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...their theories as fast as they were contradicted by facts. In 1885 Friedrich Engels pointed out-and the world was then still in the grip of the crisis that had begun in 1873-that Capitalist production could not be stabilized, but must go on increasing if Capitalism was to persist. What would happen, he asked, on the day when, because of American exports to Europe, the British lion's part in supplying the world with goods should come to a standstill? How could Capitalism get out of that dilemma? "Nevertheless, after twelve years of an apparently insoluble crisis. Capitalism...
...nation should persist in efforts to bolster up its currency by blocking international exchange across its frontier -something which all the Balkan nations and many another are now doing...
William Macbeth died in 1917, but the ideas, the blood of the Founder persist. The Gallery is now operated by his son Robert and his nephew Robert G. McIntyre, as a stronghold of workmanlike, conservative painting. Rotund Robert Macbeth will have no truck with modernists, publishes blasts against such violent fellows as Pablo Picasso...
...coal, gas or oil for furnace fuel will depend on costs. But where coal furnaces persist, the coal must be kept in dustproof bins and fed into the furnace by mechanical stokers. Household heat from a community central heating system is remote, except for new, custom-built towns. Each house will have its own incinerator for waste paper...
...easily performed under local novocaine anesthesia. In case of an individual refusing to be operated upon, he should be isolated and not allowed to reside in a region where the Eusimulium concerned in the transmission prevail. Since the microfilariae do not disappear immediately following the operation, but often persist for a considerable time thereafter, (and in cases with no further detectable tumors,) periodic microscopical examinations should be made after operation to detect the number of microfilariae which persist...