But he counts without Nature.

The American sun overtakes and distances the English by a full month.

Here is the compensation for six consecutive months in which the New England farmer must house his plough and not turn a furrow.
Doubtless, as much light and heat brighten and warm one country as the other in the aggregate of a year.

But there is a great difference in the economy of distribution.

In England, the sun spreads its warmth more evenly over the four seasons of the year.
What it withholds from Summer it gives to Winter, and makes it wear the face of Spring through its shortest and coldest days.