Die deutsche Kaliindustrie

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Identifikator:: 1821348664

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217403

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Die deutsche Kaliindustrie

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: E. S. Mittler & Sohn

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: XII, 175 Seiten; Tab

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Introduction vii in inventions, such as the Franklin stove, which con- tributes to comfort and efficiency in the household. He seems to have been one of the first scientists to understand and to recommend the use of oil in smoothing down angry waves. He reconstituted the postal system of the colonies, and made it effective, self-sustaining, and in the end even remunerative. He developed the art of print- ing and based his contention for the freedom of the press on so good an authority as the ‘‘ Areopagitica’ of Milton. Franklin showed Philadelphia how to clean its streets, and how to build its schools. He instituted the first municipal library that the United States had known. He was the founder of a scientific association which, 150 years later, still continues its work in Philadelphia. He lived long enough to put his signature to the Declaration of Independence and to the document which presented to his fellow citizens the Constitution of the new Republic. His suggestions for the management of the problems of life are always deserving of attention. He empha- sized the fact that the earning of an income is not getting a living. It is only getting the means by which a man may enjoy a real living; that is to say, secure out of life all that is practicable by the best use of his powers for the service of his fellow men. Franklin never posed for posterity. . . . Yet he never wrote a dull line and there are few of his writings which, a century and a half later, have not interest and value for the present generation. It is fitting that today, 180 years after the birth of

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