“…if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere …. America would have been discovered more gradually and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed…” (Shelley 51)
What if no one ever took initiative, would anything ever get done? Shelley answered that with a big no. If people were too worried about messing up than our world would come to an end very quickly; often times, when a risk is taken a great reward can be received. However, it can work both ways, with both good and bad outcomes; that being said, it is blatantly obvious that everything we do, or don’t do has consequences; something will happen or something will be avoided.
What if no one ever took initiative, would anything ever get done? Shelley answered that with a big no. If people were too worried about messing up than our world would come to an end very quickly; often times, when a risk is taken a great reward can be received. However, it can work both ways, with both good and bad outcomes; that being said, it is blatantly obvious that everything we do, or don’t do has consequences; something will happen or something will be avoided.
why does Shelley point to those particular examples? Might there be a reason for choosing America and the Mexican and Peruvian empires? (Azetec and Mayan - I think, or were it the Incans -- respectively)
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