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More precisely, are physical and political geography two stages of one investigation, or are they separate subjects to be studied by different methods, the one an appendix of geology, the other of history?  --Halford Mackinder in \u003cem\u003eThe Scope and Methods of Geography\u003c\/em\u003e, 1887\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Scope and Methods of Geography \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Halford Mackinder in 1887 in the New Monthly Series of the Royal Geographical Society. It was a manifesto for the New Geography, in which he viewed physical geography and human geography as a single discipline. 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