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All this may seem as much a " mere rush of detail " as that spoken 

 of as characteristic of the geography of our school-days; but the 

 details are of a difEerent nature — ^more vital and of more human interest. 

 Though the field is, I grant, entirely too large to be covered in a brief 

 paper, yet, to make of geography not merely a collection of bald facts, 

 but a study most intimately associated with and related to the fields of 

 human activity — commerce, industry, history, science, thought, music, 

 literature and art — that is what I mean by a "philosophy of geography." 



