E. C. Stedman

"What will be the first and obvious effect of aerial navigation?” To many

answers, apposite or otherwise, I have added my own : "Decatur, Illinois, will
become a sea-port town.” … Why Decatur, because that place will do for an example
of the dependent inland towns … inaccessible except for their construction. The
smallest, the most remote, of them all will at once become sea-ports. The air will be the ocean …

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