 | Arnold Guyot - 1849 - 376 sider
...destinies of mankind. But the term geography has been applied to such different things, the use, the misuse to which it has been subjected, has rendered it so...study, seems to make as little of geography as the ohronicler of history. It would be easy to show that even the power of describing well ought to be... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1850 - 442 sider
...equally harmonious with reason and science in teaching the original unity of all the races of men. And as "to describe without rising to the causes, or descending to the consequences, is no more science than simply to relate a fact,"f reverence for the Bible will never permit a man of true science to affirm,... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1853 - 356 sider
...that the word shall reach the understanding without obstacle and without effort. In my favor you have made the sacrifice of your language. I need not tell...geographer, who thus understands his study, seems to riKike as little of geography as the chronicler of history. It would be easy to show that even the... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1855 - 360 sider
...their relative situation—The Earth as the theatre of human societies — Different parts performed by the continents in history — Asia, Europe, America...little of geography as the chronicler of history. It would be easy to show that even the power of describing well ought to be denied him; for if he renounces... | |
 | ARNOLD GUYOT - 1860 - 342 sider
...render that sacrifice less irksome , and I shall always be desirous of giving to those who will do rne the favor to ask it, all the explanations which they...little of geography as the chronicler of history. It would be easy to show that even the power of describing well ought to be denied him ; for if he... | |
 | David Page - 1863 - 228 sider
...found there, we must at once renounce the idea of calling it by the name of science, in the exalted sense of this word. To describe without rising to...little of geography as the chronicler of history."— GUYOT'S Earth and Man. PRE FACE. THIS little treatise, like the Author's ' Introductory TextBook of... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1872 - 354 sider
...rendered it so elastic and ill-defined, that, in order to prevent misconception, I must first if ail explain to you what I understand by Geography. If,...little of geography as the chronicler of history. It would be easy to show that even the power of describing well ought to be denied him ; for if he... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1890 - 388 sider
...But the term geography has been applied to such different things, the use—the misuse, rather—to which it has been subjected has rendered it so elastic...little of geography as the chronicler of history. It would be easy to show that even the power of describing well ought to be denied him ; for if he... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1900 - 584 sider
...subjected. Here we may well introduce Guyot's eloquent sentence as a practical guide in our work: " To describe without rising to the causes or descending...relate a fact of which one has been a witness." The phrase "causes and consequences" thus comes to serve as a touchstone by which both the explanatory... | |
 | 1900 - 704 sider
...geographical value is but half measured. A sentence from Guyot's Earth and Man may here be taken as a guide: "To describe, without rising to the causes, or descending...to relate a fact of which one has been a witness." There could hardly be devised a more concise and searching test of good work than this quotation suggests.... | |
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If, preserving the etymological sense of the word geography, we should, with many authors, undertake to limit this study to a simple description of the surface of the globe and of the beings which are found there, we must at once renounce the idea of... 
