ITS IMPORTANCE AND PRACTICABILITY
THE NATION, THE SHAREHOLDERS,
"The roads of a country, from the very nature of things, are public concerns; they are as
necessary to a people as the air they breathe."-Second Report of the Select Committee of the
House of Commons, 1846.
"Should we live to see fully developed all the powers and energies of this system, we have
no doubt we shall also live to see it recognized as one of the very greatest benefits that either
art or philosophy has conferred on mankind."-Quarterly Review.
"If I entertained any feeling on the subject of the interference of Government, it is one
of regret that they did not, in the first instance, take a more active and prominent part, that
they did not themselves lay out for consideration what appeared to them the best general
scheme for accommodating the traffic throughout the metropolis, without having the slightest
reference to this company or that."-Speech of the Earl of Derby in the House of Lords,
February 12th, 1864.
LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.