Produced by Peter Vachuska, Fritz Ohrenschall, Chuck Greif, Julia Neufeld and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. [Illustration: Publisher's Mark] _HOME AND WORLD SERIES_ HOW WE ARE FED A GEOGRAPHICAL READER BY JAMES FRANKLIN CHAMBERLAIN, ED.B., S.B. DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, STATE NORMAL SCHOOL LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1912 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up, electrotyped, and published June, 1903. Reprinted January, June, August, 1904: July, 1905; January, 1906; August, December, 1907; September, 1909; August, 1910; August, 1911; June, 1912. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U. S. A. PREFACE In the ordinary course of events, most individuals take some part in the manifold industries which engage the mind and the hand of man, by which alone our present-day civilization can be maintained. These great world activities touch the daily life of _every_ member of society, whether child or adult, worker or idler. A chain of mutual dependence, too often unrecognized, binds together the members of the human family, whether they belong to the same community or dwell on opposite sides of the earth. The links of this chain are made up of the articles which constitute our daily food, our clothing, homes, fuel, light, our means of communication and transportation, and only by continuous coöperation are they kept together. The highest motive in education is to present the conditions which will lead to the most complete living; to build up the best possible members of society; to develop character. An individual who does not understand the life of which he finds himself a part, cannot be in full sympathy with its conditions and hence cannot be of the most service to himself or to others. Only to the extent that education and life follow the same general course, can each be truly successful. Far too little is done in our schools to acquaint children with their relations to the great industrial and social organization of which they are members. Even grown persons have, as a rule, a very indefinite knowledge of these relations.