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...I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right impl... ...forcefully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies ref... ...e a calculus of hierarchically weighted rights. (See "Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life" by Baruch A. Brody). One form of calculus is the uti... ...e Mother is a morally significant person and that she is a rights-holder. All born humans are and, more so, all adults above a certain age. But wha... ...quires in order to materialize his potential. It sounds very much like many other human contracts. And this contract continue well after pregnancy... ...d range of the victims, the methodology of murder, the disposal of the bodies, the geography, the sexual perversions and paraphilias - are all info...

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...Contents AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ......................................................................... 6 EPISTLE TO THE READER .......................................................................................................

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... by John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (... ...erial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (... ...ate University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ........... .................................................................................... 520 Chapter III Of the Extent of Human Knowledge ...................... .............................................................................................................. 717 6 Human Understanding AN ESSAY CONCER... ...iven constantly for- wards and backwards in a narrow lane and dirty road, only to market, should be skilled in the geography of the country. Nor is it...

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...in for tea in blouse and flowered straw hat. A woman of great vitality and humanity, who begins a casual acquaintance at the point usually attained by... ...tesy). Oh, that’s all right, Mr. Rahnkin. Well, I see no harm so far: it’s human fawlly, but not human crime. Now the counsel for the pros- ecution ca... ...igent enough to steal its scenery, its sur- roundings, its atmosphere, its geography, its knowledge of the east, its fascinating Cadis and Kearneys an... ...but Irish English; so I am as nearly impar- tial in the matter as it is in human nature to be. Besides, there is no standard English pronunciation any...

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...rth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobrium of human pride—the everlasting mutabilities of all which man can grasp by his ... ...epose. This trite but unwearying theme, this impas- sioned common-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the po... ...r a beginning, or something beyond all beginning— then next a dim lotos of human consciousness, finding itself afloat upon the bosom of waters without... ...this way rounding or making an island of our fantastic existence,— that is human life; that the inevitable amount of man’s laugh- ter and his tears—of... ...t there is a frailty, by com- parison with which this ordinary flux of the human race seems to have a vast duration. Cases there are, and those not ra... ...ion) it was held by those best ac- quainted with the difficult and obscure geography of these pathless steppes—that the loss of this one narrow strait... ...g, upon any question of philosophy or of science, espe- cially of physical geography,* chemistry, or natural history. He talked satisfactorily, in his... ...rest- lessness with which from morning to night he pursued these *Physical Geography, in opposition to Political. 377 Thomas de Quincey labors of Sis...

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..., the passion and uncharitable zeal of others. These are faults from which human affairs can perhaps scarce ever be perfectly freed; but yet such as n... ...comes any good man to do. Magistracy does not oblige him to put off either humanity or Christianity; but it is one thing to per suade, another to com... ...rching on with my utmost vigour in that way which, according to the sacred geography, leads straight to Jerusalem, why am I beaten and ill used by ot... ... Christian? Again, things in their own nature indifferent cannot, by any human authority, be made any part of the wor ship of God for this very re... ...” — John Locke 27 by any virtue of their own, to propitiate the Deity, no human power or authority can confer on them so much dignity and excellency ... ...ch God has not forbidden is free and lawful, and therefore in those things human authority has place. But it is not so in matters of religion. Things ...

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...ble by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every t... ... merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world. This human mind wrote history, and this must read it. The Sphinx must solve her ... ...versal nature which gives worth to particu- 7 Emerson lar men and things. Human life, as containing this, is mysterious and inviolable, and we hedge ... ...o be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world; he must transfer the point o... ...his or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of... ...elebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet. The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at... ...sia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts. The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life. But the nomads... ...and passengers, on the circle of house- hold acquaintance, on politics and geography and his- tory. But things are ever grouping themselves according ... ...here the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you thin...

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...re; a man of ardent temperament and robust physique, keenly susceptible to human passions and desires, who battled with himself from early man 5 The... ...inherently ethical, and reveals strong sympathy with sinning and suffering humanity, but it is masked by a manner that is sometimes uncouth and freque... ... toyed with by philosophers, which must remain a closed book to struggling humanity. Yet Tolstoy found true idealism in the toiling peas ant who beli... ... lies in the above mentioned “What then must we do?” Certain it is that no human document ever revealed the soul of its author with greater sincerity.... ...ater sincerity. Not for its practical suggestions, but for its impassioned humanity, its infectious altruism, “What then must we do?” takes its rank a... ...heir purpose – that of teaching young children the rudiments of his tory, geography, and science. Little leisure remained for the service of Art. The...

