Predictably Warntz’s conception of macrogeography was uncompromisingly monistic. Warntz was fond of repeating his own choice phrases, and there was no phrase he repeated more often than ‘social sci- ence ... and physical science are but mutually related isomorphic examples of one generalized logic’. That was the strength of macrogeography; it embodied the ‘one generalized logic.’ That logic was of a single discipline: physics.
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