In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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Nationality: Trinidadian Type: Journalist Born: January 4, 1901 Death: May 19, 1989 |
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.