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...ddhist Environments Summary Chapter 4 - Expansion of Thai Agriculture from 1200 C Agricultural Organisation Agricultural Administration Integrating Irrigation Systems Agricultural Domination Tai to Thai Agriculture Agricultural Life Summary Chapter 5 - Emerging Agribusiness: Ayutthaya to the Early Twentieth Century Agriculture, Environment and Morality Export Rice Ca...

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...all conflict and reduce emigration. Secure food supply is nothing short of national security. Such facts define the poor world, yet are misunderstood by nations that influence international development. Practitioners know that small farmers’ yields can exceed those of large farms. They also know that food security means guaranteeing enough food to survive as a national pri...

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...S” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Susie Kle... ................................ 74 THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPING A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY ......................................... 76 LAW ENFORCEMENT ........ ...uistic sea legs. —―Gentlemen, I am Gopol Ghosh. I welcome you to our country.‖ 4 —―Mr. Ghosh, we are deeply honored that you would tak... ...this ancient plain. There were no sacred cows blocking our way. This country was too poor to support the Brahma bulls that wandered aimlessly i... ...s--but so often the prisoners of our own 5 decisions. So often jailed by our traditions. So often mired in the confinement of our helplessness. ... ...introduced high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat, expanded the use of irrigation, pesticides and fertilizers, and transformed the northwestern pl... ...doubled. But since the 1980s the government has not helped to improve the irrigation possibilities. ―River-fed irrigation systems were not bui... ...in the water table over the last three decades. The poor water management by the government has resulted in 40% of India‘s farms having no irrigatio... ...nagement by the government has resulted in 40% of India‘s farms having no irrigation facilities. ―Lower rainfall during the recent monsoon se...

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...inci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL FOREWORD by Willis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 62...

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...irety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist. Bartlett’s writing has been praised by many leadin... ...ES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely personal concerns.” GRACE FLANDRAU, author and historian: “..... ...to acquire the bound illustrated volume can do this through any bookstore by giving the store the published book’s ISBN, which is ISBN 978-0-6151... ...talking. Again he lampooned Mimnermos and mimicked “that strange-smelling country poet from Smyrna.” But I detected a morbid note, a self-hostility ... ...ght Kleis’ fancy...” Vaguely, I had the flash of an image: a fair, slim, country boy, not one of the slaves. “And what is it you want?” I said, in... ..., compared to his twenty or twenty-two. He may have a woman of his own, a country girl, a young, simple, laughing slip of a thing who satisfies him.... ... places. We stopped in an orange grove to eat, water rippling by us in an irrigation ditch. Cross-legged we ate cheese and dates and drank wine Klei... ...isit Chambord, when the court’s away...we ought to see how your canal and irrigation jobs are coming along...remember, Sr. Migliarotti is pretty laz... ...go on: “Perhaps those years in Milan were the busiest years of my life. Irrigation projects, The Last Supper mural, easel paintings, the horse...y...

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...ount of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. The book includes a Foreword by the well-known Sappho scholar and translator Willis Barnstone....

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... intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. The book includes a Foreword by the well-known Sappho scholar and translator Willis Barnstone. Bartl... ...r and translator Willis Barnstone. Bartlett’s writing has been praised by many leading authors, reviewers, and critics, among them: JAMES MICH... ...ES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely personal concerns.” GRACE FLANDRAU, author and historian: “..... ...talking. Again he lampooned Mimnermos and mimicked “that strange-smelling country poet from Smyrna.” But I detected a morbid note, a self-hostility ... ...ght Kleis’ fancy...” Vaguely, I had the flash of an image: a fair, slim, country boy, not one of the slaves. “And what is it you want?” I said, in... ..., compared to his twenty or twenty-two. He may have a woman of his own, a country girl, a young, simple, laughing slip of a thing who satisfies him.... ... places. We stopped in an orange grove to eat, water rippling by us in an irrigation ditch. Cross-legged we ate cheese and dates and drank wine Klei...

