Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1922, Vol. 38
Look forward now across two thousand years to the end of the eighteenth century a.d. Geography has long become a Mother. She has conceived and borne Astronomy, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, and many more children, of whom about the youngest is Geology. They have all existences separate from hers and stand on their own feet, but they preserve a filial connection with her and depend still on their Mother Science for a certain common service, while taking Off her hands other services she once performed. Restricting the scope Of her acti vities, they have set her free to develop new ones. In doing this she will conceive again and again and bear yet other children during the century to follow - Meteorology, Climatology, Oceanography, Ethmo logy, Anthropology, and more. Again, and still more narrowly, this new breed will limit the Mother's scope but ever and ever fecund, she will find fresh activities in the vast field of Earth knowledge, and once and again conceive anew. The latest child that she has borne and seen stand erect is, as I have said, Geodesy; and she has not done with conceiving.
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