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Enterprise takes no thought for the needs of the community. Its only aim is to increase the gains of the speculator. Hence the constant fluctuations of trade, the periodical industrial crises, each of which throws scores of thousands of workers on the streets.
In 1861 Wolf showed, and the remark was fully confirmed at Kew, that the shortest periods brought the most acute crises, and vice versâ; as if for each wave of disturbance a strictly equal amount of energy were available, which might spend itself lavishly and rapidly, or slowly and parsimoniously, but could in no case be exceeded.
Come, dear, let's just talk it over sensibly, as we might talk over any other of the great crises of life. You've been brooding over it and let yourself drift into a morbid view of it. You know you have a little tendency to do that about everything that goes wrong, and you promised me that you would fight against it." "But oh, it's so so shameful," murmured Leslie.
All so-called healing systems ride to glory on the backs of self-limited crises, and the self-deluded doctors and their credulous clients, believe, when the crises are past, that a cure has been wrought, whereas the real truth is that the treatment may have delayed reaction. This is largely true of anything that has been done except rest.
People are often, indeed, swept into the Church on some current of feeling; and the pressure on every side of the Christian society, along with the examples of superior Christians, does much to develop the religious nature; but probably in the great crises of temptation, when a flood of passion or some great worldly opportunity is about to sweep a man away from his connection with Christ, that which keeps hold of him is the force of conviction if the roots of his mind have gone deep down and clasped themselves about the great verities of the faith.
Steampower concentrated men in factories about machinery where they were overcrowded, and where they made one another miserable by overcrowding. Our present enormous, injudicious, and unsystematic rate of production is the cause of continual severe crises which ruin both employers and employees.
There has been a continuous series of labour "crises," and there have been a good many embarrassing strikes, all of which have first been hushed up and settled at least postponed. One cause of continuous trouble has been the notion held by the Unions, sometimes right and sometimes wrong, that the employers were making abnormal profits and that they were not getting their due share.
For the lack of a sufficient literature we specialize into inco-ordinated classes. A number of new social types are developing, ignorant of each other, ignorant almost of themselves, full of mutual suspicions and mutual misunderstandings, narrow, limited, and dangerously incapable of intelligent collective action in the face of crises.
There was never a second's hesitation about "The Destiny of Phillip Bourke." The critics praised and the public bought it. Edition followed edition. Douglas Jesson took his place without an effort amongst the foremost writers of the day. And this same success brought him face to face with one of the great crises of his life. It brought Joan to him, successful at last in her long search.
The following biographies are valuable for the period: T. W. Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed ; William Birney, James G. Birney and his Times ; G. L. Austin, Life and Times of Wendell Phillips ; Henry Cleveland, Alexander Stephens in Public and Private ; W. H. Haynes, Charles Sumner , in American Crises series; A. C. McLaughlin, Lewis Cass , in American Statesmen series.
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