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...PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA FIRST AID TO CRITICS BY BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 GB Shaw PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA FIRST AID TO CRITICS BY BERNARD SHAW N.B. The Euripidean verses in the seco... ...an equal opportunity university. 3 GB Shaw PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA FIRST AID TO CRITICS BY BERNARD SHAW N.B. The Euripidean verses in the second act... ...poignant qual- ity that romantic fiction lacked. The book, in spite of its first failure, is not dead: I saw its title the other day in the cata- logu... ...ics to raise a cry of Ibsenism. I therefore assure them that the sensation first came to me from Lever and may have come to him from Beyle, or at leas...

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...test, or follow some other road without any fear. These two fortresses are; the first, the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, and their return to Jer... ... of our most profound respect, it is indispensable to premise these two things; first, the notion, or clear idea, of all which is signified or compr... ...inst subtleties, equivocations, and sophisms, which may easily incommode us. First Notion. THE C hristian church, founded by Messiah himself, w... ...e truth signified by these two words, church of God, and the spouse of God. The first is a general word which comprehends all the faithful, great an... ... them, ingress into the Christian church; but, on the other hand, they were the first called into it, they have entered, and do enter, as many as des... ...stop her, and make her turn back. Secondly, the mouth which the earth opens, in aid of the fugitive woman, swallowing up the whole of that great rive... ... one and with respect to the other, the scriptures in the same manner accompany, aid, enlighten, and no where oppose us. APPENDIX. ANY one who ... ...icient of itself, we do not therefore deem the second to be useless, for it may aid us not a little in the better and more easy understanding Comin... ... multitude of heavenly bodies is absolutely incomprehensible, and that with the aid of the best telescopes there is hardly discovered the most insig...

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...e thirty-four years that I have spent in Oxford. When I matriculated, Professor Max Muller, the editor of the series, was about to begin work on the first volume, which appeared while I was still an undergraduate. I lost no time in making his acquaintance, for it was the influence of one of his works that had stimulated me to begin under Professor Benfey the study of San...

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...not only after they have been published, but sometimes even before they are printed. It was in the spring of 1894 that the late Professor Max Muller first suggested to me that I should compile a General Index of the names and subject-matter for the complete series of the Sacred Books of the East. Such an Index, he thought, would be a great help to all students of the Sac...

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...ssor Max Muller, the editor of the series, was about to begin work on the first volume, which appeared while I was still an undergraduate. I lost no... ...estern world in authorita­ tive translations, Professor Max Muller for the first time placed the historical and comparative study of religions on a s... ...ere collected could not become thoroughly effective without the auxiliary aid of a separate index volume presenting that material thoroughly digeste... ... printed. It was in the spring of 1894 that the late Professor Max Muller first suggested to me that I should compile a General Index of the names ... ...he Index should also include such verbal quotations, was one of the very first suggestions made by Professor Max MUller. The compiler of an Index t... ... sq.; conducting prayers in the mosque of Medinah, 6, xliv; or Omar the first t.? think of editing the Qu~'an, 6, IVII; and Mohammed in the cave,...

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...S. Patent and Trademark Office. Printed in the United States of America. First Printing: 2006 * This book is printed on recycled paper. This book ... ...fulfilling, inspiring life, I also begin with the best ingredients. In my first book, The Power in You, written with my son Gregory over fifteen yea... ...will be accepted and returned. That's always a win-win situation. When I first envisioned my life as a cookie man, I decided right off the "batter"... ...he face of God." To be someone who loves and is loved by others, you must first love yourself. Do you think of yourself as unlovable? Do you believ... ... its corollary, "love is all there is." It's interesting to note that the first hits penned by John Lennon and Paul McCartney were "Love Me Do" and... ...ker Bush and Bill Clinton, join together to appeal for cash donations to aid the tsunami victims. Their unified message about giving from the heart...

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...over design by Dale Vermeer' Printed in USA by Baker Johnson, Dexter, MI First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Thank You, Thank You, Thank... ...need each other. My friend O. C. Smith says, "We are each other." Let me first thank my wife, Christine, and my daughter Sarah for their love, supp... ...ding of Love. The lawsuit with The (Nameless) Amos Cookie Company was my first experience with litigation of any kind, and I hope it's my last. I w... ...ches thick. "These are for you," he said curtly, and turned and left. My first thought was "Uh-oh, one of my many creditors has at last tracked me ... ...ning in 1990, I decided to bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies for the first time in almost a year. As my fingers worked the familiar batter, I r... ...establishing my­ self in the heart of a community of people who came to my aid when I needed them. 10. I aimed at responsibility, honesty and integr...

