Présentation de l'éditeur
Dr. A dams brings into view everything that is worth knowing about everything that has been evolved in the centuries about all phases of geography. Out of his knowledge he has created a composite of principles and methods and has adapted it all to each grade, and to each feature in which geography should function in the elementary school. For thousands of years the mission of geographical thought was to know what the earth could do for man; now it is largely its mission to know what man can do with the earth. Astronomical geography created works of art out of the stars. The Great Bear dominated the starry hosts for centuries before science suspected that its message was one of safety to wayfarers on sea and land by pointing the way to the Pole Star. In much the same way earth-traditional geography lorded it over the schools before pedagogical genius discovered that the purpose of earth-geography was merely to point the way to mans dominance over the earth. The blinding flash of lightning and the fierce roaring of thunder terrorized the sons of men until a keenwitted son of the New World hypnotized the lightning which now carries messages of love and cheer with all the fervor and sweetness of the human voice. The New Geography is to the Old as science is to superstition, as love is to fear. Locational geography was the ideal school work sixty years ago.
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