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...ronica’s position generally, to an acute issue. In addition to the various business men, solicitors, civil servants, and widow ladies who lived in the... ... t 3 t 3 ANN VERONICA’S FATHER was a solicitor with a good deal of company business: a lean, trustworthy , worried-looking, neu- ralgic, clean-shaven ... ... was in the Indian Civil Service and one in the rapidly devel- oping motor business. The daughters, he had hoped, would be their mother’s care. He had... ...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...h familiar respect, Christ and Buddha and Shelley and Nietzsche and Plato. Pioneers all of them. Such names shone brightly in the darkness, with black... ...hich indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and indiscriminately “advanced...

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...NICKS’ house. In the foreground on the left is a door leading to BERNICK’S business room; farther back in the same wall, a similar door. In the middle... ...p! But I know well enough whom I have to thank for this. It is that damned American boat. Those fellows ex- pect to get work done here the way they ar... ... And for an example of it, we need look no farther than at the crew of the American ship that is lying here just now. Rorlund: Oh, I would rather not ... ... if it had been the hand of Providence that caused me to take a journey on business this spring, in the course of which I happened to traverse a valle... ... blessed activ- ity in our schools and our homes. We, the practical men of business, will be the support of the community by ex- tending its welfare w... ...out to the right.) Bernick (who has read the telegram): This is thoroughly American! Absolutely shocking! Mrs.Bernick: Good gracious, Karsten, what is... ...never had an opportunity for a good talk yet. Yesterday you had your three pioneers here, as well as the parson. Hilmar: The schoolmaster. Lona: I cal...

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...once the reader has the clue. 9 Shaw The manager of a theatre is a man of business. He is not an expert in politics, religion, art, literature, philo... ...d Sir Herbert Tree, because they are only incidentally managers and men of business: primarily they are highly cultivated artists, quite ca- pable of ... ...nterlude It was part of this nervous dislike of the unpleasant part of its business that led to the comic incident of the Committee’s sudden discovery... ... other hand, it is some- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a ce... ...h the popular laxity of the Lord Chamberlain. The judge would suppress the pioneers, whilst the Examiner of Plays issued two guinea certificates for t... ...eep naughty playwrights in order, still less can it be trusted to keep the pioneers of thought in countenance; and I submit that anyone hissing a play... ... windows and the open door. The women, whose dress and speech are those of pioneers of civilisation in a territory of the United States of America, ar... ...ough to hang you, anyway. [Going over to him threateningly]. Youre no true American man, to insult a 86 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet woman like th... ...he word of a woman of bad character. I stand on the honor and virtue of my American manhood. I say that she’s not had the oath, and that you darent fo...

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... in his habits, and fond of the mud. It bites deliberately as if about its business. They are taken at night with a mass of worms strung on a thread, ... ...y sometimes see the curious circular nests of the Lamprey Eel, Petromyzon Americanus, the American Stone Sucker, as large as a cart wheel, a foot or ... ...d, and referring him to some new ge nealogy. “Son of——and——. He aided the Americans to gain their independence, instructed mankind in economy, and dr... ...low and run together. They read as if written for military men, for men of business, there is such a despatch in them. Compared with these, the grave ... ... ings of the river, as ever the nearest way for us. Fortunately we had no business in this country. The Concord had rarely been a river, or rivus, b... ...ophies of his valor as did “good young Frye.” We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow ... ...moral grandeur and sub limity akin to those of his own Scriptures. T o an American reader, who, by the advantage of his posi tion, can see over that...

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...is hoped he began to feel that selling slaves unlawfully was not so good a business as he had wished to find it. He secreted himself till due preparat... ...and depth of this moral malaria, this putrescent plague-spot?’ Perhaps the pioneers in the slave’s cause will be as much surprised as any to find that... ...e obtained property from his uncle, Robert Thompson, and then he went into business as a store- keeper, was considered respectable, and became a mem- ... ...er of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. He married in 1813, and continued in business in Cambridge. In 1816, he ruined himself by a building speculation... ...re treated; they are scarcely regarded as being present. This trait in our American character has been frequently noticed by foreign travel- ers. One ...

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...er-in-law died, leaving little; he was indignant at this, “went in for the business,” lost some money in it, then retired to the country , where he th... ... main- tained till her death. She was constantly going about looking after business matters. She called on the lawyers, the presi- dent, remembered wh... ...ans to send him to a public school, to buy him a practice, or start him in business? Besides, with cheek a man always gets on in the world.” Madame Bo... ... said the council- lor. “You, farmers, agricultural labourers! you pacific pioneers of a work that belongs wholly to civilization! you, men of progres... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ...

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... young, are for you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you c...

