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Willard Straight. E-book. Formato PDF Herbert Croly   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In abandoning a year or two later the consular service in order to interest American capital in the development of China, he again gave up a safe, regular occupation and re sponded to the call of a doubtful but seductive enterprise. This new affair was the outstanding project of his life. It was the culmination of his seven years of exploration, of study, of experience and of experiment in China. It was the kind of enterprise which was bound to tempt a man who was by nature a pioneer. The development of China was no longer a matter of opening up ports and extending commerce. It had become a matter of building railroads, tapping natural resources, founding industries and of seek ing those changes in Chinese political and social organiza tion which would equip it to stand the strain of modern industrialism. Willard Straight saw this transformation coming and the concrete Opportunities which would come with it. Only he saw it not merely as a business man would see it in terms of a profitable investment, but as a statesman would see it in terms of its effect on the lives of a people and in its relationship to the general political and economic movements of the world.

Progressive Democracy. E-book. Formato PDF Herbert Croly   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

No matter whether they do or do not approve of what is going on, candid commentators on American politics will presumably agree that the political development of the country has recently entered upon a novel and critical phase. Until 1912 the group of political and economic traditions and ideas which came to a head during and immediately after the Civil War, and which was associated with the Republican party, continued on the whole to prevail. Since 1912 another group of political and economic ideas and methods has clearly become of preponderant importance. No doubt, previous to 1912 the prestige of the traditional system had been steadily waning. The opposition to it had for a number of years been rapidly becoming bolder and more radical. No doubt also this traditional system has not been as completely superseded as its enemies sometimes fondly imagine. Its roots lie deeper than is often suspected and they are more intimately entangled with that which is permanently valuable in the American tradition. Still, while fully admitting that the transition may not be as abrupt as it seems, we have apparently been witnessing during the past year or two the end of one epoch and the beginning of another.