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of the Royal Geographical Society is indeed deplorable, and a case in point: but in the case of this society, it is the more to be regretted, since, practicably, it should be one of the very first in rank of the many useful societies of Great Britain: in its operations calculated to render the most important services to this country, which has ramifications in every portion of the habitable globe: and indeed to benefit largely by promoting the knowledge of the physical geography of the world, the progress of civilization and humanity. Yet we see its efforts actually paralyzed, by causes which we must certainly attribute to defects in its constitution, rather than to the insensibility of the public to the promotion of geographical science. | of the Royal Geographical Society is indeed deplorable, and a case in point: but in the case of this society, it is the more to be regretted, since, practicably, it should be one of the very first in rank of the many useful societies of Great Britain: in its operations calculated to render the most important services to this country, which has ramifications in every portion of the habitable globe: and indeed to benefit largely by promoting the knowledge of the physical geography of the world, the progress of civilization and humanity. | ||
Yet we see its efforts actually paralyzed, by causes which we must certainly attribute to defects in its constitution, rather than to the insensibility of the public to the promotion of geographical science. | |||
However, without going into these causes, existing in itself, we may repro- [[bate]] | However, without going into these causes, existing in itself, we may repro- [[bate]] | ||
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of the Royal Geographical Society is indeed deplorable, and a case in point: but in the case of this society, it is the more to be regretted, since, practicably, it should be one of the very first in rank of the many useful societies of Great Britain: in its operations calculated to render the most important services to this country, which has ramifications in every portion of the habitable globe: and indeed to benefit largely by promoting the knowledge of the physical geography of the world, the progress of civilization and humanity.
Yet we see its efforts actually paralyzed, by causes which we must certainly attribute to defects in its constitution, rather than to the insensibility of the public to the promotion of geographical science.
However, without going into these causes, existing in itself, we may repro- bate