...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Pennsylvania State Universit... .......................................................................... 26 II. SELF-RELIANCE............................................................. ...mocracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world. This human mind wrote history, and this must read it. The Sphinx mus... ...ve resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is do- ing to-day. The world exists for the education of each man. There is no age or state of soc... ... life of ours is stuck round with 9 Emerson Egypt, Greece, Gaul, England, War, Colonization, Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and ... ...s teat, Wintered with the hawk and fox. Power and speed be hands and feet. II. SELF-RELIANCE I read the other day some verses written by an emi- nent... ... by so much virtue as they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting, whaling, war, eloquence, personal weight, are somewhat, and engage my respect as exa... ...ost-office, of the highway, of commerce and the exchange of prop- erty, of museums and libraries, of institutions of art and science can be answered. ...

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...said, “by these opinions, which have been contradicted by the voice of the world. Y ou do not mean to set at naught the well-digested idea of centurie... ...rough habit, as if they were of an absolutely general applicability—as the world in- deed imagines them to be. Bryant, in his very learned ‘My- tholog... ...ctions which have been so long the fashion of the moralists of England, of France, and of Germany. Abstractions may amuse and exer- cise, but take no ... ... Over fabric half so fair. 97 V olume Two II. Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float a... ...grow upon the soil and are voiceless—is a stain upon the land- scape—is at war with the genius of the scene. I love, indeed, to regard the dark valley... ...t ministerial power—or purchasing increase of nobility—or collecting large museums of virtu—or playing the munificent patron of letters, of science, o... ...is that of extent; the worst phase of extent, that of dis- tance. It is at war with the sentiment and with the sense of seclusion—the sentiment and se...

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...incoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Diaries--Fiction. I. Bartlett, Steven J. II. Title. PS3602.A8396V65 2006 813'.6--dc22 2006030830 ... ...and drawings have been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading museums in the U.S. and Mexico. Archives of his work and literary correspo... ... the journal offers the most effective way to bring back to life the life-worlds of significant, unique, highly individual, and important creators. ... ...at sea, her mast broken, her tangled sail and rigging dragging. Will the war never end? P Fog, as grey as a shepherd’s cloak, ruffled the bay for ... ...aring around me like the recent storm. I couldn’t speak. I felt that the war was forever between us and I hated those years, those battles, the lin... ...kept by Leonardo da Vinci during the years 1516 to 1519 while he lived in France as the guest of King Francis I; there, he lived in the small residen...

...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 pri...

...aac McPherson, August 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale... ... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic world. I owe the biggest debt of grat- itude to my colleague Jennifer Jen... ...te of property” is a concept that is much more important when we come to the world of ideas, information, expression, and invention. We want a lot of ... ...en imagine it coupled to the efforts of the great state archives and private museums who themselves would be free to do the same thing. Think of the p... ...aton, or the literary classics of the 1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregatio... ...f property rights is needed in order to fuel progress. Indeed, the post-Cold War “Washington consensus” is invoked to claim that the lesson of history... ... though, may not cover every concern about free expression. Before World War II, Alan Cranston— later a U.S. Senator—wanted to convince American reade...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons 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,...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... .................................................................. 11 CHAPTER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM...................................................... ..................................................................... 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE .................................................... ........................................................ 107 CHAPTER VIII THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE MADE .................................................... ...del for the Utopias of subsequent phi- losophers. Whoever contemplates the world in the light of an ideal—whether what he seeks be intellect, or art, ... ...whom the “herd” feels ill-will. This class includes, of course, enemies in war, and criminals; in the minds of those who consider the preservation of ... ...ncerning his relations to his enemies instead of to his friends. The class-war, like wars between nations, produces two op- posing views, each equally... ...the free road. The same spirit per- vades thousands of other institutions. Museums, free librar- ies, and free public schools; parks and pleasure grou... ...ing such valuable objects of art as would naturally be preserved in public museums. It may be contended that such forms of theft would be prevented by...

... 11 CHAPTER I MARX AND SOCIALIST DOCTRINE................................................................................................. 11 CHAPTER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT...........................................................