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...hind itself a sea so cruel; and I will sing of that second realm where the human spirit is purified and becomes worthy to ascend to heaven. But here l... ...these stars, visible only from the Southern hemisphere. Ac- cording to the geography of the time Asia and Africa lay north of the equator, so that eve... ...; which Dante is seeking, and which, being the perfect con- formity of the human will to the will of God, is the aim and fruition of nil redeemed soul... ...old thy hands; henceforth shalt thou see such officials. See how he scorns human means, so that he wills not oar, or other sail than his own wings bet... ...the infinite way which One Sub- stance in Three Persons holds. Be content, human race, with the quia; 1 ; for if ye had been able to see everything, n... ...e thing is, seek not to know WHY or HOW—propter quid—it is as it is. 2 If human knowledge sufficed. 14 Purgatory agile in vain. Between Lerici and T...

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...isdom of Solomon to that of Adam and of Christ, and declares the vanity of human judgment. .............................................................. ...hey gath- ered for triumph or of Caesar or of poet (fault and shame of the human wills), that the Peneian leaf 4 should bring forth joy unto the joyo... ...receding to this dawn are undescribed. 8 Norton to the place made for the human race as its proper, abode. 8 Not long did I endure it, nor so little ... ...ds to God, while meaning otherwise; and Holy Church represents to you with human aspect Gabriel and Michael and the other who made Tobias whole again.... ...hat one does not see.” But in this case, as Beatrice goes on to show, mere human intelligence if Sufficient to see that the injustice is only apparent... ... some heaven, as a palm of the high victory which was 22 According to the geography of the time the Mediterra- nean stretched from east to west ninet...

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...shores and seemed to have become calm. But the mysterious forces that move humanity (mysterious because the laws of their motion are unknown to us) co... ...hough the surface of the sea of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity went on as unceasingly as the flow of time. V arious groups of peo... ...he historians address to him, based on their knowledge of what is good for humanity. What do these reproaches mean? Do not the very actions for which ... ...c character like Alexander I, standing on the highest possible pinnacle of human power with the blinding light of history focused upon him; a characte... ...do not ac- cuse him of that)—had not the same conception of the welfare of humanity fifty years ago as a present-day professor who from his youth upwa... ... history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which dir...

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...self liable to the reward or punishment of Justice.” It is the allegory of human life; and not of human life as an abstraction, but of the individual ... ...pendent as its artistic beauty, of science, of creed, and of institutions. Human nature has not changed; the motives of action are the same, though th... ...The allegory consists in making their characters and their fates, what all human characters and fates really are, the types and images of spiritual la... ...ted indeed in wisdom and power, but with hardly less definite and concrete humanity than that of Dante himself. The scheme of the created Universe hel... ...itself. Their cosmography was but an extension of the largely hypothetical geography of the tune. The Earth was the centre of the Universe, and its no... ...him aright, now intervened and sent to his aid Virgil, who, as the type of Human Reason, should bring him safe through Hell, show- ing to him the eter...

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...wayward mood, which, in Werter, pours itself forth in bitter wailings over human life; and, in Berlichingen, appears as a fond and sad looking back in... ... darkness and regions of dreams, but rests in light, on the firm ground of human inter- est and business, as in its true scene, on its true basis. It ... ...s, I hummed and sang it to myself readily enough. In the same way we had a geography in memory-verses, in which the most wretched doggerel best served... ...le cultivated world by a marvellous combination of the important events of human life. But as I did not venture to trust such an affair to any one, or... ...usiness. He also had a character essentially moral, which, as the vices of human nature frequently gave him trouble, inclined him to the so-called pio... ...s no thought. We were tormented a long while with this quid pro quo of the human figure; and when the so-called Passions of Le Brun were given us to c... ...notion. T o obtain matter for filling up this singular form, I studied the geography of the countries in which my creations resided, and by inventing ...

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...ve you there? Bolette. The one’s something about botany. And the other’s a geography. Arnholm. Do you care about such things? Bolette. Yes, if only I ... ...llida. Oh! Don’t think that, Wangel. I have been as well cared for here as human being could desire. But I did not enter your house freely. That is th... ...allested. Only with this difference—that the mermaid dies of it, it, while human beings can acclam—acclimatise themselves. Yes yes. I assure you, Mrs....

