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...ing receipts did not contain abbreviations and were laborious to use. They were, however, rich in error! Later in her career, due to circumstances of war and the resulting social stress and poverty, many of her knitting books were printed for ladies' charitable societies, which used her knitting receipts to clothe the poor mill workers who were out of work due to the Ameri...

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... accounted for an estimated 80 percent of the world’s total e-mail. 59 North American PCs led the world in De- cember 2006, producing approximately 46... ...n time to de- velop effective countermeasures and best practices. Rather, the war is being lost across the board. Operating system developers struggle ... ...demics, social analysts, and industry leaders surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2004 predicted serious attacks on network infras... ...s and benefit from one another’s activities. Benkler, on the other hand, sees war between the amateur authors empowered by generative systems and the i... ...a ripple effect on long-standing cyberlaw problems, many of which are tugs-of-war between individuals with a real or perceived injury from online activ... ... need not be limited to targeted eavesdropping that is part of a criminal or civil investigation. It can also be effected more generally. In 1996, law ... ...o tinkering PC owners in their homes, had grown to include 20 percent of all Americans. Id. at 9. Among adult Internet users, meanwhile, 65 percent co... ....R. 4808, H.R. 5250, H.R. 5488, and H.R. 5705 Before the Subcomm. on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Admin. of Justice of the H. Comm. on the Judiciar... ...the Rules, or the Re- statement: Or, What Do Honor and Shame Have to Do with Civil Discovery Practice?, 71 F L. R. 1567 (2003); James Q. Whitm...

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...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...ec’s had risen to be an Admiral and a knight for valiant action in the old war, when men could rise. Him they besought to take charge of the youth, an... ...ldier—good anything you will—but, Diacho! to be married to that! He is not civilized. None of you English are. Y ou have no place in the drawing-room.... ...—I mean our ladies—not your English. They wanted to know how I could be so civil to that intolerable man. I gained a deal of credit, my dears. I laid ... ...ON BOARD THE JOCASTA FROM THE TAGUS to the Thames the Government sloop-of- war, Jocasta, had made a prosperous voyage, bearing that pre- cious freight... ...y just as he was near drowning himself.’ Evan muttered something, grimaced civilly, and turned away. The girl’s observant brows were moved to a faintl... ...g manifestations of stiff-backedness, could not forbear add- ing: ‘I am at war with my sympathies, which should be with the poor brute flying from his...

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...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ...and, lately, through Selective Dissemination of Information, or SDI). The war is by no means decided. "Progress" may yet consist of the assimilation ... ...ubiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civilization. Their attacks on printing read like the litanies against sel... ...casts a shadow over the future. Books have been with us since the dawn of civilization, millennia ago. In many ways, books constitute our civilizatio... ...Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm. Civilization is developing severe amnesia as a result; indeed it may have ... ...nformation and opinion that is a prerequisite to both (a) and (b). It is a war zone where many fear to tread. the Wikipedia is a negative filter (see... ...ield between have countries and have-not countries. It will be a cultural war zone (English against French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Spanish)....

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...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...intended to be fruitful and multiply ("Save the Whales" 1979): The materialistic American dream, while dominant, is not universal. Young adults sh... ...s, pollution; the list is long indeed. One may add the exchange of information on civil rights, product safety, the metric system, religion, voter ... ...ical benefits: In August 1945, a rumor spread to the effect that Russia declared war on Japan only because Russia received in exchange the secret ... ...n effected. In this sense, U.S. attempts to rally popular support for the Vietnam War cannot be called propaganda because of the presence of consid... ...the developing of a marketing plan for an agency such as ours (a state division of civil rights). A score or more respondents said that they had ret... ...c.); force-taking of utility without offering a payment (for example, by burglary, war, extortion, or conquest); or gift-conferring utility without t... ...vant in multiple issue organizations, such as the Urban Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union. These groups have no less a need for resea...

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...University of Chicago Press 13. Names for important events : Thirty yearsJ War, Peasants' War (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or W... ...r (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of... ...ary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of 1812, Franco-Prussian War, Battle of Getty... ...r or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of 1812, Franco-Prussian War, Battle of Gettysburg;... ...: sabbath =day of rest]. Malzzlal of Style: Capitalizatiolz 9 19. Titles, civil and military, preceding the name, and academic degrees, in abbrevi... ... (for illustrations of these see 260-63) : The Men Who Made the Nation; The American College-- Its Past and Presmt; the Report of the Committee of N... ..." as part of the title, unless necessary to the sense: the Forum, the North American Review, the Chicago Tribune; but: The World To-Day.) NoTE.-T~~... ...their applications." ' " ~attual of Style: Spelliltg 29 SPELLING 82. All civil and military titles, and forms of address, preceding the name, exc... ...ndeed, it may be said to be the only important consideration." "It is so in war; it is so in the economic life; it cannot be otherwise in religion."...

