British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION IN SOUTH AMERICA. VIADUCT CONSTRUCTION IN SOUTH AMERICA TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW 533 that this aggressive policy has led Germany to the vergeof bankruptcy, as some allege. Even so, that would notreturn to us the volume of past trade that the policy haslost us. There must be serious reasons for this specious growthand real decline which during the last quarter of a cen-tury has occurred in the face of a favoring
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION IN SOUTH AMERICA. VIADUCT CONSTRUCTION IN SOUTH AMERICA TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW 533 that this aggressive policy has led Germany to the vergeof bankruptcy, as some allege. Even so, that would notreturn to us the volume of past trade that the policy haslost us. There must be serious reasons for this specious growthand real decline which during the last quarter of a cen-tury has occurred in the face of a favoring would seem to be two main causes. The first hasalready created a certain amount of attention: the refusalof many British manufacturers to adapt themselves to arapidly altering condition of affairs. The second has at-tracted less notice, but is, I think, as important in its ownway as the first. This is the continuance of that free-lance policy of individual effort that, as I have tried toshow, harks back to the days of Hawkins and under present conditions this is as obsolete as thewalls of England that once were of wood, rifted againstthe scientifically combined groups of
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