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367. ATTITUDE OF THE EARLY SETTLER TOWARD NATURAL RESOURCES.-The chief concern of the early American settler was to turn a virgin continent into homes as quickly and as easily as possible. During the seventeenth, eighteenth, and most of the nineteenth century, our natural resources were very abundant, while labor and capital were relatively scarce.