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Tradition
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The railroad was not the first institution to impose on society or to draw attention to the importance of precise timekeeping. For as long as merchants have set out their wares at daybreak and communal festivities have been celebrated, people have been in agreement with their neighbours as the time of day. The value of this tradition is today more than ever. Were it not for public acceptance of a single yardstick of time, social life would be chaotic: the massive daily transfers of goods, services, and information would proceed in fits and starts; the very of modern society would begin to unravel.
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