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... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...mongst the color- able presumptions on the other side was this:—Some hours after the last murder, a man was apprehended at Barnet (the first stage fro... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...usies amongst allied armies. The dragon would soon have healed his wounds; after which the prosperity of the despotism would have been greater than be... ...ourney to Dublin, were a pair utterly ruined by a certain under-postilion, named Moran. This particular ruin did Mr. Moran boast to have contributed a... ...ther hand, it is a fact—so slowly did new views travel in those days, when scientific journals were few, and roads were heavy—that ten years later tha... ...collection which she did not really feel. Amongst the objects which gave a scientific interest to the collection, naturally I have forgotten one and a... ... was Penson. My grandfather at one time held an office under the king; how named, I once heard, but have forgotten; only this I remember, that it was ... ...fter- wards by no tentative inquiries, or comparison with actual facts and phenomena of daily experience, but resolutely de- veloped out of his one id...

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...?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....

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...arkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design. As you enter a gaming-house the law despoils you of yo... ...r, or your own, if you happen to have written it on the lining inside? Or, after all, is the measurement of your skull required for the compi- lation ... ...rchestra contributes his share. Y ou would see there plenty of respectable people who have come in search of diversion, for which they pay as they pay... ...here since 1793. There is something great and terrible about suicide. Most people’s downfalls are not dangerous; they are like children who have not f... ...ts bizarre eccentricities, to the influence of this moral galva- nism; its phenomena, closely connected with his last thoughts, assured him that he wa... ...o only smiled meaningly by way of answer. His superior smile led the young scientific man to fancy that he himself had been deceived by some imposture... ...le pictures that passed unceasingly before their weary eyes. The strangest phenomena of dreams beset them, the lowering heavens, the fervid sweetness ... ...itch that enables us to study the natural history of hearts, when they are named and classified in genera, sub-genera, and families; into crustaceae, ... ...rward place in the great field of knowledge; and is not this the result of scientific curiosity, of excessive application, and a love of reading which...

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...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sensation, an...

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...T UT UTOBIOGRAP OBIOGRAP OBIOGRAP OBIOGRAP OBIOGRAPHY HY HY HY HY IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas’s Hospital I passed the examinations... ...ciety, which gave two performances, one on Sunday night, another on Monday afternoon, of plays which, unsuitable for the commercial theatre, were cons... ... a preface, so that I need not here say more about it. As a rule, the same people came in every night, but now and then oth ers came, perhaps only on... ...s of a book, I have finished with it for good and all. I am impatient when people insist on talking to me about it; I am glad if they like it, but do ... ...n the room, Oliver Haddo proceeded to eat these dishes in the order he had named. Margaret and Burdon watched him with scornful eyes, but Susie, who w... ... prosaic tavern. Dr Porhoët broke the silence. ‘Arago, after whom has been named a neighbouring bou levard, declared that doubt was a proof of modest... ... should be unable to form any reason able theory of the universe.’ ‘For a scientific man you argue with singular fatuity,’ said Haddo icily, and his ... ...e crecy is rigorous among adepts; and I know that you have been asked for phenomena, but have declined to gratify a frivolous curiosity. It is possib... ...personalities. He analysed Oliver Haddo’s character with the patience of a scientific man studying a new species in which he is passion ately concern...

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..................................................... 62 MONEY THE MIDWIFE OF SCIENTIFIC ................................................................... .......................................................................... 72 AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION ........................................................ ...ANITY WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? THE QUESTION seems a hopeless one after 2000 years of reso- lute adherence to the old cry of “Not this man, b... ...here have been one or two grotesque attempts at it by in- 8 Shaw adequate people, such as the Kingdom of God in Munster, which was ended by crucifixi... ...ose patience with me and shut the book. I assure you I am as sceptical and scientific and modern a thinker as you will find anywhere. I grant you I kn... ...tells us that the mother of Jesus was betrothed to a man of royal pedigree named Joseph, who was rich enough to live in a house in Bethlehem to which ... ... manhood of Jesus. JOHN THE BAPTIST At this moment, a Salvationist prophet named John is stirring the people very strongly. John has declared that the... ...lieved and doubted by men of equal intelligence. Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, sur- round us on every hand; life itself is th... ...gical power of seeing, without any enlightenment from more modern economic phenomena, that they must fail; but we have the hard fact before us that th...

