Sublime

“The Evolution of Altruistic Behavior.”

L. N. FOWLER

What is socially humdrum is produced by what is individually heroic; and a city is made not merely of citizens but knight–errants.

In the 1840s, politicians finally made real headway with Britain’s confused company laws. Early in the decade, legal obfuscation helped produce an outbreak of fraudulent scams, involving not just railways but also the assurance companies that Dickens pilloried in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843).

Vic is a pointy-faced man of about forty with slicked-back dark hair who looks like a weaselly sort of hood, or maybe just a weasel, with his small eyes and vicious smile. Before landing here at the DMV, Vic worked as a bouncer, a roadie, a security guard, a fitness trainer, an auditor, and a head cook—name a job where you got to intimidate people

As Harrison said, his basic view didn’t change during the decades he ran railroads—service customers, control costs, utilize assets, don’t get anybody hurt, and recognize and develop people—and over time, he gained more confidence.

The French writer Stendhal, in his 1817 travelogue, Rome, Naples, and Florence, described

He was no longer the man he had known, or rather thought himself.