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Then after a trail has been cleared it comes right back and begins to grow up again. The clearing lets in more light for the remaining trees, which grow the faster in that direction. Seedlings take root and prosper. Each winter trees fall across the path from two or three to twenty or thirty to the mile according to the severity of the storms and the local conditions; and once or twice in a generation there comes a storm that lays low whole stretches of forest and obliterates miles of trail. Aside from such storms a trail long maintained...
German bankers pontifically presume that, if they prosper, they can help their country prosper...
Butterflies prosper, indeed, live longer, when their heads have been cut off. Professeur Bouvier based his report on research made by Abbé Cambouet, missionary to Madagascar, who experimented there on 80 big, bloom-patterned flutterers...
Indeed, it would appear to be a sorry form of culture which cannot prosper when the lives of two humans of the same plane of intelligence run close together. Such companionships cause an interchange of ideas, a breaking down of barriers, wholly healthy. Surely, the simple fact of closely paralleled lives can be given but a small share of responsibility for the glorification of gentle mediocrity...
...open question whether it is at all valuable to the world to sweat that it may have the best that universal education and popular government have to offer. To many that best is a level of mediocrity; a level, moreover, to which brilliance must lower itself that dullness may prosper. These skeptics have their plausable case. Yet it may truly be said that society is confronted with a condition and not a theory. Democracy is in vogue; universal education in full swing. The improvements to be made must begin with the obvious faults of operation, the obvious misconceptions of education...