Timber Ships

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“Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.”
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“A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.”
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