Word: hindsighted
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...humming over the cables. Signor Mussolini's intimates, not displeased, reminded his detractors that even as a bricklayer and before that as a hod-carrier, the young Benito revealed the titanic spiritual vigor which later made him master of Italy. Few are possessed of so little "hindsight" that they cannot detect the hand of the present Dictator in a letter which the hodman wrote to a fellow laborer on Sept. 3, 1902. "Dear Friend, "On Saturday, together with a painter out of employment, I went to Orbe-to get taken on as a manual laborer. I found work...
Nothing is quite so easy to do, or so unfair in the ''doing, as throwing mud at former prophecies that haven't "panned out." Hindsight, now as previously, is much simpler than foresight. All the same, there was heard last week considerable criticism of the bankers and industrial leaders who last Fall predicted great prosperity this Spring. The Spring has come, but profits in most lines of industry are getting leaner each week; in some industries they have disappeared...
...them. So long as the North did not revolt against declining tariff duties, or insistently demand internal improvements, or try to tear down the subtreasurers and clamor for a bank, it could not be said that there was any irrepressible conflict of any industrial sort. So far, then, as hindsight avails, the Southerners in 1850 could not have seen any threat to their civilization from specific material interests in the North. It was the North's moral awakening and not its industrial alertness, its free thought and not its free labor which the Southern planters had to fear...