Walking, however, was obviously necessary, and pedestrians were virtually incapable of causing accidental injury to others.

rhetorical closure, problems

Success in such historical investigations requires not merely looking back from where we stand today at the actors of times past, but getting back to them, so we can stand next to them and adopt their perspective.

If workers were shown safer methods, accident records would improve without expensive new capital investment.

The car had already cleaned up its once bloody reputation in cities, less by killing fewer people than by enlisting others to share the responsibility for the carnage.

persist, but promotional language is used to assert the success of the new way,

much as advertising promotes a product.

"motordom." Often they presented their position clothed in a rhetoric of freedom.9

order.