Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

But the great miracle of the nineteenth century-the building of a new nation... and diffusing among them the necessities and comforts of civilization to a greater extent than the world had ever known before is explained by the development of harvesting machinery and of the railroad.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.