Expansion Under New World-conditions

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Baker and Taylor Company, 1900 - 302 páginas
 

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Página 267 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
Página 65 - She will probably become what we are now, the head servant in the great household of the world, the employer of all employed; because her service will be the most and ablest.
Página 100 - The day will come when in the state of New York a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature.
Página 299 - We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race...
Página 265 - As we have, therefore, opportunity, let us do good unto all men," making obligation commensurate with opportunity. As the individual life, organized in everwider relations, is the basis of the community life, of the national life, and of the world life, and as individual opinion is the basis of public opinion, which by reason of...
Página 139 - An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world.
Página 235 - It matters not to me, My brother's weal is his behoof," For in this wondrous human web, If your life's warp, his life is woof. Woven together are the threads, And you and he are in one loom, For good or ill, for glad or sad, Your lives must share one common doom.
Página 197 - Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances of 3,500 or 4,000 miles — or between 7,000 and 8,000, going and coming — an impediment to sustained maritime operations well-nigh prohibitive.

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