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Politicians at Washington very generally failed to realize that the
advent of President Hayes marked the dismissal of the issues of war
and reconstruction. They regarded as an episode what turned out to
be the close of an era. They saw, indeed, that public interest in
the old issues had waned, but they were confident that this lack of
interest was transient. They admitted that the emotional fervor
excited by the war and by the issues of human right involved in its
results was somewhat damped, but they believed that the settlement
of those issues was still so incomplete that public interest would
surely rekindle. For many years the ruling thought of the
Republican party leaders was to be watchful of any opportunity to
ply the bellows on the embers. Besides genuine concern over the way
in which the negroes had been divested of political privileges
conferred by national legislation, the Republicans felt a tingling
sense of party injury.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - We have only started on our
development of our country - we have not as yet, with all our talk
of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface. The
progress has been wonderful enough-but when we compare what we have
done with what there is to do, then our past accomplishments are as
nothing. When we consider that more power is used merely in
ploughing the soil than is used in all the industrial
establishments of the country put together, an inkling comes of how
much opportunity there is ahead. And now, with so many countries of
the world in ferment and with so much unrest every where, is an
excellent time to suggest something of the things that may be done
in the light of what has been done. When one speaks of increasing
power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold,
metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the
trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then
we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human
machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we
know more about machines and their use, unless we better understand
the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy
the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
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