Excerpt from Highway in the Wilderness: 1907-1908 A path is earlier than building, earlier than wells; it is among the first and most imperative of man's necessities. Perhaps he began by following the tracks along which animals seek their food and their drinking places. They have strange wisdom which tells them how to shun the morass and how to find out the ford. And so primeval man trod safely in the footprints of the beasts. In the Canadian North West it is still evident that the first settlers must often have followed ...
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Excerpt from Highway in the Wilderness: 1907-1908 A path is earlier than building, earlier than wells; it is among the first and most imperative of man's necessities. Perhaps he began by following the tracks along which animals seek their food and their drinking places. They have strange wisdom which tells them how to shun the morass and how to find out the ford. And so primeval man trod safely in the footprints of the beasts. In the Canadian North West it is still evident that the first settlers must often have followed some buffalo-trail as their guide across the wilderness. Deep rooted in human nature lives the imperious instinct which makes us cling to a beaten track. The common Hebrew word for road originally meant no more than 'ground trodden upon.' And the ancient Pilgrim Road from Damascus into Arabia, which has been used for uncounted centuries, still consists merely ofa number of parallel tracks, trampled by men and beasts year after year, without any artificial construction or pavement. In the desert the one thing needful is guidance to discover a water-spring and to avoid a camp of foemen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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