The 



Climate of Australasia. 



PART I. INTRODUCTION. 



GEOGRAPHY AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 



THE great educational controversy of the 

 century was whether the study of literature 

 and philosophy was of higher educational value 

 than reasoning that can be checked by experi- 

 ment an'd observation. In that conflict the 

 defenders of the existing educational system 

 ranged themselves round the standards of 

 classics and authority. The attack came from^ 

 those who were inspired by the new-growing 

 enthusiasm for science. The results of the 

 battle were the admission of science into the old 

 schools of learning, and its predominant influence 

 in all the new, a revolution in the methods of 

 primary education, and a remarkable revival in 

 classical research. The victory of science is so 

 complete, and in one respect so unexpected 

 that, even in Oxford, compulsory Greek at the 



