 They are a commercial people, whose point of view is primarily that of persons accustomed to reckon profit and loss. Their impulse is to apply a direct practical test to men and measures, to assume that the men who have got on fastest are the smartest...  Publications of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae - Pagina 1door Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.) - 1898Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1888 - 760 pagina’s
...is not to deny them the credit of doing it better than a European philosopher might have predicted. They are a commercial people, whose point of view...men who have got on fastest are the smartest men, and that a scheme which seems to pay well deserves to be supported. Abstract reasonings they dislike,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 508 pagina’s
...is not to deny them the credit of doing it better than a European philosopher might have predicted. They are a commercial people, whose point of view...men who have got on fastest are the smartest men, and that a scheme \yhich seems to pay well deserves to be supported. Abstract reasonings they dislike,... | |
 | Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 502 pagina’s
...not to deny them the credit of doing it better than a European 25 philosopher might have predicted. They are a commercial people, whose point of view...practical test to men and measures, to assume that men who have 30 got on fastest are the smartest men, and that a scheme which seems to pay well deserves... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 472 pagina’s
...is not to deny them the credit of doing it better than a European philosopher might have predicted. They are a commercial people, whose point of view...men who have got on fastest are the smartest men, and that a scheme which seems to pay well deserves to be supported. Abstract reasonings they dislike,... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 490 pagina’s
...is not to deny them the credit of doing it better than a European philosopher might have predicted. They are a commercial people, whose point of view...men who have got on fastest are the smartest men, and that a scheme which seems to pay well deserves to be supported. Abstract reasonings they dislike,... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin - 1917 - 300 pagina’s
...is not to deny them the credit of doing it better than a European philosopher might have predicted. They are a commercial people, whose point of view...men who have got on fastest are the smartest men, and that a scheme which seems to pay well deserves to be supported. Abstract reasonings they dislike,... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin - 1917 - 300 pagina’s
...is not to deny them the credit of doing it better than a European philosopher might have predicted. They are a commercial people, whose point of view...reckon profit and loss. Their impulse is to apply a 3Trect practical test to men and measures, to assume that the men who have got on fastest are the smartest... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1919 - 426 pagina’s
...European philosopher might have predicted. They are a commercial people, whose point of view is 15 primarily that of persons accustomed to reckon profit...men who have got on fastest are the smartest men, and that a scheme which seems to pay well deserves to be supported. 20 Abstract reasonings they dislike,... | |
 | Louis Edward Bisch - 1923 - 350 pagina’s
...he has not leisure to do it for himself, and must practically lean upon and follow his party. . . . They are a commercial people, whose point of view...that of persons accustomed to reckon profit and loss. . . . Abstract reasonings they dislike, subtle reasonings they suspect; they accept nothing as practical... | |
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