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...Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...inaction. For the Progress had intended to do great things for the Liberal Party,—or rather for political liberality in general,—and had in truth done... ... men were pretentious puppies. It was, however, not to be doubted that the party of Progress had become slack, and that the Liberal politicians of the... ...Prime Minister those well-tried, but, at this moment, little trusted Prime Ministers, Mr Gresham and Mr Daubney. There were cer- tain men, nominally b... ...s now Secretary to the Admiralty, and who in the last 71 Anthony Trollope Conservative Government had been one of the Secretaries of the Treasury. Th... ... you should entertain! You would probably have two or three of the foreign ministers down for a time.’ ‘We always used to find plenty of room at Match... ...of men who, for the sake of carrying on her Majesty’s Government, could be Conservatives one day and Liberals the next. He was a 91 Anthony Trollope ...

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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...tial to my issue. He is dead and gone, all his immediate correla- tions to party and faction have faded to insignificance, leav- ing only on the one h... ...vorce. I climbed high and fast from small beginnings. I had the mind of my party. I do not know where I might not have ended, but for this red blaze t... ..., coalitions formed, how permanent offi- cials worked and controlled their ministers, how measures were brought forward and projects modified. And whi... ...ously hard with one of his shafts. “Suppose,” he said, “you found yourself prime minister—” I looked at Chris Robinson, bright-eyed and his hair a lit... ...itors, a cheap photographer, a democratic parson, a number of dis- senting ministers, the Mayor of Kinghamstead, a Mrs. Bulger, the widow of an old Ch... ...d, as I imagined, a fine atmosphere, I turned upon the history of the last Conservative adminis- tration and brought it into contrast with the wide oc... ... the rapid improvement of my platform style. I ceased to speak of the late Prime Minis- ter with the respect I bore him, and began to fall in with the... ...Licensing Bill went little further than the attempted rectifica- tion of a Conservative mistake. I was altogether for the nationalisation of the publi...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...igned supreme, she now opened her salon to the notabilities of the liberal party in Arcis. A woman accustomed to the advan- tages of salon royalty doe... ...raud,” in the triumph of the present system, by which the Chambers and the ministers are like the wooden puppets which the proprietor of the Guignolet... ...ng to the famous seventeen who were called “Great Citizens” by the liberal party,—namely, Francois Keller, of the house of Keller Bros., the son-in-la... ...he famous Simeuse melodrama.” “It would be easier for you to make yourself prime-minis- ter,” said Madame Marion. “There will never be any alliance be... ... one course to take.” “What is that?” “T o serve those who make and unmake ministers. A letter was shown to me from one of those personages who repre-... ...ll the more remarkable because, as you know, the two gentlemen are zealous conservatives, whereas Monsieur Dorlange inclines in a marked degree to dem... ... youths of the present day, he thinks like his father; that is, he is very conservative; though per- haps less just and wise, as might well be expecte... ...ressed myself to his wife,—a rather appetizing provincial, though past her prime.” “Yes, yes, I see; very good!” said Franchessini; “husband 218 The ...

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...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...could tell them positively that Lord Ormont’s age was under fifty-four—the prime of man- hood, and a jolly long way off death! The greater credit to h... ...on similar to that between master and boys at Cuper’s es- tablishment: one party for our modern English magisterial methods with Indians, the other fo... ...the man and the woman, her sense of justice was moved to join her with the party of her unfairly handled sisters—a strong party, if it were not so cow... ...s, for instance, the ‘parade de septime’ supplanting the slower ‘parade de prime;’ the ‘pa- rade de quarte’ having advantage over the ‘parade de quinc... ...eard to state it more or less publicly and repeatedly—suitable to ab- ject ministers and throngs at the court of an Indian rajah, that he did not hesi... ... of some principal ancient ladies of the land. Professional Puritans, born conservatives, malicious tattlers, made up a goodly tail to Lady Charlotte’... ... an explicit rendering. It concerned the young man’s prosperity: my lord’s conservative plain sense was in doubt of the prospering of a giddy pate, ho...