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...r happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfac- tion of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from su... ... saw vividly before him a long-forgotten, kindly old man who had given him geography lessons in Swit- zerland. “Wait a bit,” said the old man, and sho... ...g enough; it is time to act the general.” 53 Tolstoy contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the histori- ans produce a saving concep... ...meanness. For us with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable. And there is no great- ness where simpli...

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... any kind. The woman is a commonplace old bundle of poverty and hard- worn humanity. She looks sixty and probably is forty-five. If they were rich peo... ...es the poor professor of Greek, the most artificial and self-suppressed of human creatures, from his meal of roots, and lets loose the rhapsodist in h... ...ing at her if you asked her to stand up in the street and teach grammar or geography or mathematics or even drawingroom dancing; but it never occurs t... ...you if my forgiveness would open the gates of heaven to you. But to take a human soul from me, and turn it into the soul of a wolf! that is worse than... ... Is my access to the subtlest thought, the loftiest poetry yet attained by humanity, no capital? my character! my in- tellect! my life! my career! wha... ...s for hangmen’s ropes and unjust wars and things that I abhor. What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles? What ...

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...k why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces... ... afternoon and watching the min- iature golf, you would have said that, as human affairs go, we were an extraordinarily safe castle. We were, if you w... ...onora never spoke a word to each other in private? What is one to think of humanity? For I swear to you that they were the model couple. He was as dev... ...on them that they would be slightly cold—not icily, not without a touch of human heat, but, as they say of baths, with the chill off. I seemed to feel... ...d the love of men. You never saw such a troop as his. And he had the Royal Humane Society’s medal with a clasp. That meant, appar- ently, that he had ... ...somewhere up towards a place or a district called Chitral. I am no good at geography of the Indian Empire. By that time they had settled down into a m...

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...issoluble alliance to uphold the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. Anna Pavlovna received Pierre with a shade of melancholy, evide... ...on of a healthy and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling dominated everything else and soared above all their affected... ...emed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. As twenty years before, it seemed... ...ograd hussars?” he inquired. “The reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one com- pared to that which had said: “The Pavlograd hussars?” The E... ...ent of the hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires... ...ss gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. “A geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough to be hear...

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...ey approached the vil- lage, where, on the brow of an acclivity, masculine humanity appeared in the shape of two curates: one tall, thin, close- shave... ...I ever heard of any such place.” “Never read of sweet Auburn!” “Not in any geography or gazetteer. Do you recollect tell- ing me that you have been in... ..., colonel, are a hinspector of police, which I take to be more than merely human; and as to the gentlemen here, a gentleman ain’t a man—leastways not ... ...ar of the factory, rent of the ground upon which the factory is built, and human labor, or wear and tear of live men, which has to be made good by foo... ...y back on them. I cannot sit at their feasts knowing how much they cost in human misery, and seeing how little they produce of human happiness. What i... ...ed him his question. “Make a note that wishes for the destruc- tion of the human race, however rational and sincere, are contrary to nature,” he said,...

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...the Zemstvo has no money. “Laying these facts before you, and knowing your human- 5 The Wife and other stories ity, I beg you not to refuse immediate... ...upon frozen potatoes, and consider they have a right to judge whether I am humane or not. Worried by the anonymous letter and by the fact that peas- a... ...ed that I know so well. “There are people,” she said, “for whom famine and human suffering exist simply that they may vent their hateful and despicabl... ...rent and completely devoid of all feeling of sympathy, yet who do not pass human suffering by, but insist on meddling for fear people should be able t... ...this day if it had not been for her unfortunate character; she was the one human being on the terrestrial globe whom I loved. At this moment, just bef... ..., strange as it seems, he almost got married. A new teacher of history and geography , Milhail Savvitch Kovalenko, a Little Russian, was appointed. He...

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...guage, of the sublime style, to describe these grand and edifying moments of human life, which seem cre ated expressly to prove that virtue sometimes... ... had the effrontery to repeat the shameful joke of the morning. The limit of human patience was exhausted. He had just hidden in his pocket the ha... ...plishments, such as playing the piano some times, speaking French, history, geography, scripture and arithmetic, that’s the truth of it! And that’s a...