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...passive-aggressive, and psychoneurotic personality disorders and types. The American Psychiatric Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publish... ...mendments do not constitute a part of the text of the DSM-IV-TR, nor is the American Psychiatric Association (APA) associated with them in any way.]... ...rder By Robert C. Schwartz, Ph.D., DAPA and Shannon D. Smith, Ph.D., DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 200... ...re facts end and wishful thinking takes over. Father acknowledges he was no war hero, though he did his share of fighting. Mother understands she w... ...n. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds narcissistic values and penalises alternative ... ...thic leader is the culmination and reification of his period, culture, and civilization. He is likely to rise to prominence in narcissistic societi... ...e barbarians at our personal gates, and what it was like before we invented civilization. Hitler forced us all through a time warp and many did not... ...opardizing "acceptable (modes of) existence". Except in rare cases (famine, war, plague), survival is rarely at risk. On the contrary, people are m... ... that tells his followers: I can increase your chances to win the constant war that you are waging to find food and shelter, to be respected, to en...

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...And again, in his message of December 8, 1846, that “we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even th... ...ally, under wholly unjustifi- able pretexts, involved the two countries in war, by invad- ing the territory of the State of Texas, striking the first ... ...ettlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. Eighth. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not... ..., or, if within such, that the inhabitants had submitted themselves to the civil authority of Texas or of the United States, and that the same is true... ...takable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us—Barnburners, Native Americans, Tyler men, disappointed office-seeking Locofocos, and the Lord k... ...JUNE 20, 1848. In Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Civil and Diplomatic Ap- propriation Bill: MR. CHAIRMAN:—I wish at all time... ...onal question. In 1826 Chancellor Kent first published his Commentaries on American law. He devoted a portion of one of the lectures to the question o... ...myself, came down upon us astonishingly. He spoke in what the ‘Balti- more American’ calls the “scathing and withering style.” At the end of his secon... ...ushed for ever! Who can realize that freedom’s champion, the champion of a civilized world and of all tongues and kindreds of people, has indeed falle...

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...fe. When first Chaldicotes, a very old country seat, had by the chances of war fallen into their hands and been newly furnished, and newly decorated, ... ...d his prisoner’s wife. He had been specially asked by Mr Walker to be very civil. Only one could sit on the box with the driver, and if the request wa... ...ar to the Dowager Lady Lufton, because he carried on worthily the clerical war against the bishop which had raged in Barchester ever since Dr Proudie ... ...p which had raged in Barchester ever since Dr Proudie had come there—which war old Lady Lufton, good and pious and charitable as she was, considered t... ...understood generally through the establishment—and I may almost say by the civil service at large, so wide was his fame—that Mr Eames was very averse ... ...ition, wrote papers about it, which he read aloud to various bodies of the civil service—not at all to their delight—which he got to be printed here a... ...n as a peacemaker, changed the conversation again and began to talk of the American war. But even that was made a matter of discord on church matters—... ...rt to the door. It was better by far that he should go, and so he went. An American when he has spent a pleasant day will tell you that he has had a ‘...

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...y disagrees with my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of... ... informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment, or civil rights, or the way the economy works. I will try my best to be fair... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...aton, or the literary classics of the 1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregatio... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...f property rights is needed in order to fuel progress. Indeed, the post-Cold War “Washington consensus” is invoked to claim that the lesson of history... ...to focus on, and I do not mean to trivialize them. I worked with a couple of civil liberties groups in opposing the hapless Communications Decency Act... ... complexities of the issue, the record companies did not want to engage in a war of dueling empirical studies. So, if Napster’s users were not infring...

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...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ...te—a beautiful personal presence, that of a prince in very truth, a ruler, war rior, patron, lighting up brave architecture and diffusing the sense o... ... once felt in noting on her lips that rarest, among the Barbarians, of all civil graces, a perfect felicity in the use of Italian. He had known strang... ...a ground, but they had n’t prevented him from insisting that some strictly civil ancestor—generations back, and from the Tuscan hills if she would—mad... ...ly—I went one day with Maggie. We looked him up, so to say. They were most civil.” And she fell again into the current her husband had slightly ruffled...

