Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: Resolved, That the United States ought to construct and operate the Nicaragua Canal
...canal is a great necessity, a private company will construct it. - (a) Such undertakings in past carried out by private companies: Pup. Opinion, 214, (June 4, 1894). - (b) Conditions here especially favorable. - (1) No government obstacles. - (x) Concessions of Nicaragua to Maratime Canal Co., 1887: Sen. Rep. 50 Cong., 1 Sess., No. 221. - (y) Company incorporated by Congress, 1889: Statutes at Large, XXV, 673. - (2) Scheme demonstrated to be plain and feasible: The "Nicaragua Canal," 18, 59.-(c) The present not a sincere private company attempt. - (1) Company too anxious for government aid and control: Sen. Rep. 50 Cong...
Question: "Resolved, That the United States ought to construct and operate the Nicaragua Canal...
...distribution of mountain ranges, and of the climatic diversity of the eastern and western sides of continents. In just the same way, as the range of our study of literature widens, and the terra incognita diminishes to a few obscure points here and there, we are enabled to construct a tolerably perfect map of the globe of intellectual achievement and adventure and to color its boundaries, if only theoretically, yet with some approach to accuracy in the distinction of certain primary characteristics. In these lectures, it has been my desire, however inadequately in the nature of things I have been...
...criminal to attack, and he is perfectly right in saying that he is never illogical, if by that he means that his individual syllogisms are never false in form. Moreover, a man who sets out to discover a theory that shall reconcile all phenomena is very apt unconsciously to construct one and to make the facts conform to it whether they will...