GEOGRAPHY ASKS TWO QUESTIONS.
“ Geography, as its name indicates, s the systematic description of this ..jn-th cif ours. But description is not 'n end in itself.” said "Professor .John My res, 0.8. K.. F.8.A., at the British Association meeting. “The end, to which it is the means, is a. science of the earth, an understanding and interpretation oi its meaning. Ihe geographer ascertains, records, compares and interprets distributions, the ■ rrangement of tilings on or in relation to the surface of the earth. Geography asks two questions in respect of such -pogranliical lact: "Where is it obscured, and why just there? Obviously, in this general sense, geography is the sister-science off history, which studies and interprets the relations of events in time. History originally meant- (as its name also indicates) the process of following or tracking something which has gone before, and left trace or trail; and is applied, like the name geography, to the recorded result of such ‘following-up.’ Like geography it begins with description and proceeds to interpret.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1928, Page 3
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169GEOGRAPHY ASKS TWO QUESTIONS. Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1928, Page 3
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