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A Paris omnibus. Lithograph by Honore Daumier, 1856. The caption reads: "Fifteen
centimes for a full bath! My word, what a bargain!" See M8,S.
'The genial Vautrin disguised as the abbe Carlos Herrera, had foreseen the Parisians'
infatuation with public transport when he invested all his funds in transit
companies in order to settle a dowry 011 Lucien de Ruhempre." Poete, Beaurepaire,
Clottzot, and Henriot, Vne Promena,de it travers Paris au temps des romantiques:
Exposition de la Bibliotheque et des Travaux historiques de la Ville de
Paris (1908), p. 28. [M8,6]
"Therefore the one who sees, without hearing, is much 1110re ... worried than
the one who hears without seeing. Tills principle is of great importance in under­
standing the sociology of the modern city. Social life in the large city ... shows a
great preponderance of occasions to see rather than to hear people. One explana­
tion ... of special significance is the development of public means of transporta­
tion. Before the appearance of omnibuses, railroads, and streetcars in the
nineteenth century, men were not in a situation where, for minutes or hours at a
time, they could or must look at one another without talking to one another;'
G. Simmel, Melanges de philosophie relativiste: Contribution a la culture philosophique