Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.

The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.

The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of Canadian development. Canada has remained fundamentally a product of Europe.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.