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"Many Americans shared the resentment voiced in a book published in
1902: “Throughout the [nineteenth] century men of the sturdy stocks of
the north of Europe had made up the main strain of foreign blood which
was every year added to the vital working force of the country . . . but
now there came multitudes of men of the lowest class from the south of
Italy and men of the meaner sort out of Hungary and Poland, men out of
the ranks where there was neither skill nor energy nor any initiative of
quick intelligence; and they came in numbers which increased from year
to year, as if the countries of the south of Europe were disburdening
themselves of the more sordid and hapless elements of their population.”
The writer of these words was a young Princeton professor, who, a decade
later, would become the President of the United States: Woodrow Wilson."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