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...here, the dark, tall statures of the Princes Metzengerstein—their muscular war-coursers plunging over the carcasses of fallen foes —startled the stead... ...les, Lettres, Universal, Experimental, Biblio- graphical, Association, To, Civilize, Humanity.” Dr. Moneypenny made the title for us, and says he chos... ...making known to him the wishes of the society, he re- ceived me with great civility, took me into his study, and gave me a clear explanation of the wh... ...tion for me in all other respects, and indeed treated me with the greatest civility. His parting words made a deep impression upon my heart, and I hop... ...ut. Audacity:—Y our diddler is audacious.—He is a bold man. He carries the war into Africa. He conquers all by assault. He would not fear the daggers ... ...utter some ques- tions, and learned, among other glorious news, that civil war is raging in Africa, while the plague is doing its good work beau- tifu... ...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising 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...

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...ment 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 B... ...adin 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 Afghani... ...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...10. WARTIME 325 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home 326 10.2 Planning for War 330 10.3 “Phase Two” and the Question of Iraq 334 11. FORESIGHT—AND... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We learned that ... ...con. We learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this thr... ...nidentified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration (FA...

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...d; he accepted no refreshment except “eau sucree,” and consequently had no civilities to return. This apparent devotion to the Mignon family allowed i... ...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ...y — taking it, like many another youth, for a vocation—on the red cloth of war. On his way to the base of the army at Nice he met the Breton. The pair... ...made sergeants at the peace which followed the battle of Marengo. When the war recommenced, Charles Mignon was pro- moted into the cavalry and lost si... ...seful as well as a faithful retainer, pro- posed to take him with him in a civil capacity. Dumay was only too happy to be adopted into the family, to ... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ... his liberality by getting a good price out of him. Society wished to show civilities to Madame and Mademoiselle Mignon; but they had already obeyed t... ...he man talks about com- parisons that howl, rocks that faint, and waves of war! How- ever, he is only a travelling Englishman, and we must expect absu... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo...

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...Ada, taking her sister’s information for granted. ‘Oh no, it is nothing. A civil service man, second cousin’s brother-in-law’s stepson. That’s quite e... ...down the cross road to Bellevue, barring her way, and executing a derisive war-dance around her, and when she, almost crying, made an attempt to dash ... ...her of a grown-up son, engaged in his father’s business. She was extremely civil and polite, and everything went well except for a certain stiffness. ... ...ltation upon the marriages, only regretting that one gentleman should be a civilian; he had always augured that all his young ladies would be in the S... ... Caesar always hiding away his nominatives out of spite. Valetta, like the American child, evidently regarded the Great Julius in no other light than ... ...en and then burst out, ‘Cousin David! Hurrah! Scrumptious!’ com- mencing a war-dance at the same moment. ‘What is it? Has David asked you?’ demanded b...

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...course, the spirit of the age, and the equalizing sentiment that marks the civilization of the epoch, will greatly hasten everything in the shape of i... ...ch that, in this country, is by no means affluent. The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any com- mendable d... ...wn local authorities. But representation forms no part of the machinery of American policy . It is supposed that man is too intellectual and philosoph... ...k, we ventured to predict the great fortunes that were in reserve for this American mart, giving some of the reasons that then occurred to us that had... ...owers of sovereignty are directly conceded to the Union. The right to make war and peace, to coin money , main- tain armies and navies, &c., &c., in t... ...ipal law, but by the law of nations. Thus, for instance, the right to make war, which is inherent in every state of for- eign relations, infers the ri... ...Cooper quests; and that clause of the Constitution which declares that the war-making power shall abide in Congress, says, at the same time, by an una... ... of policy and justice, sub- ject only to the great principles that modern civili- zation has introduced into public concerns. One can understand why ... ...tion- ably place the United States of America promi- nently at the head of civilized nations, unless their people throw away their advantages by their...

