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Excerpt from On the Railway Connections of Philadelphia With the Central West: Letters of Prof. Edward D. Mansfield, of Cincinnati, to Job R. Tyson, Esq., LL. D., Of Philadelphia
You Will admit that, geographically, they were right; but, since then, art has, by new inventions and discoveries, wonderfully increased its power over locomotion. This enables it to modzfg, but certainly not to control the elements of nature. We have no longer one, but two great principles to examine in their bearings on interior trade. We have the geographical element of pos1tion, and we have the artificial element of steam power, each modifying the other. The great principle, however, that, on the whole, the most direct [me is the best, cannot be changed It IS a final truth.
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