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What a pleasure it will be -- a minor pleasure, I admit, but life is complex and it is difficult to establish values -- what a pleasure it will be when maps and statistics return!
To-day, in this delightful year of 1922, they are all at sixes and sevens. So is everything else, you may say, especially currency -- let alone morals. But still, one regrets maps and statistics most because to lose them is to lose one's moorings. We are all adrift without them.