Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trip involved several incidental features which were matters of great personal interest. In particular I was impressed with Siberia. Instead of finding it a barren land inhabited by political exiles, with occasional mastodons embedded in ice, we found it to be a land of great beauty and promise and with immense opportunities for young Americans. This is also true of European Russia. While there are stretches of desert land near Manchuria, there are in the centre of the country enormous areas of fertile land already yielding excellent crops of wheat and rye. The world's food supply could be raised...
...habit of men (who are cursed with memory and imagination) to romanticize over the past, or to idealize the future. That age in which we live is but a barren period set between sparks of brave accomplishment. It would be well, all men say, to have lived when Napoleon lived; and empires were upbuilded in a day; or to live in succeeding centuries, when man will know, and be master of himself...
...better to be a young am in this generation than to have fought with Don Juan or with Godfrey in the Crusades. It is better to die, not knowing the culmination of these wars, yet playing a not ignoble part in them, than to have lived during a barren century of unepochal years...
There are those who knew him in life who, finding words but barren things, may say only this. It would have been well had another died...
...Germany loses, and is humbled to the bitter defeat which is visited on the overpresumptuous, no doubt then she will grow repentant, as, it is recorded, the devil grew repentant when taken ill. She will then blame her rulers and her generals, openly because they led her after barren conquest, secretly because they failed...