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Sirs: We can forgive all your shortcomings if from your vocabulary you can construct an epithet suitable for the asinine twaddle of one Cyril D * H * G. Dillington-Dowse. C. B. SMITH...
...boast of most any scholar that he does not care for fame and studiously avoids publicity. It is a good boast. It reconciles the scholar to the actual circumstances of his position and enables him to construct and to maintain a standard of values which is of his own making. To feel his long studies hidden in his own breast, his thoughts at times revolving tumultuously there as though they were animated by the seed of truth and must therefore out, yet again subsiding in acknowledged error, and at the same time to see harvests of wealth and reputation...
...York apartment hotel builders have evaded the rigors of tenement specifications by pretending to construct authentic hotels. But in each pantry they have provided electric connections to which tenants could fix electric stoves, hot plates, ovens, waffle irons, percolators, what...
...railroads accepted this national law (they secured certain guarantees of profits under it). But they have quarreled with shippers and other transportation users about the method of calculating their valuations. It takes far more money to construct a road in 1927 than it did in 1914. It might cost $140,000 now to replace completely a line that 13 years ago cost $100,000. So replacement value is the great quarreling point, because $7,000 profit is only 5% of $140,000, although 7% of $100,000. In one case the railroad earns less than it is permitted (6%) profit...
...then, is it possible to attain to a view of life as something of intrinsic value? The answer to this question entails a complete philosophy of life which each man must construct for himself. My own feeling in the matter is that one gets an experience of infinite worth in certain relations with fellow-men. A real friendship may be the means of giving a lasting sense of values to the men bound by this tie. Hard work of the Carlyle or Emerson type is a possible answer to this riddle...