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... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ... The United Nations System 278 B. International Organizations 279 C. Country Membership in International Organizations 282 D. Mathematical Conversions... ...nstitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad CHAMKANI, Acting Cha... ...al from age 18 Political parties and leaders: the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) has two factions the Parchami faction has bee... ...lgerian Algeria (continued) Ethnic divisions: 99% Arab-Berber, less than 1% European Religion: 99% Sunni Muslim (state reli- gion); 1% Christian and ... ...n Ethnic divisions: 37% Ovimbundu, 25% Kimbundu, 13% Bakongo, 2% Mestico, 1% European Religion: 68% Roman Catholic, 20% Protestant, about 12% indigeno... ...ontinued) China (Taiwan entry on page 274) PN), 44% Popular Unity coalition (socialists and Communists) Communists: 120,000 when PCCh was legal in 197... ...atriotic Movement (MBPM) was formed in May 1984 and is composed of pro-Cuban Socialists; the New Jewel Movement (NJM) consists of supporters of Bernar...
... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...ory - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a language shared by the members of the group and, most important, on hate and contempt d... ...to the very demons they helped to exorcise. Most freedom fighters are disgruntled members of the middle classes or the intelligentsia. They bring ... ... - a promise which he kept. The modern Republic of Macedonia is today ruled by a party called VMRO-DPMNE. It is one of a few political parties to... ...ght roads and railways and modern mining and forestry and industry to this hitherto European backwater. Reversing the Ottoman infliction was no mean... ...pponents of his dictatorship, communists and anti-monarchists. He introduced a one-party, government-controlled electoral system. Thus, in an iro... ...efore him signed a few secret pacts with the rising, ignore at your peril, Central European force. The Austrian national socialists who were implic... ...th the rising, ignore at your peril, Central European force. The Austrian national socialists who were implicated in the murder of the Austrian pri...
...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...
... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...ll of one of the parties and despite all the reasonable measures that the unwilling party adopted to prevent it. If a mother uses contraceptives in... ...ontract should be voided. Much more serious problems arise when we study the other party to these implicit agreements: the embryo. To start with, i... ...: "an invalid is breathing" would be categorized as an achievement only by informed members of a community and subject to the rules and the ethos o... ... what group does not behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, ... ... government. Neither were Jews prominent in any of the recent moves - mostly by the Europeans - to strengthen the role of international law and att... ...ht of the political map - all three polities of central Europe lurched to the left. Socialists were elected to replace economically successful right... ...h parts of the continent have blurred to the point of indistinguishability. French socialists have privatized more than their conservative predeces...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... reason—to go to heaven or as revenge for the death of a friend or family member. He might do it because he believes that God wants to kill the infi... ...truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the fork in the left. Indians may eat with their right hand... ...properly—as the Americans did. Any sensible person would realize that the European way of eating makes much more sense. But the American eating habit... ...ineer. To do this I must graduate from college. What if I want to go to a party with my friends now, but I have an important engineering test tomorro... ...ow? Which do I choose, the present desire or the future desire? I‘m at a party and recognize that I have had too much to drink but I want to go hom... ...cientology was founded in 1952 and had between a half million and 800,000 members fifty years later. Consequently it is the fastest growing religion.... ...n consumer riding the easy credit of his plastic cards to bankruptcy, the socialists were spending more than they earned or more than they could ever...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...
... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...ore ski resorts and train the farmers to teach skiing, or make fondue? The European Union often pays a half billion euros to wine producers during po... ...he political consideration to make a state become beholden to the political party that gives it the most money. So you wouldn‘t expect politicians to... ...bill for their pork barrel interests. Representative Bishop from Georgia, a member of the Appropriations Committee, inserted $74 million to cover sto... ...m to the top as quickly as has China. It‘s getting it right. And as former party leader Deng Xiaoping said ‗to get right is glorious.‘ 11 ... ...talism to survive. It may sound strange but even the young capitalists are members of the Communist Party. Itt doesn‟t really matter what you call i... ...rom nearly six per woman in 1970 to 1.8, and is now dropping closer to the European rates. ―Even though the population actually increased by ... ... ―We have enough arguments among the society-centered people—communists, socialists, and free enterprisers. We have arguments about globilization,...
... FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS OF PERIYAR’S VIEWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e... ... K. Kandasamy e-mail: dr.k.kandasamy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kand... ... the later sections of this chapter. Fuzzy theory only measures the grade of membership or the non-existence of a membership in the revolutionary w... ...eader of mass organizations, he served as the State President of the Congress party, founded the Self- ... ...r p.103-113 of this book. 42 Respect Movement, was a leader of the Justice Party, later the Dravidar Kazhagam, he was undoubtedly a populist lea... ...eople taken together are untouchable and unseeable, and unapproachable to the Europeans, which is the caste that rules us. In this manner, to talk ... ...an that people of all other castes are only considered to be Untouchables. Europeans, Muslims, Indian Christians and those non- Brahmins who are c... ... Otherwise, the Dravidar Kazhagam is not opposed to other organizations. The socialists say that we need economic equality. We say that it is not e... ...nism’ is not needed. The leader of the communists is a Brahmin, likewise the Socialists. We need not even ask about the Congress. They never help u...
...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such...
... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...fetime of nights sleeping together as a single band with the smallest-weakest members in the center was corrupted. The entire concept of living-for... ... sprinkle hot black specks onto food appear? In Europe when the first modern European stoves replaced open-hearth cooking. When rich, elite Europe... ... it. They missed their dearly beloved specks of cancer-causing carbon. Then Europeans discovered spices; black and white pepper: it instantly beca... ... they are the strongest, that they should live longer than the smaller, weaker members of their species should. But this is not the case. Anthropol... ...with the exception of the new recruits who had not yet taken part in a raiding party, or frequented a whore yet: literally all of Napoleon’s soldiers... ...indlessly abiding by the civilized laws and regulations, you yourself become a party to every corruption of that system. Thoreau insisted that in or... ...oticed it. He muddied the distinction between rich and poor. He defused the socialists who were fighting against the Robber Barons. He brainwashe...
...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...
...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...
... This publication of “The Communist Manifesto” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...e University is an equal opportunity University. MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY By Karl Marx From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich ... ...tternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German po lice spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its oppon... ...o things result from this fact. I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a Power. II. It is high time that Communist... ...its slavish existence. The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of... ..., this transcendental robe in which the German “The Communist Manifesto” 28 Socialists wrapped their sorry “eternal truths,” all skin and bone, serve... ...loped state of the class struggle, as well as their own surroundings, causes Socialists of this kind to consider themselves far superior to all class ... ...revolution that is bound to be carried out under more advanced conditions of European civilisation, and with a much more developed proletariat, than t...
...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 opposition that has ...
...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle between the mid-European Powers and the rest of Europe; and (he believes) in foretelling a ... ...erial progress, the killing of a large moiety of the males in nearly every European country, and universal loss and unhappiness?” We are going to deal... ... its tradition from Magna Charta onward, the legal training of most of its members, all make towards a reverence for private ownership and private cla... ...and consciences about property; whereas we were Individualists, now we are Socialists. The British lord, the German junker, has none of the sense of u... ...o be discussed. So far we have said scarcely a word about the prospects of party politics and the problems of government that arise as the State cease... ...? pensable. It is not in the clash and manoeuvres and mutual correction of party, but in the essential conflict of political authority on the one hand... ...triotic intrigue and more racial self-respect. They are not only Poles but members of a greater brotherhood. My impression is that Poland will “go Sla...
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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...tial to my issue. He is dead and gone, all his immediate correla- tions to party and faction have faded to insignificance, leav- ing only on the one h... ...vorce. I climbed high and fast from small beginnings. I had the mind of my party. I do not know where I might not have ended, but for this red blaze t... ...st me in them; there was Miss Strickland’s Queens of England, a book I re- member with particular animosity, and Queechy and the Wide Wide World. She ... ... Relentless Law we did not believe in for a moment, that no modern western European can believe in. We thought of the characters in the unconvincing w... ...college system with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and biological science, educati... ... streets, were really material to such questions. Directly any of us young socialists of Trinity found our- selves in immediate contact with servants ... ...w much about failures. 10 10 10 10 10 Willersley and I professed ourselves Socialists, but by this time I knew my Rodbertus as well as my Marx, and th...