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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...the famous president Huguet, ennobled under Francois I. This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counte... ...him in charge of his private affairs, and appointed him one of his cabinet ministers. On the 20th of March, Monsieur de Serizy did not go to Ghent. He... ...erty of the Serizys, father and son. Citizen Moreau belonged to the Danton party; Robespierre, implacable in his hatreds, pursued him, discovered him,... ...way of dismissing his functionaries. A gardener is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of ... ...is opposed to it, obedience to this terrible law is essentially social and conservative. The daughter of James II., who seated herself upon her father...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...ng Ki gave Sang Huin his beeper number. Sang Huin invited him to a Christmas party held for students at a language institute but stayed contained to h... ...lessly, she fell into hysterical laughter at the sketch of an old woman in a party hat, who smiles on sweetly as her grandson, abandoning all of the p... ...e habits of bathhouses and the R- rated petting in the gay movie theatres of conservative Soul but he could still sense himself slipping away. To have... ...large body of water one could always find Parmenides' entity and Aristotle's Prime Mover as one pursued that innate human need for physical movement. ... ...the proof is in the pudding. If it hurts to look up at it directly that is a prime indication to not do it." "Huh?" he asked. "Don't be so asinine. D... ...nd that they who were the benefactors of the world like presidents and prime ministers should be paid the least. She argued that only then, when equa... ...red anew most cultural traits were romantically virtuous. She also sketched conservative men wearing their little oval shaped hats called kopias as t...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ce in cheese-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang th... ...said Bea. IV The recently built house of Sam Clark, in which was given the party to welcome Carol, was one of the largest in Gopher Prairie. It had a ... ...se up- starts—the Clarks, the Haydocks—had no dignity. They were sound and conservative in politics, but they talked about motor cars and pump-guns an... ...“I mean, you must help us when you’re ready… . I’m afraid you’ll think I’m conservative. I am! So much to conserve. All this treasure of American idea... ...t some of the poets have been as much an inspiration as a good many of the ministers, and so we shall be glad to hear—” The poor lady smiled neuralgic... ...ng in the provinces. You’ll find it epidemic among lawyers and doctors and ministers and college-bred mer- chants—all these people who have had a glim... ...n Main Street!” Aunt Bessie crept in next day, tried to pump her, tried to prime the pump by again hinting that Kennicott might have his own affairs. ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...of light and easy dentistry. He has no belief, no disbelief; names the pro-party and the con; recites the case, and discreetly, over-discreetly; and p... ...resence for a cur masquerading as a cat. ‘ And that is not the scoundrel’s prime offence. For what d’ 34 Diana of the Crossways ye think? He trumps u... ...d home-fed filled them with stuff to make good meat and fat ‘what we calls prime bacon.’ As it is not right to damp a native enthusiasm, Redworth let ... ...sion to chastise the presumptuous individual, unless it be the leader of a party, therefore a power; for they respect a power. Redworth knew their qua... ...tch, Miss Paynham, for a likeness to be seen. Probably there are still Old Conservatives who would prefer the per- sonation of us by boys.’ ‘I don’t k... ...ans. If he flourishes his thousands! The wonder is, he doesn’t corrupt the Ministers’ wives. Perhaps he does. Marriage will become a danger-sign to Pa... ...t what I reckoned all that newfangle rubbish.’ Without a consultation, the conservatives in beverage filed with a smart turn about, worthy of veterans...

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...eorge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ublic. Election-seasons called him to ballad-poetry on behalf of the T ory party. Dialer possessed undoubted flu- ency, but did tittle, though Sir Aus... ...oss of the birds, ow- ing to Ripton’s bad shot, and was really the injured party. He, therefore bestowed the abusive epithet on Ripton anew, and with ... ...ates were found singularly cunning, and repeatedly eluded the aim of these prime shots, so they pushed their expedition into the lands of their neighb... ... tinker’s pouch, and continued his praises. “Penny a day, and there y’are, primed! Better than a wife? Ha, ha!” “And you can get rid of it, if ye want... ... vice-regal light that succeeds to you, and all heavenly pageants, are the ministers and the slaves of the throbbing content within. For this is the h... ...inity between the two extremes of the Royal British Oak has made me thrice conservative. I see now that the national love of a lord is less subservien... ...s’, where Mrs. Doria procured the reverer of the Royal Martyr, and staunch conservative, a favourable reception. Pity, deep pity for Richard’s conduct...

