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Despite temporary regressions and stagnation, the history of man has displayed a constant upward spiral. Some day the human race will awaken to the glorious truth, first expressed by Confucius, that "the kingdom of heaven is within you," and that deeds are the vital thing-not belief...
...seen the bodies of climbers. Some, prone and inert, lie on the ledges to which they have hurtled to death. Some dangle, arrested, over the void as they cling by their fingernails to cliffs too steep for their exhausted strength to scale. Above these, a few still strain upward in a convulsive effort to attain a height hidden from them as well as from the spectator...
These agonists are the personifications of the human societies we call civilizations, in their upward impulse from the pit of primitive times. Downward, beyond the extreme range of vision, plunges a depth measured by 300,000 unenlightened years -the time required for the lowest climber to reach, from primitive to civilized man, the lowest visible ledge. The others have been climbing, at one stage or another, for the 6,000 years of discernible history...
...economic organism subject to violent cyclical swings from boom to bust, each is out to get more than just a fair share. Both sides, labor and management want that "extra" which may mean the difference between life and death in the depression. The result is the upward spiral, and the crash...
...Goat. The paradox of the year was the stock market. The big bull market, which had been rampaging upwards for four years, showed no signs of tiring as the year opened. Through the steel, auto, coal and thousands of little strikes, the market went serenely onward & upward, in a sort of economic Indian rope trick, as profits-and production-went from bad to worse in the first half of the year (see chart). So many little people rushed in to buy that the Stock Exchange spent $750,000 in newspaper and magazine ads to warn the lambs away from...