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...Conscience by Donna Elvira. Excommunication has become almost as serious a business as it was in the X century. As a result, Man is no longer, like Do... ... modern London life, a life in which, as you know, the ordinary man’s main business is to get means to keep up the position and habits of a gentleman,... ...o keep up the position and habits of a gentleman, and the ordinary woman’s business is to get married. In 9,999 cases out of 10,000, you can count on ... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...affected my reputation unfavourably, and produced in the few discour- aged pioneers of those days a quite touching gratitude. Over my mantel as I writ... ...t upon a well- known and quite level expanse, is a risky and uncomfortable business. But getting up and landing upon fairly smooth water is easier tha... ...effective. Most of the forces of international finance and interna- tional business enterprise will be with it. It will develop its own characteristic... ...I find the same doubts of our quality assail me when I turn to the supreme business of education. It is true we all seem alive nowadays to the need of... ...inating. It has been made by odd and irregular means by trading companies, pioneers, explorers, unauthorised seamen, adventurers like Clive, ec- centr...

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...that of the medieval robber baron, it qualifies men to keep an estate or a business going in its old routine without neces- sarily understanding it, j... ...olicitors and agents, being unable to manage an 7 GB Shaw estate or run a business without continual prompting from those who have to learn how to do... ...o the stomach. As their mechanist theory taught them that medicine was the business of the chemist’s laboratory, and surgery of the carpenter’s shop, ... ...l sense and reason. In European Courts there was vindictive illegality: in American Courts there was raving lunacy. It is not for me to chronicle the ... ...t is not for me to chronicle the extravagances of an Ally: let some candid American do that. I can only say that to us sitting in our gardens in Engla... ...or ourselves alive next morning, the newspaper ac- counts of the sentences American Courts were passing on young girls and old men alike for the expre... ...e army has at last disgorged the survivors of the gallant band of dramatic pioneers whom it swallowed, they find that the economic conditions which fo...

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... vi- sion. It is this desire which has been the primary force mov- ing the pioneers of Socialism and Anarchism, as it moved the inventors of ideal com... ...1844 began his lifelong friend- ship with Engels, who had been hitherto in business in Manchester, where he had become acquainted with English Sociali... ...sed that this process must involve a diminution, not only in the number of businesses, but also in the number of capitalists. Indeed, he usually spoke... ...also in the number of capitalists. Indeed, he usually spoke as though each business were owned by a single man. Accordingly, he expected that men woul... ...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor...

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...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ...row of slavery, with less than twenty men. My father set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage C... ...s I enjoyed beyond any other period of my life. My father had sold out his business in Georgetown—where my youth had been spent, and to which my day-d... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...acy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union. Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manne... ... of some twenty or more lieutenants as if we had been there. The principal business consisted in securing mules, and getting them broken to harness. T... ...rtunate could go by Cape Horn or by the Isthmus of Panama; but the mass of pioneers crossed the plains with their ox-teams. This took an entire summer... ...ority for feed- ing them unless they were employed as teamsters, cooks and pioneers with the army; but only able-bodied young men were suitable for su... ...he labor of building the batteries and intrenching was largely done by the pioneers, assisted by negroes who came within our lines and who were paid f...

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...ed, what of many of the profiteers and captains of industry who manipulate business and property for purely selfish ends? What of many of our great fi... ...fidence game contends with great assurance that his methods are like other business methods; that all men are using every means to get the largest ret... ...e soon comes to feel that the police are his natural enemies and his chief business is to keep from get- ting caught. Inevitably he is brought into th... ...ivil War. During the last war, these en- croachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immedia... ...rough the needs of the rulers in war they were given to the poor. When the American Revolution separated us from Great Britain, the spirit of democrac... ...ch and nerves, and Nature will have revenge. T o be sure, the professional American rhapso- dist points out that we are immune from natural law becaus... ...bly with those who still reside in the sections of the country which these pioneers left behind. It cannot be shown that the less intelligent have cri...

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...ight be secured. It was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller consideration of English Philosophy than it had hith- erto ... ...nti-materialistic tendency of physics is the view of William James and the American new realists, according to which the “stuff” of the world is neith... ...ing that could be called “experi- ence.” This word has been dropped by the American realists, among whom we may mention specially Professor R. B. Perr... ... 23 The Analysis of Mind “I desire to be kind to my friends, honourable in business, phil- anthropic towards the poor, public-spirited in politics.” S... ...to the somewhat repulsive and often rather wild theories of psychoanalytic pioneers, it will be worth while to read a little book by Dr. Bernard Hart ... ...sses, being more abstract and logi- cally simpler than any of them. If our business were logic, we should have to spend much time on these words. But ... ...ter and pass on, since the logical classification of words is not our main business. We will consider next the question what is implied by saying that...

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...oman to her ladyship in the late lord’s time, and, having her soul in that business, took naturally to it when the Viscountess of Castlewood returned ... ...boxing his ears, and tilting the silver basin in his face which it was his business to present to her after dinner. She hath repaired, by subsequent k... ...indeed, the former was a perfectly-bred gentleman, and it was the latter’s business to agree with everybody. Doctor Tusher and the lady’s-maid, his sp... ...ear that place, where great intrenchments were thrown up, and thousands of pioneers 220 Henry Esmond employed to strengthen the position. On the 2nd ... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...