"At first every­one ­will seek for himself what seems to him the best path," he wrote, "but the fact that such a path has been used once is likely to make it easier to traverse and therefore more likely to be used again; and thus gradually more and more clearly defined tracks arise and come to be used to the exclusion of other pos­si­ble ways. ­Human movements through the region come to conform to a definite pattern which, although the result of deliberate decisions of many ­people, has yet not been consciously designed by anyone."

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 748