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... About sixty or seventy years ago, a man of piety and integrity arrived in Germany from Philadelphia, to visit his poor old parents, and, with ... ...sophy, Medicine, and Surgery.‖ REMARKABLE FULFILLMENT OF A PREDICTION. FROM A GERMAN AUTHOR. In my younger days, there was a dinner given in... ... method. Herodotus mentions it as a custom of the Alani, and Tacitus of the old Germans. The earliest means made use of by the miners for the d... ... THE DEMONSTRATION OF METALLIC TRANSMUTATION, AFFINITY, AND THE SECRET OF PHILOSOPHERS; OR, HOW TO CHANGE LED INTO QUICKSILVER.—Let there be o...

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..., the dream of a Greater Serbia is no less a recurrent nightmare than the numerable German Reichs and Serbia erupted upon the world stage no less fr... ...ia and Hungary) deprived Vojvodina of its autonomy. The Magyars rushed back in with German and Austrian settlers and immediately embarked upon a ma... ...anning the murders of King Nicholas of Montenegro, King Constantine of Greece, the German Kaiser and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. How much of it was... ... that in its pursuit of glorious and condescending isolation, it was left only with Germany as an ally, the very Germany whose Weltpolitik put it on... ... institute a system of efficacious self-regulation. Armed conflict erupted between Germany and France in Morocco more than once. Britain and German... ...ot. Sidgwick raised the second requirement and with certain modifications by other philosophers, it reads: to begin to appreciate values and meanin...

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... Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the c... ... the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doorway is ... ...Only by using Islamic translations of the Greek‘s writings would European philosophers rediscover them. Islam also brought to Europe the compass—ano... ...es The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the Romans were pulling up stakes from th... ...s, and the Jutes began launching raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds o... ...aden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born about 1400 in the archbishopric of Mainz, Germany, where his patrician parents reportedly had high-level family conn...

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...ntee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. Model citizens in these hellish envi... ...70). In his book "Die Psychopatischen Minderwertigkeiter", published in 1891, the German doctor J. L. A. Koch tried to improve on the situation by... ...ic Personality" (9th edition, 1950) and "Clinical Psychopathology" (1959), another German psychiatrist, K. Schneider sought to expand the diagnosis... ...on went a lot further than that and transcended the narrow view of psychopathy (the German school) then prevailing throughout Europe. In his work (... ... structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the c... ...ed in both Europe and America. The study of the human mind, hitherto a preserve of philosophers and theologians, became a legitimate subject of sci... ...Freud revolutionized the field (though, at first, his reputation was limited to the German-speaking parts of the dying Habsburg Empire). He dispense... ... empirically-supported laws and/or propositions (statements derived from axioms). Philosophers like Carl Hempel and Ernest Nagel regard a theory a...

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...t of the world functions in just such a mechanistic manner. Many contemporary philosophers recognized that while this view yielded great benefits, i... ... I V: R E A L I Z I N G T H E S P I R I T UA L G E N E 186 Many scientists and philosophers admit that they relate to the world as to a real threat. ... ...as “Elohim” (God). And this is the truth that the Creator concealed from the philosophers. --Ramchal, The Book of the War of Moses, Rule 15 Rabbi El... ... W R I T E A B O U T K A B B A L A H Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522) Reuchlin, a German humanist, political counselor to the Chan- cellor, a classics sc... ...d as personal physician and consultant to Maxi- milian I, Archduke of Austria, German King and Holy Roman emperor, and to Ferdinand I—King of Bohemia... ..., Introductoria Theoramata Cabalae Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541) A German-Swiss physician and alchemist, Paracelsus established the role ... ... D T H E M E A N I N G O F L I F E 212 Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750–1816) A German botanist and teacher whose studies of reproduction in plants le... ...Bruno, Le Opere Italiane Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716) Leibnitz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and politi- cal adviser, important b... ...ehuda Ashlag), such as Talmud Eser Sefirot and Zohar. Although scientists and philosophers will delight in its illumina- tion, laymen will also enjoy...

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...espected them both equally for what they felt and knew. I even polished my German, a language I particularly disliked when I studied it in university,... ...e Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1966. German original, 1963. 14. For a detailed discussion of Zoroastrian origins... ...Philosophy and Society, ed. and tr. by Loyd D. Easton and Kurt H. Guddat. (German original, 1843), Doubleday & Company Inc., Anchor Books edition, Gar... ...d tradition have been elaborated in countless writings by Indian religious philosophers over the centuries. For the purpose of examining the backgroun... ...rn presuppositions which owe their origin to the work of Western religious philosophers. The effect of this is that we have virtually no formulated co... ... as the Supreme Reality viewed from its many angles. 21 Though theological philosophers in India came to understand the gods to be the many various wa... ... of the death instinct 49. Sigmund Freud, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (German original BUDDHISM 55 directly followed the death of his much loved ... ...Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 18 vols. 50. Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id (German original 1923: “Das Ich und Das Es”) in vol. 13. THE RELIGIOUS DIMEN... ... theological leaders in Christianity, and the teachings of Greek and Roman philosophers came to predominate in an uneasy blend with tradi- tional Jewi...