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...ok. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at ... ... winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan Zittrain. All rights reserved. Subject to the exception immed... ...in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers... ... S T R at 26. T able 3.1. Rankings of malicious activity by country Command and Malicious Spam Control Phishing Country Code Hosts Se... ...ic von Hippel’s zones of innovation pipes to create a portable center-pivot irrigation system, which, now perfected by professional manufacturers, is... ...enth. See Alexa.com, http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc US&ts_ mode country&lang none (last visited Sep. 29, 2007). 34. See C A, ... ...iness School (on file with author). 36. See William E. Splinter, Center-pivot Irrigation, 234 S. A. 90 (June 1976); Eric von Hippel, Remarks at the ... ...ticle.php3?id_article 15012 (last visited June 1, 2007). 27. See BBC N, Country Profile: North Korea, Feb. 14, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/a...

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...s of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it ...

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... SPLITNESS By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January ... ...tter understanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is; very little. B... ...about it. If you watch it grow into a tree and wonder about it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to t... ... people who own villas and mansions on different continents. People who have country homes and travel from the city to the country every week: are t... ... most arrogant, and the most detached from the earth. People who live in the country: despise city dwellers who only come to the country when the we... ... despise city dwellers who only come to the country when the weather is nice. Country people have to live in the country when it is cold and raining... ... have rivaled and out-produced all of the crops grown by its use of artificial irrigation a thousand miles further south. It was the biggest con job...

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...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...ge and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is... ...ll A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication ... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, t... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara ... ...the old garden spaces had been turned into meadows, watered by a system of irrigation as artfully contrived as that in use in Limousin. Unconsciously ... ...zation from the Council of State) I had established a 27 Balzac system of irrigation by means of cross trenches, like those in Switzerland, Auvergne,... ...umph were great indeed. Every one followed the example set by my system of irrigation; cattle were mul- tiplied; the area of meadow land and every kin...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris A P A P A P A P A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...t morning he had decided to make a long excursion through the neighbouring country, partly on foot and partly on his bicycle, and now noon was come al... ...ak and the red roof of Hooven’s barn that stood near it. All about him the country was flat. In all directions he could see for miles. The harvest was... ...to its ruin. But overhead, a mammoth live-oak, the largest tree in all the country-side, towered superb and magnificent. Grey bunches of mistletoe and... ... moved onward in its appointed grooves. Through the welter of blood at the irrigation ditch, through the sham charity and shallow philanthropy of fami...

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...es which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow...

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...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION M... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...t year of our James I.), she became the object of an admiration in her own country that was almost idolatrous. And this admiration was not of a kind t... ...iration was not of a kind that rested upon any partisan-schism amongst her country- men. So long as it was kept alive by her bodily presence amongst t... ... all at once Lord Massey had fallen passionately in love with a fair young countrywoman, well connected, but bringing him no fortune (I report only fr... ...iva- tion (to speak in a Roman metaphor!), applied to a system of national irrigation. These are the two great functions and qualifications of a colle...

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...fe of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...fe of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...fe of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ... his letters have been preserved in an unbroken series, begin- ning from a country visit in 1834, after a slight attack of scarlet fever, written in t... ...and scholar. Thus it is that there are few more influential persons in the country than leading University men, for the impress they leave is on the f... ...o the playing-fields of Eton, or forward to the more congenial sphere of a country parish.’ So it was his prime plea- sure and glory that he thus deni... ...achers, and we had a good op- portunity of observing the careful system of irrigation adopted by the natives for the cultivation of the taro plant. Fo...

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...gey Ivanovitch Koznishev wanted a rest from mental work, and instead of going abroad as he usually did, he came towards the end of May to stay in the country with his brother. In his judgment the best sort of life was a country life. He had come now to enjoy such a life at his brother?s. Konstantin Levin was very glad to have him, especially as he did not expect his brothe...

