BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 
VOL. XXIII APRIL, 1934 No. 2 
TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
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To THE BoTANIC GARDEN GOVERNING COMMITTEE: 
I have the honor to present the following report for the year 
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LonG VIEWS AND SHORT VIEWS 
“ The cycles of trade depression which afflict the world,” says 
Whitehead, “ warn us that business relations are infected through 
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rough with the disease of short-sighted motives.’ 
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and t 
Success in business means attainment; the reward of effort is 
apt to be not so much the joy of endeavor, but the thing attained. 
The main ideal is near enough at hand to be realized. This is why 
so many writers have appraised the business man as short-sighted. 
Thus Galsworthy : * Our modern castle in Spain is, in one word: 
‘Production’ ... we are not forunate enough in civic life to 
have leaders who were born seeing two inches before their noses. 
.. Our civilization, if it is to endure, must have a star on which 
to fix its eyes—something distant and magnetic to draw it on be- 
yond the troubled needs and prejudices of the moment. 
And then he refers to the builders of Seville Cathedra 
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, who 
said, “ Let us build a church so great that those who come after 
us may think us mad to have attempted it.” To complete the 
church took 150 years. 
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