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...powers and their nationals have acquired a privileged position in China. During the past half century many Chinese have studied and applied to their own country, in so far as possible, Western ideas China herself has been directly affected by development of foreign trade and disturbance of her economic equilibrium and the result is that China's leaders are dissatisfied with existing conditions there. It looking for causes they find it easy to believe that foreign powers are foremost among the causes of China's troubles. The Chinese have developed self consciousness and a real nationalistic movement is in full...
...entirely in favor of the restoration of balance and equilibrium among international forces by a formula most adapted for maintaining peace. ... I believe that if we place two identical weights on the two sides of an ideal weighing balance, equilibrium, in theory, should be maintained indefinitely. But if we place in them a living organism in perpetual growth, the index of the scales will be changed with velocity equal to that of the difference between the development of the two organisms. The organism which is developing itself with the greater rapidity will soon surpass the weight of the other...
...Equilibrium between peoples, which are the most living of all organisms, must therefore be continually reestablished...
Cotton growers, tossed about by the wild selling market of a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 25), regained their equilibrium during the last week, although many still remained, figuratively, on all fours...
...years ago that Mr. Sperry turned his ubiquitous attention to that toy of mathematicians-;a flywheel with a hoop around it, spinning in a frame on light bearings-of which the internal equilibrium is sufficient to withstand outer forces that seek to upset its balance. In the arc-light field, it is 47 years since he won practical adoption for his first invention; 43 years since he erected a 40,000-candle-power beacon on Lake Michigan. Last week, at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition in Manhattan, Army engineers demonstrated the two-billion-candle-power searchlight he had made them...