THOMAS R. BARD AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE OIL INDUSTRY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Abstract

The Anglo-Saxons and their brother Teutons have been a remarkably tenacious and aggressive race. Human history, from the decline of the Roman Empire to the present day, is concerned to a considerable extent with the advance of the Germanic peoples into the far corners of the earth. Whether from motives economic, political, religious, or by methods that were peaceful or warlike, they have penetrated into the worlďs remotest regions, and for good or evil there secured for themselves their "place in the sun." It is not necessary here to consider whether Anglo-Saxon, or indeed' Teutonic civilization, using the term in its broadest sense, is superior to that of the Latin or the Slav, but what is the proper concern of the student of the history of races is to observe where he may the interplay of forces where cultures so peculiarly dissimilar come in contact with one another.