...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... extensively or intensively, that is to say whether in relation to all the members of the species or in relation to an imaginary typical specimen. The... ...ngs the thing quite within the his- torical period. There is not a western European palaeolithic or neolithic relic that is not a family relic for eve... ... method of human intercourse. I know that here I go beyond the limits many Socialists in the past, and some who are still contemporary , have set them... ...rough institutions tainted with injustice and flawed with unrealities. All Socialists ev- erywhere are like expeditionary soldiers far ahead of the ma... ...f Western Europe, but that we are legitimately entitled to call upon extra European peoples to join with us in that attitude of filiation to the Catho... ...d devel- opment. Any collective human enterprise, institution, move- ment, party or state, is to be judged as a whole and complerely, as it conduces m... ...ty, of in- sanity, habitual vice or the prolonged imprisonment of ei- ther party. And this being so I find it impossible to condemn on any ground, exc...
...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...
...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...therefore taboo, but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University Settlemen... ...ce in cheese-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang th... ...said Bea. IV The recently built house of Sam Clark, in which was given the party to welcome Carol, was one of the largest in Gopher Prairie. It had a ... ... children, sickness, and cooks—their own shop-talk. She was piqued. She re-membered visions of herself as a smart married woman in a drawing-room, fen... ...ngs. I don’t mind their being democrats, so much, but I won’t stand having socialists around. But thank God, we ain’t got the labor trouble they have ... ...y, the English ones.” “Not all of them?” “W-why yes. We’re learning all of European Literature this year. The club gets such a nice magazine, Culture ... ... make more than ten thousand a year or less than eight hundred are wicked. Europeans are still wickeder. It doesn’t hurt any to drink a glass of beer ...
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...
...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 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... ... objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver pencil (always lacking a s... ...ding from the chain was a large, yellowish elk’s-tooth-proclamation of his membership in the Brotherly and Protective Order of Elks. Most signifi- can... ...they will. You remember when you didn’t dress for the Littlefields’ supper-party, and all the rest did, and how embarrassed you were.” “Embarrassed, h... ...ew York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the socialists! And there’s an elevator-runners’ strike in New York and a lot o... ...hrooms in the houses he sold. He was fond of explaining why it was that no European ever bathed. Some one had told him, when he was twenty-two, that a... ...is lunch- period were somewhat less elaborate than the plans for a general European war. He fretted to Miss McGoun, “What time you going to lunch? Wel... ...this coming year. The worst menace to sound gov- ernment is not the avowed socialists but a lot of cowards who work under cover—the long-haired gentry...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....
...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia 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... ...ly and easily accessible to everyone as is Zermatt or Lucerne to a Western European of the middle- class at the present time. On this account alone no... ...etoric of Carlyle and Ruskin 56 A Modern Utopia and the activities of the Socialists, is more apparent than real. The old edifice oppresses us still,... ...alls are framed with just one clear coloured line, as finely placed as the member of a Greek capi- tal; the door handles and the lines of the panels o... ...o forth. Possibly it might be advisable to have a little ceremony for each party, for each in the absence of the other, in which this record could be ... ...sed qualities that was his most characteristic weakness. The spirit of the European people, of almost all the peoples now in the ascendant, is towards... ...here and there for support and 161 H G Wells the structural elements of a party. Still, the idea of a compre- hensive movement of disillusioned and i... ...rimes of violence; people with red hair have souls of fire; all democratic socialists are trustworthy persons; all people born in Ireland have vivid i...
...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ... we have perished at the stake or faced the levelled muskets of the firing party—“No, do not bandage my eyes”—because we would not betray the secret p... ...eighs it.” … White shook his head over these pencilled fragments. He was a member of the Rationalist Press Association, and he had always taken it for... ... before she was twenty to marry Benham, whom she had idealized at a tennis party. He had talked of his work and she had seen it in a flash, the nobles... ...ist?” “Such a vague term.” “But these friends of yours—they seem to be all Socialists. Red ties and everything complete.” “They have ideas,” he evaded... ...ice in the world?” he protested. “There would be ever so much more if your Socialists had their way.” “But still, don’t you think— …” It is unnecessar... .... But Washington, they say, isn’t as bad as it used to be—since T eddy has Europeanized ‘em….” Even the Reverend Harold Benham took a subdued but thou... ...again with a queer little worn book, a parallel vocabulary of half-a-dozen European languages. He turned over the pages and pointed to a word. “May! A...