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...ay. Arguments from design have long - and convincingly - been refuted by countless philosophers. Still, human beings do act intentionally. Back t... ...o the genetic and biological underpinnings of sexual behavior and preferences. The German science magazine, "Geo", reported recently that the males...

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... had arrived first, were four in number: a ple- thoric, hungry, and silent German tutor in spectacles, on a tour with three young men, his pupils, all... ...t, the land of a host of past and present abstract philoso- phers, natural philosophers, and subduers of Nature and Art in their myriad forms, called ... ...the horizon paying attentions like the well-known spectre of some place in Germany beginning with a B is a moral lesson inculcating that all the paths... ...ra, of foreigners arrived. Then I go among the French. Then I go among the Germans. They all tell me. The great part of us know well the other, and th...

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... me, “the first of these cursed people I have seen condescend to taste our German black bread.” (Ibid. 152.) (Ibid. 210-12.) And Dumouriez is in Paris... ...s and its Arsenal; and then on Electoral Mentz, not uninvited, wherein are German Democrats and no shadow of an Elector now:—so that in the last days ... ...Europe all rallying on us. It is a problem like few. Truly, if man, as the Philosophers brag, did to any extent look be- fore and after, what, one may... ...r way, utters certain unknown vocables, in a mandatory manner; seemingly a German word-of-command. (Dumouriez, iv. 159, &c.) Hussars clutch the Four N... ...of which have bodies and life still in them; most of which, according to a German Writer, have only emptiness, ‘glass-eyes glaring on you with a ghast... ...chess, in this way, may come to cover the scalp of a Cordwainer: her blond German Frankism his black Gaelic poll, if it be bald. Or they may be worn a...

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...rching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very different from h... ...is mother’s door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness. Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted that of his ... ...seen, for a Frenchwoman; but extended observation might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a counte... ...he asked of her companion. Her companion looked about at the carpet. “It’s a German name,” she said in Italian, as if it needed to be translated. “Yes... ...Italian, as if it needed to be translated. “Yes,” the other went on. “he’s a German, and we’ve had him many years.” The young girl, who was not heedin... ...wn tongue. I know no other. But we have sisters of other countries— English, German, Irish. They all speak their proper language.” 190 Portrait of a ...

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...her infirmities. In a distant and magnificent way, like some of the lesser German potentates, the mighty Lord of Shrewsbury took toll from the visitor... ...aid the smith, looking up from the horse’s foot; “’tis the trade of yonder philosophers to gainsay what- ever honest folk believed before them. They’l... ...se- cure to him, and then let me retire to some convent in Lorraine, or in Germany, or wherever she would, so would I never trouble her more!” “Will y...

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...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ...sider only organisms with extremities and the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas)... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...on. The Holocaust was a massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the... ... structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the co... ...he natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying ... ... harshest terms if it takes place between two consenting, and even eager adults in Germany. Surely, we don't treat murder, pedophilia, and incest t... ...e Moreover, in life, the human body and form are considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that... ...of upbringing and conditioning rather than anything innate. Causes, External Some philosophers say that our life is meaningless because it has a p...

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...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ...sider only organisms with extremities and the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas)... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...on. The Holocaust was a massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the... ... structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the co... ...he natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying ... ... harshest terms if it takes place between two consenting, and even eager adults in Germany. Surely, we don't treat murder, pedophilia, and incest t... ...e Moreover, in life, the human body and form are considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that... ...of upbringing and conditioning rather than anything innate. Causes, External Some philosophers say that our life is meaningless because it has a p...

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... sector has been -0.6 percent in the year to the end of the second quarter of 2002. Germany faces the same predicament. As oil prices surge, their ... ... insurance companies merged into what is termed, in French, "bancassurance", or, in German, "Allfinanz" - so did their hedging and insurance operati... ...emnified by the state or insurance consortia it runs. Similar schemes are afoot in Germany. But terrorism and war are, gratefully, still rarities.... ...mpiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers from interviews with 800 CEO's in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Japan and the US and titled "Innovati... ...quality with economic and psychological realities within an impatient timetable. Philosophers tried to specify a "bundle" or "package" of goods, ... ...one of us will be too happy with a standardized bundle, selected by a committee of philosophers - or bureaucrats, as was the case under communism. ... ... between warring or conflicting parties. Switzerland rendered this service to Nazi Germany (1933-1945), Macedonia and Greece to Serbia (1992 to the... .... This, then, is a great change of even greater consequences. Let us remember that philosophers have been the legislators in later centuries (laws ...

