ABSTRACT
There was lately formed a committee of the House of Commons to consider Devolution, which Geddes has been teaching for a generation. Cities are now approaching this process of Devolution: and with decentralizing there must come regional federation. Through the past generation 'Regionalism' has been actively planned in France, and by some of its statesmen, as well as by its geographers and economists. The return of Alsace Lorraine, M. Millerand lately confessed, has been a great help as well as impetus towards this. The dividing of England into counties was begun before Doomsday Book and finished by the eighteenth century—that is, completed before the industrial development, which has made, for instance, some twelve million people group into that "conurbation" Geddes calls Lancaston. "Very probably," another correspondent says, the true effect of Geddes' work will be found, not so much in what he has done himself, as in what he has inspired other men to do.