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... Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...s in many an hour of danger and heart quake Gen eral Miller was radically conservative; a man over whose kindly nature habit had no slight influence;... ...were not in variably old; there were men among them in their strength and prime, of marked ability and energy, and altogether su perior to the slugg... ...taphors, it is my sincere belief that the active members of the victorious party were sufficiently excited to have chopped off all our heads, and have... ...f malice and revenge has never distinguished the many tri umphs of my own party as it now did that of the Whigs. The Democrats take the offices, as a... ...he gover nor, and several of his counsellors, a judge, a general, and the ministers of the town, all of whom sat or stood in a bal cony of the meeti... ...hy secret from the prying multitude. Thou mayest conceal it, too, from the ministers and magistrates, even as thou didst this day, when they sought to... ... Hawthorne lifetime—could have borne a fair examination in the New England Primer, or the first column of the Westminster Cat echisms, although unacq...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...ing. We arrived on an early Monday morning and were surprised to have the Prime Minister meet us in person. —“Mr. Yuen, good morning. I‟m deli... ...men, because of their typical gross insecurity, marry below their station. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew exposed this national problem in 1983 when poi... ... to humanitarian pronouncements of the world society. But there were some conservative women who feared being forced to appear with men in public swi... ...h.” (4) —“Of course when Muslims are criticized today it is the conservative or reactionary people and practices that are called into ques... ...at seeing violence makes it more permissible to do—even if our mothers and ministers tell us to avoid being violent. A fourth theory is that watching... ... wiser? Then there is the religious garb of so many Christian priests and ministers. We don‟t think that clothes should be able to give unearned res... ... billion dollars in pension funds. I remember when he had his housewarming party for a new house on Broadbeach Road in Malibu his rule was that anyon...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. ...

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...s by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsy... ...Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... fails to support that side. Thence its downfall in 1830. At that time the party of the Faubourg Saint-Germain was rather like an army without a base ... ... of the noblesse. It seemed to them that as each individual grew rich, the party as a whole would gain in strength. And herein lay their mistake. Mone... ...n by going ourselves? Religion, you see, Armand, is a bond uniting all the conservative principles which enable the rich to live in tranquillity. Reli... ...ld, was a most poetic wreck of the reign of Louis Quinze. In her beautiful prime, so it was said, she had done her part to win for that monarch his ap... ...sources which society has ever placed at the disposal of statesmen, kings, ministers, bankers, or any human power, in fact, were all exhausted in vain...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...

