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Force and Enterprise in the Creation of Oceanic Commerce

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Frederic C. Lane
Frederic C. Lane
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The Johns Hopkins University
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Extract

Among the other excellent and extraordinary gifts that God has given to human kind is the knowledge of the motion of the spheres, the course of the planets and stars, and of the climatic zones under which is placed this marvelous world machine. With this knowledge we furrow that very great element, the water, and betake ourselves into almost any part of the world that we wish, with the same facility as if there were in the wide ocean a fixed road showing signs of its use, and a through highway.

Type
Oceanic Expansion
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 10 , Supplement S1 , 1950 , pp. 19 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1950

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