... life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, no... ...e, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exerc... ... is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day... ...here it was then that I lived. The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that... ...must be born again in order to speak. The crowds of men who merely spoke the Greek and Latin tongues in the middle ages were not entitled by the accid... ...rks of genius written in those languages; for these were not written in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature....

...prolong unsustainable and pernicious consumption booms followed by painful busts. Alphabetical Bibliography Austria’s Foreign Direct Investment in... ...ot only traditional law but its (habitual? last 2500+ years?) enclosing frame: the alphabetic language. This is precisely what most thinkers and in... ...esting to note, as I said in my previous letter, that "Cybernetics" (derived from a greek word: kybernetes: "pilots", steersmen), which can be fair... ...tro devices...;o((( Mankind is coming back a full circle - from ideograms through alphabet to ideograms. Consider computers. They started as pure ... ...ng to do. But, gradually, we were all converted. Today, the elite controls both the alphabet (machine and high level programming languages) and the ... ..., indeed, the more obsolete the elite is. Finally, it will all be ideograms, the "alphabet" buried under hundreds of layers of graphics and imager...

...n staring at an infinite roll of paper tape. On the paper are symbols in some alphabet or number system. The reader carries out simple, The Enclosure o... ...ructed.” And to give lawyers fits. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. In Greek mythology, Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted its prospective o... ...e, has four “base pairs”— A, C, G, and T . Scientists have developed genetic alphabets that involve twelve base pairs. Not only is the result not foun... ...ry. Even though the rules would have allowed the equivalent of patenting the alphabet, the very maturity of the field minimized the disruption such pat... ...ithout data, the “more is better” idea is obviously flawed. Copyrighting the alphabet will not produce more books. Patenting E = mc 2 will not yield m... ...ase. A white pages directory is a database of names and numbers, compiled in alphabetical order by name. Does anyone have an intellectual property rig...