Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victim functions, acts without thought or will. He becomes a Frankenstein, a Trilby, a Golem fortuitously set a-going...
...Babson speaks, as always, on the basis of sound and undeniable facts. It his position he is faced daily with the reality that materialism is on the way to becoming a Frankenstein, devouring its own products anti destroying its newly created benefits. Left to its own sphere commercialism, which is merely a scornful name for business sagacity, is a genuine contribution to the progress of man; to prove it one has only to compare office methods of today with those of a quarter of a century ago. But commercialism ceases to be a blessing when it enters other fields besides...
...13th century the towns of Hamburg and Lübeck inaugurated enlightened co-operation which led to the famed Hanseatic League; and late in the 19th century, Germany gave to the world that ultimately co-operative enterprise, the proletarian loan bank. The gigantic post-War industrial Frankenstein erected by Herr Stinnes is conceivable among no other people. Only because the German settles down in any workable industrial harness and tugs mightfully is the Dawes Plan practicable. Today there hangs eminent over Germany a new super-Dawes work harness. Already there is a whispered possibility that Germany may not be able...
...again to the daylight of wisdom by whose radiance a new insight, a new joy; a new tenderness, shine forth to gladden the pilgrim's heart." Then, and then alone, when man has learned to control his inner life, can he stand forth, free of his fear, a fortified Frankenstein...
...created is increased the organization is likely to annihilate him." Thus Raymond Fosdick in his address before the Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia expresses a fear which all intelligent moderns must eventually feel. No one who appreciates this monster which man in the role of a Frankenstein has created can remain apathetic. So from the agile minds of certain European intellectuals as well as from "old school" Americans have come their expressions of fear. But while these have beaten the air of a careless world with the fury of their misgivings, the beast has kept slowly and methodically...