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...heological debates and the rise and fall of philosophical schools. It has first and foremost to be judged on its intrinsic merits--by the impact, th... ...ersonal that it may now reclaim. its right to be taken seriously. In the first place. this right afiects our understanding of the characteristic mo... ...ithout any commentary. To the reader who finds the meaning obscure a.t a first reading we may only say tha.t I aM. . ThOO, is indeed a ·poem. Hence... ...ion. . .* The spheres in: whioh the world of relation arises are ~~. . First, O'11r life with nature. There the relation sways in gloom, benea.th... ...ine contempla­ tion is over in a short time; now the life in nature, that first unlocked itself to me in the mystery of mutual action, can again be ... ...light. He calls thought, in which he rightly has great confidence, to his aid; it shall make good everything for him again. It is, in truth, the hig...

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...store, shall now be matter of my song. Benign Apollo! this last labour aid, And make me such a vessel of thy worth, As thy own laurel claims of ... ...ice turn’d, and on the sun Gazing, as never eagle fix’d his ken. As from the first a second beam is wont To issue, and reflected upwards rise, E’en as... ...e Ne’er ran, as thou hast hither now return’d.” Although divested of my first rais’d doubt, By those brief words, accompanied with smiles, Yet in... ...s fair, Bespake me: “Gratefully direct thy mind To God, through whom to this first star we come.” Me seem’d as if a cloud had cover’d us, Translu... ...wn by proof, But in itself intelligibly plain, E’en as the truth that man at first believes. I answered: “Lady! I with thoughts devout, Such as I... ... and leanness, in like manner this Must in its volume change the leaves. The first, If it were true, had through the sun’s eclipse Been manifested, by... ...ecollect was I so slow. But what thou sayst hath to my memory Given now such aid, that to retrace your forms Is easier. Yet inform me, ye, who here Ar... ... question thwarts thee, which to solve Might try thy patience without better aid. I have, no doubt, instill’d into thy mind, That blessed spirit may n... ...ithout bound. Therefore, if aught Thou of our beams wouldst borrow for thine aid, Spare not; and of our radiance take thy fill.” Thus of those pi...

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...! appear! [A pause .] They come not yet.– Now by the voice of him Who is the first among you; by this sign, Which makes you tremble; by the claims of ... ...e gallery: it is stationary; and a voice is heard singing .] FIRST SPIRIT: Mortal! to thy bidding bow’d, From my mansion in ... ... What wouldst thou with us, son of mortals – say? MANFRED. Forgetfulness FIRST SPIRIT . Of what of whom and why? MANFRED. Of that which is wi... .... I then have call’d ye from your realms in vain; Ye cannot, or ye will not, aid me. SPIRIT. Say; What we possess we offer; ... ...affled me, The remedy I reck’d of tortured me; I lean no more on super human aid, It hath no power upon the past, and for The future, till the past be... ...ople vacancy, whate’er Thy dread and sufferance be, there’s comfort yet– The aid of holy men, and heavenly patience MANFRED. Patience and patience! H... ...ries, and pierce To the abodes of those who govern her But they can nothing aid me. I have sought From them what they could not bestow, and now I sea... ... approaches. [Exit.] SCENE III: The Summit of the Jungfrau Mountain. Enter FIRST DESTINY . The moon is rising broad, and round, and bright; And here... ..., and a pirate at sea But I saved him to wreak further havoc for me! FIRST DESTINY , answering. The city lies sleeping; ...

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...se relatives and together seriously erode the tranquil continuity of yore. But the first serious crack in the classical (intuitive) weltanschauung ... ...t simultaneously (as a group) and still be highly discontinuous. Take a set of the first 10 integers. This set has a boundary and will react in the... ... original set. The second generation set will have no resemblance whatsoever to the first generation set. An example: heating the wooden stick will ... ...as yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that." R. P. Feynman (1967) "The first processes, therefore, in the effectual studies of the scie... ...l the time, more or less everywhere. Do we not have jumping then all the time? The first charge against 'measurement', in the fundamental axioms of... ...f steps to the result. This is why these methods were usable by humans without the aid of an apparatus (with the exception of pencil and paper as m...

