216 NATURAL BEAUTY 



And this that we want of the greatest natural 

 feature of the Earth is only typical of what this 

 Society should require in regard to all Earth's other 

 features in order to make our Geography complete. 

 As men have pictured the loveliness of England, 

 the fairness of France, the brilliance of Greece, so 

 we want them to picture the spaciousness of Arabia, 

 the luxuriance of Brazil, and the sublimity of the 

 Himalaya. For not till that has been done will our 

 Geography be complete. But when that has been 

 accomplished and the quest for Beauty is being 

 pushed to the remotest lands and Earth's farthest 

 corners, even the British schoolboy will love his 

 Geography, and our science will have won its final 

 triumph. At nothing less, then, than the heart of 

 the boy should our Society deign to aim . 