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...ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett PART THREE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUB... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Three by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Three by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ng abroad as he usually did, he came towards the end of May to stay in the country with his brother. In his judgment the best sort of life was a count... ...y Ivanovitch, Konstantin Levin was uncom- fortable with his brother in the country. It made him uncomfortable, and it positively annoyed him to see hi... ...rtable, and it positively annoyed him to see his brother’s attitude to the country. To Konstantin Levin the country was the background of life, that i... ...famous Commission of the 2nd of June had set on foot an in- quiry into the irrigation of lands in the Zaraisky prov- ince, which fell under Alexey Ale... ...d paper reforms. Alexey Alexandrovitch was aware of the truth of this. The irrigation of these lands in the Zaraisky province had been initiated by th... ...once on entering office, and would have liked to lay hands on the Board of Irrigation. But at first, when he did not yet feel secure in his position, ...

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Excerpt: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

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...T HE VOY AGE OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of th... ...s Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...pical sun, have in most places rendered the soil unfit for vegetation. The country rises in successive steps of table-land, interspersed with some tru... ... eastward of Porto Praya. Until we reached the valley of St. Mar- tin, the country presented its usual dull brown ap- pearance; but here, a very small... ...y vied with each other in splendour. After passing through some cultivated country, we entered a forest, which in the grandeur of all its parts could ... ...ry gentle slope up the valleys: hence, also, they are easily cultivated by irrigation. They may be traced up to a height of between 7000 and 9000 feet... ...nd more barren. In the valleys there was scarcely sufficient water for any irrigation; and the intermediate land was quite bare, not supporting even g... ...arwin much depend on inequalities of level, and conse- quent unfitness for irrigation, as on the small sup- ply of water. The river this year was rema...

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of ...

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...JOHN KEBLE’S PARISHES A HISTORY OF HURSLEY AND OTTERBOURNE By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...s Publication John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...n, in any way. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ... are both from the actual observation of long residents who have known the country before, in many instances, peculiarities have faded away be- fore t... ...entagon star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shep- herds’ Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder ston... ...ns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder stones are also scattered about the country, exercising the minds of some observers, who saw in certain of them... ...d in England, and for two hundred years was constantly used by barges. The irrigation of the mead- ows was also much benefited, broad ditches being fo... ...ghbridge. The ca- nal goes through Allbrook, but both serve the purpose of irrigation, and a network of ditches crosses the meadows. Both river and ca...

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...e had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bl...

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...THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...ipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... .... Findlayson, C. E., turned on his trolley and looked over the face of the country that he had changed for seven miles around. Looked back on the humm... ...oo, it leaks like the devil, and the crops will also be short all about my country. Now you shall back her out, Hitchcock. I—I do not understand steam... ... this yer bogspavined Kansas sunflower goes up an’ daown the length o’ the country, traded off an’ traded on, boastin’ as he’s shed women—an’ childern... ...eep, eat, and write letters, was bound up with the opening and guarding of irrigation canals, the handling of two or three thousand workmen of all cas...

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...ainfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ...

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... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language... ...o sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in com mon with one another than they, the... ...t with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold colored morocco. And, as he had done every day for th... ... at the sight of Levin. How often he had seen him come up to Moscow from the country where he was doing something, but what precisely Stepan Arkadyevi... ...ye till then.” “Now mind, you’ll forget, I know you, or rush off home to the country!” Stepan Arkadyevitch called out laughing. “No, truly!” And Levin... ...n early in the winter of this year Levin came to Moscow, after a year in the country, and saw the Shtcherbatskys, he realized which of the three siste... ...e famous Commission of the 2nd of June had set on foot an in quiry into the irrigation of lands in the Zaraisky province, which fell under Alexey Ale... ...at once on entering office, and would have liked to lay hands on the Board of Irrigation. But at first, when he did not yet feel secure in his position,... ...had been engrossed in other questions, and had simply forgotten the Board of Irrigation. It went of itself, like all such boards, by the mere force of...

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Excerpt: Plato?s ?Timaeus,?translated by Benjamin Jowett.

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... Plato’s “Timaeus,”translated by Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plato’s “Timaeus,”translated by Benjamin Jowett, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ... Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university . TIMAEUS by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE : Socrate... ...d, by reason of the factions and troubles which he found stirring in his own country when he came home, to attend to other matters, in my opinion he w... ...reater, some times in lesser numbers. And whatever happened either in your country or in ours, or in any other region of which we are informed—if th... ...a. This vast power, gath ered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and the... ...oming down from above might flow freely to the other parts, and equalize the irrigation. In the next place, they divided the veins about the head, and...