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...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...l ing with the heat; they encountered and exchanged civilities with another party of Indians; and at last they reached the mouth of the Arkansas (abo... ...ssibly wonder that I deal so minutely with piloting as a science. It was the prime pur pose of those chapters; and I am not quite done yet. I wish to... ...aper cannot be indepen dent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two thirds of hi... ...p twenty two feet on level ground; but as contrasted with what it was in its prime vigor, Mississippi steamboating may be called dead. It killed the o... ...far enough out of the country, and set myself to work on my article. And the ministers set the pumps going again, with the letter to work the handles.... ...he opposite banks defended at critical points. The works having in view this conservative object may be generally designated works of revetment; and t...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...is ideas as to what actions are ethical are quite the opposite of Spain‘s prime minister who has social policies favoring gay marriage, easier divor... ...lians warn that Brazil could eventually become a Protestant country. Some conservatives note that the evangelical sects are more morally demanding, n... ...ineer. To do this I must graduate from college. What if I want to go to a party with my friends now, but I have an important engineering test tomorro... ...ow? Which do I choose, the present desire or the future desire? I‘m at a party and recognize that I have had too much to drink but I want to go hom... ... ―There is something to be said for self interest. Ayn Rand‘s popular conservative theories stress that self interest makes for honest and fair ... ...xperience things. Many earlier religions had a supernatural goddess as the prime focus of creation. So our concepts of the supernatural certainly com... ...eloped countries. The USA is a major exception. And while the priests and ministers, along with political leaders, repeatedly warned of a rapid deca... ...hers, nurses or other people in non-profit organizations who do more than ministers for your society—and they don‘t get housing allowances.‖ ―...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...olving Cycles vs. Vicious Cycles Pg 545 Boredom Pg 548 Profit Pg 561 The Prime Imperative of Business Pg 591 The Minimum Wage Pg 595 Financi... ...Totality: something had to be there to make it split. That something was the Primeval Force called: Impetus. Impetus is the Basic Force that pushes... ...with the exception of the new recruits who had not yet taken part in a raiding party, or frequented a whore yet: literally all of Napoleon’s soldiers... ...indlessly abiding by the civilized laws and regulations, you yourself become a party to every corruption of that system. Thoreau insisted that in or... ...’t have that, now; can we? Then there would be chaos, change, upheaval… All conservatives constantly rave about the unseemly changes happening in t... ... They make it seem normal for Kings, and Dictators, and Presidents, and Prime Ministers: to go to War. They make it seem understandable, excusable ... ... lost all rights or oversight on this essential part of human existence. The conservative estimate today for the sexual abuse of children is one-fou... ... servants broke away from the old church founded new churches, and when their ministers and preachers also came from the lower classes. Then the ide...

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...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...s ap- palling, inasmuch as we know that such estimates are everyTrhcre too conservative. Child labor is so varied in its applications that the nutnber... ... determining feature of the meet. He states that the Will- iams team is in prime condition, and it is in this fact that its chief hope of success lies... ...d, he might have had to avoid the stool.—tor all that, we stand np for the party of Theocritus. What it the sheep of Provence are not lily-white, and ... ...t at Keeler's hotel, Albany. An early start was made Saturday morning, the party going via the Delaware and Hudson railroad to Vorheesville, N. Y., an... ...e last objection there is a very ob- vipus remedy. We can foresee that the prime objection to this schedule will center about the early chapel fea tur... ...ulty is for the Church, by abandoning its creed, to recognize what its own ministers are preaching, that the SPIRIT of Christianity is strong enough t... ...t and responsible management of undergraduate financial opera- tions. At a conservative estimate fully $8,000 passes through the hands of these non-at...

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...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in ...

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...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...t. If there was a reason for his preferring liberal Part I — Chapter 3 7 to conservative views, which here held also by many of his circle, it arose ... ...t from its being in closer accor dance with his manner of life. The liberal party said that in Russia everything is wrong, and certainly Stepan Arkad... ...an Arkadyevitch had many debts and was decidedly short of money. The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it... ...our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to ... ... of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant generals, so that many of his intimate... ...age, and staring at the side horse, that had been his saddle horse, past his prime now, but a spirited beast from the Don, he began to see what had ha... ...herself. Chapter 33 A LEXEY Alexandrovitch came back from the meeting of the ministers at four o’clock, but as often happened, he had not time no come... ...interest would be more desirable. You are altogether, as the French say, too primesauti` ere a nature; you must have intense, energetic action, or not...

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Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

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...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...n upon the Carso I contrived to lose during the temporary confusion of our party by the arrival and explosion of another prospective souvenir in our c... ...e, and the number of guards, servants, attendants, officials, secretaries, ministers and the like that I saw in that house were—I counted very careful... ... Alexander Severus, and later Aquileia brought Attila near to despair. Our party alighted; we inspected a 24 War and the Future very old mosaic floor... ...I read about them. Yet let me state at once that I was certainly not their prime originator. I took up an idea, manipulated it slightly, and handed it... ..., the gun, and the Tank developments. These— and not crowds of men—are the prime necessity for a suc- cessful offensive. Every man we draw from muniti... ...eople, that is, professionally and pri- marily military—are inclined to be conservative. For thou- sands of years the military tradition has been a tr... ...at the slack workman, the slacker wealthy man, the negligent official, the conservative schoolmaster, the greedy usurer, the com- fortable obstructive...