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A question for you history and social sciences pros: Westgard in Tales of a Pathfinder (1920) says:

 

Of all the modern methods of communication, telegraph,

telephone, rural delivery of mail, interurban

electric cars, railroad, newspapers and magazines,

the strongest and most potent antidote to ignorance

is the motor car, because it teaches while it gives

pleasure and health, and thus is "easy to take."

 

Clearly this was reasonable when most people never traveled beyond the county seat. Is it at all true today?

 

Dave

 

Keep the Show on the Road?

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B)B)B)

 

A question for you history and social sciences pros: Westgard in Tales of a Pathfinder (1920) says:

 

Of all the modern methods of communication, telegraph,

telephone, rural delivery of mail, interurban

electric cars, railroad, newspapers and magazines,

the strongest and most potent antidote to ignorance

is the motor car, because it teaches while it gives

pleasure and health, and thus is "easy to take."

 

Clearly this was reasonable when most people never traveled beyond the county seat. Is it at all true today?

 

Dave

 

Keep the Show on the Road?

 

Maybe it is - along with pleasure and health it also teaches you frustration (along with a whole new language), patience and a few other things. :D Certainly there are times when they are not "easy to take"!!!!

 

Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

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