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...vigorous member; for while the locations of her four residences-a ranch in Wyoming; a farm at little Byron, Ill..; a camp in Virginia; an ancient manor in Georgetown, well out of Washington-bespeak her inclination to "get away from it all," still she is far more the intense realist than the intellectual recluse. She sees no sex in statesmanship. She says she knows some women who are qualified right now for Cabinet positions. Some day, she says, a woman will be President of the U. S. Whether or not she can guess who it will be is not divulged...
Discussing American's foreign policy, which President Butler opposes, he said that he was "a stern realist" and had never found much satisfaction as an American in looking into the glass and admiring what he saw. "We live in an atmosphere of talk, we debate, we discuss and go home...
...Madame," or "Missus," as they call her, whose character is definite almost to the point of eccentricity, receive her cook's daughter as her son's wife? Perhaps the fact that the son's firmness matches the mother's is responsible for her approval. Perhaps she is simply a realist. In any case, she takes Lena Wilson to Manhattan with her for a winter of theatres, shopping and "polish" in general. Lena goes to the Princeton commencement and then the scene is set for a wedding at Grande Anse...
...Because the Jewish mechanism is simpler, it is not encumbered by the self-torturing "ideals" of the European type. The Jew is a realist in competition, confining his ideals to the home. The Jewish mechanism functions directly toward its material ends. The European type is swayed out of its course by the ideals: "gentleman," "patriot" "sportsman"?and forgets that the "gentleman" is only a late survival of the "knight," a type shown to be impractical, and ridiculed by Cervantes...
...Because the Jew has a family loyalty, and a race loyalty, but no national loyalty he is not affected by the war situation in the manner of a European type. The Jew, a realist, sees the economic waste of war, and desires peace in which to make his competitive economic superiority manifest. The European so completely lacks the rational disinclination of the Jew to fight that he applies to it the term "cowardice,"* and does not recognize it as a virtue. Thus many Jews died during the War, but many more were able to distance competitors in business whose commercial...