Identifier: cassiersmagazi2719041newy (find matches)
Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
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position of very great, if not supremeimportance. For instance, they arecognisant of the fact that Great Britainmaintains the most powerful navy in theworld and, in a great measure, this canbe attributed to the existence of veryvaluable interests on the high seas.Then there are the facts of insularityand of a comparatively enormous sea-board, conditions which obviously fosteroversea trading, especially when a coun-try is densely populated and incapableof producing internally sufficient sup-plies for its inhabitants. Lastly, thereis the influence and effect of heredity; theAnglo-Saxon race is essentially a sea-loving and a sea-roving race, and in theveins of its present day representativescourses the blood of the Vikings andBerserkers of old. Thus, by geographical position andinherited instinct alike, there is everyreason to expect maritime enterprise ofconsiderable development. This ex-pectation, moreover, is justified and Copyright, 1903, by the Cassier Magazine Co. CASSIERS MAGAZINE
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THE WORLDS OCEAN-GOING TRADE confirmed by daily experience. Theharbours and docks along the Britishcoast are crowded with shipping, mostlyof British nationality, and from time totime comes the announcement of thelaunch from British shipyards of yet an-other ocean leviathan— the largeststeamship afloat. In spite, however, of all these dataand observations, with their almost in-separable inferences, the average Britonrealises only imperfectly the splendidposition which his country has achievedand maintained in the international con-test for maritime supremacy. The reason is not far to seek. It isbecause he has no definite standard ofcomparison. Without some externalsource of reference, the judgment mustinevitably be at fault. A man may havea giants stature and yet little apprecia-tion of the fact from a survey of his ownimage in the mirror. It is not, indeed, until one comesseriously to the study of internationalreturns, that any true insight into thematter is obtainable. Statistics a

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