Excerpt from Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1915, Vol. 5
Some historical writers are influenced little if at all by the study of the earth and lower life as elements of human environment. Even some volumes professing to deal with the geographic foundation Of history fail of their goal, and one preface affirms that the general physiography of North America is familiar enough to readers. This, I am sure, is quite too rosy a view of the geographic situation. But I cite the limitations of some histories in no mood of criticism. Let every man build the wall over against his own house. What of assured fact or proven principle we put before the historian he has neither the will nor the power to escape. Our light is in no danger of being put under a bushel. But we have good need to see that it is lighted.
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