| Behind the Mirrors: The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington Contributor(s): Gilbert, Clinton Wallace (Author) |
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ISBN: 1163368482 ISBN-13: 9781163368480 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $30.92 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 9.02" W x 6" (1.27 lbs) 278 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II GOD'S TIME AS IT IS; AN INGERSOLL THAT REQUIRES MUCH WINDING How many of us believe in Progress with the unquestioning faith we had before that day in July, 1914, when Austria's declaration of war upon Serbia started the ruin of all that centuries had built up in Europe? Most of us have not stopped to analyze what has happened since to our belief that the world ever moved by an irresistible primal impulse forward to more and better things, that the song which the morning stars sang together was "It shall be multiplied unto you," that increment is inevitable and blessed. But how many of us really believe that in the unqualified way we once did? The world had many pleasant illusions about Progress before the great catastrophe of 1914 came to shatter them. And nowhere were these illusions more cheerfully accepted than in this country of ours, where a wilderness had become a great civilization in the space of a century and where theevidences of rapid, continuous advancement were naturally strong. The first pleasant illusion was that modern progress had made war impossible, at least war between the great nations of the earth, which, profiting by the examples we had set them, enjoyed more or less free governments, where production mounted from year to year, where wealth was ever increasing. Destiny plainly meant more and more iron dug from the ground and turned into steel machinery, larger, more powerful automobiles, taller and taller buildings, swifter and swifter elevators, more and more capacious freight cars, and destiny would not tolerate stopping all this for the insanity of destruction. Moreover?how good were the ways of Progress ?the ever increasing mastery over the forces of nature which had been fate's latest and best gift to humanity, approaching a s... |
