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Work, i.e. the "natural advantages" of Place, needed to make 

 Work possible; and also as work-Place, i.e. the place — field or 

 workshop, etc., where the work has to be done. 



Again associate Folk and Work: work-Folk is plain, and folk- 

 Work obviously expresses their particular occupation. So now our 

 diagram is filled up ; and in all their essential ways in which environ- 

 ment as Place determines Work, and these the organism or Folk. 

 In summary then: 



RE-CO-ORDINATION OF GEOGRAPHY, ECONOMICS, AND 

 ANTHROPOLOGY.— Now with this graphic outline rationally 

 developed before us, let us make out what has happened to our 

 Geography, Economics, and Anthropology? — since at first seem- 

 ing respectively limited, to Place, Work, or Folk alone; and 

 these each only touching at a point; which may express their 

 too limited contacts while kept specialisms at strictest. But we 

 now see how at their best their claims and endeavours have 

 always been larger. For the true Geographer has ever been really 

 interested in all aspects and influences of Place, and the true 

 Anthropologist in the like for Folk ; and so too the true Economist 

 also (there have been and there are such) as fully for real Work, 

 in all its aspects and relations. But here in this diagram is, so 

 far as we know, the first attempt towards realising with simplicity, 

 yet clearness, the exact interrelations of these three studies, and of 

 what they represent in the web of social life. To bring this out with 

 precision, suppose we draw vertically a green line, down the column 

 of Place, a red line down that of Folk ; and, not to be too optimistic 

 about Work, say a black one with pen or lead pencil down its 

 column. Yet immediately we see that each of these three subjects 

 needs its horizontal colour line as well : for each of their most living 

 students, and specially when travellers, or even tourists, has noticed 

 how his subject affects and is qualified by the others also. More 

 concretely stated, the geographic traveller through Place notices 

 not only work-Places and folk-Places but is alert for place- Work 

 (natural advantages) and also for place- Folk (natives or denizens). 

 So, too, the anthropologist, again especially as traveller, goes not 

 only vertically upward, in our column for w^ork-Folk and place- 



