Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Secular Anathema on Fakery in Business, Social and Professional Life: Or Twentieth Century Conduct
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. - Hamlet
Every intelligent hope is the prophecy of its fulfillment. - Helen Wilmans.
I have for years preached Anglo-American amity. I have helped the Alliance by impartial compliments.
I have shown how America has thrown her doors wide open to all those that suffer and are oppressed - and who can put up $50 admission - except the Chinese. We draw the line there.
And how unselfishly England has wrought for the open door for all in China, and how openly and how piously America has stood for that open door in all cases where it was not her own. And how generous England has been and America has been in not urging China to pay fancy rates for extinguishing missionaries, like Germany does, but is willing to take produce from them - tea and firecrackers and other things - why Germany has made things so expensive that China cannot afford German missionaries any more, but has got to wait until she is better fixed financially. And how simply and sorrowfully and shamefacedly England and America stood at Port Arthur weeping, while France and Germany helped hold Japan and Russia robbed her. - Mark Twain.
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