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..................................................... 44 7 CHAPTER IX: THE FIRST ULYSSES AND THE SECOND ULYSSES ........................................ ...n man}, published by Bulzoni in 1998, says two interesting things. The first is that Homer’s two poems contain all the development of western li... ... all on the fact that Ulysses twice renounces immortality as promised him, first by Circe and the second time by Calypso. Neither does he ask himse... ...er. However, I want to ask the reader two fundamental questions. The first is, when does the voyage of the light that departs from a star end? ... ...ed it, who has been dead for who knows how long? 16 Cyanobacteria, the first forms of life, fed themselves on light and with it, they created ox... ... not chosen will make a pact. They will swear they will all run to Helen’s aid should she ever be defiled in any way. Helen chooses Menelaus and t... ...ke an oath that if Helen should ever be in danger, everyone will go to her aid” Tyndarus and the princes accept the solution proposed by Ulysses... ..., he runs into a huge storm that threatens his life. Poseidon comes to his aid and saves him, but Ajax, acting out of his stupid arrogance, belittle... ...en acts even before he formulates his prayer. She does so by coming to his aid so that he can reach Ithaca, step by step, the island of secondary be...

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...t pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "angry tone" as this was the first time he accused the pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franciscan Thomas Murner, in hopes that he would make people aware of the foolishness of supporting Luther...

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... Luther was thinking of such a treatise long before it was written. In the first of the reformatory treatises of 1520, as they have been called, we... ...And this promise was fulfilled. For that reason this “Prelude” is presented first among the treatises in this volume on the sacraments. The theme t... ...iefly the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. After Luther had promised in his first reformatory treatise of 1520 that he would “sing another little so... ...previous autumn but had not reached Wittenberg until some months later. The first came from the pen of Augustinus Alveld, that “celebrated Romanist ... ...sacrament of the Lord’s Supper and to this he gives his chief attention. The first captivity is the withholding of the cup from the laity; the second... ...ons.” This view I heartily endorse, for there is great comfort and a mighty aid to faith in the knowledge that one has been baptized, not by man, bu... ...r the Epistle, as is the present practice, but of distributing the church’s aid to the poor, so that the priests may be relieved of the burden of te... ... God and keep it” [Luke 11:28]. And who can count all the times he promises aid and glory to those who are afflicted, suffer, and are cast down? Inde...

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...mes in many different forms. I want to look at three specific types. The first is Primary beauty, which is found in nature and is always subject to... ...at we can begin in many different ways. We have learned to do this through first the help of Sophia-Analysis, and then with the help of Sophia-Art an... ...Sophia-Art and Cosmo-Art are disciplines that both complete and enrich the first. They are paths of knowledge and of wisdom that can help us transfo... ...e work as Existential Anthropologists or as Cosmo-Art Anthropologists, the first question we must always ask ourselves is, what do you want to do wi... ... pain, wisdom and art. If we decide to create secondary beauty, we must first begin investigating our existential unconscious, from intrauterine ... ...rcome his fear of death. Athena, the daughter of Zeus, comes to her hero’s aid by calming the winds and by suggesting to him what he can do. We must... ... Ulysses manages to save himself, it is because Ino and Athena come to his aid and they inspire his soul. What do they transmit to him? The message...

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............ 16 CANTO II. Dante, doubtful of his own powers, is discouraged at the outset.?Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by a blessed Spirit from Heaven.?Dante casts off fear, and the poets proceed. ................ 19 CANTO III. The gate of Hell.?Virgil lends Dante in.?The punishment of the neither good nor bad.?Aeheron, and the sinners on...

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...m that he y telling him that he y telling him that he has been sent to his aid b has been sent to his aid b has been sent to his aid b has been sent t... ...has been sent to his aid b has been sent to his aid b has been sent to his aid b has been sent to his aid by a blessed S y a blessed S y a blessed S y... ...L ante into Limbo imbo imbo imbo imbo, the F , the F , the F , the F , the First C irst C irst C irst C irst Cir ir ir ir ircle of H cle of H cle of H... ...3 43 43 CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO XII. O XII. O XII. O XII. O XII. F F F F First r irst r irst r irst r irst round of the S ound of the S ound of the ... ...II. E E E E Eighth C ighth C ighth C ighth C ighth Cir ir ir ir ircle: the first pit: panders and seducers.—V cle: the first pit: panders and seducers... ...nders and seducers.—V cle: the first pit: panders and seducers.—V cle: the first pit: panders and seducers.—V cle: the first pit: panders and seducers... ...nders and seducers.—V cle: the first pit: panders and seducers.—V cle: the first pit: panders and seducers.—Venedico C enedico C enedico C enedico C e... ...ginner in the study of the Divine Comedy when I first had his incomparable aid in the understanding of it. During the last year of his life he read th... ...ce, who had of old on earth led him aright, now intervened and sent to his aid Virgil, who, as the type of Human Reason, should bring him safe through...

