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organization of space as they resulted from wheel, road, and
papyrus could go as follows: There was first the village, which
lacked all of these group extensions of the private physical
body. The village, however, was already a form of community
different from that of food-gathering hunters and fishers, for
villagers may be sedentary and may begin a division of labor
and functions. Their being congregated is, itself, a form of
acceleration of human activities which provides momentum for
further separation and specialization of action. Such are the
conditions for the extension of feet-as-wheel to speed
production and exchange. These are, also, the conditions that
intensify communal conflicts and ruptures that send men
huddling into ever larger aggregates, in order to resist the
accelerated activities of other communities. The villages are
swept up into the city-state by way of resistance and for the
purpose of security and protection.