A 'tie' is unacceptable, and every attempt is made to break it. We must also contend with other negative forces beyond the freezing of the faculty of judgement and the assignment of values. To live, in this hectic century, and soon in the next, is to be ever caught up in a giddying whirl of activity, clamor and confusion, and then to be anaesthetized by various forms of deadening 'entertainment.
Novelty, intensity, strangeness - in a word, all the values of surprise have supplanted it'. Many otherwise intelligent persons do not miss the aesthetic quality in their lives, particularly if they were never introduced to it as a vital force.
If all men were well off, if poverty and disease had been reduced to their lowest possible point, there would still remain much to be done to produce a valuable society; and even in the existing world the goods of the mind are at least as important as the goods of the body.
Civilizations earn or lose their pretensions to greatness on the record of their achievements, which is in reality the combined achievement of small minorities within them. And what great civilizations of the past have left to posterity is the remaining evidence of their glory, often attained despite internal as well as external threats.
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Jonathan Morgan. Thank you for bringing on this topic. Joint Clinic. Hilos Tensores Clinicas Vicario. Their first attempts to plant them in India failed, but they were successful with their efforts in Batavia, on the island of Java in what is now Indonesia.
The plants thrived and soon the Dutch had a productive and growing trade in coffee. They then expanded the cultivation of coffee trees to the islands of Sumatra and Celebes. In , a young naval officer, Gabriel de Clieu obtained a seedling from the King's plant. Despite a challenging voyage — complete with horrendous weather, a saboteur who tried to destroy the seedling, and a pirate attack — he managed to transport it safely to Martinique.
Even more incredible is that this seedling was the parent of all coffee trees throughout the Caribbean, South and Central America. The famed Brazilian coffee owes its existence to Francisco de Mello Palheta, who was sent by the emperor to French Guiana to get coffee seedlings.
The French were not willing to share, but the French Governor's wife, captivated by his good looks, gave him a large bouquet of flowers before he left— buried inside were enough coffee seeds to begin what is today a billion-dollar industry. Missionaries and travelers, traders and colonists continued to carry coffee seeds to new lands, and coffee trees were planted worldwide.
Plantations were established in magnificent tropical forests and on rugged mountain highlands. Some crops flourished, while others were short-lived. New nations were established on coffee economies.
Fortunes were made and lost. By the end of the 18th century, coffee had become one of the world's most profitable export crops. After crude oil, coffee is the most sought commodity in the world.
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