The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 149Atlantic Monthly Company, 1932 - American literature |
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Nature insists upon growth . There is no standing still in nature . There can be no growth where there is inertia . The only alternative is death . Growth is a surplus of return over expenditure . In other words , growth is profit .
Nature insists upon growth . There is no standing still in nature . There can be no growth where there is inertia . The only alternative is death . Growth is a surplus of return over expenditure . In other words , growth is profit .
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Nature was making a bid for confidence ; the professor and his wife accepted it in good faith and went to stroll in the rolling foothills , leaving their two - year - old child in the care of the farmer's daughter , a half - grown girl ...
Nature was making a bid for confidence ; the professor and his wife accepted it in good faith and went to stroll in the rolling foothills , leaving their two - year - old child in the care of the farmer's daughter , a half - grown girl ...
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And Conrad understood everything ; in him I had at last met a man of a passionate nature who yet understood that a sane view of life is not a matter of compromise , but as the mot juste , the phrase which shows neither weakness nor ...
And Conrad understood everything ; in him I had at last met a man of a passionate nature who yet understood that a sane view of life is not a matter of compromise , but as the mot juste , the phrase which shows neither weakness nor ...
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Contents
August Evening Josephine Johnson | 62 |
Perils of American Power Reinhold | 90 |
Gay Robert M | 96 |
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