 History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes...  Transactions - Page 145by American Foundrymen's Society - 1920Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1919 - 998 pages
...with tidal sweep over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen are those who foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and to mould men's thought and purpose in accordance with the change that is silently surrounding them.... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - Great Britain - 1891 - 278 pages
...are those who foresee what time is thus bringing, and endeavour to shape institutions, and to mould men's thought and purpose in accordance with the change that is silently surrounding them. To this type Cobden by his character and influence belonged." And lest this language should seem to... | |
 | Andrew S. Cunningham - Libraries - 1902 - 190 pages
...are those who foresee what time is thus bringing, and endeavour to shape institutions and to mould men's thought and purpose in accordance with the change that is silently surrounding them." If the working-men of this country want to profit by the economic changes which are being pressed upon... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - Economics - 1902 - 60 pages
...are those who foresee what time is thus bringing, and endeavour to shape institutions and to mould men's thought and purpose in accordance with the change that is silently surrounding them.' 47 The question arises, what would Britain do if Continental Europe be thus relieved from internal... | |
 | American Mining Congress - Mineral industries - 1904 - 540 pages
...statesmen are those who foresee what time is thus bringing, and endeavor to shape institutions and to mold men's thought and purpose in accordance with the change that is silently surrounding them." John Morley was not thinking of our West when he wrote those sentences, but how aptly they fit the... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - Arbitration, Industrial - 1904 - 464 pages
...statesmen are those who foresee what time is thus bringing, and endeavor to shape institutions and to mould men's thought and purpose in accordance with the change that is silently surrounding them. — JOHN MORLEV BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY LONDON : MACMILLAN AND COMPANY, Ltd.... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1906 - 1020 pages
...are those who fore see what time is thus bringing, and endeavour to shape institutions and to mould men's thought and purpose in accordance with the change that is silently surrounding them. To this type Cobdenbyhis character and his influence belonged. Hence, amid the coarse strife and blind... | |
 | Henry Dyer - Eastern question (Far East) - 1909 - 452 pages
...are those who foresee what time is thus bringing, and endeavouring to shape institutions and to mould men's thought and purpose in accordance with the change that is silently surrounding them." The ultimate results of the industrial evolution which is going on in all parts of the world, will certainly... | |
 | Tariff Reform League, London - Free trade - 1910 - 352 pages
...foresee what time is thus bringing, and endeavour to shape institutions and to mould men's thoughts and purpose in accordance with the change that is silently surrounding them. . . ."—Ibid., page 484. " We all wish that the adverse tariffs should fail."— A Pious Speech at... | |
 | Hamilton Association for the Cultivation of Science, Literature and Art - Science - 1913 - 496 pages
...with tidal sweep over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen are those who foresee what time is thus bringing. and try to shape institutions and mould men's thought and purpose in accordance with the change which is silently surrounding them."... | |
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