, has caused the world's manufacturing to be distributed. Fig. 110 shows the percentage of the inhabitants who are engaged in manufacturing in various regions. The darker the shading the greater the percent age. Notice that there are two prominent dark areas, one in the eastern United States, and the other in northwestern Europe. Each is in the heart of one of the world's two main cyclonic regions. Be yond their limits the amount of manufacturing rapidly diminishes, so that large parts of the map are unshaded. The only other places where the shading again becomes noticeable are a few smaller cyclonic areas like Japan.
Why Cyclonic Countries are the World's Chief Markets.—Strange as it may seem, manufacturing countries buy from one another far more than trom other climatic regions, and their sales are made in the same regions. England, for example, does ten or twelve times as much business with the 100,000,000 people of the United States as with more than three times as many in China. Even with the 300,000,000 people of its own chief colony in India it does only about as much business as with the 40,000,000 people of France. The purchases and sales of the United States in foreign countries are shown in Figs. 111 and 112. If the trade of the United States with the 300,000,000 people in the leading nations of cyclonic regions were cut off, two thirds of our commerce would be gone in spite of the fact that there would still he 1,200,000,000 people with whom to trade.
Business men continually urge the expansion of our trade with China, Siberia, and especially Latin America. They are right in theory, for those countries, particularly the ones that are tropical, produce many useful products which our own country cannot furnish.
It is far more important for us as a nation to be able to purchase plenty of tropical rubber, quinine, coffee, and tin, which we cannot possibly produce in our own country, than to be able to buy European cloth, machinery, or dyes, which are not very different from our own, and which we could perfectly well make ourselves. Yet in spite of this it is far more difficult to add a billion dollars to our trade with tropical America than to acid the same sum to our trade with cyclonic Europe. The reason is largely the difference in energy. The tropical people do not exert themselves to produce goods that we want, nor do they earn enough to be able to buy large quantities of the goods that we make, no matter how attractive such goods may be. Hence most of the world's trade, as well as most of its other activity, centers in the cyclonic regions.
How the Cyclonic Regions Lead the World.—The people of the cyclonic regions rank so far above those of other parts of the world that they are the natural leaders. For instance, the form of demo cratic government which was worked out in France and England, but which was first really tried in the United States, is the form which every country in the world is gradually trying to adopt. The con stitutions of all the South American countries as well as of China are directly modeled on that of the United States, while those of other countries have been greatly influenced_by it. Again the inventions of cyclonic regions, especially ther/United States anCrEngland,lhave led the way to the use of machinery engine, telegraph, and such devices as the sewing machine have gone. So, too, the science and literature written in English, French, and Ger man are translated into other languages and serve as models in every part of the world. In the same way the people of Asia look to Japan as the leader who is showing them how to put themselves on an equality with the countries inhabited by the white race. In art, music, philosophy, and other higher elements of civilization the energy of the cyclonic regions likewise makes them the leaders of the world.