xiv INTRODUCTION 



throughout that annual season-drama of 

 which we are but the awakening spectators. 



So psychology has its concrete nature- 

 observation in child study, in animal be- 

 haviour; and just as ethics has its side of 

 everyday life, so sociology its current events. 

 Nature studies and social studies must again 

 be generalized, and this not only separately 

 but in unison. How so? By and from 

 Regional Survey. Relief and climate, geo- 

 logical and botanical surveys, anthropological, 

 archaeological and historic surveys all under- 

 lie our social studies. Our concrete science 

 thus generalizes into a comprehensive re- 

 gional survey, natural and social, rural and 

 urban; as our abstract sciences advance and 

 unite into a philosophy of evolution. In 

 measure as our abstract interpretations and 

 our concrete surveys come together and 

 unify, our geography becomes geogeny, that 

 is, it develops from mere empirical world- 

 description into a rational vision of world- 

 development. And correspondingly, the 

 abstract of this, which is our evolution 

 doctrine, becomes applicable in education 

 and in social life. 



Enough, then, of introductory outline; in 

 the following chapters we endeavour to eluci- 

 date some of these large propositions more 

 clearly. 



