And we must not forget the people who specialized in Geography. It was' noticed that social organization has some connection with geographic cal factors. For example in those belts of the earth's surface between the deserts and the forests, where he natural vegetation is grass, you tend to get, in the beginning at least shepherds organized like the patriarchs of the Bible in families of several generations, A great amount of work was done in investigating this sort of thing and there was not unnaturally a tendency for geo graphers to explain everything by geography. The result more data for Ug to use and an unforgottable reminder that our civilization is in Sense bound to the earth, we must live on {ts hills and valleys, its seas and rivers, we are dependent on the soils, vegetation and minerals of the earth for all the materials we use, that what we grow and the way we live is determined to a certain extent by climatic factors.
Let me make at this point as sort of digression. It is an observed fact that if you collect statistics of suicides month by month you will find that as summer comes on the number increases and as winter come on it falls, What is the explanation of this? Is climate the cause of suicide? Not at all! One of the many factors in suicide is loneliness gnd when the days are longer, as they are in summer. loneliness is more oppressive.
But this doesn't explain suicide, for an explanation we must see each ease of suicide.as the result of many factors of which loneliness was only in another td: of-1óday and heading korbut We could go on, we could talk of revolutions and ask how they came about, whether they are likely to a human being to get satisfaction out of life, we must see how this particular individual's environment tailed to ive him that satisfaction. Then we shall be on the road to understanding the problem, We associate in our minds science with the laboratory. The laboratory is the place where experiment and Observation are carried out, and where
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