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Page 1 of 11916 · PDF PAGE 14
…But people are not aware of it; they are still listening to the false prophets who prophesy smooth things. The critical situation of the world at present lies not in Europe. Europes fate is known. It lies in America and China. The attention of every man of even the smallest degree of foresight should be concentrated on this fact. It is emphasized clearly enough in these letters. And the great merit of Mr. Stuarts vision is that he saw these things in their entirety long before any other man had even begun to think about them. Another difficul…
1916 · PDF PAGE 4
…ld always be the case with homo sapiens, the most important part of the impression is given by the head. Such a brow is only seen in the worlds greatest thinkers. Mr. Stuart was born in 1864 in Brooklyn, N.Y. His father, John Stuart, was a Captain of the 51st and Lieutenant Colonel of the 63rd New York Volunteers. His is the perfect and ideal type, fast disappearing, of the aristocratic American. Mr. Stuart was educated in San Francisco, California; but it is one of his favorite claims that he is not educated. Rather, he would say, he is begin…
1916 · PDF PAGE 3
Now, whenever a crisis occurs in the affairs of the world, it is imperative that they should be examined de novo by a mind which has never lost sight of fundamentals. The expert becomes useless at such times for the very reason that he is an expert. Temporary expedients will not serve. As a matter of fact, this is always more or less subconsciously recognized by the good sense of the people. The hopes which were excited by the election of Mr. Wilson to the presidency were based entirely on the fact that he was not a professional politician. In …
1916 · PDF PAGE 2
…se facts. And the drastic expedients adopted at the beginning of the war shew clearly enough in what delicate scales the business of the world is weighed.
1916 · PDF PAGE 6
…ite, has never travelled beyond the radius of twenty miles from his hamlet, and knows nothing of his countrys affairs, much less of the worlds, could never be so insensible to the facts of human nature as Henry Ford. You could argue with him til all was blue, but you would never even begin to persuade him. He would know it was all nonsense, just in the same way as you cannot fool a dog about a tramp. It is true that this instinct is sometimes wrong after all in certain minor matters, because now and then conditions do change. But in all fun…
1916 · PDF PAGE 13
… care to be swept away of crushed by real eloquence. Yet this is the kind of speech which has always moved men from the beginning of the world, and always will. It cannot be prolonged. Twenty minutes of it, and the nerve-force of every hearer would be exhausted. He would be mad to get up and do something; and that something would be what Mr. Stuart told him. But the old ideal of oratory has passed. Mark Anthonys speech would be rather bad form. People do not want to be moved to do more than pass a nicely worded resolution. But if a real crisis…