... CHAPTER I — PRELIMINARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CHAPTER II — EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CHAPTER III — REM... ...ER IV — CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . .... ...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ...APTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . ... ... 43 CHAPTER XI — PROSPECTIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 BOOK II 55 CHAPTER I — GENESIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ...as with the Prince of Lies and Darkness, we do at all times wage internecine war. This assurance, at an epoch when puffery and quackery have reached a... ...ous sports of skill or strength, the Boy trains himself to Co operation, for war or peace, as governor or governed: the little Maid again, provident o... ...ts with care: when did we see any injected Prepa ration of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may d...

...of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest ...

...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII?...

...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn St... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publica... ...lay which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the profes... ... futilization in that overheated drawingroom atmosphere was delivering the world over to the control of ignorant and soulless cunning and energy, with... ... came upon horsebreakers and heartbreakers who could make the best of both worlds. As a rule, however, the two were apart and knew little of one anoth... ...slands we muddled through. Nature gave us a longer credit than she gave to France or Germany or Russia. To British centenar- ians who died in their be... ...y because they had not been prevented. They were not undone by winning the war. The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors. The W... ...e flung off as an intolerable affectation; and the picture galler- ies and museums and schools at once occupied by war work- ers. The British Museum i... .... Give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. 75 GB Shaw ACT II The same room, with the lights turned up and the curtains drawn. Ellie c...

...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had pr...

.... Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ... way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ...thority over dissentients openly controverted. The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted free... ...fford to wait for the salu tary permanent effects of freedom. In the modern world, the greater size of political communities, and above all, the sepa... ...ies has been so of ten discussed, I venture on one discussion more. CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: CHAPTER II: OF THE LIBER OF THE L... ...it is not On Liberty — Mill 63 of the nature of assassination but of civil war. As such, I hold that the instigation to it, in a specific case, may ... ...ve people who ever lived. On Liberty — Mill 83 It is individuality that we war against: we should think we had done wonders if we had made our selv... ...oins; as in the fashion of grossness which succeeded, in the time of Charles II., to the fanatical moral intolerance of the Puri tans. With respect t... ...s to stop railway travelling on Sunday , in the resistance to the opening of Museums, and the like, has not the cruelty of the old persecutors, the st...

...ture and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, t...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard S... ...not sure that this is not a portent of Revolution. In eigh- teenth century France the end was at hand when men bought the Encyclopedia and found Dider... ...ontent. But the lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book. What at- tracts and impresses us in E... ...such enemies have always been popular. Don Juan became such a pet that the world could not bear his damna- tion. It reconciled him sentimentally to Go... ...st of us, Ramsden. The cup of our ignominy is full. 69 Man & Superman Act II On the carriage drive in the park of a country house near Richmond a mot... ... educate England. When he finds people chattering harmlessly about Anatole France and Nietzsche, he devastates them with Matthew Arnold, the Autocrat ... ...nite grace; walks with a feather-like step; and makes every wrinkle in his war worn visage brim over with holiday joyous- ness. T o his sculptor he ow... ...s and hidden the day with cloud vast wings. Where are they now? Fossils in museums, and so few and imperfect at that, that a knuckle bone or a tooth o...

...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ... brother, Solomon, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfat... ..., also named Noah, was then but nine years old. At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution, after the battles of Concord and Lexington, he went ... ...hat under which he had received his own education. 13 U. S. Grant CHAPTER II WEST POINT—GRADUATION IN THE WINTER OF 1838-9 I was attending school at ... ...ndependence, after many years of war, it was the most natural thing in the world that they should adopt as their own the laws then in exist- ence. The... ... offices are all located, the President resides, and much room is left for museums, re- ceptions, etc. This is the building generally designated as th... ...ed the only means of communication between Humboldt and the balance of the world. I was obliged to remain in San Francisco for several days before I f... ...” END OF VOLUME I. 317 U. S. Grant PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT VOLUME II CHAPTER XL FIRST MEETING WITH SECRETARY STANTON—GENERAL ROSECRANS— COMMA...