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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essen...

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...Y H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publicat... ...rth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... with Honour” foolery as we had performed by “Dizzy” and Salisbury at that fatal Berlin Conference in which this present war was begotten, we must sit... ...pe do not seem to be so lucid. I think myself we have been, and are still, fatally and disastrously not lucid. It is high time, and over, that we clea... ...ctive. While our sons suffer and 49 H.G. Wells die for their comforts and conceit, these people scheme to prevent any communication between the Repub... ...matic roguery and of aristocratic, plu- tocratic, and autocratic greed and conceit which dragged us all into this vast welter of bloodshed and loss. ... ...ver itself definitely from the German dynastic system, with which it is so fatally entangled 58 In the Fourth Year by marriage and descent, and to ma... ...se course before the allied Eu- ropean powers now is to put their national conceit in their pockets and to combine to lock up their foreign policy, th...

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....... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898..................................................

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...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...forgive was hard- ness of heart. This unpractical attitude would have been fatal to a better man, but his readers have for- given him. Withal he is ch... ...re many and the remedies are few, that there is no universal panacea, that fatality is invincible, that there is an implacable menace of death in the ... ...he slightest parade and so fine without any tricks of “cleverness” must be fatal to any man’s in- fluence with his contemporaries. Frankly, I don’t wa... ... in a spirit of bitter comedy to bring out the greatness of a Philistine’s conceit and his moral cowardice. But this is England in the twentieth centu... ... noble predecessors by an improved generation of dull, mechanical toilers, conceited and without grace. When they switched on (each of these unlovely ...

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...RA? DISCOURSES ................................................................................................................................ 33 I. THE THREE METAMORPHOSES ........................................................................................................................... 33 II. THE ACADEMIC CHAIRS OF VIRTUE............................................

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...Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...en, I do not love. Man is a thing too imperfect for me. Love to man would be fatal to me.” Zarathustra answered: “What spake I of love! I am bring- in... ...ey is yet long.” “Thy journey is short,” said the adder sadly; “my poison is fatal.” Zarathustra smiled. “When did ever a dragon die of a serpent’s po... ...st secret tyrant- longings disguise themselves thus in virtue-words! Fretted conceit and suppressed envy—perhaps your fa- thers’ conceit and envy: in ... ...his modesty!— This is, however, my third manly prudence: I am not put out of conceit with the wicked by your timorousness. I am happy to see the marve... ...s worth while, knowledge strangleth.” A long twilight limped on before me, a fatally weary, fatally intoxicated sadness, which spake with yawning mout...

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... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylva- nia State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...tural and pleasant. Others, the majority , disliked him and considered him conceited, 69 Tolstoy cold, and disagreeable. But among these people Princ... ...ded yourself in it. And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole affair pu... ...ject,” said Larrey, “and will not recover.” And Prince Andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of the inhabitants of the district. B... ...observation, supposed that all men, though they understand nothing and are conceited and selfish, ascribe common sense to themselves alone. Berg rose ... ...inite number of diverse and complex causes. W e are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the... ...Bat- tery or Raevski’s Redoubt, and to the French as la grande redoute, la fatale redoute, la redoute du centre, around which tens of thousands fell, ...