Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Thought for the Day

Halford MacKinder's response to Principal Murray in 1942 - with thanks to Rex Walford

"Geography culls its data from the geographical aspects of a number of sciences.... it integrates its conclusions from the human standpoint, and so departs from the objectivity of science, for it ranges values alongside of measured facts. Hence 'outlook' is its characteristic - it is a philosophy of Man's environment".

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