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Under the "present system" no white man can settle in Greenland or even land there without special permission from the Danish Government. Trade is a Govern-ment monopoly, Eskimos are benevolently encouraged not to become too civilized...
...allocation of areas for future uses, both as to location and amount. Among the other values of the investigation are included the encouragement of adequate judicial cooperation, through the development of zoning as a more exact science; and the clarification of the laws of supply and demand which govern city building...
...that in conforming to conventions much that is fine is lost; but silly as conventions often are, they usually express some natural law necessary to the maintenance of a complicated society. It is an understanding of these laws and the ability to work in accord with them that must govern true greatness. For certainly a man who preserves or returns to the simplicity of childhood, in spite of a worldly knowledge is greater than the child who knows nothing of the ways of the world...
Harun-al-Raschid, onetime ruler of Bagdad, made a practice of going about among his citizenry in disguise in order that he might govern them more sympathetically. Of his adventures he told many a tall tale...
...they were foolishness. Now my volumes appear in foreign translations but, having lost everything during the Revolution, I am very fatigued and I only dream of finishing my life in the immense forests of my country. But entrance to my country is interdicted by the imbeciles and brigands who govern...