Progeny Quotes
There were some people and corporations that wanted to open up the Grand Canyon for mining.
Darwin believed at the time that large populations were critical to national success and development. The next 100 years would prove that large population was a handicap to progress and real growth of standard of living.
This was his most famous speech.
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Chamberlain was about to leave for the Munich Conference where his appeasement emboldened Hitler and the Germans and dashed all hope of peace. Baldwin was out of office, but his support of the Munich appeasement changed his image from that of a popular statesman, to a craven appeaser. See {626930} for Churchill’s view of Baldwin.
One fourth of the entire Spanish population was out of work in a depression what was in part caused by government austerity required by the other European capitalist nations in exchange for loans to keep the county from total financial collapse. The protesters tended to blame capitalism itself rather than the particular manifestation of capitalism that Spanish politicians and business leaders had implemented in the past and how Europe was currently reacting. Clearly one weakness of capitalism at the time was that recessions and depressions were too frequent, hard to recover from, with the pain borne by the poor and middle class while the rich and upper class was able to maintain their standard of living and in some cases make even more money.
This quotation is noteworthy for the early data where this warning was given by prominent scientist and public figure. Decades later, there were many who held this view, but Mead was among the erliest.
