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...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...those teenagers and adults who are being denied children are having their civil and human rights are violated. Advocates will champion the civil and ... ...ts and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field.‟ For those states that have signed it, is suppose... ...iring at least a 40% representation of the minority gender on all boards, civil and business. So on boards dominated by women, at least 40% 42 o... ...gly to people like athletes and actors. Our celebrities and stars are the engineers, outstanding teachers and effective political leaders. ... .... POSITIVE IMMIGRANTS “Indian doctors and information technology engineers enhance a society. They can‟t be compared with the uneducated la...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...cleared off. He would have seen that, at the end of the most destruc- tive civil war that ever occurred, when animosities of the bitterest sort had ba... ..., about the power of the United States to withstand the severest shocks of civil war. Could he have traced the further course of events until they ope... ...c opinion formed in the independent expres- sions of towns and other small civil districts that is the real conservatism of free government. It is equ... ... erecting for themselves prodigious undertakings, which would astonish the engineers of the great European nations. Thus democracy not only leads men ... ...ipal manufacturer; he collects and retains in his service a vast number of engineers, architects, mechanics, and handicraftsmen. Not only is he the pr...

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... his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World f... ...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ...uliar construc- tion halted by the roadside, with a number of businesslike engineers grouped about them watching through field-glasses some sort of en... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF... ... was a vulgar little creature, the sort of pert, limited soul that the old civilisation of the early twentieth century produced by the million in ever... ... full of drawings done in the peculiar flat style and conventional colours engineers adopt. And, in, addition there were some rather under-exposed pho... ...own, but now he was beginning to realise that the military rather than the civil arm was concerned about him. He was quite involuntarily playing that ... ...ed the only really habitable part of the ship. If anything went wrong, the engineers went aft along a rope ladder be- neath the frame. The tendency of...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...the State; it employs all the savings of surplus income that the unrest of civil enterprise leaves idle; it has an effect of creating property by a pr... ...come up for a moral judgment, on whose verdict the whole future of Western civilisation depends. If they cannot achieve a considerable, an unprecedent... ...ficials, any “conscription” of land or railways or what not for the urgent civil needs of the State. They will have fight- ing against these tendencie... ...pression. I have met and talked to quite a number of young men in khaki—ex-engineers, ex-lawyers, ex-schoolmasters, ex-business men of all sorts—and t... ...ng machinery which is in progress in Britain to-day. Thousands of firms of engineers and manufacturers of all sorts, which were flour- ishing in 1914,... ...ess, and they will be going into the public service, not as clerks, but as engineers, tech- nical chemists, manufacturers, State agriculturists, and t...

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...led Goliath, he cut off his head and carried it before the king?” With the civil life of the inhabitants we have far less to do; and yet even here a w... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...ome. This is to take the most savage of Polynesians; take some of the most civilised. In Honolulu, convicts labour on the highways in piebald cloth- i... ...ttery, came to the States, found 28 A Footnote to History employment as a civil engineer, visited Cuba, took a sub- contract on the Panama canal, cau... ... sole survivor of thirteen sail. He thanked his men, and in particular the engineers, in a speech of unusual feeling 124 A Footnote to History and be...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ..., which was, as every body must acknowledge, in a condition disgraceful to civilized society. As he had made many a fire balloon, and had succeeded in... ...nia there were diamond mines, which my people, from their low condition of civilization, did not value, nor had any means of working. Farewell, theref... ...ver would have got rid of them had they continued to run wild; but growing civilization introduced arts, and the arts intro- duced sedentary habits. B... ...they have already exceeded the maximum of possibility, as laid down by all engineers during the progress of the Manchester and Liverpool line, may soo...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...rs of discussion that the point was conceded; it was indeed only after the Civil War that the implications were fully established, that there resided ... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...ht by that very division. No one can vie with me in my appreciation of the civiliza- tion of Switzerland, Sweden, or Holland, but the plain fact of th... ...ns in the idea, and, since they have got to be digested sooner or later if civilization is not to collapse, there is no reason why we should not begin... ...s chooses his doctors as persons able to secure health, and his electrical engineers as persons able to attend to his tram ways, lighting, etc., etc.;...