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...Excerpt: I had better explain why, in this little piece d?occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary F...

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...explain why, in this little piece d’occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for estab- lishing a National Theatre as a ... ... to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitton,... ...ed to produce the effect of repulsion it seemed to have aimed at. When you first met Thomas Tyler you could think of nothing else but whether surgery ... ... would have it that she was Mary Fitton; and he tracked Mary down from the first of her marriages in her teens to her tomb in Cheshire, whither he mad... ... the Fitton theory, Frank Harris, who clearly had not a notion of what had first put Mary into his head, believed, I think, that I had invented Tyler ... ...erwards hap- pened to him, and warned him to leave the country. It was the first time within my knowledge that such a forecast proved true. 9 GB Shaw...

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...Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................................................ 5 Preface to the Second Edition ...............................................................................

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...te University is an equal opportunity university. Contents Preface to the First German Edition.......................................................... ............................................................ 9 Preface to the First Edition ................................................................ .......................................................................... 14 First Scene .................................................................. ...................................................................... 33 The First Act .................................................................... ...................................................................... 41 The First Act .................................................................... ...t fun to the 99 Shaw loftiest aspiration, can make symphonies without the aid of dance tunes. As much, perhaps, will be claimed for the pre- ludes an...

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Excerpt: Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), translated by Edward Fairfax (London 1600).

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...d 1581 in Parma, Italy Translated by Edward Fairfax(1560-1635) Translation First Published in London, 1600 SANS Index A Penn State Electronic Classics... ...Publication Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600) is a pub... ... in any way. Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600), the Pen... ...581 in Parma, Italy. Translated by Edward Fairfax (1560-1635); translation first published in London, 1600. FIRST BOOK THE ARGUMENT. Godfrey unites th... ...u; arm you, whilst you read. 5 Torquato Tasso VI Six years were run since first in martial guise The Christian Lords warraid the eastern land; Nice b... ...f Pagans bold, Where naught behoves us trust to Greece untrue, And Western aid we far removed behold: Who buildeth thus, methinks, so buildeth he, As ... ...II Her helm the virgin donned, and but some wight She feared might come to aid him as they fought, Her courage earned to have assailed the knight; Y e... ... not thou, but Legier stay behind, And move the Greekish Prince to send us aid, Tell him his kingly promise doth him bind To give us succors, by his c... ...ties, And, lastly, legions armed well provides Of subjects born, and hired aid besides. SECOND BOOK THE ARGUMENT. Ismeno conjures, but his charms are ...

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...Slumber and Dream of Dante.?The Eagle.?Lucia.?The Gate of Purgatory.?The Angelic Gatekeeper.?Seven P?s inscribed on Dante?s Forehead.?Entrance to the First Ledge. ................................. 34 CANTO X. First Ledge: the Proud.?Examples of Humility sculptured on the Rock. ........................................... 39 CANTO XI. First Ledge: the Proud.?Prayer.?Omberto ...

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...gelic Gatekeeper.—Seven P’s inscribed on Dante’s Forehead.—Entrance to the First Ledge. ................................. 34 CANTO X. First Ledge: the... ...ured on the Rock. ........................................... 39 CANTO XI. First Ledge: the Proud.—Prayer.—Omberto Aldobrandeschi.—Oderisi d’ Agubbio.... .............................................................. 42 CANTO XII. First Ledge: the Proud.—Examples of the punishment of Pride graven on the p... ...ire, which was gathering in the serene aspect of the sky, pure even to the first circle, 2 renewed delight to my eyes soon as I issued forth from the ... ... with the Muses, were for their presumption changed to magpies. 2 By “the first circle,” Dante seems to mean the horizon. 7 Dante dead air that had ... ... life, because I delayed good sighs until the end; unless the prayer first aid me which rises up from a heart that lives in grace: what avails the oth... ... it. But if the soul have steadfast purpose to resist temptation, and seek aid from God, that aid will not be wanting. The prayer of the Church which ... ...ool-men. It was she who was called upon by the Virgin (Hell, Canto II.) to aid Dante when he was astray in the wood, and who had moved Beatrice to go ... ... for them by those who have a good root for their will? T ruly we ought to aid them to wash away the marks which they bore hence, so that pure and lig...