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... savage plun- derer of a besieged town up to the reckless monarch mak- ing war to feed his own ambition. There is a courage that breaks out in bravado... ...ely devoted to the holy work of softening the after sufferings that render war so hideous; whose very step and shadow car- ried gladness and healing t... ...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...eek peace and ensue it.’ With such strains as these, sung to his harp, the war- 17 Yo n g e rior gained the hearts of his men to enthusiastic love, a... ...g his tributary nations he counted the Chaldean, with his learning and old civilization, the wise and steadfast Jew, the skilful Phoenician, the learn... ...tory has spoken clearly, and had become, in Gaul especially, slightly more civilized from intercourse with the Greek colony at Massilia, or Marseilles... ...on condition of keeping the natives in check. A growing taste for arts and civilization was leading to Romans of inferior classes settling themselves ...

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...ater of London, and he certainly might have made things look blue for this civilised city. And now he has swallowed it. Of course, I cannot say what w... ...ing,” said Wedderburn. “Anyhow, the natives of his party were sufficiently civilised to take care of all his collection until his colleague, who was a... ...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ...lities of the negro mind brought into abrupt contact with the crown of our civilisation Holroyd never fully realised, though just at the end he got so... ...s if inadvertently, Pawkins’ revision as a “miracle of ineptitude.” It was war to the knife. However, it would scarcely interest the reader to detail ... ...he split between them widened until from the Microlepidoptera they were at war upon every open question in entomology. There were memorable occasions.... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,... ...t a private man.’ “‘Yes,’ he answered. ‘But have you thought?—this talk of war, these reckless challenges, these wild aggressions—’ “I stood up. “‘No,...

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...and drained it with a health to the donors. How strange are the chances of war! But half an hour be- fore he and I were engaged in mortal combat, and ... ...w, and none more so than Philip Fogarty, the humble writer of this tale of war. Our embrasure was luckily bomb-proof, and the detach- ment of the Onet... ... gallantry from my conduct in various actions and forlorn hopes during the war, the Emperor was most anxious to attach me to his service. The Grand Cr... ... to see how the French gents will swagger—how they will be the scenters of civilization—how they will be the Igsamples of Europ, and nothink shall pre... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...as it surpasses all now in dignity, in valor, in honesty, in strength, and civilization,) the Doctor nodded to the Queen of France, but kept his hat o... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...t have come off in his second duel as well as in his first; as it was, the civilian placed a ball and a part of Mac’s gold repeater in his stomach. A ...

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... Can Tell the middle between them, its uselessness empha- sized by a cheap American clock disrespectfully placed beside it and now indicating 12 o’clo... ...l respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passion- ate character ... ...ct us to feel for you—to do for you? What is it you want? Why are you less civil to us than other people are? You are evidently not very fond of us—wh... ...TINE. Have you ever studied the subject of gun- nery—artillery—cannons and war-ships and so on? MRS. CLANDON. Has gunnery anything to do with Gloria? ... ... are not able to express. What you miss in Crampton is that mere veneer of civilization, the art of shewing worthless attentions and paying insincere ... ...ri- vate apartment, sir. If you will allow me, sir, I will shew you to the American bar and supper rooms, sir. This way, sir. He goes into the gardens...

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...PTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS...

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........................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON – CIVIL ENGINEER ...................................................... 58 CH... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...use, and his dogs my quest- ing dragoons. Little by little we dropped into civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ... all our veins there run some minims of his old, wild, tree-top blood; our civilised nerves still tingle with his rude terrors and plea- sures; and to... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ... got to Philadelphia before me. He introduc’d me to his son, who receiv’d me civilly, gave me a breakfast, but told me he did not at present want a ha... ...the impropriety of it, and at last gave a flat denial to it. Then he wrote a civil letter to Sir William, thanking him for the patronage he had so kin... ...ollins with me but that he was not so ber. The gov’r. treated me with great civility, show’d me his library, which was a very large one, and we had a... ...d pounds, and in 1739 to eighty thousand pounds, since which it arose during war to upwards of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds, trade, buildin... ...an not have the help expected from my papers, many of them being lost in the war. I have, however, found the following. ]* HAVING mentioned a great an... ... when collected. With respect to defense, Spain having been several years at war against Great Britain, and being at length join’d by France, which br...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...oy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who support the litter, civilisation, in which we ourselves are so smoothly carried forward. People... ...t in masterly coincidence with the artis- tic effect. The deadly weight of civilisation to those who are below presses sensibly on our shoulders as we... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ...se States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war a period of great trial to his soul. The new virtue, Unionism, of which... ...em to be; what is once well done is done for ever.” Such was his theory of civil disobedience. 106 Robert Louis Stevenson And the upshot? A friend pa...