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...typically associated with certain disciplines. Pure scientists usually experiment. Philosophers prefer inductive reasoning while physicists and math... ...e setting out on their sales territories. Two concepts from social psychology are germane to a discussion of communication sources. The first hold... ... The line between product and idea is obviously vexing to the courts as well as to philosophers and idea marketers. SUMMARY Following some histo... ...nd outward to consumers and others seeking advice. (In the history of English and German law, the advocate was a special kind of lawyer who advised ...

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...s of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigato... ...orth, and discovered the northern coast of Spain, France, England, Holland and Germany. It is also believed that he proceeded as far north as Iceland.... ...e dead. Pythagoras in the sixth century, and Plato, Aristotle, and other great philosophers and geographers taught the sphericity of the earth, yet a ... ...anding, as related by the Sagas, is to the effect that among the company was a German named Tyrker, who being the most impetuous of the crew, was not ... ... been killed by Indians, which they had seen on shore. But towards evening the German returned, bearing in his arms a great quantity of grapes, a frui... ...ositive knowledge, that set foot upon the American Continent, if we except the German who accompanied him. THE KILLING OF THORWALD BY NATIVES. In the ... ...the cliffs. Sometimes the Spectres give notice of their own death, as in North Germany the spirits of sailors drowned at sea go into their own houses ...

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...ms would have roused a mutinous protest against this arrogant mandate. But Germans are generally mild and facile in their tempers; so the light was co... ...l no more burn than the leaves of a closed book. Privately, therefore, the Germans drew an inference, that Mr. Williams must have had some urgent moti... ...rticu- lar case there is seldom any reason to complain—since really out of Germany and Italy there is no city, if you except Paris and London, possess... ... pid man; but he moves about with more eclat by far than the ablest man in Germany. And, in days of old, the man that burned down a miracle of beauty,... ...itted in some such adventitious way before he ever could have risen to his German celebrity. What was it that raised him to his momentary distinction?... ...lyly, humbly but cunningly—to those whom he professed to regard as greater philosophers than himself. All parties found their account in the affair. P... ...he gates of cities, under the title of ‘swine,’ but caressed their infidel philosophers. Now, in this category of Jew and infidel, stood the author of... ... East and West, and all annuity offices, that stand opposed in interest to philosophers! In 1814, however, to my great regret, I did not see him; for ...

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...cs! But perhaps the notablest god we hear tell of is one of whom Grimm the German Etymologist finds trace: the God Wunsch, or Wish. The God Wish; who ... ...Speech of the com- mon people is still in a singular degree Icelandic; its German- ism has still a peculiar Norse tinge. They too are “Normans,” 20 T... ...t are sunk from us forever into unknown thousands of years. Nay Grimm, the German Antiquary, goes so far as to deny that any man Odin ever existed. He... ...not of any man. The word signifies Divinity, he says, among the old Saxon, German and all Teutonic Nations; the adjectives formed from it all signify ... ..., no real thing. All deep souls see into that,—the Hindoo Mythologist, the German Philosopher,—the Shakspeare, the earnest Thinker, wherever he may be... ... heartily in earnest. In earnest, if ever man was; as none of these French Philosophers were. Nay, one would say, of an earnestness too great for his ... ...appily into the region of Dreams and the Picturesque!—T o such comfortable philosophers, the Three Days of July, 183O, must have been a surprising phe... ...ave it made good; will have them- selves shot, if it be not made good. T o philosophers who had made up their life-system, on that “madness” quietus, ...

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...on- fess, is its weak side; or it may also be treated æsthetically, as the Germans call it, that is, in relation to good taste. T o illustrate this, I... ...nd his philosophy,” and might safely have defied them to do their worst. A German emperor had the same notion, when, being cautioned to keep out of th... ...s child he mur- dered; and thus it happened that Kant escaped. Such is the German account of the matter; but my opinion is—that the murderer was an am... ...ber an interesting illustration of this fact, in a case which I learned in Germany. Riding one day in the neighborhood of Munich, I over- took a disti... ...aning to practise a little professionally. For this purpose he resorted to Germany, conceiving the police in that part of Europe to be more heavy and ... ... arose, did people (but observe, very great people) advance to four, P .M. Philosophers, who watch the “semina rerum,” and the first symptoms of chang...