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Such is the universal law, which no man can ever outwit, and with regard to the railroad even we may say it is as broad as it is long. To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet. Men have an indistinct notion that if they keep up this activity of joint stocks and spades long enough all will at length ride somewhere, in next to no time, and for nothing; but though a crowd rushes to the depot, and the conductor shouts "All aboard!" when the smoke is blown away and the vapor condensed, it will be perceived that a few are riding, but the rest are run over — and it will be called, and will be, "A melancholy accident." No doubt they can ride at last who shall have earned their fare, that is, if they survive so long, but they will probably have lost their elasticity and desire to travel by that time. This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once. "What!" exclaim a million Irishmen starting up from all the shanties in the land, "is not this railroad which we have built a good thing?" Yes, I answer, comparatively good, that is, you might have done worse; but I wish, as you are brothers of mine, that you could have spent your time better than digging in this dirt.


華爾騰湖的第一章，經濟，仔細一讀，處處都點出目前台灣的問題。梭羅說，人們總有一種不清楚的概念，以為只要大家有錢出錢，有力出力，接在一起，接得夠長，則最後人人都不用花多少錢，不用多少時間，要坐到哪就坐到哪。然而，等到高鐵站都蓋好了，才知道能夠乘坐的人畢竟只有少數。我們的保險制度不也是如此？大家努力繳保費，等到快要退休了，才發現每月可領的不足以讓自己活下去。現在好了，我們知道，鐵軌至少還可讓關廠老工人們拿來抗議。因此而無法準時搭到火車的乘客請不要生氣，此時正好讓自己靜下來想想，是否沒有火車高鐵的台灣會比現在幸福一點。