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Nothing short of giving commodities away freely could help it. Accordingly, we observe that in the nineteenth century it was always in the countries where the populations were most hopelessly poor that the prices were lowest.
Some countries are so large that the different populations which inhabit them have contradictory interests, although they are the subjects of the same government; and they may thence be in a perpetual state of opposition.
Since the summer of that same year of 1933, the temper and the purposes of the rulers of many of the great populations in Europe and in Asia have not pointed the way either to peace or to good-will among men.
They shudder when they hear of the summer excursions of other populations, and commiserate them profoundly for living in a place they are so anxious to leave. A lovely girl of Madrid once said to me she never wished to travel, some people who had been to France preferred Paris to Madrid; as if that were an inexplicable insanity by which their wanderings had been punished.
Most people believe that due to modern medical wonders, we live longer than we used to. Actually, that depends. Compared to badly nourished populations of a century ago, yes! We do. You also have to wonder who benefits from promulgating this mistaken belief about longevity. Who gets rich when we are sick? And what huge economic interests are getting rich helping make us sick? The Human Comedy
Seattle is also charmingly located about twenty miles down the Sound from Tacoma, on Elliott Bay. It is the terminus of the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railroad, now in process of construction, and calls itself the "Queen City of the Sound" and the "Metropolis of Washington." What the populations of these towns number I am not able to say with anything like exactness.
All to the left of the grass road, the trees were thin, showing tracts of marsh land and pools, and the melancholy green of swamp weeds and vegetation. The vegetable world has its reptiles and amphibians no less than the animal; its savages, its half civilised populations, and its civilised.
The words "justice" and "right" are too great in stature to be shut up in proper nouns, any more than Providence can be, which every royalty would fain take to itself. National aspirations confessed or unconfessable are contradictory among themselves. All populations which are narrowly confined and elbow each other in the world are full of dreams vaster than each of them.
The period that followed was that of the conflicts of the Chinese with the populations on their northern borders. 1 Social, intellectual, and economic problems during the first division The end of the Han period was followed by the three and a half centuries of the first division of China into several kingdoms, each with its own dynasty.
That queer question of the exquisite grand manner as the most emphasised <i>all</i> of things of what it may, seated so predominant in nature, insidiously, through the centuries, let generations and populations "in for," hadn't in the least waited for the special emphasis I speak of to hang about me.
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