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...er only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover?d there. How first I enter?d it I scarce can say....

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...urse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover’d there. How first I enter’d it I scarce can say, Such sleepy dullness in that instant... ...loft the sun ascended with those stars, That with him rose, when Love divine first mov’d Those its fair works: so that with joyous hope All things co... ...ery town Shall worry, until he to hell at length Restore her, thence by envy first let loose. I for thy profit pond’ring now devise, That thou mayst f... ...ring memory shall retrace. O Muses! O high genius! now vouchsafe Your aid! O mind! that all I saw hast kept Safe in a written record, here thy ... ...t he hath late resolv’d, and with new thoughts Changes his purpose, from his first intent Remov’d; e’en such was I on that dun coast, Wasting in thoug... ...v’d; e’en such was I on that dun coast, Wasting in thought my enterprise, at first So eagerly embrac’d. “If right thy words I scan,” replied that shad... ...Lucia calling, her she thus bespake: “Now doth thy faithful servant need thy aid And I commend him to thee.” At her word Sped Lucia, of all cruelty th... ...ring cloud. “It yet behooves We win this fight”—thus he began—” if not— Such aid to us is offer’d. —Oh, how long Me seems it, ere the promis’d help ar... ... returnest, I with him meantime Will parley, that to us he may vouchsafe The aid of his strong shoulders.” Thus alone Yet forward on the’ extremity I ...

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...er only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover?d there. How first I enter?d it I scarce can say....

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...urse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover’d there. How first I enter’d it I scarce can say, Such sleepy dullness in that instant... ...loft the sun ascended with those stars, That with him rose, when Love divine first mov’d Those its fair works: so that with joyous hope All things co... ...ery town Shall worry, until he to hell at length Restore her, thence by envy first let loose. I for thy profit pond’ring now devise, That thou mayst f... ...ring memory shall retrace. O Muses! O high genius! now vouchsafe Your aid! O mind! that all I saw hast kept Safe in a written record, here thy ... ...t he hath late resolv’d, and with new thoughts Changes his purpose, from his first intent Remov’d; e’en such was I on that dun coast, Wasting in thoug... ...v’d; e’en such was I on that dun coast, Wasting in thought my enterprise, at first So eagerly embrac’d. “If right thy words I scan,” replied that shad... ...Lucia calling, her she thus bespake: “Now doth thy faithful servant need thy aid And I commend him to thee.” At her word Sped Lucia, of all cruelty th... ...ring cloud. “It yet behooves We win this fight”—thus he began—” if not— Such aid to us is offer’d. —Oh, how long Me seems it, ere the promis’d help ar... ... returnest, I with him meantime Will parley, that to us he may vouchsafe The aid of his strong shoulders.” Thus alone Yet forward on the’ extremity I ...

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...y, but in a literary sense each is independent and self-contained. The proem to the Ethics is an introduction to the whole subject, not merely to the first part; the last chapter of the Ethics points forward to the Politics, and sketches for that part of the treatise the order of enquiry to be pursued (an order which in the actual treatise is not adhered to)....

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...m to the Ethics is an introduction to the whole subject, not merely to the first part; the last chapter of the Ethics points forward to the Poli- tics... ...t within a single work of a group of connected questions. The unity of the first group arises from their centring round the topic of character, that o... ...ovel (for they are anticipated in Plato), but that by him they are for the first time distinctly and clearly formulated. (1.) Character, good or bad, ... ...m- self contributes nothing to the formation of his character, but that at first he needs guidance. The point is not so much that the process cannot b... ..., willingly, more and more “of himself.” But what are “right” acts? In the first place, they are those that conform to a rule—to the right rule, and u... ...it: respect being the reward of goodness and beneficence, profit being the aid of need. This is plainly the principle acted upon in Political Com- mun... ...re incurably depraved; when there is a chance of amendment we are bound to aid in repairing the moral character of our friends even more than their su... ...on his own pursuit, because they feel Pleasure in them. Thus the Pleasures aid in increasing the Workings, and things which do so aid are proper and p...