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...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wishes to make himself fa...

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...“Interest has revived in the works of Sextus Empiricus in recent times, especially, one may say, since the date of Herbart. There is much in the writings of Sextus that finds a parallel in the methods of modern philosophy. There is a common starting-point in t...

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...The Historical Relations Of Sextus Empiricus-Introductory paragraph.—The name of Sextus Empiricus. His profession.—The time when he lived.—The place of his birth.—The seat of the Sceptical School while Sextus was at its head.—The character of the wri...

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... SEXTUS EMPIRICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November... ...RICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY ... ...ty of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accomp... ...OPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus Empiricus CA... ...red to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaus... ...r, Philosophie der Griechen, III. Auf., Leipzig, 1879—89. Lewes, History of Philosophy, Vol. I., London, 1866. Ueberweg, History of Philosophy, IV. ... ...sm is then the hope of ataraxia, and its origin was in the troubled state of mind induced by the inequality of things, and uncertainty in regard to t... ...s to its logical conclusion, and doubt the existence of anything outside of mind. He rather takes for granted that there is a something unknown outs... ...r schools of philosophy. The method, however, by which ataraxia or peace of mind could be reached, was peculiar to the Sceptic. It is a state of psy...

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...THE CONTEXT: A DIFFERENT MIND-SET . . . . . 1 The Mind-Set in World War I . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Post-World War I Posture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2 GIULIO DOUHET . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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...One Man. Ten days. No talking. One Centre. 102 meditators. No eye-contact. One Course. 105 hours of meditation. No gestures. One Law. One Truth. One Universe. This story isn't about me, it's about you. It may read as if it's about me, but if you've ever sought the Truth, then it's about you too. Surrender; it's th...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ... xiii PREFACE Steven James Bartlett Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University and Visiting Scholar in Psychology & ... ...iest ones, and read several passages. But I could not continue; I felt my mind wrapped in fog; my hands became icy. I shut my eyes and said to mysel... ...me and suggested we stroll in private. Obviously, he had something on his mind! He began by offering me an exquisite scarab, saying he had purchased... ...c as an amphora; little by little I must mold its lines on the wheel of my mind. It is the structure, containing the song. It must be graceful, stron... ...nt without pressure: I wanted a lively yet serene play, with a mixture of philosophy, humor and fantasy: I wanted a play to fit the new mode, free o... ... This rainy evening I take up my pen again. There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 539 ...

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...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...

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...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t of clean white linen, acceptable in color, if not in cut, to the Moorish mind. The view from the garden includes much Atlantic Ocean and a long stre... ...r, dear: I shall never see him again; and I can scarcely bring his face to mind after all these years. (With moistening eyes, which at once touch Lady... ...ne, whose face I said not ten minutes gone that I could no longer bring to mind. It was as if he had come from the grave to remind me of it. BRASSBOUN... ...ade pregnant utterances as a legislator may be taken as proved by the keen philosophy of the travels and tales he has since tossed to us; but the Hous...

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...ir Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...e most eminent lawyers that ever lived, though the labours of his powerful mind were unhappily exercised on a subject so lim- ited as Scottish jurispr... ...whom he obtained a considerable estate. She was an able, politic, and high-minded woman, so successful in what she undertook, that the vulgar, no way ... ...n with much more malice than art, bears the following motto: Stair’s neck, mind, wife, songs, grandson, and the rest, Are wry, false, witch, pests, pa... ...nter is coming in an hour to put up the—the emblem; and truly, with all my philosophy, and your consolatory encouragement to boot, I would rather wish... ...it will not,” said Bucklaw; “his heart is all steeled over with reason and philosophy, things that you, Craigie, know nothing about more than myself, ...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, a...

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...poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a carefu... ...ty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett re... ...ving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose inti... ... xiii PREFACE Steven James Bartlett Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University and Visiting Scholar in Psychology & ... ...iest ones, and read several passages. But I could not continue; I felt my mind wrapped in fog; my hands became icy. I shut my eyes and said to mysel... ...me and suggested we stroll in private. Obviously, he had something on his mind! He began by offering me an exquisite scarab, saying he had purchased... ...c as an amphora; little by little I must mold its lines on the wheel of my mind. It is the structure, containing the song. It must be graceful, stron...

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...Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who ...

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... UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...of America as a cut finger is to an almost mortal wound,—these facts, with minds not favorably disposed to us, would have gone far to make the most od... ...ons, to consider a fight against slavery as a fight for God. Now, when the mind of England, and it may almost be said, of the civilized part of mankin... ...d with the South. In considering this matter, we ought to dismiss from our minds, as far as possible, those feelings against the North, which have bee...

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...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...of the man too often withheld from the social commerce, and the contact of mind with mind evaded as with terror. A Scotch peasant will talk more liber... ...rn of interest from him, may argue something more awake and lively in your mind, but it still puts you in the attitude of a suitor and a poor relation... ...readily transported by imagination; the type remains with me as cleaner in mind and body, more active, fonder of eat- ing, endowed with a lesser and a... ...er by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. That which is understood excels... ...oment he transmigrates, dons the required character, and with moon- struck philosophy justifies the act in question. I can fancy nothing to compare wi... ...men than increase of knowl- edge or clarity of thought. The drama, not the philosophy, of life is the sphere of their intellectual activity. Even when...

