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with the archeologist; in the second, with the architect and the 
engineer. 
Of late geographers—I am not speaking of cartographers—have begun 
for the first time to see a practical and not only an educational outlet for 
their training. As I have said, regional planning has emerged from town 
planning, and we shall sooner or later come to world planning. During 
recent generations human affairs have moved with a tragic rhythm ; first 
_@ great War, followed by exhaustion; then the relative peace and 
recuperation of a temporary equilibrium ; finally, a period of increasing 
stress, when statesmen dare not act for fear of precipitating conflict 
between forces which have become unbalanced owing to varying rates of 
growth under differing natural and human conditions. We are now in 
the trough of our post-war exhaustion, but the younger generation should 
enjoy a mid-century opportunity, when—perturbed neither by exhaustion 
nor fear—men may in some small degree be masters of their destiny, 
always provided that they be masters of their minds. Then will be the 
opportunity of the geographer-statesman, for geography must underlie 
the strategy of peace if you would not have it subserve the strategy of war. 
The saying is that in the beginning history is all geography ; in other 
words, Man was once helpless in the grip of Nature. Can we not strive 
that in the end, also, history shall be all geography, but with a difference 
of implication? The first was a fatalistic utterance, the second is the 
utterance of the world-planner, the geographer in action. Heaven save 
us from falling into the hands of any expert, whether he be doctor or 
geographer, but they who hold up the arms of Moses have a share in his 
victory. While turning our faces thus resolutely to the future, let us not 
quite part company with our good friends, the archeologists, and our 
one-time rivals, the geologists ; in becoming Realists let us not cease from 
being, in a reasonable degree, Romantics. 
