Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Factors Underlying the Leadership of the Railways of America
States politically, so the ceaseless shuttling of the railways has made possible and done much to realize the social unifica tion and the real spiritual solidarity of our strongly sectional and markedly cos mopolitan population. How much that means only tliose of us fully appreciate who travel widely over the land. More over, the American people do not realize the great contribution of our railways in preventing some of the great ills and perils that have well nigh undone other nations and have actually brought on some of the greatest calamities of man kind.
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