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...CENSORED* How the founder of the Cookie Company lost everything, including his nome - and turned adv... ...ng P.O. Box 108 Lower Lake, CA 95457 (707) 995-1861 For a free catalog of all our titles, or to order more copies of this book please call (800)... ...or to order more copies of this book please call (800) 275-2606. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amos, Wally. Man with no name:... ...essity! As these thoughts swirled through my head, I suddenly made up my mind. I was going back into the cookie business. I called out to my wife C... ... was like having a job, the only difference being that I was not paid for minding my man­ ners, only if I forgot to. No matter what time of day it w... ...t want to leave home, Ruby delivered, which was where I came in. I didn't mind the work; I got my share of fish "samiches" and all the other goodies... ...I learned that service to others would bring the best to my own life. My philosophy evolved into one of production, promotion and service. I was se... ... discover it to be a well of good fortune in our lives. My experience and philosophy is that everything works out to enhance our lives, even if the ... ...s Spunkrneyer, and their children. The owners had asked me to present my philosophy and experiences at an annual banquet they held for Otis Spunkrn...

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A new collection of the author's original poetry.

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...chitectures No Track One Leaf Direction The Seas It Doesn’t Last Tangled History, Futures Programme Singing In The Silence Human Gatherers Of Light Powerless Directions Mind Through You I See Make Riding The Earth Orbits The Silent Fire Arrow-flights Turnover Beyond Specifics Night Music Experience Not By Naming Getting There Looking Back One Pu...

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...eloped from a paper I wrote for Russian and Baltic country psychologists. They had come to Italy to the Institute in Ascoli Piceno, which is a member of the Sophia University of Rome, to participate in a seminar on Sophia- Art and Cosmo-Art. The same paper was expanded and presented at the Second Ulyssiads of the Sophia University of Rome, organized by the Institute in Te...

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... 1 Antonio Mercurio THE MYTH OF ULYSSES AND SECONDARY BEAUTY ... ... 2 Copyrighted material Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Copyrignt 2009 by SOP... ... UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Copyrignt 2009 by SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME All rights reserved. Original title: Il Mito di Ulis... ...old philosophical and theological models. These models have imprisoned our minds within limited boundaries for more than two thousand years, in the ... ...gether a great army. They then go to Troy to get Helen back. Keeping in mind that here we are dealing with a myth and not historical facts, we ca... ...t for a long time, I am convinced that this is the strategy Ulysses has in mind to become immortal. After he has accomplished the fusion of his I an...

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.... They both traveled extensively through South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Claude now lives in France. Throughout his life, he kept diaries of his numerous professional and personal experiences. He decided then to put his notes into readable formats, whether short stories, novels or poetry. Claude still occasionally teaches and coaches people, but he is now foc...

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...SENSELESS LOVE p. 7 LEARN AND UNLEARN p. 11 RESPONSIBLE p. 17 UNIFORM p. 21 REVOLUTION p. 25 A STORY OF A TIME p. 29 IN AND OUT p. 33 EVERYMAN AND NOBODY p. 41 I AM NOT ME p. 43 NO MONEY WORLD p. 51 ONE DAY p. 55 EVIL GOOD p. 57 INFINITE p. 61 A STORY WITHOUT A PLOT p. 67 MY NEW ...

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...Quartering We’re Getting There, Back When Not Laughing, Gloating Fire Outside, Fire Within Higher, Deeper Such Stuff The Finding Understanding Mind Old-World Path Anthropocene For the Rest… Threnody Veils and Crowns Every Constellation Only a Pattern of Mind The Folded Thing Pollen In The Air Not There Until You Made It There The Purple Flower Can A Polar...

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...agitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Works of John Milton: Areopagitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “L... ...ing of no mean endeav our, not a little altered and moved inwardly in their minds: some with doubt of what will be the success, others with fear of w... ...law and civility, it is to be wondered how museless and unbookish they were, mind ing nought but the feats of war. There needed no li censing of boo... ...ambassadors to Rome, took thereby occasion to give the city a taste of their philosophy, they were suspected for seducers by no less a man than Cato t... ...ach dif fer little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce bree... ...he school of Pythagoras and the Per sian wisdom took beginning from the old philosophy of this island. And that wise and civil Roman, Julius Agricola... ...sualty To a degenerate and degraded state. SEC. BRO . How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as ...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakspeare’s strain. I. HISTORY T here is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to... ...s befallen any man, he can un- derstand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sov... ...an be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its ge- nius is illustrated by the entire serie... ...we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. E... ...ere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name 42 Essays of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of con- sciousness abides. There... ...he first and of the last ages; nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plut...

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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...TUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill 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 ... ...th hardly any perceptible success. It was not for want of power over men’s minds. Its power was prodigious. It could make kings and nobles resign thei... ...ters and a numerous one of slaves, ap peared, even to the most cultivated minds, to be natural, and the only natural, condition of the human race. No... ...favourite. They have therefore put everything in practice to enslave their minds. The mas ters of all other slaves rely, for maintaining obedience, o... ...nk these shadows the proper objects of the highest, the most transcendant, philosophy. Hardly anything can be of greater value to a man of theory and ... ...nsider, can collect additional evidence; he is not obliged to complete his philosophy at once, lest the opportunity should go by. The power of drawing... ...e best conclusion possible from insufficient data is not indeed useless in philosophy; the construction of a provisional hypothesis consistent with al...