...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...erceived a group advancing towards them, composed of the betrothed pair, a party of young girls in atten- dance on the bride, by whose side walked Dan... ...ousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding-party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantes, father and son, a... ...e- serted from the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five year... ...volutionary in the deputy’s ears. “Ah, ah,” murmured he, “is Dantes then a member of some Carbonari society, that his protector thus employs the colle... ...sufferer. Ah,” added the count, in a contemptuous tone, “do not tell me of European punishments, they are in the infancy, or rather the old age, of cr... ...oes its honors with the most consummate grace, and thus their fetes have a European celebrity. Franz and Albert had brought to Rome letters of introdu... ...y friends. Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt humanity and your duty to your neighbor, but I never ...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel...
...s Series Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence 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... ...looks away. Her eyes hate to see him. In the village there is the clerical party, which is the majority; there is the anti-clerical party, and there a... ...ld, ponderous darkness over them, moral and gloomy. Then the anti-clerical party, with the Syndaco at the head, is bourgeois and respectable as far as... ...h only the looser women go, with these reckless young men. He also gets up parties of pleasure, and is chiefly responsible for the coming of the playe... ...orce public opinion. Be- tween the clerical party and the radicals and the socialists, what canons were left that were absolute? Besides, these wild v... ...hould any one stay there! I went on up the pass itself. There were various parties of visitors on the roads and tracks, people from towns incon- gruou... ...as the caravan of civilization crossed this high, cold, arid bridge of the European world. I bought two post cards and wrote them out of doors in the ... ...w pink with the exercise. Now he felt he was doing something that became a member of his Sportverein. Down we went, jump- ing, running, britching. It ...
... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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... ...gue about the Trinity. Simply because a tired bishop had fallen into their party. It was not fair to him to pretend that the atmosphere was a liberal ... ...to be said for a proper sort of socialism, Ruskin, and all that. We’re all Socialists nowadays. Ideals—excellent. But—it gets misunderstood. It gives ... ... bishop and every one the fact that he was by far the best-read man of the party. “Disraeli called 22 The Soul of a Bishop them the T wo Nations, but... ...t, he thought, would be a good phrase: “Christ the Master and Servant.”…. “Members of one Body,” that should be his text…. At last it was finished. Th... ...pan had sent that day to China, claim- ing a priority in many matters over European influences they were by no means sure whether it was a wrong or a ... ...ficient importance to Lady Sunderbund’s disposition to invite Positivists, members of the Brotherhood Church, leaders among the Christian Sci- entists... ... saw how unfair it was to them in a light that has only shone plainly upon European life since the great interlude of the armed peace came to an end i...
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...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...-room, in which Emma was now putting his things into a big tin box; he re- membered then that his uncle had said he might take something to remember h... ...Watkin scolded her.... She said: I wanted the boy to have something to re- member me by when he grows up.” 19 W. Somerset Maugham Mr. Carey looked at... ...s notice whenever she was asked. She often sang still when there was a tea-party at the vicarage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask t... ...arage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted always of the curate, Josiah Graves with his sister, Dr. ... ...d been very angry , and threatened to prosecute the leaders of the Liberal party in Blackstable. He made up his mind now that nothing Josiah Graves sa... ... with humanity , they seemed to bring an air of mystery. They were clad in European, shabby clothes, their thin great- coats were threadbare, but each... ... richly pen- sioned, you and I, Betty . ” “Oh, don’t talk to me about your socialists, I’ve got no patience with them,” she cried. “It only means that...
...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell 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... ...and will which is necessary to place them- selves among the more fortunate members of the commu- nity; but very few among these are seriously concerne... ... ever before to the demand for radical reconstruction. It is above all the Socialists, and in a lesser degree the Anarchists (chiefly as the inspirers... ...l try to decide in what respects the world would be happier if the aims of Socialists or Syndicalists were achieved. My own opinion—which I may as wel... ...dulge in Utopian dreams and failed to found any strong or stable political party. T o Marx, in collaboration with Engels, are due both the for- mulati... ...the International Socialist move- ment, which has continued to grow in all European countries throughout the last fifty years. In order to understand ... ...ternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been de- cried as communistic by its oppon... ...valent in the ranks of Socialists. He even goes so far as to maintain that European nations have a right to tropical territory owing to their higher c...
