Capitolo 28
all, safe to strengthen him/it. If you look at the greatest hemisphere
unloadings, you will see England it occupies his exact middle. Insular
her, and therefore all did on harbors, she is more neighbor all the harbors in
the world that some other country is or you/he/she can be never. I don't say that
this assures for his/her perpetual dominion, as Virgil prophesied for
the Roman empire; but I say me it manufactures her a hard country to strike in
commercial competition. It gives account of Liverpool, London, Glasgow,
Newcastle; it peer gives account in a way of Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds,
and Sheffield. Now England witnesses the mathematical centre of the
practical world, and unless some Great Thing happens to move her to her,
it has to keep on being standing there. He/she takes a great quantity to upset the equilibrium
of a whole planet.
Is anything now moving her/it? There is well, the fact that the platforms
you/he/she is relatively making more important to-day of earth-carriage to
water-carriage that to some preceding period. That is able, perhaps, in duration
you move the centre of the world from an island as England to the middle one
of a great area of earth as Chicago or Moscow. And, without doubt, if never the
centre moves to everybody, it will move toward Western America, or rather
the region of grassland. But, only currently, what is the greatest
commercial city of the world? All veer to a man. And the day when it
it will be otherwise, if it seems far never still distant. You seem to the newest
countries. Which are their great focal points? Every one of them the harbors.
Melbourne and Sydney; Rio, Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso; Head City, St.
Francisco, Bombay, Calcutta, Yokohama. Same Chicago, the most vital
and the most rapid grower among modern city, owes his/her importance half to
the fact that there water-carriage down the Lakes Gran starts; although
it owes the other half, I admit, to the contrary fact that all the great
binary trans-continental they have to bend south to that point to avoid
Lake Michigan. On the whole one, me he/she anchors I think, until the conditions