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...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...s. That unequaled spirit of enterprise, which signalizes the genius of the American merchants and naviga- tors, and which is in itself an inexhaustibl... ...nvites and our interests prompt us to aim at an ascendant in the system of American affairs. The world may politically, as well as geographically, be ... ...f science and useful arts, by securing, for a limited time, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries... ... The right to useful inven- tions seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors. The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of... ...nce perceive the wide difference between silence and abolition. But as the inventors of this fallacy have attempted to support it by cer- tain legal m...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...me manner as that upon gold, or to give up working the greater part of the American mines which are now wrought. The gradual increase of the demand fo... ... be uncertain, whether, to the general market of Europe, the whole mass of American gold comes at a price nearer to the lowest for which it is possibl... ...of their respective towns. They accordingly seem to have been the original inventors of those restraints upon the importation of foreign goods, which ... ...t the interest of merchants and manu- 415 Adam Smith facturers, the great inventors of all these expedients, that the home market should be overstock...

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...ry force mov- ing the pioneers of Socialism and Anarchism, as it moved the inventors of ideal commonwealths in the past. In this there is nothing new.... ...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... ...ssible for these two classes to unite or to put forward any demands… . The American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World repres... ...eir social utility entitles them. On the other hand, it often happens that inventors and discoverers, whose work has the very greatest social utility,... ...political rule. This is the essential significance of the recent change in American foreign policy as illustrated by the Spanish War, the Philippine a...

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.... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...que to justify it. 5 Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other shores, Nati... ...with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. I will sing the song of companionship, I will sho... ...raph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica’s depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return’d, See, the strong... ...treet or on the ship’s deck give a kiss in return, We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea, We are those two natural and nonchalant p... ...e great captains and engineers have accomplish’d their work, After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,... ...ome singing his songs. Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified, All these hearts as of fretted children sh... ...e well as they go, the heroes and good doers are well, The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish’d may be well, Bu...

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...use the longest words they can. It is a trick that they pick up from their inventors. “That’s news,” said a big centrifugal bilge-pump. “I had an idea... ... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei... ...t till he begins to paint,’ I said. “‘That’s just what he’s done—and South American freights higher than we’ll live to see them again. He’s laid her u... ...egal process he’ d found in a book o’ maritime law. An’ a’ that week South American freights rose an’ rose. It was sinfu’! “Syne Bell got orders to ta...

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...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...l of the corset is not infrequent among the higher social classes of those American cities, for instance, which have recently and rapidly risen into o... ...the most striking mark of reversion in modern communities, the case of the American colonies might be cited as an example of such a reversion on an un... ...to- wards a secularization of men’s habits of thought. In this respect the American community should afford an excep- tionally convincing illustration... ...s. Through these groups of men, then — investigators, savants, scientists, inventors, speculators — most of whom have done their most telling work out...

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...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ...ntary form something already invented and improved upon by many successive inventors. When women have had the prepa ration which all men now require ...

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...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash... ... this too,” Eve said, interrupting him; “I knew that you were one of those inventors, like my poor father, who must have a woman to take care of them....

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...after so long a voyage, she only, out of the total crew, was thrown on the American shore, with one hundred and five pounds in her purse of clear gain... ...foot of Kate’s little account. But unhappily for Kate’s début on this vast American stage, the case was otherwise. Mr. Urquiza had the misfortune (equ... ... like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny gauze, somet... ...etween all complications of descent from three original strands, European, American, African, the distinctions of social consideration founded on them... ...ty, having more than three hundred thou- sand inhabitants, (in spite of an American sceptic,) nearly all children of toil; and a city, too, which, fro... ...many people, could not belong to all of them: all of them could not be the inventors. Logic and common sense unite in showing us that it must have bel...

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...oing the wrong way. Blessed be the king who introduced cards, and the kind inventors of piquet and cribbage, for they employed six hours at least of h... ... 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...