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...rt and pervading sense of antithesis between two comprehen- sive groups of phenomena, in one of which barbarian man includes himself, and in the other... ...action, and active objects are in so far assimilated to the hu- man agent. Phenomena of this character —especially those whose behaviour is notably f... ...hand. Honorific epithets, in vogue among barbarian tribes as well as among peoples of a more advance culture, commonly bear the stamp of this unsophis... ...atter class of wants being served indirectly by an expen- diture of goods, after the fashion familiar to all economic readers. But it is only when tak... ...d circum- stance of life accentuate the utility of servants for this last- named purpose. Women and other slaves are highly valued, both as an evidenc... ...ent will commonly begin with the exemption of the wife, or the chief wife. After the commu- nity has advanced to settled habits of life, wife-capture ... ...rvice comes nearest being true for that cultural stage which was here been named the “quasi-peaceable” stage of industry. At this stage personal servi... ... sense of utility, the sense of devotional or ritualistic fitness, and the scientific sense of truth. It is scarcely necessary to go into a discussion... ...h its conspicu- ous consumption. The bearing of pecuniary decency upon the scientific spirit or the quest of knowledge will he taken up in some detail...

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...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... .... At most, in the immeasurable tide of French Speech (which ceases not day after day, and only ebbs towards the short hours of night), may this of the... ...pettings and pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to see Choiseul; and with tha... ...that. O Henault! Prayers? From a France smitten (by black-art) with plague after plague, and lying now in shame and pain, with a Harlot’s foot on its ... ...oyally obey him when made. The man so nourished and decorated, thenceforth named royal, does verily bear rule; and is said, and even thought, to be, f... ... those outward Senses of ours, how much more, by the Inward Sense, are all Phenomena of the spiritual kind: Dignities, Au- thorities, Holies, Unholies... ...ce once to burst loose from his Court-moorings, to what regions, with what phenomena, might he not sail and drift! Happily as yet he ‘affects to hunt ... ..., or less. For Philosophedom he has done as good as nothing,—sent out some scientific Laperouse, or the like: and is he not in ‘angry correspondence’ ... ...usible speech and brushed raiment; hollow within: Quacks Political; Quacks scientific, Academical; all with a fellow-feeling for each other, and kind ...

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...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... .... At most, in the immeasurable tide of French Speech (which ceases not day after day, and only ebbs towards the short hours of night), may this of the... ...pettings and pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to see Choiseul; and with tha... ...hat. O Henault! Prayers? From a France smitten (by black- art) with plague after plague, and lying now in shame and pain, with a Harlot’s foot on its ... ...oyally obey him when made. The man so nourished and decorated, thenceforth named royal, does verily bear rule; and is said, and even thought, to be, f... ...ce once to burst loose from his Court-moorings, to what regions, with what phenomena, might he not sail and drift! Happily as yet he ‘affects to hunt ... ..., or less. For Philosophedom he has done as good as nothing,—sent out some scientific Laperouse, or the like: and is he not in ‘angry correspon- dence... ...nd by voice,—rise discrepant towards the ear of Heaven. To which political phenomena add this economical one, that Trade is stagnant, and also Bread g...

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...ctive man, has indeed been a life of effort, of earnest toilsome endeavour after all excellence. Ac- cordingly , his intellectual progress, his spirit... ...esperation, became the staple of lit- erary ware; and though the epidemic, after a long course of years, subsided in Germany, it reappeared with vario... ...rs, in Germany a loud, haggard, tumultuous, as well as tearful class, were named the Kraftmänner or Power- men; but have all long since, like sick chi... ...hich served at once to prepare him for the conception of Faust and for the scientific researches of his later days. He arrived at Strasburg April 2,17... ... an interruption, he said that tragedy ought to be the school of kings and peoples; that there was no subject worthier of treatment than the death of ... ... a commotion in our young heads that was not easily settled. But the young people felt the in- convenience less, because they had somewhat more space ... ...mportant, and in one sense more fruitful, place for us, was the city-hall, named from the Romans. In its lower 41 Goethe vault-like rooms we liked bu... ...e accurately the Oriental localities, nationalities, natural products, and phenomena, and in this manner to make present to one’s self that ancient ti... ...o the very door of his mistress; for even this externally severe, earnest, scientific man had not kept free from the toils of a very amiable lady. Ger...

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... is a clinical study of how the thing actually occurs among quite ordinary people, innocent of all unconventional views con- cerning it. The enormous ... ... con- cerning it. The enormous majority of cases in real life are those of people in that position. Those who deliberately and conscientiously profess... ... say what our characters really are in this respect. THE MISSING DATA OF A SCIENTIFIC NATURAL HISTORY OF MARRIAGE Of one thing I am persuaded: we shal... ...ion. The mischief begins when the official re- 8 Overruled venge persists after the passion it satisfies has died out of the race. Stoning a woman to... ...oning a woman to death in the east because she has ventured to marry again after being deserted by her husband may be more merciful than allowing her ... ...or else have never conceived it pos- sible that the stage door present the phenomena of sex as they appear in nature. THE LIMITS OF STAGE PRESENTATION... ...THE LIMITS OF STAGE PRESENTATION But the stage presents much more shocking phenomena than those of sex. There is, of course, a sense in which you cann... ...ta! MRS. LUNN. I used to be called Sally at home; but when I married a man named Lunn, of course that became ridicu- lous. That’s my one little pet jo...

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...t liter- ally every day by surgeons who are quite as honest as most of us. After all, what harm is there in it? The surgeon need not take off the rich... ...n re- move the appendix or the uvula, and leave the patient none the worse after a fortnight or so in bed, whilst the nurse, the general practitioner,... ...t it means that you will do anything, good or bad, provided you get enough people to keep you in counte- nance by doing it also. It is the sort of con... ...er paid sixpence for a bottle of strong medicine. In this predicament most people, to save themselves from unbearable mistrust and misery, or from bei... ...’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors CREDULITY AND CHLOROFORM THERE is no harder scientific fact in the world than the fact that belief can be produced in p... ...When you have done that over and over again every day for a week, how much scientific conscience have you left? If you are weak-minded enough to cling... ...Koch’s tuberculin were not accidents, but perfectly orderly and inevitable phenomena following the injection of dan- gerously strong “vaccines” at the... ...disease germs appetizingly for them with a natural sauce which Sir Almroth named opsonin, and that our pro- duction of this condiment continually rise...

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..., and not as a propagandist, that he is con- veying to the German speaking peoples political criticisms which occasionally reflect on contemporary aut... ... masterpiece of propagandist journalism and prophetic invective as a drily scientific treatise of the sort that used to impose on people in 1860, when... ...nvective as a drily scientific treatise of the sort that used to impose on people in 1860, when any book that pretended to be scientific was accepted ... ... that used to impose on people in 1860, when any book that pretended to be scientific was accepted as a Bible. In those days Darwin and Helmholtz were... ...t understand them, and therefore only neglected them until they were dead, after which they learnt to dance to their tunes with an easy conscience. Fo... ... ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk... ... was anticipated in the year 1819 by a young country gentleman from Sussex named Shelley, in a work of extraordinary artis- tic power and splendor. Pr... ...y following it back to its alleged origin in sexual passion, the emotional phenomena of which he has expressed in music with a frankness and forcible ...

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...s scattered over the surface of books. I begin with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not t... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ...ull ritual of a sacrifice must have been preserved in all ban- quets, long after it had faded to a form in the less supersti- tious West. This we may ... ... had that been so, the practical precepts, and the moral commentary coming after even the grossest forms of worship, or the most revolting mythologica... ...hape, are merely modes of representing and drawing into unity a variety of phenomena and agencies that seem one, by means of their unintermitting cont... ..., would have opened upon him, as a neces- sity, one stage after another of scientific cross-examination, until his spiritual mission would have been f... ...n; but their own nation hath given a rule, that, when a piece of silver is named in the Pentateuch, it sig- nifies a sicle; if it be named in the Prop... ... the abuses of the Popish Confessional. Unfortunately for the interests of scientific ethics, the first cultivators of casuistry had been those who ke... ...rcing them to arrange themselves, under some latent connection, with other phenomena now first detected, as illustrations of some great principle or a...

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...onoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage TOWARDS THREE O’CLOCK in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabout... ...untenance grotesque and droll, as the faces which the Chinese alone of all people can imag- ine for their quaint curiosities. The broad visage was as ... ...ess, looked for- lornly out of a countenance which was flattened something after the fashion of a pumpkin, and surmounted by a Don Quixote nose that r... ... of all the mysteries of generation, this most defies the ambitious modern scientific investigator. In the second—the ancient Egyptians (we are told) ... ...as been called through all ages, try to collect something, no matter what (people have been known to collect placards), so shall you receive the small... ...hen there was a scheme afoot for a quarter in which every street was to be named after a French province, and all should converge in a handsome square... ...een the courtyard and the garden, and a shop kept by a marine store-dealer named Remonencq, which fronted on the street. During the past few months th... ...pal methods known to astrology; and the occult sciences, like many natural phenomena, are passed over by the freethinker or the materialist philosophe... ...w this, and there is noth- 106 Cousin Pons ing to cause an outcry in such phenomena, no violent excep- tion to nature’s laws, but the operation of a ...

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...e. Aristotle tries to show that this is the case in regard to every virtue named and recognised as such, but his treatment is often forced and the end... ...etween the two. Aristotle’s attention is here directed chiefly towards the phenomena of “Inconti- nence,” weakness of will or imperfect self-control. ... ...t, nay the rightfulness of its authority may be acknowledged, and yet time after time it may be disobeyed; the will may be good and yet overmastered b... ...s? To this question Aristotle gives an answer which cannot but surprise us after what has preceded. T rue Happiness, great satisfaction, can- not be f... ...r, to put it more distinctly, “in the life of the philosopher, the life of scientific and philosophic con- templation.” The highest and most satisfyin... ...it. For some think it is virtue, others practical wisdom, others a kind of scientific philosophy; others that it is these, or else some one of them, i... ...e fact is that good and bad fortune are constantly circling about the same people: for it is quite plain, that if we are to depend upon the fortunes o... ...able of subsisting in this mean state, because some there are which are so named as immediately to con- vey the notion of badness, as malevolence, sha... ...enote:1145b] And we should adopt the same course as before, i.e. state the phenomena, and, after raising and discussing difficulties which suggest the...

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...n gain any most surely by the loudest publication? Need there can be none, after this, to say that the priceless blessing, which I have left to the fi... ...posed to call her at a distance a woman of commanding presence; but never, after he had approached near enough to behold her face. Every thought of ar... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ...d above her brain was like that fluctuating silvery column which stands in scientific tubes sinking, rising, deepening, lightening, contracting, expan... ...ded to Kichinskoi. Now, it hap- pened that between this governor—a Russian named Beketoff—and the Pristaw had been an ancient feud. The very name of B... ...e telescope, began to observe with special attention a class of remarkable phenomena in the starry world hitherto unstudied, viz.: milky spots in vari... ...an- chorage.* Another class, and a frequent one, of equivocal phenom- ena, phenomena that are reconcilable indifferently with ei- ther of two assumpti... ...p- paratus, the whole mounting of the establishment, in so far as it was a scientific establishment, and even the workmen for putting up the machinery... ...itable catastrophe could be delayed no longer. The com- mander, an Italian named Morandi, was a brave man; any fate appeared better than that which aw...

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...with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscuits; then he had walked with people he liked, and had walked just long 6 The Longest Journey enough; an... ...ust long 6 The Longest Journey enough; and now his room was full of other people whom he liked, and when they left he would go and have supper with A... ...r did they attract her—school groups, Watts’ “Sir Percival,” a dog running after a rabbit, a man running after a maid, a cheap brown Madonna in a chea... ... it, and called it the ‘Pem.’” “How complimentary!” “You foolish girl,—not after me, of course. We called it the ‘Pem’ because it is close to Pembroke... ...there these people are, then. Got you. Yah!” “Did it never strike you that phenomena may be of two kinds: one, those which have a real existence, such... ...ity, ought by rights to have been classed not with the cow, but with those phenomena that are not re- 29 EM Forster ally there. But his son, with par... ...a. Into this sea humanity has built, as it were, some little breakwa- ters—scientific knowledge, civilized restraint—so that the bubbles do not break ... ...nd why has he that disastrous name?” “Flea? Fleance. All the Thompsons are named out of Shakespeare. He grazes the Rings.” “Ah, I see. A pet lamb.” “L... ...lieved in free speech. But they spoke freely about generalities. They were scientific and philosophic. They would have shrunk from the empirical freed...

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...know his work, may know it well, and admire it more every time we read it. After being amused by it, after having enjoyed it, we may return again to s... ...cary, which would fit in with the medical profession adopted by his son in after years. Rabelais had broth- ers, all older than himself. Perhaps becau... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ... find that the town of Alba (the first pattern of Rome) was founded and so named by reason of a white sow that was seen there. You shall likewise find... ...hundred and twenty. Afterwards he got an old coughing fellow to teach him, named Master Jobelin Bride, or muzzled dolt, who read unto him Hugutio, Heb... ...he lapidary’s profession, he was a studious, learned, and ingenious man, a scientific person, full of knowledge, a great philosopher, of a sound judgm... ... left them nothing to write of or to invent, are very much mistaken. Those phenomena which you see in the sky, whatever the surface of the earth affor...

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... they must refer for details to the larger publications which comprise the scientific results of the Expedition. The Zoology of the Voyage of the *I m... ...ctions’ con- tains two papers of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America. Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, and White, ... ... the Insects which were collected, and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given b... ...of a Diodon — Pelagic Confervae and Infusoria — Causes of discoloured Sea. After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majest... ...ar water. It happened to be a grand feast-day, and the village was full of people. On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls... ...at I was watch- ing it. Remaining for a time motionless, it would then *So named according to Patrick Symes’s nomenclature. **See Encyclop. of Anat. a... ...hed from any other specimen. The other had increased *I have described and named these species in the Annals of Nat. Hist., vol. xiv. p. 241. 34 The ... ... The neighbourhood of the Rio Plata seems pecu- liarly subject to electric phenomena. In the year 1793, *one of the most destructive thunderstorms per... ...h all truth. I trembled 164 The V oyage of the Beagle to think how deeply scientific it would be: it was, “Whether the ladies of Buenos Ayres were no...

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...gotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, 3 after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so m... ... games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wis dom not to do desperate thin... ...for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...nd find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...ese were growing I could use various substitutes beside those which I have named. “For,” as the Forefathers sang, “we can make liquor to s... ...urer on England, a man of learning and intelligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell,... ...n W alden 150 we were sure to see that some of the qualities which I have named, which we all prize more than those other productions, but which are ... ...thrills of joy and thrills of pain are undistinguishable. How peaceful the phenomena of the lake! Again the works of man shine as in the spring. Ay, e... ...s within the ice operate as burning glasses to melt the ice beneath. The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Ever...

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...nd that extravagant conception, Mr Merdle, I would hint that it originated after the Railroad-share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank, and o... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...a clockmaker could have made a better pair. He had a hook nose, hand- some after its kind, but too high between the eyes by probably just as much as h... ...f Little Dorrit between the two eights was a mystery. Another of the moral phenomena of Little Dorrit. Besides her consideration money, her daily cont... ...he pre- cise nature of the claim of the Crown against a prisoner for debt, named Dorrit.’ ‘I say. Look here. You really are going it at a great pace, ... ...n; her countenance, and particularly the tip of her nose, present- ing the phenomena of several dints, generally answering to the bowl of that article... ...en he was young. And when he brought you home here, the wife his uncle had named for him, I didn’t need to look at you twice (you were a good-looking ... ...e attributed, after much reflection, to his musical genius not having been scientifically developed in his youth. ‘For why,’ argued Mr Plornish, ‘why ... ...g among the creditors, detainees were lodged on the part of the Crown in a scientific manner, and all the rest Of it. When the fairy had appeared and ...

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...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...called Sudbury River, it enters Concord at the south part of the town, and after receiving the North or Assabeth River, which has its source a little ... ...h the other tributaries of the Merrimack, it appears to have been properly named Musketaquid, or Meadow River, by the Indians. For the most part, it c... ...e seventh of the whole territory in meadow; this standing next in the list after pas turage and unimproved lands, and, judging from the returns of pr... ...irie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the ... ..., where the current is most rapid, and frequently confounded with the last named. 24 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers The Shiner, Leuciscus cryso... ...ruth. By a faint and dream like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus.... ...ians, the Egyptians done, that can be told? It is the simplest relation of phenomena, and describes the commonest sensations with more truth than scie... ...e surface. The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is at tracted by a moral...

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...o the school of Professor Joseph H. Clarke. He proved an apt pupil. Y ears afterward Professor Clarke thus wrote: “While the other boys wrote mere mec... ... the University of Vir- ginia at Charlottesville. He left that institution after one session. 7 V olume One Official records prove that he was not ex... ...It seems simple, like a Greek column, because of its perfection. In a poem named “Ligeia,” under which title he intended to per- sonify the music of n... ...e profounder ethics of art. His criticisms are, however, distinguished for scientific precision and coherence of logic. They have the exactness, and a... ... “He was at all times a dreamer-dwelling in ideal realms-in heaven or hell-peopled with the creatures and the accidents of his brain. He walked-the st... ...that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected — so ent... ...a meteoric stone again passed in my vicin- ity, and the frequency of these phenomena began to occasion me much apprehension. “April 17th. This morning... ... inasmuch as regards an attempt at veri- similitude, in the application of scientific principles (so far as the whimsical nature of the subject would ... ... have been a woman’s voice. Does not understand German. “Four of the above-named witnesses, being recalled, de- posed that the door of the chamber in ...

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...Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Ep- och after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, de- mocracy, are merely the a... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...things are in man. Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter’s are lame copies after a divine model. Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the ... ...ed all the postulates of elfin annals,— that the fairies do not like to be named; that their gifts are capricious and not to be trusted; that who seek... ...; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is gi... ...lileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since. Columbus found the New World in an undecked b... ...e par- ticle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation 49 Emerson to-day, next year ... ...the history of a state,—do recommend to him his trade, and though sel- dom named, exalt his business to his imagination. The league between virtue and... ... forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friend- ship, in the heaven of thought or vir...

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...INED LETTER Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. —Seneca. AT PARIS, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was enjoying the twofo... ...rofoundly amused, “oh, Dupin, you will be the death of me yet!” “And what, after all, is the matter on hand?” I asked. “Why, I will tell you,” replied... ... suggest, I might never have left the Ministerial presence alive. The good people of Paris might have heard of me no more. But I had an object apart f... ...ness that, at Glaumba, which is more than fifty leagues from the mountain, people could only find their way by groping. During the eruption of Vesuviu... ...uing in some very remote part—the Gulf of Bothnia being somewhat decidedly named 44 Poe in Five V olumes in one instance. This opinion, idle in itsel... ...o V on Kempelen’s discovery, I have any design to look at the subject in a scientific point of view. My object is simply, in the first place, to say a... ...ere those of the day, and nothing that fell from him led me to suspect his scientific attainments. He left the hotel before me, intending to go to New... ...mpress his fellow, as to cast him into an abnormal condition, of which the phenomena resemble very closely those of death, or at least resemble them m... ... increases with its frequency, while, in the same proportion, the peculiar phenomena elicited are more extended and more pronounced. I say that these—...

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... microscopic industry . ‘Florence has returned home also,’ said Mrs Chick, after sitting silent for some time, with her head on one side, and her para... ...‘and if my brother Paul cannot feel perfectly comfortable in her society , after all the sad things that have happened, and all the terrible disap- po... ...laim to be considered a person of superior intellect—though I believe some people have been extraordinary enough to con- sider me so; one so little hu... ...and I really don’ t know, as Paul is going to be very grand, and these are people of condition, that she would have been quite presentable, and might ... ...w and long, which had no recognisable tune, seemed to denote that he was a scientific one. The gentleman was still twirlIng a theme, which seemed to g... ...wind and rain, and crouching over a meagre fire. More constant to the last-named occupation than the first, she never changed her attitude, unless, wh... ...ne another’s company at all, that there young creetur’s name must never be named nor referred to. I don’t know what harm mayn’t have been done by nami... ...o Mrs Pipchin, presented a series of the most extraordinary physiognomical phenomena ever witnessed. ‘I beg your pardon, Miss, I’m sure,’ said Towlins... ...earch of tidings of my boy, until I died.’ ‘Began to think as how he was a scientific Flying Dutch- man!’ said the Captain, as before, and with great ...

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...lecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years’ work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and dr... ... possible cause of variation. In one very limited sense, as we shall here- after see, this may be true; but it is preposterous to attribute to mere ex... ...another instance of the effect of use. Not a single domestic animal can be named which has not in some country drooping ears; and the view sug- gested... ...k-pigeon seems to me a very rash assumption. Moreover, the sev- eral above-named domesticated breeds have been transported to all parts of the world, ... ...eons have been watched, and tended with the utmost care, and loved by many people. They have been domesticated for thousands of years in several quart... ...to the sheep of parts of Yorkshire, that ‘as they generally belong to poor people, and are mostly in small lots, they never can be improved.’ On the o... ...epends. The practical experiments of horticulturists, though not made with scientific precision, deserve some notice. It is notorious in how complicat... ...ca, and there discover a series of analogous 290 On the Origin of Species phenomena, it will appear certain that all these modi- fications of species... ...rthy of specific names, as with the primrose and cowslip; and in this case scientific and common language will come into accordance. In short, we shal...

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...R PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AN...

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................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...canaries. He did this for four generations during which there was no contact with their parents, with nests, or with nest building materials. After ... ...I see people making conscious choices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterl... ... 12 ―But in the last hundred years psychology has attempted to clear up the muddle through a scient... ...st react away from their old beliefs? 28 ―When people reject the scient... ... ―Jung's belief in ghosts and other extra-sensory phenom... ...ther extra-sensory phenomena was seen as a negative influence on his ideas by the psychologists of his day. Yet today those same extra-sensory phenom... ... 124 ―This highly successful program has already given us some musical geniuses, such as Gustavo Dudamel, who was named ...

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...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...in other men’s interests; but a familiar sensation at the back of the neck after one hour’s keen talk with a Nauheimed railway magnate saved her any t... ...t’s the principle. How could you respect me? You never did, the first year after we married, till I went to work like the others. Our tradition and up... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...il. On remonstrating, I was told that these “professors” were en- gaged in scientific experiments. The extent of their “scien- tific” knowledge, may b... ...w levels is trying enough in all con- science without the added terrors of scientific hooliganism in the Doldrums. Rhyl. J. Vincent Mathen. [We entire... ...arefied area, precisely as a ship sinks a little in fresh water. Hence the phenomena of “jolt” and your “inexplicable collisions” with factory chimney... ...aterwheel is built in a month without oppression, thou, O Sheikh, shalt be named one of the judges to judge the pah-peaz at the Sha-ho. Is it understo...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec ...

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...ith EVAN HARRINGTON By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I ABOVE BUTTONS LONG AFTER THE HOURS when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the... ...ly liked, evinces a peculiar construction of mortal. Mr. Melchisedec, whom people in private called the great Mel, had been at once the sad dog of Lym... ...st over. ‘ Amen!’ said Barnes, as to a matter-of-fact affair. Some minutes after, the two were joined by Grossby, the confectioner, who listened to th... ...t a man who wishes to pass off for more than he is, Kilne, and impose upon people,” he says, “he’s contemptible, Kilne! contempt- ible!” So that, you ... ...acred neces- sity there was for him to refit in London, under the hands of scientific tailors. Evan wrote him an introduction to Mr. Goren, counted ou... ... her expe- rience did not comprehend it. ‘As to that,’ said Lady Jocelyn, ‘phenomena are unnatural. The rules of society are lightened by the exceptio... ..., nevertheless; and Harry was, when notes to the amount of the largest sum named by him were placed in his hand by one whom he looked upon as the last... ...s in pencil. ‘Louisa. You have my commands to quit this house, at the hour named, this day. You will go with me. E. H.’ Conning was again requested to...

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ...es and dull schools of their class while still of tender years, and shaped after a fashion of their own. But M. Blériot reminds us that we may no long... ...ent in Washington, visited Philadelphia, and had a comparatively loitering afternoon in New York. What had I to say about it? Firstly, that I wish thi... ...re so easy in his position to increase research, to honour and to share in scientific thought. Suppose we have a King whose head rises above the level... ...d all precedent a war of mechanisms, giv- ing such scope for invention and scientifically equipped wit and courage as the world has never had before. ... ...ng labour. And contemporary events, the phenom- ena of recent strikes, the phenomena of sabotage, carry out the suggestion that in a community where n... ...fact of consciousness entails a reaction of the whole assemblage of social phenomena upon themselves, such as the natural sciences have no example of.... ...that hideous mouthful of words for a thing that would be far more properly named Sane Voting. This, which is the only correct way, these antagonists r... ...t space is still less than the joint population of the first two countries named and not a quarter that of India. Moreover, it is not spread at all ev...

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...press by her sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. As she named the Empress, Anna Pavlovna’s face suddenly assumed an expression of p... ...bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. “I often think,” she continued after a short pause, draw- ing nearer to the prince and smiling amiably at ... ...“that Anatole is costing me forty thousand rubles a year? And,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in five years, if he goes on like this?” Pr... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ... name day of two of the Rostovs—the mother and the youngest daughter— both named Nataly. Ever since the morning, carriages with six horses had been co... ... upon him... CHAPTER VI AMONG THE INNUMERABLE categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substan... ...buds. I see only a coincidence of occurrences such as happens with all the phenomena of life, and I see that however much and however carefully I obse... ...the path it now follows, seeking the causes of events in man’s freewill, a scientific enun- ciation of those laws is impossible, for however man’s 69...

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...pomorphism and be- 9 William James lief in the personal characterized pre-scientific thought— Personal forces are real, in spite of this— Scientific ... ...res were the first philosophic writings I ever forced myself to study, and after that I was immersed in Dugald Stewart and Thomas Brown. Such juvenile... ...nging places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and tha... ... its subject, and I must confine myself to those more developed subjective phenomena re- corded in literature produced by articulate and fully self-co... ...cally or not by the free caprice of the writer, or that it must exhibit no scientific and historic errors and express no local or personal pas- sions,... ... purely existential point of view from which in the following lectures the phenomena of re- ligious experience must be considered. When I handle them ... ... whether I should or no, till I felt freedom from the Lord so to do: then, after I had washed my feet, I put on my shoes again. After this a deep cons... ...tness. For all things proceed out of the same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance, in its different applications, just as the... ...lepsy; or, in case it were useful and rational, as in the two latter cases named, to some more mystical or theological hypothesis. I make this remark ...

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...ment. In all the higher forms this process cannot be kept up indefinitely. After a while they succumb; they die. The creature is not equal to the task... ...ly similar fashion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, belief... ...e, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity! 2. Education and Communicat... ...y, but to the class of toys resembling it. The aversion might even persist after he had forgotten about the original burns; later on he might even inv... ...ith respect to the development of powers de- voted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say the child should be growing in ... ...i- 57 John Dewey vated for their own sake. Excessive attention to surface phenomena (even in the way of rebuke as well as of en- couragement) may lea... ...on takes, as it were, a short cut; it regards some powers (to be presently named) as the direct and con- scious aims of instruction, and not simply as... ...e can ever exhaust their diversity of form and tint. Some attitudes may be named, however,-which are cen- tral in effective intellectual ways of deali... ...e. When nature is treated as a whole, like the earth in its relations, its phenomena fall into their natural rela- tions of sympathy and association w...

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...articu- larly long journeys upon the sea. He owned a little sailing yacht, named after one of his books, “Bel- Ami,” in which he used to sojourn for w... ...- larly long journeys upon the sea. He owned a little sailing yacht, named after one of his books, “Bel- Ami,” in which he used to sojourn for weeks a... ...nifested itself twice in the nineteenth century. Merimee, whom I have also named, re- ceived from Stendhal, at twenty, the same ben- efits that Maupas... ...s from whom they received their impulses: Stendhal, so alert, so mo- bile, after a youth passed in war and a ripe age spent in vagabond journeys, rich... ...cter of the style. The son of a physician, and brought up in the rigors of scientific method, Flaubert believed this method to be efficacious in art a... ... in science. For instance, in the writing of a romance, he seemed to be as scientific as in the development of a his- tory of customs, in which the es... ...uence of his honesty and partly of mental despair. He never accepted other people’s views on the questions of life. He looked into such prob- lems for... ...a profound gulf in my mind and in the order and logic of my ideas. Similar phenomena occur in dreams, and lead us through the most unlikely phantasmag... ...if He were to manifest his constant and invisible presence by supernatural phenomena. However, I slept. August 9. Nothing, but I am afraid. August 10....