¶ Ship (1)
Index Entry
Ship:
“Throughout the documented milleniums of man’s evolutionary technologies and their progressively integrated inventories, recognized environmentally as successive eras, there has been one fundamental category of technical, strategic, and economic undertakings which, of inherent necessity, transcended the going local traditions of opinion-governed expediency in treatment of physical problems and expenditures of local wealth and credit for those local ends; that is, if we except the enormous credit and physical investment of local undertakings in the most transcendental class as mystical insurance for eternal equanimity as built into the great religious edifices by the local communities, as representing the most generalized problem treatment and infinite range planning known to man’s history. If instead, we confine our selves to discovering what has been the longest-range and most generalized case of the economic communities investment in equipment-- simplex and complex-- designed for the improved satisfaction of living needs, we will discover that ships and watercraft building in the vast majority of historic communities, who of necessity lived near water bodies, undoubtedly represents the most generalized problem treatment”
