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...opposed to each other in our own, and the only attempt at an organization is that of the trades-unions, which "involve a complete levelling process, and in which the arithmetical view of society reaches its extreme results." Our author concludes, then, that "at best liberty is not progress. It is a condition of progress. Its worth depends upon its use." And, though wealth be the result of our system, yet "wealth is not an end in itself; like liberty, it is a means...
...Aryan dispersion. Are we better off than our forefathers of four thousand years ago? Before answering this question, Professor Everett seeks to remove certain prejudices. One of these is the natural belief that all is for the best, from which proceeds, especially in youth, an enthusiastic trust in progress; but, even retaining a faith in optimism, might we not reasonably suppose that, by a system of compensations, the world is always at its best? Is it not by blindly applying a principle of final causes that we look on all other centuries only as the preparation for our own? That...
...Farmer, and taking into consideration the efforts he is making to promote the success of the Thayer Club, it is due to him to say that nine waiters left him Thursday morning, frightened at the extent of the work; only one dumb-waiter has been built, another is in progress of construction; mechanics interfere with the operations of cooks and everything is in an unfinished and unsettled condition...
...Chinese government has intrusted the collection of its revenue from foreign trade to a department officered by foreigners. Its primary purpose is the collection of revenue; but its peculiar and intimate relations with Chinese officials give it special opportunities, and a powerful influence in promoting the development and progress of China in a great variety of ways. At the head of the organization is the Inspector-General, who resides in Peking, with a staff of secretaries, interpreters, and clerks; and a Commissioner of Customs, with his staff of assistants, is stationed at each of the fourteen ports of foreign trade...
...necessity. Without it, if the present six (which is now in very good trim) loses a man, they will have to take into the boat another, perfectly raw and untrained, and it will be not only his rowing which will injure the crew, but the disheartening knowledge that their progress has been stopped...