Philip Dru, Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935

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B.W. Huebsch, 1912 - 312 sivua
Philip Dru, administrator is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by author Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician, and presidential foreign policy advisor. The book's hero leads the democratic western United States in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes the acclaimed leader of the country until he steps down, having restored justice and democracy--Wikipedia.
 

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Sivu 64 - Do your work gently and with moderation, so that some at least may listen. If we would convince and convert, we must veil our thoughts and curb our enthusiasm, so that those we would influence will think us reasonable.
Sivu 185 - the formulation of a new banking law, affording a flexible currency, bottomed largely upon commercial assets, the real wealth of the nation, instead of upon debt, as formerly.
Sivu 229 - Labor is no longer to be classed as an inert commodity to be bought and sold by the law of supply and demand,
Sivu 276 - and wondered when her deliverance would come. There was, he knew, great work for someone to do in that despotic land. Thus Dru had formulated and put in motion an international policy, which,
Sivu 235 - who set fire to an orphan asylum, and murdered a blind man for his pennies.
Sivu 8 - and it is here that the next great battle for human emancipation will be fought and won. And from the blood and travail of an enlightened people, there will be born a spirit of love and brotherhood which will transform the world; and the Star of Bethlehem, seen but darkly for two thousand years, will shine again with a steady and effulgent glow.
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