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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 81, 29 December 1928, Page 7

“Many years ago it used to be said of the people of Boston, by way of reproach, that they made their roads on the old cow tracks; it is no reproach; the cow, with its natural instinct, chooses its route more surely than the average man; and it is the business of the man not to despise the wisdom of the cow, but to amplify it by his power of providing for remote contingencies. The foundation, then, of the art of road designing is the simple principle of following the lines of least resistance, and any attempt to substitute for this a purely geometrical scheme is psychologically unsound. A man judges of the world by the surroundings with which he is most familiar. If his daily work, for instance, should take him where, on the curve of a river carved out in the course of centuries by the erosion of stream and tide, building after building comes successively into view, each with its appointed office and its varied history, he must be a dull man indeed if his thoughts of life are altogether ignoble.” —“The Spectator.”