Excerpt from Primitive Travel and Transportation The complete account of the human species acquiring the resources of nature and dominating and understanding her forces is the history of culture. The human species has approached, and in its best estate does now approach, the material resources of the earth under the impulse of five sets of motives, to wit. 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.

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