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PLAN OF THE SERIES
T HIS series of Geographies is designed to cover the
four years preceding the School Certificate or
Matriculation examinations. The aim is to provide a
reasonable interpretation of "The World in Broad Out-
line'' and of the British Isles in greater detail.
The choice and arrangement of material has been
governed by two considerations. Those who have collab-
orated with me feel, as I do, that boys and girls should
have a grounding in the principles of geographical think-
ing: in particular, that they should be accustomed to the
idea of the Natural Region as based mainly on climate.
And we feel that none should leave school without
some realisation of the major humnan problems which
confront themsclves and their friends at home, and their
neighbours in all parts of the world. They should appre-
ciate, for example, the difficulties caused in Africa by
the variety of race; they should realise that there are
peons and revolutions in South America as well as beef;
they should be aware that the peoples of China are deeply
steeped in a tradition which still moulds their behaviour
despite the increasing pressure of Western industrialism.
In a world which is only yet on the threshold of real
mutual understanding such knowledge seems to us
indispensable.
In order to reach these major problems in the severely
limited time available in schools, economy and omission
have been essential. Economy is apparent in Books III
and IV. The natural environment having been described
in some detail in Books I and II, in Books III and IV