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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutis...

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...Excerpt: A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in oppositi...

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... This publication of “The Communist Manifesto” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... This publication of “The Communist Manifesto” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file, for any purpose, and... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...n, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages. I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS The history of all hitherto existing societies is the his tory of class stru... ..., now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending... ...e, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost every where a complicated arrangement of societ... ...n bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that... ...heir place stepped free competition, accompa nied by a social and political constitution adapted to it, and by the economical and political sway of t...

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...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss ...

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...CATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...in which his life is cast. In this sense many of the most venerated men of history have been criminals; their lives and teachings have been in greater... ... policy by one sect of the Jews and Christians to save themselves from the Romans. The reason for the doctrine was the belief that resistance was hope... ...y growing class of property laws that have had no counterpart in the early history of man. This list has grown so fast that it is beyond the power of ... ...ife shall not be extinct, Nature plants the life-giving desire deep in the constitution of man. The creation of life comes from an instinct so profoun... ...rmination to preserve the species, has planted sex hunger very deep in the constitution of man. The fact that it is necessary for the preservation of ...