Railways going into large cities occupy a great deal of valuable real estate.
They often add to their revenue by selling the right to construct large buildings above the tracks. An example is the Prudential Insurance Company's forty-one story building in Chicago. A story is told that the Chinese philosopher and teacher Confucius was travelling with some of his disciples when they heard a woman weeping over a grave. When asked why she did not leave such a dangerous place, she answered that there was no oppressive government. If, rejecting all that is merely incidental, we look at the essential characteristics of the Whig and the Tory of eighteenth century England, we may consider each of them as representative of particular principles.