paul phillips wrote: > > I think I disagree quite profoundly with Carrol on this. The centre of > most communities in the 'frontier' west of Canada was the local church > and school.
The center is not the community. What _formed_ the community was the shared action of forming the physical community on the 'frontier.' The historical accident of the Roman Empire was responsible for the "center" to be a xtian church rather than some other such institution. Your post complements rather than contradicts mine. Carrol
