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the body. Even specialist learning in higher education proceeds
by ignoring interrelationships; for such complex awareness
slows down the achieving of expertness.
The post roads of England were, for the most part, paid
for by the newspapers. The rapid increase of traffic brought in
the railway, that accommodated a more specialized form of
wheel than the road. The story of modern America that began
with the discovery of the white man by the Indians, as a wag
has truly said, quickly passed from exploration by canoe to
development by railway. For three centuries Europe invested in
America for its fish and its furs. The fishing schooner and the
canoe preceded the road and the postal route as marks of our
North American spatial organization. The European investors in
the fur trade naturally did not want the trapping lines overrun
by Tom Sawyers and Huck Finns. They fought land surveyors