CHAPTER VII. 



The Developing of Transportation. 



"CACH generation develops a group of men who fear no 

 undertaking and who dare the Impossible and prove It 

 to be real. Their urge is a desire to shorten time and to 

 eliminate space. They disdain to follow a traveled road 

 and are only content in cutting out new paths of thought 

 through the wilderness of the unknown. When the path is 

 once well marked and the brush removed, the clearing, 

 widening, grading and leveling work on the new Idea Is done 

 by those who follow them. If the new thought is useful and 

 helpful to mankind. It will not be relegated to the discard, 

 but will become another highway over which our civilization 

 may travel. 



Human thought has not always been constructive. For 

 unknown centuries most of human thought was destructive. 

 It was devoted to planning methods to conquer and subdue 

 some neighboring tribe or nation and the early aggressive 

 wars were waged mostly for the purpose of conquest and 

 plunder. The nations thus attacked, fought under the 

 Impulse of primitive instinct as a means of self-preservation. 

 It was because of these prevailing conditions that so many 

 centuries of the history of civilization passed without any 

 great advance In Industrial progress. Development cannot 

 be had without adaptation to meet changing conditions. 



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