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...o do that, Chris, an’ not wake up till the war was over and you could be a human being again.” Andrews bit into the green seed capsule he held in his ... ...ews. “Chris, come away from those stinking uniforms and you’ll feel like a human being with the sun on your flesh instead of like a lousy sol- dier.” ... ... any right to say that, young feller,” said the undertaker angrily. “I’m a humane man. I won’t never be at home in this dirty butchery.” The nurse was... ...Where?” interrupted Applebaum, laughing. “Tilletsville; don’t you know any geography?” “Go ahead, tell us about Tilletsville,” said Andrews sooth- ing... ...joyed hating! At that rate it was better to be at the front. Men were more humane when they were killing each other than when they were talking about ... ...nd fear filled with more and yet more pain the already unbearable agony of human life. As soon as he got out of the hospital he would desert; the dete...

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...vent, had received what is called “a good education”; and so knew dancing, geography, drawing, how to embroider and play the piano. That was the last ... ...a of having begotten a child delighted him. Now he wanted nothing. He knew human life from end to end, and he sat down to it with serenity. Emma at fi... ... quite unbearable companions. But from the general background of all these human faces Emma’s stood out isolated and yet farthest off; for between her... ...ntinued the chemist, “it doesn’t concern me. It’ s for your sake, for pure humanity! I should like to see you, my friend, rid of your hideous caudicat... ...easure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to ... ...n for you; but some day, sooner or later, this ardour (such is the fate of human things) would have grown less, no doubt. Lassitude would have come to...

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... (Jesus), scientific and artistic (da Vinci), literary (Shakespeare), and humanitarian (Lincoln). In this work, he has sought, as faithfully as poss... ...made such a difference? He showed breadth of mind at all times. Revealing human character through animal traits, he taught us the comedy of our faul... ...dge, to reach any goal. Surely, the most important element in life is the humane, the kindly, the uncorrupted, tying together little things into som... ...d, beaten by a mob. At least, mother died beside me, comforted as much as human comfort is possible. Death should not catch us unaware for then it c... ...one till dawn, the dipper proving we are children. I believe that we, as human beings, prove nothing: there is really nothing to prove except kindn... ...arned much from my friend Amerigo, her geographer father. When I studied geography with Amerigo, at his home, she would appear from time to time, a...

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...rom 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 the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. I do not pretend to be an o...

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... al- ways held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity... ...e latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. I do not pretend to be an origi- nal investigator, nor an au... ...o light. Naturally in a book of this sort there are many references to the human mind and its activities. In most books, whether scientific or not, th... ... in this discussion. Whatever mind may be, or through whatever part of the human system it may function, can make no difference in the conclusions I h... ...moral defect. It is now universally accepted as a functional defect of the human structure in its relation to environment. My main effort is to show t... ...n other walks of life. Because a boy cannot learn arithmetic, gram- mar or geography, or not even learn to read and write, it does not follow that he ...

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... Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum .................................................................. 202 Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History ................................................. 214...

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.................................... 202 Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History ................................................. 214... ......... 270 Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism .................... 285 Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and th... ...newal applies. With the renewal of physical existence goes, in the case of human beings, the recreation of beliefs, ide- als, hopes, happiness, misery... ...zed group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to them- selves without ... ...e the rudimentary abilities necessary for physical existence. The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of man... ... to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity! 2. Education and Communication. So obvious, indeed, is the necess... ...mplete within itself. History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum... ...ling, writing, drawing, re- citing); acquiring information (in history and geography), and training of thinking is a measure of the ineffective way in... ...th ready- 160 Democracy & Education made subject matter of arithmetic, or geography, or what- ever, irrespective of some direct personal experience o...

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...ific or philosophical text, and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact, the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal. Burton is forthright about his intentions in writing the Anatomy — I write of...

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...f government are assimilated to any other expedients for the attainment of human objects. They are regarded as wholly an affair of invention and contr... ...nored) are the work of men—owe their origin and their whole ex istence to human will. Men did not wake on a summer morn ing and find them sprung up.... ...ep ing.” In every stage of their existence they are made what they are by human voluntary agency. Like all things, there fore, which are made by men... ...tself. Every thing which can be said by way of disparaging the efficacy of human will and pur pose in matters of government might be said of it in ev... ...y other of its applications. In all things there are very strict limits to human power. It can only act by wielding some one or more of the forces of ... ...em to them to consist of persons, but of artificial units, the creation of geography and statistics. Parliament must rep resent towns and counties, n... ...to produce a set of almost el ementary questions in algebra, history, and geography, as a proof of the exorbitant amount of high scientific attainmen...

