ABSTRACT
It is, too, a matter for pride that our history contains such a record of achievement at the farthest ends of the earth. Let us salute with Conrad, men great in their endeavour and in hard-won successes of militant geography; men who went forth each according to his lights and with varied motives … but each bearing in his heart a spark of the sacred fire. If that spark ever dies, then our geography will indeed have become a dry and bloodless thing.