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...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Sol... ...it seldom paid, and appointed the gover- nor-general and his subordinates, civil and military. But the East India Company has now passed away, leaving... ...see festival. These descendants of the sect of Zoroaster—the most thrifty, civilised, intelligent, and austere of the East Indians, among whom are cou... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ...ond capital of the Japanese Em- pire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his of- f... ...stead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains. But the engineers, instead of violating nature, avoided its difficulties by wind- i... ...y delighted, and found the plan a very feasible one. He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers with- out bridges, by putting on...

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...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...matic and logical interpretation. The caricatures in the French shops show civilisation (and particularly Marianne) in conflict with a huge and hugely... ...peace that would be no more than a breathing time for a fresh outrage upon civilisation, and who would even make heroes of the crazy young assassins o... ...n in the trenches suddenly confronted by so rare a beast as a middle- aged civilian with an enquiring expression, to feel oneself something of a spect... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...derable freedom from old army tradition; many of its officers are ex-civil engineers and so forth; Headquarters is a little shy of technical direction... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ...ays. Through the door which has been left open you see the little group of engineers, staff officers and naval men receding and falling away behind yo... ...eys in the background, begins a steady processional movement. The group of engineers and officers and naval men appears at the other side of the door ...

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...n the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumsta... ...ca thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiog nomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he h... ...illiant exceptional look—the air of a happy temperament fertilized by a high civilization—which would have made almost any observer envy him at a vent... ...dered, placidly. “Well, I guess I’ll wait and see.” He had, in speaking, the American tone. “Are you cold?” the son enquired. 4 Portrait of a Lady Th... ...yes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it will s... ...m of forgiving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months ... ...u that I prefer them immensely. Miss Stackpole knows I detest boarding house civilization, and she detests me for detesting it, because she thinks it ...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...ant exceptional look—the air of a happy tem- perament fertilised by a high civilisation—which would have made almost any observer envy him at a ventur... ..., the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it will suf... ...of forgiving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months of... ...that I prefer them immensely. Miss Stackpole knows I detest boarding-house civilisation, and she de- tests me for detesting it, because she thinks it ...

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...d great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company. The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock. They could scarcel... ...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ...he har- pooner—commander, officers, masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left their engines, and the stokers their furnaces. The order to ... ...placed on the table, and we took our places. Undoubtedly we had to do with civilised people, and, had it not been for the electric light which flooded... ...ight?” “It might be the right of a savage,” I answered, “but not that of a civilised man.” “Professor,” replied the commander, quickly, “I am not what... ...n.” “Professor,” replied the commander, quickly, “I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone... ...ent Captain Nemo will be shut up in his room, probably in bed. Neither the engineers nor the ship’s crew can see us. Conseil and I will gain the centr...

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... university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is ... ...modern Gaul, and yet are still left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase thea... ...f the inns, which are very decent and tidy, and in which every one is very civil, as if in this latter respect the influence of the old regime pervade... ...e were still content to sit awhile and exchange remarks upon, the superior civilization of France. Where else, at a village inn, should we have fared ... ... of old furniture, as all apartments should be through which the insatiate American wanders in the rear of a bored domestic, pausing to stare at a fad... ...had not come over the spirit of the people. They seemed to me as silent as Americans when Americans have not been “introduced,” and infinitely less ad... ...f, had he not been a monk, he would have made a distin- guished officer of engineers. When he was not reading the “Figaro” he was conning his breviary...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ... European residents; that is, by Captain Mitchell himself and the staff of engineers building the road, aided by the Italian and Basque workmen who ra... ... chief on the wall. Even when he was cooking for the “Signori Inglesi”—the engineers (he was a famous cook, though the kitchen was a dark place)—he wa... ...e hens made off in all directions, with immense strides; if there were any engineers from 28 Nostromo up the line staying in Sulaco, a young English ... ...s of Don Vincente’s Government—cultured men, men to whom the conditions of civilized busi- ness were not unknown. What concerned him most at the time ... ...ws that came along was able to expose with force and precision to any mere civilian his titles to a sum of 10,000 dol- lars; the while his hope would ... ...les Gould observed. “Ah, yes! The religion of silver and iron. He’s a very civil man, though he looked awfully solemn when he first saw the Madonna on...

