...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t I don’t see why, the evil being recognised, some comprehensive scheme of colonisation might not be adopted by the rulers of a Chris- tian land, to e... ...bout. What an age it is! America, how is that to end? India, China, Japan, Africa! I have Jowett’s books and “Essays and Reviews.” How much I should l... ...nesia. And so one’s thoughts float out to India, and China, and Japan, and Africa, and the islands of the sea, and the very vastness of the work raise... ...there should be two missionary dioceses, and without the right man for the African Mission, there might have been a difficulty in carrying out the pla...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ... tion of the inhabitants of islands to those of the near- est mainland —On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification —Summary ... ...formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny. The savages in South Africa match their draught cattle by colour, as do some of the Esquimaux th... ...how much good domestic breeds are valued by the negroes of the interior of Africa who have not asso- ciated with Europeans. Some of these facts do not... ...f numerous specimens from the same nest of the driver ant (Anomma) of West Africa. The reader will perhaps best appreciate the amount of difference in... ... tion of the inhabitants of islands to those of the near- est mainland —On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification —Summary ... ...he independent creation of each species, but are explicable on the view of colonisation from the near- est and readiest source, together with the subs...

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... barbarous invasions, set-backs, but to that state all Asia, Europe, North Africa worked its way with an indomitable pertinacity. The enor- mous major... ...fi- cial banking back that migrations on a far huger scale from India into Africa, and from China and Japan into Australia and America are prevented. ... ...nd traditions is leading us towards grave dangers, intensi- fies. In South Africa the Boers taught us in blood and bitter- ness the obvious fact that ... ... front. Our Empire, for all its roll of battles, was not created by force; colonisation and diplomacy have played a far larger share in its growth tha...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................