Science in Public Affairs 



geographical science for the construction and 

 criticism of civic policy is a manifest obligation, 

 or, as it ought to be, a privilege and pleasure of 

 the city fathers who are immediately responsible 

 for civic policy, and of the body of citizens who 

 are mediately responsible for the same. But are 

 there not also whole bodies of the citizens into 

 whose occupation and livelihood the application 

 of geographical knowledge so largely enters that 

 they might almost be called applied geographers ? 

 Is this not true of all those classes engaged in 

 the organisation of facilities for travel and com- 

 munication from the railway manager to the 

 station porter, from the pilot to the bargeman, 

 from the hotel-keeper to the cabman, from the 

 road-surveyor to the crossing-sweeper ? And in 

 less degree is it not true likewise of the whole 

 trading class, whose business consists in shifting 

 goods from the place of growth and production to 

 their destination in the hands of consumers ? For 

 all these, from the city father to the crossing- 

 sweeper, the question is Does each one utilise, to 

 the fullest, such resources as contemporary geo- 

 graphical science can and should supply ? The 

 President of the Royal Geographical Society is 

 the servant of the crossing-sweeper who has the 

 knowledge and the imagination to use him. 



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What are the resources of geographical science ? 



Where are they to be found ? How may the 



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