CHAPTER III. SOCIETY AND STATE IN RELATION TO THE LAND

People and land--Political geography--Political versus social geography--Land basis of society--Morgan's _societas_--Land bond in primitive hunter tribes--In fisher tribes--In pastoral tribes--Land and state--Strength of the land bond in the state--Evolution of land tenure--Land and food supply--Advance from natural to artificial basis of subsistence--Land basis in relation to agriculture--Migratory and sedentary agriculture--Geographic checks to progress in economic and social development--Native animal and plant life as factors in progress--Density of population under different cultural and geographic conditions--Its relation to government--Territorial expansion of the state--Artificial checks to population--Extra-territorial relations of state and people--Theory of progress from the standpoint of geography--Progressive dependence of man upon nature.