John talks about the importance of knowing something about the development of the subject.
He references the important work of Halford Mackinder.
While the 'old' geography was concerned with the collection of mere 'useless' information about places, the new geography was about 'training the faculty of sight in a detached pictorialisation of the drama of the world'.
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