Excerpt from The Tropics Their Resources, People and Future: A Description of the Tropical Lands of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Australasia and the Pacific; Their Natural Products, Scenery, Inhabitants and Industries, and the Possibilities of Their Future Development
Constructive human geography, or the science of corporate living on the earth, thus will seek the way by which the reaction or adjustment of mankind to its topographical and economic environment may be brought about the permanent adapta tion of man's economic life to his surroundings, and the ultimate attainment of economic equilibrium. It finds the economic and industrial life of the world at variance with its surroundings, governed by haphazard, the prey of unexplained or unstudied social phenomena conditions which have existed throughout the ages and must inevitably exist - however advanced our civilisation - until corporate life be taken hold of as a science and brought into harmony with its topographical environment.
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