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...Josiah voiced ringing confidence that the superior fiscal organization and longer experience of London in handling complex international transactions will keep the City's services and the pound in brisk worldwide demand. 3) "The greatest friend of New York," concluded Sir Josiah, "could not say at the present time that New York's financial dealings with foreign countries have been characterized by a steady, courageous purpose or by intimate and far-seeing knowledge." For the cashing of bills of exchange "on any large scale a very elaborate machine of financial knowledge and financial courage is required, and this...
While the "stream of physical tendency throughout the universe is on the whole downward, toward disintegration and dissipation, the organic movement, on this planet at least, is upward, and life structures on the whole becoming more complex throughout the course of organic evolution. From the viewpoint of physics, life and mind are thus singular and exceptional phenomena, not in line with the movement of the universe as a whole. . . . Perhaps we may even say that at the Present epoch there is no other globe where life is at the level manifested on earth. ... I suggest that at the present cosmic...
What then are we to think? Are these New Yorkers trying to take us down a peg? Have we at last come face to face with a much talked of spectre of contemporary existence? Inferiority complex, that's what it is. Put yourself in the place of those benighted New Yorkers. New York's drawing rooms are full of old southern kunnels. And they know where they came from. They haven't forgiven Cromwell yet for chopping off King Charles's head. And these Bostonians! Well, not everybody is a Mayflower descendant, but they have a way of looking...
Last week the jury showed the strain of four long weeks of pondering complex banking documents and technicalities. They looked tired when young Judge M. V. Barnhill (who two years ago presided at the labor war trials in Gastonia) read his charge to them. This took him five hours. Then the jurors filed...
...fetched per se. For, first, every Southern white man does not carry in the back of his head any mortal fear that his wife or daughter will be raped or killed or both by some black man. crazy or otherwise. Many of him has a forbidding superiority complex; just as every Southern black man does not have mortal fear of some day being lynched, easy recourse of many Southern whites to it to penalize black men even for misdemeanors notwithstanding. And. last, white men's vigilance over their women folk is far more practical, certainly more nearly possible, than...