Excerpt from How We Are Clothed: A Geographical Reader In the commodities and the activities which have to do with supplying man with the necessities and the comforts of daily life, children are greatly interested. In making the industrial a phase of our elementary instruction, however, the thought goes deeper than the mere materials and activities by means of which food, clothing, and shelter are obtained. This study opens the way to an understanding of the geography of the home and the world and of the influence of environment on the physical, social, and moral development of human life. Geography, more naturally than any other school subject, opens the way to this study of industrial and social conditions. Its province is to show the relations between geographic conditions on the one hand and the life of man on the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.