...HE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ................................................................................................................... 60 CHAPTER IV WORK AND PAY .......................................................................
...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... ...f thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equ... ...ts wholly or partially across the frontier. In every locality of a Western European country countless people are found delocalised, uninterested in th... ...national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and above creed and sect has, we are told, taken hold of his imaginat... ...nce then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has bee... ...time is not far distant when insurrec- tionary leaders, calling themselves Socialists or Syndicalists, or what not, men with none of our experience, l... ...mong the inhabitants of Netting Hill. Election of represen- tatives in one-member local constituencies by a single vote gives a citizen practically no... ... large regions of more specialised and individualised production that many Socialists nowadays are quite prepared to leave to the freer initiatives of...
...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................
...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... ...r my father’s tu ition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re member the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Memorials ... ...nce of Livy, and upheld, to the best of my ability, the Ro man Democratic party. A few years later, in my contempt of my childish efforts, I destroye... ...blic and private. He was acquainted with many of the chiefs of the Liberal party, and I saw various noteworthy persons while staying at this house; am... ...g into these discussions the general doctrines and modes of thought of the European reac tion against the philosophy of the eighteenth century; and a... ...ns suitable to any given circumstances might be deduced. The influences of European, that is to say, Continental, thought, and especially those of the... ...d Democracy, and would class us decidedly under the general designation of Socialists. While we repu diated with the greatest energy that tyranny of ... ... which contemplate possibilities in the fu ture such as, when affirmed by Socialists, have in general been fiercely denied by political economists, w...
...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...
...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...language, that whenever an abuse becomes oppressive enough to persuade our party parliamentarians that something must be done, they immediately set to... ...scover How Not To Do It. Since Dickens’s day the exposures effected by the Socialists have so shat- tered the self-satisfaction of modern commercial c... ...ble to ask questions there concerning his proceedings, especially now that members have discovered a method of doing this indirectly. And so on, and s... ...oth by the interests on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- est... ...nterests on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- ests; but this ... ... nine- teen plays, some of which have been translated and performed in all European countries except Turkey, Greece, and Portugal. They have been perf... ...ween the Servians and Bulgarians, the troops engaged were officered by two European Powers of the first magni- tude. In consequence, the performance o...
...sorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....
...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...ift, has sarcastically remarked in one of his public speeches: “We are all Socialists now.” And in the sense in which it may be said that we all in Eu... ...ed with him in either of his English homes. My wife and I like best to re- member him riding to meet us at the gate of the Park at Brede. Born master ... ...sing his august office openly in the light of day, with the authority of a European repu- tation. But then M. Jules Lemaitre is a man possessed of wis... ...nd the Augustulus of the REGIME that was wont to speak contemptu- ously to European Foreign Offices in the beautiful French phrases of Prince Gorchako... ...ement will only be lim- ited by the power of helping itself to the severed members of its friends and neighbours. The era of wars so eloquently denoun... ...sible and carrying the taint of anti-social guilt. As to Russia, the third party to the crime, and the originator of the scheme, she had no national c... ...ke matters. The legislature will ratify, thus making Poland, as it were, a party in the establishment of the protectorate. A point of importance. 120...
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... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... cannot do while over here and over there men hold themselves bound by old party formulae, by loyal- ties and institutions, that are becoming, that ha... ...d devel- opment. Any collective human enterprise, institution, move- ment, party or state, is to be judged as a whole and completely, as it conduces m... ...e patriots of nationality who would have us believe that the miscellany of European squat- ters in the T ransvaal are one nation and those in Cape Col... ...nspicuously. These figures, it must be borne in mind, deal with the living members of each class at the ages given. The mortality, however, in the bla... ...e which needs exposure. It is known that the birth- rate is falling in all European countries—a fall which has a very direct relation to a rise in the... ...ds a profounder revolu- tion, the control of private property. “We are all Socialists nowadays,” and it is needless, therefore, to argue here at any l... ...ty, and the ways in which existing excesses of property are to be reduced, Socialists differ enormously. There are cer- tain extreme expressions of So...
...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...
...CATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow 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... ...gs animate and inanimate. In the tribes no injury was satisfied until some member of the offending tribe was killed. In more recent times family feuds... ...s have followed down the generations and were not forgotten until the last member of a family was destroyed. Biologically, anger and hatred follow fea... ...usy and revenge are commonly mixed with sex life and sex association. Many socialists have argued that under an equal distribution of property, where ... ...ecially in crimes of violence. This is true not only of America but of all European coun- tries. In some of the most afflicted ones civil government f... ...oved, they must be punished; with the restriction, however, that where the party denies he is 134 a Christian, and shall make it evident that he is n... ...cessful and important members of every western state. In fact, most of the European immigrants who have settled in the United States were the poor and... ... and reaches the tracks just in time to be struck by the engine. The merry party meets disaster. No power could fore- see the catastrophe, nor provide...
...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 the human machine with its mani...
...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...shall come last,” said Miss Wilson, irritated by his as- sumption that the party was a family one. “Gertrude, you had better go first.” “ Allow me,” s... ... is sorry for it,” said Mr. Jansenius, instinctively inclining to Agatha’s party as the stronger one and the least dependent on him in a pecuniary sen... ...ears, “I told you you’d have to deal with me. Now hold your noise, and re- member where you are and who you’re speakin’ to; and per- haps I mayn’t loc... ...out again in spite of his wife. “Nothing is sacred to you. This shows what Socialists are!” “And what fathers are, and what mothers are,” retorted T r... ...ange omission in the arrangements. The husband of the deceased was absent. Members of the family and inti- mate friends were told by Daniel Jansenius ... ... hinders them in the pursuit of their vocation.” “Oh!” said Erskine. “Then Socialists have some little sym- pathy with artists after all.” “I fear,” s... ...vapid, and rather coarse, with here and there a passably pretty woman, are European kings, queens, grand-dukes, and the like. Here are ship-captains, ...
...A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw 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... ...n of slavery. For its alleviation we trust to the natural affection of the parties, and to public opinion. A father cannot for his own credit let his ... ...ir children in the way they think they should go. The old observation that members of large families get on in the world holds good because in large f... ...t, and excludes it if it happens to run counter to the opinions of all the members. The result is that his opinions are not worth considering. A churc... ... perpetual holiday on children. If we did, they would soon outdo the Labor Party in their claim for a Right to Work Bill. In any case no child should ... ...example, though nothing would have induced me to read the budget of stupid party lies that served as a text-book of history in school, I remember read... ...ble if you have no sense of literary art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the... ...ctions may be, that there are Monarchists and Republicans and Positivists, Socialists and Unsocialists, so it should know that there are Christians an...
...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... ...rning the schools and the roads, as a strong opposition by the reactionary party was expected. The marechal was a liberal, and was quite engrossed in ... ...Though Nekhludoff had arrived late, he had to wait a long time. One of the members of the Court had not yet come, and everybody was kept waiting. 22 ... ...he dumb-bells and opened the door, saying, “I beg your pardon.” One of the members, a high-shouldered, discontented- looking man, with gold spectacles... ...the night in a hotel playing cards with a friend who was giving a farewell party. Up to five in the morning they played and drank, so he had no time t... ...er to regain their independence, 339 Tolstoy the political prisoners, the Socialists, the strikers con- demned for withstanding the authorities. Ther... ...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 ... ...a fine library, contributed freely to philanthropic work, and held liberal European views, seemed pleasant to Nekhludoff as a sample of a quite new an...
...n Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw 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... ... your brother Miles: and when he sailed for Brazil I was one of the little party that saw him off. You were one of the party also, if I’m not mistaken... ...ptain Brassbound here who trades along the coast, and occasionally escorts parties of merchants on journeys into the interior. I understand that he se... ... avenger may be one of the escort. SIR HOWARD. I have already met the only member of your escort who might have borne a grudge against me, Cap- tain; ... ... LADY CICELY. What bargain? BRASSBOUND. I pay him so much a head for every party I escort through to the interior. In return he protects me and lets m... ...hted. SIR HOWARD. You are mad. Do you suppose this man will treat you as a European gentleman would? LADY CICELY. No: he’ll treat me like one of Natur... ...n Brassbound’s Conversion under the restraints of an overwhelming dread of European criti- cism, and climatically in the direction of the indiginous N... ... that?” “Cunninghame Graham.” “Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity, a f...
...Excerpt: ACT I. On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly Scotchman, spiritually a little weath...