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...The War in the Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of t... ...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...s book. It remains essentially right, a pam- phlet story—in support of the League to Enforce Peace. K. 4 The War in the Air THE WAR IN THE AIR CHAPTE... ... speak, when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in the country has its weekly-outings— uppings, rather. It’s b... ...Smallways was a green-grocer by trade and a gar- dener by disposition; his little wife Jessica saw to the shop, and Heaven had planned him for a peace... ... We left before the finish. We got disabled and unmanageable, and our col- leagues—consorts I mean—were too busy most of them to trouble about us, and...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...BEAUCHAMP’S CAREER By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... a part she had to play in the composition of a singular people. She did a little mischief by dropping on the stock-markets; in other respects she was... ...m a curtain of volunteers and go to sleep again behind them; for they cost little in proportion to the much they pretend to be to him. Patriotic taxpa... ...is comparative subjugation (on the whole, it seems complete) of the animal world. By-and-by the struggle is transferred to higher ground, and we begin... ...lf-a-dozen crescent lines cunningly turned, sketched her figure before the world, and the reflection for one ready to die upholding her was that the p... ...build a cathedral of sound in the organ,’ said Dr. Shrapnel, casting out a league of leg as he sat beside his only 96 Beauchamp’s Career half-persuad... ...aeval style of our caricaturists:—Shrapnel stretched at his length, half a league, in slashed yellows and blacks, with his bauble be- side him, and pr...

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...ast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ... who will.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the m... ...nue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that... ...r brightest young men. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new furniture on the stage of the world for some considerable time; ... ... passion—and certain other restraining and qualifying forces. There can be little doubt that, if one could canvass all mankind and ask them whether th... ...imate confederation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing r... ...t there will be a gravita- tion of all other arrangements, all empires and leagues and 104 What Is Coming? what not, towards this rational and natura...

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.... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................................ 51 CHAPTER V: UPPER CANADA .................................................................................

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...th America Volume One by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...y Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ... Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then seen by that Frenchman offered him solace of no description. ... ...ssure them, in sober earnestness, that I admire what they have done in the world and for the world with a true and hearty admiration; and that whether... ...at that improvement will come for which there may perhaps even yet be some little room. And now touching this war which had broken out be- tween the N... ... when the meal is over, is the chef-d’oeuvre of the whole performance. The little, precocious, full-blown beauty of four signifies that she has comple... ...ruth reached the consideration of im- portant subjects, and that they were leagues beyond that terrible repetition of A B C, to which, I fear, that mo...

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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, es...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...ions of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H... ...e BY 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 publi... ...tronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...eace by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...s carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” a phrase sug- gesting plainly the organization of a suf... ...ent instrument by which war may be ended for ever. In 1913 talk of a World League of Nations would have seemed, to the extremest pitch, “Utopian.” T o... ...graphy, but be- cause I should be sorry to have the reader think that this little book pretends to state the case rather than a case for the League of... ... the powers of the League. But before I come to that I would like to say a little about the more gen- eral question of its nature and authority. What ...

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...th America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...y Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...ad streets, as to the completion of which there can now, I imagine, be but little hope. Of all places that I know it is the most ungainly and most uns... ...population of Washington; and there are, I fear, few towns in the Union so little likely to enjoy any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep the whole l... ...ide which is on your right as you leave the Capitol. Of the other side the world knows nothing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be ... ...ing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be any town in the world at all equal in importance to Washington which is in such respects so... ...787, the different States endeavored to make their way in the world simply leagued together by certain articles of confederation. It was declared that... ... independence; and that the said States then entered severally into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defense. There was no...

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...tes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publica... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...s by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...the man, if it gives no more than a partial view of a piece of his back, a little dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and recedin... ...y (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reasons that ca... ...le to the mind and the heart of the artist. After all, the cre- ation of a world is not a small undertaking except perhaps to the divinely gifted. In ... ...ruth every novel- ist must begin by creating for himself a world, great or little, in which he can honestly believe. This world cannot be made otherwi... ...sts compulsory vaccination. Mr. Bourne, who is not a theologian, wishes to league together not science and religion, but science and the arts. “The in... ...for the salvation of general ideas. They died neither for de- mocracy, nor leagues, nor systems, nor yet for ab- stract justice, which is an unfathoma...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...M 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Buil... ...TERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the... ...re Middle East- erners, naming three of their seat numbers. One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.The hijackers had gained ent... ...ilenced her. 76 Shortly thereafter, the passengers and flight crew began a series of calls from GTE airphones and cellular phones.These calls between ... ...cond aircraft strike the South T ower. 185 Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin. In the absence of information t... ...nitored only peri- odically because the information was sporadic,it was of little value,and there were other important tasks.The FAA manager of the te... ...d actually thought the operation too complicated for the CIA—“out of their league”—and an effort to get results “on the cheap. ” But a senior Joint St... ...achi and then to Afghanistan to renew contacts with Bin Ladin and his col- leagues.Though KSM may not have been a member of al Qaeda at this time, he ...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of ...

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