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..., was disclosed; farther, what seemed scarcely less interesting, a quite new human Individuality, an almost unexampled personal character, that, namel... ...ancient Caledonian, squatted himself in morasses, lurking for his bestial or human prey; without implements, without arms, save the ball of heavy Flin... ...ay, the whole country being under water? But, on the other hand, show us the human being, of any period or climate, without his Tools: those very Cale... ...erlasting Now? Think well, thou too wilt find that Space is but a mode of our human Sense, so likewise Time; there is no Space and no Time: WE are—we k... ...us little Figure, automatic, nay alive? “Strange enough how creatures of the human kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of ... ...man of order, courage, downrightness (Geradheit); that understood Busching’s Geography, had been in the victory of Rossbach, and left for dead in the ... ...that of Hinterschlag, where he had his education, are equally foreign to our geography. Duck ponds enough there undoubtedly are in almost every villag...

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...f this remarkable discovery, he adds a highly evolved faculty for physical geography and for the calculation of times and distances. He has prodigious... ...ces. He has prodigious powers of work, and a clear, realistic knowledge of human nature in public affairs, having seen it exhaustively tested in that ... ...o the fireplace. ) GIUSEPPE. They say you are careful of everything except human life, excellency. NAPOLEON. Human life, my friend, is the only thing ... ...y in the footsteps of the heroes of classical antiquity. I win battles for humanity—for my coun- try, not for myself. LADY (disappointed). Oh, then yo... ... stake; and the fate of the campaign, the destiny of France, of Europe, of humanity, perhaps, may depend on the informa- tion those despatches contain... ..., Lieutenant! You forget: your career is at stake—the destiny of Europe—of humanity. LIEUTENANT . Oh, bother the destiny of humanity (Mak- 34 The Man...

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...etersburg doctor, Lorrain. “Then it is certain?” said the prince. “Prince, humanum est errare,* but...” replied the doc- tor, swallowing his r’s, and ... ...gave him a searching glance. “Are you living with your mother?” *To err is human. 29 Tolstoy “I am living at Countess Rostova’s,” replied Boris, agai... ...expectancy at his door, which creaked slightly when opened. “The limits of human life... are fixed and may not be o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a... ... the hand. She had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. She gave her companion an angry glance. “There is still time, m... ...eded no one and nothing. He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and int... ...ss gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. “A geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough to be hear... ...aw vividly before him a long-forgot- ten, kindly old man who had given him geography lessons in Switzerland. “W ait a bit,” said the old man, and show... ... history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, politi- cal economy, comparative philology, and geology , which ...

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... seventy-eight years old. There were two books lying on the table, a short geography and the New T estament in the Russian translation, pencil-marked ... ... be a difficult position. He touched and stirred the noblest chords in the human heart—the power of forgiving and repaying good for evil. He surrender... ...e door, and all this time not a word! It’s quite uncanny; she’s not like a human being. But how did she come here? I suppose she came to see her grand... ...t that base and crafty man triumph, and secondly, from a common feeling of humanity. If she’s no longer my daughter she’ s a weak creature, defenceles... ... She talked of duty , of our mission in life, of how we all ought to serve humanity and, as we thoroughly 177 Dostoevsky agreed, after five or six ho... ... Borinka’s. They’re all fresh young people filled with ardent love for all humanity. We all talked of our present, of our future, of sci- ence and lit... ...father often. Mother told me to. Grandfather bought a New T estament and a geography book, and began to teach me; and sometimes he used to tell me wha...

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...aternized with the “Yankees” in the pleasantest manner. In fact, under the humane policy of our commander, I ques- tion whether the great majority of ... ...sed the national sport. The sight to me was sickening. I could not see how human beings could enjoy the sufferings of beasts, and often of men, as the... ...dency. The civilized world has learned the conse- quence. Four millions of human beings held as chattels have been liberated; the ballot has been give... ...able, all talk of its abolition ceased where it existed; and naturally, as human nature is constituted, ar- guments were adduced in its support. The c... ...timents, whether Union or Secession. After this, however, I regarded it as humane to both sides to protect the persons of those found at their homes, ... ... and productive grazing and farming lands were there. This territory , the geography of which was not known to us at the close of the rebellion, is no... ...y perfect, of every part of the coun- try are now furnished the student of geography. The war has made us a nation of great power and intelli- gence. ...

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