THE ORDNANCE SURVEY

Abstract

If, one and all in our several ways, we are absorbed in helping to win the war, there are moments when it is possible to turn to our earlier loves, if but to relieve the strain. Not one of our hobbies, not a single insti tu tion that holds our affections and our memories, can emerge from this struggle just as it was. New thoughts and new methods are in the air, new service will be required, and, if principles remain largely unaltered, they, and the lessons we have learned, will be in peril, for continuity and knowledge have been rudely interrupted. It may do no harm to restate, however inadequately, some of those lessons—political, administrative and technical.