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... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of lit... ...im- mortality did not exist, he would at once have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before al... ...ially to a foreigner. But I thoroughly understood him. The subject was the socialist revolutionaries who were at that time perse- cuted. I will quote ... ...d by this person. ‘We are not particularly afraid,’ said he, ‘of all these socialists, anarchists, infidels, and revolutionists; we keep watch on them... ...own-up people go to the theatre and there the adven- tures of all sorts of heroes are represented—sometimes there are robbers and battles, too—and isn... ... in fear of the censorship of the day. For if the troika were drawn by his heroes, Sobakevitch, Nozdryov, Tchitchikov, it could reach no rational goal... ...ld reach no rational goal, whoever might be driving it. And those were the heroes of an older generation, ours are worse specimens still….” At thi...

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...lication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t, he decided not to retain property rights, but to give up to the peasant labourers the land he had inherited from his father. It was on this land qu... ...heart was beating so fiercely in his breast that he seemed to hear it, his laboured breath came and went in a burst of long-drawn sighs. In the maids’... ...er to regain their independence, 339 Tolstoy the political prisoners, the Socialists, the strikers con- demned for withstanding the authorities. Ther... ...property,” began Rogozhinsky quietly, and, convinced that Nekhludoff was a Socialist, and that Socialism demands that all the land should be divided e... ...he exist- ing misery was a result of the people’s ignorance, he joined the socialists, who carried on propaganda among the people, as soon as he left ... ...ot the right-down villains that some imagined them to be, nor the complete heroes that others thought them, but ordinary people, just the same as othe...

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...cs Series Publication A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ought better of it.” “Am I to conclude,” said Miss Bartlett, “that he is a Socialist?” Mr. Beebe accepted the convenient word, not with- out a slight ... ...t twitching of the lips. “And presumably he has brought up his son to be a Socialist, too?” “I hardly know George, for he hasn’t learnt to talk yet. H... ...nce when Miss Lavish had concluded. Then the cousins wished success to her labours, and walked slowly away across the square. “She is my idea of a rea... ...ic of some sort himself when he was young; then he took to writing for the Socialistic Press. I came across him at Brixton.” They were talking about t... ...blue, and for a mo- ment he looked like some one in a book.” “In a book?” “Heroes—gods—the nonsense of schoolgirls.” “And then?” “But, Charlotte, you ... ...hat will be just the proper thing.” She had bowed—but to whom? To gods, to heroes, to the nonsense of school-girls! She had bowed across the rubbish t...

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...Excerpt: ?THE COW IS THERE,? said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ?She is there, the cow. There, now.? ?You have not proved it,? said a voice. ?I have proved it to myself.? ?I have proved to myself that she isn?t,? said the voice. ?The cow is not t...

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...s Series Publication The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d towards the night, wherein there now twinkled innumerable stars—gods and heroes, vir- gins and brides, to whom the Greeks have given their names. “L... ... so Rickie deflected his enthusiasms. Hitherto they had played on gods and heroes, on the infinite and the impossible, on virtue and beauty and streng... ...until this letter. Up to now I think we have been too much like the strong heroes in books who feel so much and say so little, and feel all the more f... ...d, “Shall we divide the waters from the land or not? Was not the firmament labour and glory suf- ficient?” At all events it was the beginning of life ... ...ford. Between them they ruled the vil- lage, one claiming the souls of the labourers, the other their bodies. If a man desired other religion or other... ...ephen left Wiltshire, half-blackguard, half- martyr. Do not brand him as a socialist. He had no quarrel with society, nor any particular belief in peo...

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...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...al pile of frightening proportions. He was surrounded by a group of fellow-heroes who hailed my coming with con- siderable enthusiasm. “Your bunky’s l... ...ed from three to six wagonfuls of water twice a day, and in reward for the labour involved in its capture was in the habit of giving a cup of coffee t... ...lls that the little Machine-Fixer said or hinted that he had been either a socialist or an anarchist when he was young. So that is doubtless why we ha... ... Friend, of no one has he ever or will he ever say My Enemy. When there is labour to do he works like a dog ... the day we had nettoyage de chambre, f...

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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... ...................................................................... 27 THE LABOUR UNREST................................................................. ...on of Frontiersmen disporting itself at T otteridge. I presume these young heroes consider they are preparing for a possible conflict in England or We... ...ess of imagination, his lack of general ideas, has been the despair of the Socialist and of every sort of revo- lutionary theorist. He may have struck... ...time is not far distant when insurrec- tionary leaders, calling themselves Socialists or Syndicalists, or what not, men with none of our experience, l... ...e a method of handling as our party-ridden State permits. In theory I am a Socialist, and were I theorising about some nation in the air I would say t... ...e that notorious windbags, conspicu- ously advertised adventurers, and the heroes of temporary sensations may run a considerable chance upon the lists...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...as required to lead the life he led, with the disadvantages under which he laboured from the first, and with those which he brought upon himself by hi... ...ask, literary or other, on which he did not conscientiously bestow all the labour nec essary for performing it adequately. But he, with these bur de... ... admiration for the lives and characters of heroic persons; especially the heroes of philosophy. The same inspiring ef fect which so many of the bene... ...only regarded as orthodox, and by his noble origina tion of the Christian Socialist movement. The nearest paral lel to him, in a moral point of view... ...be made more tolerable. In short, I was a democrat, but not the least of a Socialist. We were now much less democrats than I had been, because so long... ...d Democracy, and would class us decidedly under the general designation of Socialists. While we repu diated with the greatest energy that tyranny of ...

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James 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... ... The V arieties of Religious Experience “What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the Sun? I looked on all the works that my han... ...xistent. Should the rest of us so disregard them, there might be many such heroes, for many have the wish to live for similar ideals, and only the ade... ...is respect the Utopian dreams of social justice in which many contemporary socialists and anarchists in- dulge are, in spite of their impracticability... ...hat his immediate bad fortune may be. The greatest saints, the spiri- tual heroes whom every one acknowledges, the Francises, Bernards, Luthers, Loyol... ...ter it is said that “single words (as chalcedony), or the names of ancient heroes, had a mighty fascination over him. ‘At any time the word hermit was...