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the extent to which they do or do not comply with the canons of 

 boundary-making, for after all there are no frontiers in Europe which 

 can in these days of modern warfare be considered as providing a sure 

 defence, but in regard rather to the stability of the States concerned. 

 A great experiment has been made in the new settlement of Europe, 

 and an experiment which contains at least the germs of success. But 

 in many ways it falls far short of perfection, and even if it were 

 perfect it could not be permanent. The methods which ought to be 

 adopted to render it more equable and to adapt it to changing needs 

 it is not for us to discuss here. But as geographers engaged in the 

 study of the ever-changing relations of man to his environment we can 

 play an important part in the formation of that enlightened public 

 opinion upon which alone a society of nations can be estabhshed. 



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