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...agrarian economic order is inflexible; while the quantity of its produce is capriciously flexible with the whims of nature. There is no accurate way of forecasting over-production until the seed is long sown. And if the disaster could be foreseen, farmers have no means of effective and beneficial crop limitation at hand. There can be little of the selling out, merging, and re-investing that characterizes industrial fluctuation and enables manufacturers to weather variations in demand without serious loss. Geographically, socially, personally, the farmers are both set and separate...
...proposed educational department, hailed by Dr. Otis as another step in bureaucratic dictatorship, is scarcely harmful. One can not imagine its engaging in activities more noxious than the cultivated equivalent of free seed distribution. The legislative branch of the government which several times has made abortive attempts to weaken the Supreme court is not likely to confer unseemly authority on a newly created department. With only the powers granted by a jealous Congress, the bureau could have little autocratic influence on the schools of the nation...
...hearing this news, Sargent's many admirers were alarmed. His fame is likely to last longer than his pictures, they lamented. Others winked at each other. He is lucky, they seemed to say. If his paintings go to seed quickly enough, they may not be forced to outlive his reputation...
...very short story Mr. J. E. Barnett's "Fern Seed" possesses a degree of intensity that is admirable. Perhaps one does not understand the meaning of all the apparitions that came to Karl as he waited at the cross-roads "over both of which corpses have been borne to the burial-ground", but the retribution was Karl's secret, not ours. Mr. Barnett writes with a hint of magic. With Mr. Dumaux he should share honors...
What child is not, at one time or another, regarded as a prodigy? Let any baby spend an hour taking a twelve-jeweled watch apart, and no parent can fail to perceive in him the seed of potential engineering genius; let him draw in pencil on the nursery wall and his mother-unless she be crass indeed-will recognize that his painting may some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet...