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...s in life may be dated from this period. She says, with emphasis, ‘Now the war begun. ‘ She could only talk Dutch—and the Nealys could only talk Engli... ...od, what he knows to be a mere farce, a mock marriage, unrecognised by any civil law, and liable to be annulled any moment, when the interest or capri... ...her sick infant-appar- ently so much easier than aught we have in our more civilized homes; easier for the child, because it gets the motion without t... ...ng appearance for the grand jury, she commenced her complaint. But he very civilly in- formed her there was no Grand Jury there; she must go up stairs... ... him, urged his going to sea, and would have shipped him on board a man-of-war; but Peter was not disposed to consent to that proposition, while the c... ...re treated; they are scarcely regarded as being present. This trait in our American character has been frequently noticed by foreign travel- ers. One ...

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...on as he comes out.” Miss Bartlett was unequal to the bath. All her barbed civilities came forth wrong end first. Young Mr. Emerson scored a notable t... ...ake the word of an old woman, Miss Lucy: you will never repent of a little civility to your inferiors. That is the true democracy. Though I am a real ... ...beautiful rather than delicate, and, if possible, to erase Miss Bartlett’s civility by some gracious ref- erence to the pleasant rooms. “That woman un... ...arked the kingdom of this world, how full it is of wealth, and beauty, and war—a radiant crust, built around the central fires, spinning towards the r... ...Mr. Beebe was walking up to the Torre del Gallo with the Emersons and some American ladies. Would Miss Bartlett and Miss Honeychurch join the party? C... ...they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl. You know the American girl in Punch who says: ‘Say, poppa, what did we see at Rome?’ And... ...to tell Miss Honeychurch that on the right lived Mr. Someone Something, an American of the best type —so rare!—and that the Somebody Elses were farthe... ...e opportunity for eru- dition. “Non fate guerra al Maggio,” he murmured. “‘War not with the May’ would render a correct meaning.” “The point is, we ha... ...n Athens, never occurred to them, for they regarded travel as a species of war- fare, only to be undertaken by those who have been fully armed at the ...

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...c- tice is quite painless under the law, it is still difficult to find any civilized motive for an attitude by which the medical profession has everyt... ...to lose and nothing to gain. 31 GB Shaw THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE I SAY CIVILIZED MOTIVE advisedly; for primitive tribal motives are easy enough to... ... have had to wait for some huge accidental calamity: a cholera epidemic, a war, or an insurrection, be- fore waking us up sufficiently to get anything... ...owledge, any more than the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness (as the American Constitution puts it), from all social conditions. No man is allow... ...led mobs who are striving to make Vivisection one of the watchwords of our civilization, are not doctors: they are the British pub- lic, all so afraid...

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...howing me his rooms. “Ever since my wife died and my son was killed in the war, I have kept the best rooms shut up. Yes… see. . .” He opened a door, a... ...he evening sitting in the theatre, listening to Mazini. And a yearning for civilization, for the noise and bustle of the town, for celebrated people s... ... from gaunt trees, broken windows, grey walls, and doors covered with torn American leather! 84 Anton Chekhov When I go to my own entrance the door i... ...an, has denounced him, proving that the discovery was made in 1870 by some American; while a third person, also a German, trumps them both by proving ... ...undasov brothers: one Gundasov had died as a baby; another had gone to the war, and he, too, was dead; the third, without offence to him be it said, w... ... is the duty of society to work hand in hand with the government in waging war upon them.” Before saying this to Gundasov, my tutor cleared his throat... ...des, Varinka was good-looking and inter- esting; she was the daughter of a civil councillor, and had a 157 The Wife and other stories farm; and what ...

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..., even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any American — if we except, perhaps, the author of the “Curiosities of America... ...y increasing sound, like the moan- ing of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that what seamen term ... ...n. I studied him in his own works as well as in those of his European and American ech- oes. The ‘Charles Elwood’ of Mr. Brownson, for example, was p... ...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... ...ould not do less than offer him the service of my own; and he accepted the civility. Having obtained an oar at the water-gate, we pro- ceeded together... ...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... ...wagged his tail, but absolutely offered me his paw-afterward extending his civilities to Ponto. As no bell was discernible, I rapped with my stick aga... ...myself with Mr. Landor— for this, I afterwards found, was his name. He was civil, even cordial in his manner, but just then, I was more intent on ob- ...

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...- sia also, but through the calamities which overtook Russia— the Tartars, civil war, the interruption of relations with the East after the destructio... ...also, but through the calamities which overtook Russia— the Tartars, civil war, the interruption of relations with the East after the destruction of C... ... civic and political rights of its members.’ Secondly , that ‘criminal and civil jurisdiction ought not to belong to the Church, and is inconsistent w... ...is was bound to happen. But Rome as a State retained too much of the pagan civilisation and cul- ture, as, for example, in the very objects and fundam... ...hat’s as you please. It’ s a beau- tiful Utopian dream of the abolition of war, diplomacy , banks, and so on—something after the fashion of socialism,... ...ma Kuzmitch, a tragedy! And as you’ve dropped out long ago, it’s a tug-of- war between two. I’m expressing it awkwardly, perhaps, but I’m not a litera... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO... ...work on the land here, too, somewhere in the wilds, and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own soil. That’s my plan, and...

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...shut the door and took off his cap in his usual way. “It isn’t with saying civil things that he’ll wear out his tongue,” said the chemist, as soon as ... ...reen bandbox on the table, and began by com- plaining to madame, with many civilities, that he should have remained till that day without gaining her ... ...of a stormy sea, knowing, moreover, how to make peace respected as well as war, industry, commerce, agriculture, and the fine arts?” “I ought,” said R... ...ordinary pitch. He declaimed— “This is no longer the time, gentlemen, when civil discord ensanguined our public places, when the landlord, the busi- n... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ...

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..., systems and proves that an idea which is true in a given referential system, may be false in another, and vice versa; attempts to make peace in the war of ideas, and to make war in the peaceful ideas! The main principle of neutrosophy is: Between an idea and its opposite, there is a continuum-power spectrum of Neutralities. This philosophy forms the basis of Neutrosophic...

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...m, may be false in another, and vice versa; attempts to make peace in the war of ideas, and to make war in the peaceful ideas! The main principle of... ...aph theory and matrix theory. The authors thank Dr. Minh Perez of the American Research Press for his constant support and encouragement towards... ...ool of refugees, waiting in a political refugee camp in Turkey to get the American visa, a% have the chance to be accepted – where a varies in the s... ...terminacy exists the judgment ought to be very carefully analyzed be it a civil case or a criminal case. FCMs are deployed only where the existence ... ...hennai, March 2000. 4. Ashbacher, C. Introduction to Neutrosophic Logic, American Research Press, Rehoboth, 2002. http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smar...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...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... ...confusion? The soldiers I met, after their drunken reunions, spoke of the war with bitterness. Ten years, they said. Ten years, for what? And how man... ...wood for winter; for many others there may be no wood at all. Some want a civil war to put them on their feet. At Vaprio, I recall a child of nine o... ...ve! I felt its warmth. I asked her how she was but she wanted kisses, not civilities. (Vapid lines out of the Spanish Tragedy seemed foolish there... ...ite House. I listen. I must ask myself some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promote...

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...eteors With Antecedents A BROADWAY PAGEANT SEA-DRIFT Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life Tears To the Man-Of-War-Bird Aboard at a Ship's Helm On the Beach at Night The World below the Brine On the Beach at Night Alone Song For All Seas, All Ships Patroling Barnegat After the Sea-Ship BY THE ROADSIDE A Boston Ballad Europe ...

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...y disagrees with my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of... ... informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment, or civil rights, or the way the economy works. I will try my best to be fair... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...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... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...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... ...to focus on, and I do not mean to trivialize them. I worked with a couple of civil liberties groups in opposing the hapless Communications Decency Act... ... complexities of the issue, the record companies did not want to engage in a war of dueling empirical studies. So, if Napster’s users were not infring...

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...OWER............................................3 CHAPTER II OF THE STATE OF NATURE.....................................5 CHAPTER III OF THE STATE OF WAR......................................12 CHAPTER IV OF SLAVERY.......................................................14 CHAPTER V OF PROPERTY......................................................16 CHAPTER VI OF PATERNAL P...

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...ENT SECOND ESSAY : AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT by John Locke Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: ... ...ent, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Govern ment by John Locke, trans. William Popple is a publication o... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Exten... ...the unjust vio lence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, de clared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or a tige... ... 2nd Essay – Locke CHAPTER III OF THE S TATE OF W AR 16. The state of war is a state of enmity and destruc tion; and therefore declaring by word... ... but sedate, settled design upon another man’s life puts him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intention, and so has exp... ...annot be a clearer demonstration of any thing than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land and poor in all the comforts of... ... Essay – Locke the first commoners of the world look after—as it doth the Americans now—are generally things of short dura tion, such as if they ar... ...em. They are of no more account by her standard than the Wampompeke of the Americans to an European prince, or the silver money of Europe would have b...

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... was drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 as a list of grievances against the King of England, George III. The Declaration expresses the conviction of Americans in a philosophy of self-evident truths of what individual liberty and freedom should be. The Declaration was the beginning to separation from England and the catalyst for a birth of a nation. The Gettysburg Address:...

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...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...

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...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... ...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... ...eback Hall unfortunately suffered from both. For half a century before the war civilization had been going to the devil very precipitately under the i... ...k Hall unfortunately suffered from both. For half a century before the war civilization had been going to the devil very precipitately under the influ... ...ng outside their little circle of interest. But the ordinary war-conscious civilian went mad, the main symptom being a conviction that the whole order... ...ous voluntary organizations for doing what was plainly the business of the civil and military authorities, but actually handed out money to any thief ... ...l sense and reason. In European Courts there was vindictive illegality: in American Courts there was raving lunacy. It is not for me to chronicle the ... ...t is not for me to chronicle the extravagances of an Ally: let some candid American do that. I can only say that to us sitting in our gardens in Engla... ...or ourselves alive next morning, the newspaper ac- counts of the sentences American Courts were passing on young girls and old men alike for the expre...

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...eadly peril. I knew better; and I have represented Caesar as knowing better himself. But it was one of the quaintnesses of popular feeling during the war that anyone who breathed the slightest doubt of the absolute perfection of German organization, the Machiavellian depth of German diplomacy, the omniscience of German science, the equipment of every German with a complete...

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... himself. But it was one of the quaintnesses of popular feeling during the war that anyone who breathed the slightest doubt of the absolute per- fecti... ... by the sacri- fice of every recreative activity to incessant and vehement war work, including a heartbreaking mass of fussing and cadg- ing and bluff... ...nk I want one. It’s so unpatriotic to want anything now, on account of the war, you know. I sent my maid away as a public duty; and now she has marrie... ...tea at once; and do not presume to bring it yourself: have it brought by a civil waiter who is accustomed to wait on ladies, and not, like you, on com... ...ards and moustaches? Do the hawkers in the streets of every capital on the civilized globe sell ingenious cardboard representations of their faces on ... ...the ca- reer is open to the talents: before ten years have elapsed ev- ery civilized country from the Carpathians to the Rocky Mountains will be a Rep... ... written by some noodle of a min- ister and read it aloud. But look at the American President! He is the Allerhochst, if you like. No, madam, believe ... ...chst, if you like. No, madam, believe me, there is nothing like Democracy, American Democracy. Give the people voting papers: good long voting papers,... .... ERMYNTRUDE. What! You too worship before the statue of Liberty, like the Americans? THE INCA. Not at all, madam. The Americans do not worship the st...

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...he subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature 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 infl...

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...ortunately opposed to the mis named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be... ...ost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself un... ... and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil pen alties, its own ideas and practices as rules of con duct on t... ...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... ... some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil business; let them be left without a... ...nd of civil business; let them be left without a govern ment, every body of Americans is able to improvise one, and to carry on that or any other pub...

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..........................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14 4 Miscella... ...ed. The one point for him is the statutory Parliament, so that Ireland may civilly govern herself; and standing be- fore the world as representative o... ...ge the issue. For the sole alternative is distinct antago- nism, a form of war. Mr. Gladstone’s Bill has brought us to that definite line. Ireland hav... ...herself as greatest among the giants that do not go to pieces, she had, as Americans forgivingly remem- ber, without mentioning, a series of flicks of... ...em he will live despite the word farewell. CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY Letters Written to the Morning Post from the Seat of War from ... ...th an interminable line of cars and the like, forming the military and the civil train of the moving army. Then it was that it needed as much patience... ... seven in the morning on the 10th, but the troops and the military and the civil train that remained followed the Po without crossing to Stellata, in ...

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...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... ... views, each equally true and equally untrue. The citi- zen of a nation at war, when he thinks of his own country- men, thinks of them primarily as he... ...with the lace trade, unknown in other parts of the kingdom, indeed, in the civilized world. . . . Children of nine or ten years are dragged from their... ... The supposed iron law of wages has been proved untrue, so far as labor in civilized countries is concerned. If we wish now to find examples of capita... ... European nations have a right to tropical territory owing to their higher civilization. Such doctrines diminish revolution- ary ardor and tend to tra... ...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor...

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...els, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence. This country ... ...l rights, privi- leges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have... ...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ...ark be just, it be- comes useful to inquire whether so many just causes of war are likely to be given by united America as by disunited America; for i... ...is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have been plunged into a civil war. But notwithstanding the concurring testimony of experi- * Ibid. ... ...repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. T o be more safe, they at length become willing... ...ws are not accustomed to relaxations, in favor of military exigencies; the civil state remains in full vigor, neither cor- rupted, nor confounded with... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di...

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... very difficult for thee to refrain from laughter, when I answered all thy civilities without uncovering my head, and at the same time said ‘thee’ and... ... many other Christians for- swear themselves on the holy Gospels. We never war or fight in any case; but it is not that we are afraid, for so far from... ...d to foot, and travelled from one village to another, ex- claiming against war and the clergy. Had his invectives been levelled against the soldiery o... ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...emolishing of a few of them. For religious rage ceased in England with the civil wars, and was no more under Queen Anne than the hol- low noise of a s... ...England, which gives the advantage entirely to the lat- ter—viz., that the civil wars of Rome ended in slavery, and those of the English in liberty. T... ...Louis XIV . for no other reason but because he was ambitious, and declared war against him merely out of levity, not from any interested motives. The ...

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...tual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized gov... ...ibe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized government. The same might have been said, though somewhat less a... ...res of them. A rude people, though in some degree alive to the benefits of civilized soci ety, may be unable to practice the forbearances which it de... ... the laws the avenging of their real or supposed wrongs. In such a case, a civilized government, to be really advantageous 9 J S Mill to them, will r... ...anish America, keep the country in a state of chronic revolution and civil war. A despotism, not even legal, but of illegal violence, would be alterna... ...it to the entire generation in which it took place. It put a stop to civil war, abated a vast amount of malversation and tyranny by prætors and procon... ...ns at all in the repre sentative body. It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly c... ...ne suggested itself to the en lightened and disinterested founders of the American Re public, the federal and state assemblies would have contained ... ...on resistance to foreign aggression might be overlooked during the Crimean war, when there was an overwhelming national feeling on the contrary side, ...

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...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ... 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 ... ...He served until the fall of Y orktown, or through the entire Revolutionary war. He must, however, have been on furlough part of the time—as I believe ... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...acy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union. Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manne... ...m the “law allowed” on all occasions of ceremony, thought it would be only civil to receive his guest in the same style. His uniform was there- fore g... ...nd feeling that it would be regarded as a compliment should he meet him in civilian’s dress, left off his uniform for this occasion. The meeting was s... ...ave political aspirations, and nothing so popularizes a candidate for high civil positions as military victories. It would not do therefore to give hi...

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...tian state makes it apply to men convicted of crime, or against killing in war, and yet a considerable minority has always held that both forms of kil... ... crime will affect the mind as much as sugges- tions of adventure, love or war. Does it then follow that no one shall be restrained from freedom on ac... ... by no “rights,” except such simple ones as were made by might and custom. Civilization is a constant building-up of limitations around heredity; a pe... ...th, and it is equally impossible to feel and understand them. What we call civilization has moved so fast that the structure and instincts of man have... ...ife but is fun- damental to those human associations that are the basis of civilization. Except for this, animals would live a lonely life and probabl... ...led “crimes.” When the accident is in- ternational or world-wide, it means war. Those who believe that there is any power to stop all the harmful mani... ...ivil War. During the last war, these en- croachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immedia... ...rough the needs of the rulers in war they were given to the poor. When the American Revolution separated us from Great Britain, the spirit of democrac... ...ch and nerves, and Nature will have revenge. T o be sure, the professional American rhapso- dist points out that we are immune from natural law becaus...

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...s difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my ... ...lties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my father) o... ...ed, as opportu nity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality , mental cultivation, which he required ... ...e, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the Dutch War of Inde pendence, I knew and cared comparatively little. A volun tary... ...nce given to my thoughts by its criticism and disquisitions on society and civilization in the Hindoo part, on institutions and the acts of govern me... ...of a retired miller in Suffolk, who had made money by contracts during the war, and who must have been a man of remarkable qualities, as I infer from ... ...n of centralization. The powerful philosophic analysis which he applied to American and to French experience, led him to attach the utmost importance ... ...he two reviews, the essay reprinted in the Dissertations, under the title “Civilization”; into which I threw many of my new opinions, and criticised r... ...he most elaborate is entitled Elements of Individualism: and a remarkable American, Mr. Warren, had framed a System of Society, on the foundation of ...

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... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...g; origin in automatic utter- ance generally—these origins have been stock war- rants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represe... ... of seventy-three: “As for myself,” he says, “weak as I am, I carry on the war to the last mo- ment, I get a hundred pike-thrusts, I return two hun- d... ...hough that energy bring per- sonal loss and pain. This is the good side of war, in so far as it calls for “volunteers.” And for morality life is a war... ... and accordingly he thinks that our Music, our Science, and our so-called “Civilization,” as these things are now organized and admiringly believed in... ...unhesitating and unreasoning way in which we feel that we must inflict our civilization upon “lower” races, by means of Hotchkiss guns, etc., reminds ... ...als; but that it should remain any part of the mental equip- ment of human civilized life is an absurdity. I find that the fear clement of forethought...

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...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 man is Decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. “Reader, the heaven inspired melodious Singer; lofti... ...as acquired somewhat of a sign post character,—I shall here say nothing: the civil and pacific classes, less touched upon, are wonderful enough for us.... ...ith them, the whole fabric of Government, Legislation, Property, Police, and Civilized Society, are dissolved, in wails and howls.” Lives the man that... ...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... ...awn two ways at once, and in this im portant element of school history, the war element, had little but sorrow.” On the whole, that same excellent “P... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,...

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...nobleman in the days of the first Don Juan, are now triumphant everywhere. Civilized society is one huge bour- geoisie: no nobleman dares now shock hi... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ... the partition of the whole of Africa and perhaps the whole of Asia by the civilized Pow- ers. Can you believe that the people whose conceptions of so... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ... down my view of the existing relations of men to women in the most highly civilized soci- ety for what it is worth. It is a view like any other view ... ...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...

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...here, the dark, tall statures of the Princes Metzengerstein—their muscular war-coursers plunging over the carcasses of fallen foes —startled the stead... ...les, Lettres, Universal, Experimental, Biblio- graphical, Association, To, Civilize, Humanity.” Dr. Moneypenny made the title for us, and says he chos... ...making known to him the wishes of the society, he re- ceived me with great civility, took me into his study, and gave me a clear explanation of the wh... ...tion for me in all other respects, and indeed treated me with the greatest civility. His parting words made a deep impression upon my heart, and I hop... ...ut. Audacity:—Y our diddler is audacious.—He is a bold man. He carries the war into Africa. He conquers all by assault. He would not fear the daggers ... ...utter some ques- tions, and learned, among other glorious news, that civil war is raging in Africa, while the plague is doing its good work beau- tifu... ...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an...

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...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...ture members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap be- tween the original capacities of the immature and... ...e and thorough transmission 8 Democracy & Education takes place, the most civilized group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. In fact... ...re nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn. But as civilization advances, the gap between the ca- pacities of the young and th... ...otions are aroused in him that animate the others. A tribe, let us say, is war- like. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which ... ...at the expense of others, and that his ideas turn to things connected with war. Only in this way can he become fully a recognized member of his group.... ...e members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the effi- cacy of the commo... ...asses previously hemmed off from one another. Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peo... ...ine. The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: “It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as ...

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...So- cialist asks him what particular variety of marriage he means: English civil marriage, sacramental marriage, indissoluble Roman Catholic marriage,... ...man, Turkish, or South Dakotan marriage. In Sweden, one of the most highly civilized countries in the world, a marriage is dissolved if both parties w... ...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ...o a private and socially inoperative eccen- tricity by the introduction of civil marriage and divorce. Theo- retically, our civilly married couples ar... ...he proportion of the sexes in the population. If in consequence of a great war three-quarters of the men in this country were killed, it would be abso... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...s) elegantly vicious rich and profligate poor alike. 44 Shaw CARRYING THE WAR INTO THE ENEMY’S COUNTRY Without pretending to exhaust the subject, I h... ...re doing. Ive a horrible misgiving about that pamphlet. All progress means war with Society. Heaven forbid that Edith should be one of the combatants!...

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... Can Tell the middle between them, its uselessness empha- sized by a cheap American clock disrespectfully placed beside it and now indicating 12 o’clo... ...l respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passion- ate character ... ...ct us to feel for you—to do for you? What is it you want? Why are you less civil to us than other people are? You are evidently not very fond of us—wh... ...TINE. Have you ever studied the subject of gun- nery—artillery—cannons and war-ships and so on? MRS. CLANDON. Has gunnery anything to do with Gloria? ... ... are not able to express. What you miss in Crampton is that mere veneer of civilization, the art of shewing worthless attentions and paying insincere ... ...ri- vate apartment, sir. If you will allow me, sir, I will shew you to the American bar and supper rooms, sir. This way, sir. He goes into the gardens...

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...and with ambitious aim Against the throne and monarchy of God Raised impious war in heav’n and battle proud With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power ... ..., We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war Irreconcilable, to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and in th’ excess... ...O Prince, O Chief of many thronèd Powers, That led th’ embattled Seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered heav’ns... ...That under ground they fought in dismal shade; Infernal noise; Warr seem’d a civil Game To this uproar; horrid confusion heapt Upon confusion rose: an... ...e; O how unlike To that first naked Glorie. Such of late COLUMBUS found th’ AMERICAN to girt With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde Among the T... ...ell, Rape or Adulterie, where passing faire Allurd them; thence from Cups to civil Broiles. At length a Reverend Sire among them came, And of thir doi... ...tning and loud Trumpets sound Ordaine them Lawes; part such as appertaine To civil Justice, part religious Rites Of sacrifice, informing them, by type...

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...ight be secured. It was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller consideration of English Philosophy than it had hith- erto ... ...nti-materialistic tendency of physics is the view of William James and the American new realists, according to which the “stuff” of the world is neith... ...ing that could be called “experi- ence.” This word has been dropped by the American realists, among whom we may mention specially Professor R. B. Perr... ...rustration of some impulses which is involved in acquiring the habits of a civilized adult, he continues: “It is among these frustrated impulses that ... ...sort of end that often seems to be aimed at by animals and savages, though civilized people are supposed to have discarded it. We sometimes find also ... ...practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent nec- essary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the acti... ... got up this morning, that we did vari- ous things yesterday, that a great war has been taking place, and so on. How far our knowledge of the past is ...

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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 are also free nations would take t...

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... agazine T HE 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 p... ... 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... ...s, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong... ... the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would ... ...ve been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagatio... ... a conspiracy of slave own ers, who have broken their connection with the American Federation on the sole ground, ostentatiously proclaimed, that the... ...el ings which have been manifested since the beginning of the 5 J S Mill American contest—the judgments which have been put forth, and the wishes wh... ... for God. Now, when the mind of England, and it may almost be said, of the civilized part of mankind, has been relieved from the incubus which had wei... ... terms of communion without their consent. But the parties in a protracted civil war almost invariably end by taking more extreme, not to say higher g...

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...PTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS...

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........................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON – CIVIL ENGINEER ...................................................... 58 CH... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...use, and his dogs my quest- ing dragoons. Little by little we dropped into civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ... all our veins there run some minims of his old, wild, tree-top blood; our civilised nerves still tingle with his rude terrors and plea- sures; and to... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ... got to Philadelphia before me. He introduc’d me to his son, who receiv’d me civilly, gave me a breakfast, but told me he did not at present want a ha... ...the impropriety of it, and at last gave a flat denial to it. Then he wrote a civil letter to Sir William, thanking him for the patronage he had so kin... ...ollins with me but that he was not so ber. The gov’r. treated me with great civility, show’d me his library, which was a very large one, and we had a... ...d pounds, and in 1739 to eighty thousand pounds, since which it arose during war to upwards of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds, trade, buildin... ...an not have the help expected from my papers, many of them being lost in the war. I have, however, found the following. ]* HAVING mentioned a great an... ... when collected. With respect to defense, Spain having been several years at war against Great Britain, and being at length join’d by France, which br...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...oy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who support the litter, civilisation, in which we ourselves are so smoothly carried forward. People... ...t in masterly coincidence with the artis- tic effect. The deadly weight of civilisation to those who are below presses sensibly on our shoulders as we... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ...se States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war a period of great trial to his soul. The new virtue, Unionism, of which... ...em to be; what is once well done is done for ever.” Such was his theory of civil disobedience. 106 Robert Louis Stevenson And the upshot? A friend pa...