A Presentation of Causes Tending to Fix the Position of the Future Great City of the World in the Central Plain of North America: Showing That the ... London, Is Moving Westward to the City of New - Couverture souple

Scott, J. W.

 
9781333392529: A Presentation of Causes Tending to Fix the Position of the Future Great City of the World in the Central Plain of North America: Showing That the ... London, Is Moving Westward to the City of New

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Cities are organisms thai grow up as naturally a? men. They develope where human faculties are most effective, and because these faculties can be more effective there than elsewhere. Like men, too, thej are mutually helpful. London could nol have grown to become whal she is withoul the aid of Birmingham, Manchester, Liver Land the other greai cities in her neighborhood, and in other parts of the world. Proximity to these has given her, and sustained in her, more than one of the millions of her people. nthe other hand, London lias not failed to return to her sister cities the lull measure of benefits receivi dfrom them. As all the prmcipal cities of the world contribute to the supporl of London, so do thej all take tribute of her. Eonesl commerce gives forth equal benefits, and no commerce thai is no! hones! ran be permanently successful. The earliest greai cities were built bj a race of men inferior to our own, to-wit: the Mongolian Chinese. Their means for commercial operations navigable riversand canals though imperfect, enabled them to centralize commerce so as to build up cities containing a million or more 1people ;but, with insuflicienl unity of government and interesl to draw commerce to one greai centre. Subsequently, Caucasian and mixed faces centralized commerce in their own limited dominion: on the Tigris, Euphrates. Nile, Ganges, and other navigable rivers. These wen commercial centres, chiefly for the nations which made them their capitals; for, at that period, very little commerce between nations existed. The early cities of the Btediteranean sea were the firsl thai were made centres of an jconsiderable international commerce: and this was chiefly confined to (he waters of that sea. The vessels in which ii was carried on would make a poor show com pa red with the shipping now on our great lakes. In short, trade, in early times, as lined to verj
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