world-exchanges

Updated: June 12, 2025

The nomad, living on cattle as ants live on theirs, is less human than the farmer, raising food by intelligently applied labor; and the extension of trade and commerce, from mere village market-places to the world-exchanges of to-day, is extension of human-ness as well.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture