Reconciling the Unity and Diversity of Geography

Abstract

In a mood of disillusionment, overcome by the complexities of the problems, the geographer on occasion is minded to assent to the attacks of the critics and to concede that theirs is the better part who select for study one aspect only of this world of men and things. The best cure for this mood is to go once more into the field and savour once again the unity of man and nature and the correlation between physical and social phenomena which confront him on every side. It is then that he realizes anew that the proportions and relations of things are as much facets as the things themselves and that, in the geographic field, unless he studies them, no one else is likely to do so. His subject, no less than others in the curriculum, subjects him to a discipline and yields him a philosophy