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...ple who inhabited the Reeves Building corridors—elevator-runners, starter, engineers, superintendent, and the doubtful-looking lame man who conducted ... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...ld codgers lack the subtlety that you got to have to-day.” This advance in civilization could be carried too far, Babbitt perceived. Noel Ryland, sale... ...Lincoln. At that moment a G. A. R. veteran was dying. He had come from the Civil War straight to a farm which, though it was officially within the cit... ...re-tour among the small towns, and he chuckled, “Awful good to get back to civilization! I certainly been seeing some hick towns! I mean—Course the fo... ...anciers who ruled the generation between the pioneers and the brisk “sales-engineers” and created a somber oligarchy by gaining control of banks, mill... ...ng the College has,” fretted Babbitt. “I’d like to know how it hasn’t! The Engineers can play on any of the teams!” There was much explanation of the ...

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...Valley capable of supporting a dense population. As a dwell ing place for civilized man it is by far the first upon our globe. EDITOR’S TABLE, HAR... .... An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six mi... ...t it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea... ...it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age. For instance, when the... ...were trading beads and blankets to them for a consideration, and throwing in civili zation and whiskey, ‘for lagniappe;’ and in Canada the French wer... ...eshift awnings, and broil ing with the heat; they encountered and exchanged civilities with another party of Indians; and at last they reached the mo... ... country back again!—make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘pass... ... boy, you ought to tap the big bell three times before you land, so that the engineers can get ready.” I blushed under the sarcasm, and said I hadn’t ... ... watching things. The dangerous place was on slow, plodding boats, where the engineers drowsed around and allowed chips to get into the “doctor” and s...

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...on. Two, I think, for to face a strange planet, even though it be a wholly civilised one, without some other familiar backing, dashes the courage over... ..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...hing refined, with some knowledge, perhaps, of the minor pains and all the civil self-controls; he has read more than he has suffered, and suffered ra... ...s we may transgress in coming down these mountain places. And yet, just as civil liberty itself is a compromise defended by prohibitions, so this part... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...th great bitterness all specialists whatever, and particularly doctors and engineers. “Voluntary noblemen!” he said, “voluntary Gods I fancy they thin... ...arated again by half-a-dozen lifted flagstones, a burning brazier, and two engineers concerned with some underground business or other—in the busiest ...

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... proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so de... ... of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven visions are all who are or shall have been civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate Governm... ...n duly ratified and carried into execution. It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious... ...ed a minister to that Republic. Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced upon my attention the uncertain state of internationa... ...he Quartermaster- General, Commissary-General, Paymaster-General, Chief of Engineers, Chief of Ordnance, and Surgeon-General. It has appeared impossib... ...Lincoln: V ol Seven training seamen and also the education of officers and engineers for the naval service. The Naval Academy is rendering signal serv... ...Y AND NICHOLS. GENTLEMEN : The number for this month and year of the North American Review was duly received, and for which please accept my thanks. ... .... The world has never had a good definition of the word lib- erty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for lib...

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..., educa tion? Shall we call the stone engine a savage and the steel one a civilized man? The original rock contained the stuff of which the steel one... ...hrist and Him crucified every day and every night to little groups of half civilized foreign paupers who scoff at him. But he rejoices in the scoffing... ...ng brother through a polytechnic school and satisfy his desire to become a civil engineer. O.M. The old father’s comforts were now curtailed? Y.M. Qui... ...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ... me do credit able things in those ancient days; and several white headed engineers; and several roustabouts and mates; and several deck hands who us... ..., geologists, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ...

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... 1888 — I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed t... ... apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire. Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his way... ...e answered. ‘You see it is really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do... ...1891 pp. 481 491 78 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes through the bars of his civilization, like untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the st... ... are destroyed.’ “ ‘Pooh!’ said he, gripping hard at his courage. ‘We are in a civilized land The Five Orange Pips 83 here, and we can’t have tomfool... ...certainly to muster all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the American Encyclopaedia which stands upon the shelf beside you. Thank yo... ...ret very jealously, however, and if it once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and ...