In Continental countries, the middle and even the lowest classes were more readily caught by doctrines which, when kept within due bounds, may be promotive of exterior prosperity, but which, pushed to their extremes and logical consequences, may embroil the whole nation in revolution and calamities.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
The cultivation of flowers is eminently promotive of health, refinement of manners, and good taste.
"Soil Culture"
J. H. Walden
Letters, at any time, are sufficiently promotive of misunderstandings, but in the Confederacy they drifted from camp to camp, from pocket to pocket, like letters in bottles committed to the sea.
"Kincaid's Battery"
George W. Cable