A Presentation of Causes Tending to Fix the Position of the Future Great City of the World (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Presentation of Causes Tending to Fix the Position of the Future Great City of the World Quite a long introduction to a second edition of this pampHlet was written a short time before the authors death, in December 1873, when he was revising it for publication. The original manuscript, however, embraced so much matter that was contained in the pamphlet itself, that the editor has thought it advisable to retain only so much of it as seemed due in justice to the authors sentiment of pride in his theory: a theory which he was, I believe, the first to broach, and, throughout a long life, to maintain with an ability which has always been recognized, and a faith in it that nothing could waver. Though his conclusions were at first deemed too wild to be sound, and were laughed at by those who failed to follow his reasoning, they were usually regarded as pretty well demonstrated by those who did follow it. Now, these theories of city growth have become staple thought among intelligent men, so that few persons of the present day know how original and striking they were when projected in Mr. Scott´s writings more than forty years ago. Then, barely to. suggest that any interior city might some day become a metropolis, rivaling New York, was thought too absurd a stretch of imagination to be entitled to respect. The final conclusions reached by Mr. Scott, in this pamphlet, as the result of his study of causes and effects which will fix the location of the future greatest city, may seem in their special application quite as bold to-day as his general theory concerning the power of interior trade did forty years ago. Time alone can prove whether his last deductions are less strongly based than tiie preliminary demonstrations. In this edition of the pamphlet some matter has been omitted which seemed not essential to the thread of the argument, or likely to embarrass the ordinary reader by too much detail of statistical illustration. I have also added some expressions, as well as some pages of my own, in the body of the pamphlet, on the subject of cheap fuel as one of the primary productions necessary to attract a dense population. This branch of the argument was not overlooked by my father, but, through some unaccountable oversight, was not embraced in his argument as published in the first edition of the pamphlet. I have taken the liberty to interject it, knowing that it would meet the authors approbation were he living. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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