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... sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up my pursuits, and which no medical aid seemed likely to cure....

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... Two Years Before the Mast by Richard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global ... ...GRESS HOMEWARD—A PLEASANT . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 SUNDAY—A FINE SIGHT—BY PLAY CHAPTER XXXIV — NARROW ESCAPES—THE EQUATOR—TROPICAL . . . . . . ... ...yage, which I had undertaken from a determi- nation to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, ... ...atisfied on that point, asked me in a low tone— ‘‘I say! you know what countryman ’e carpenter be?’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ said I, ‘‘he’s a German.’’ ... ...in, we felt a little more freedom, and looked about us to see what sort of a country we had got into, and were to spend a year or two of our lives in.... ... vessel belonged; and the other, who was dressed in the Spanish dress of the country, was a brother of our captain, who had been many years a trader o... ...t, and the ground perfectly dry; windmills, to raise water for artificial irrigation of small patches, seen all over the landscape, while we trave...

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...ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett PART FOUR A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBL... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Four by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Four by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University... ...tand him in the least,” said Vronsky. “If after your avowal to him at your country house he had broken with you, if he had called me out—but this I ca... ...ly, and the affairs of the reorganization of the native tribes, and of the irrigation of the lands of the Zaraisky province, had brought such official... ...ntroduced 39 Tolstoy by the Russian government. Pestsov insisted that one country can only absorb an- other when it is the more densely populated. Ko... ...ards the piano,” said he, going up to her. “That’s something I miss in the country—music.” “No; we only came to fetch you and thank you,” she said, re...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck,...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Democracy and Education by John Dewey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ................................... 353 5 John Dewey Democracy and Education by John Dewey Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life 1. Renewal of L... ...ub, is another. Passing beyond these more inti- mate groups, there is in a country like our own a variety of races, religious affiliations, economic d... ...vilized people enters upon the scene. It also adapts itself. It introduces irrigation; it searches the world for plants and animals that will flour- i... ...line of state institutions and laws. In this spirit, Germany was the first country to undertake a public, universal, and com- pulsory system of educat... ...creator. To paraphrase 120 Democracy & Education the old saying about the country and the town, God made the original human organs and faculties, man... ...ception of water is more available for ordinary uses of drinking, washing, irrigation, etc., than the chemist’s notion of it. The latter’s description...

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...r a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cous... ... Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e; and even as a cultivator of the soil brings water from afar by means of irrigation channels, so, from the springs of his youth, does the T euton dr... ...e mit dem, und dey vould be ver’ bleased to see me; und I might go to deir country-houses, but I vould much rader be mit mine friend Bons, because I k... ...iend, and a German innkeeper interesting him- self in two penniless fellow-countrymen—give, no doubt, an air of improbability to the story, but truth ... ...borhood of Paris; she saw herself strutting proudly about her house in the country, looking after her garden and poul- try yard, ending her days, serv...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; Among many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this...

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... . . . . . 411 PREFACE iii PREFACE A mong many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with “The Golden Bowl” what perhaps most stands... ...e terms of this person’s access to it and estimate of it contributing thus by some fine little law to intensification of interest. The somebody is often... ...among my shorter tales I recognise, but an unnamed, unintroduced and (save by right of intrinsic wit) unwarranted participant, the impersonal author’s... ...o have read as a boy a wonderful tale by Allan Poe, his prospective wife’s countryman— which was a thing to show, by the way, what imagination America... ... to think the whole thing a tremendous lark. “We’re very simple folk, mere country cousins compared with you,” he had also observed, “and Paris, for m... ...n for her running to and fro.” “On the contrary. But she does n’t like her country.” “Hers, my dear man?—it’s little enough ‘hers’.” The attribution f... ...ultitudinous green of the Park had been deepened, and a wholesome smell of irrigation, purging the place of Book I, Chapter 5 51 dust and of odours l...