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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... prevented from using the same levels of excitation. Activation and inhibition, or prevention are simultaneous. The Model of Internal Compatibility... ... of God. We can cure diseases; eliminate pain; overcome poverty; extend life, fight crime, do justice. In the not too distant future we are likely t...

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Preface to Major Barbara First Aid to Critics

By: George Bernard Shaw

...l abhor and repudiate: to wit, that the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty, and that our first duty—a duty to which every other cons... ... that even if this were true, which it is not, the alterna- tive to adding crimes of our own to the crimes from which we suffer is not helpless submis... ...king people avoid it much more carefully, and to effect a further apparent prevention by making them conceal it very anx- iously, yet people would hav... ...or Barbara, is simply a man who, having grasped the fact that poverty is a crime, knows that when society offered him the alternative of poverty or a ... ...ave fallen quite out of their vocabu- lary and been replaced by “passional crime” and the like. They assume, as far as I can gather, that people in wh... ... mass of rent, interest, and profit, every penny of which is bound up with crime, drink, prostitution, disease, and all the evil fruits of poverty, as...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...ds Grinning with ghastly feature: he, of all Who enter, strict examining the crimes, Gives sentence, and dismisses them beneath, According as he folde... ...with fatigue am worn; Nor I sole spirit in this woe: all these Have by like crime incurr’d like punishment.” The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell 18 ... ...lip assign’d.” He answer’d straight: “These are yet blacker spirits. Various crimes Have sunk them deeper in the dark abyss. If thou so far descendest... ...Which they howl forth, at each extremity Arriving of the circle, where their crime Contrary’ in kind disparts them. To the church Were separate those,... ... empty vantages of life From race to race, from one to other’s blood, Beyond prevention of man’s wisest care: Wherefore one nation rises into sway, An... ...r this He in the second round must aye deplore With unavailing penitence his crime, Whoe’er deprives himself of life and light, In reckless lavishment...

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A Treatise on Parents and Children

By: George Bernard Shaw

... sensual luxury of physi- cally torturing them. There is a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children which has effectually made an end of our ... ...r such conditions. But in order to get expelled, it was necessary commit a crime of such atrocity that the parents of other boys would have threatened... ...like death, a prod- uct of Natural Selection; and though there is no viler crime than to abuse them, yet there is no greater cruelty than to ignore th... ...roused to unrea- soning fury, and sometimes to the commission of atrocious crimes, by the slightest challenge to their authority. Thus a laborer may b... ...h to draw down abundant fire from Heaven upon us every day in the shape of crime and disease and vice; but still the prac- tice of keeping children ba... ...m from compulsory schooling or compulsory any- thing except restraint from crime, though, as they can be supplied only by social organization, the chi...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...ay receive for my work in translating the book will go to the same cause. “Prevention is better than cure,” and I would rather help people to abstain ... ... with intent of depriving him of life, and thereby causing his death. This crime is provided for in clause 1,455 of the Penal Code, paragraphs 4 and 5... ...er, treading softly and holding his breath as if he were going to commit a crime. She was putting a clean pillow-case on the pillow, hold- ing it by t... ... i.e., to penetrate into the depths of the psychological signifi- cance of crime and to discover the wounds of society, was one of the prosecutor’s pr... ...the prosecutor’s principles. “You see before you, gentlemen of the jury, a crime characteristic, if I may so express myself, of the end of our century... ...your power. Your verdict will influence it. Grasp the full meaning of this crime, the danger that awaits society from those whom I may perhaps be perm...

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The Doctors Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

By: George Bernard Shaw

...l skilfully, energetically, masterfully, grows prouder and bolder at every crime. The common man may have to found his self-respect on sobriety, hones... ...ogs. The murderer who, when asked by the chaplain whether he had any other crimes to confess, replied indig- nantly, “What do you take me for?” remind... ...eir evidence is set aside as worthless. AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME THE ACHILLES HEEL of vivisection, however, is not to be found in the ... ... smallpox which is the result of good sanitary administration and vigilant prevention of infec- tion. Such absurd panic scandals as that of the last L...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...ds Grinning with ghastly feature: he, of all Who enter, strict examining the crimes, Gives sentence, and dismisses them beneath, According as he folde... ...with fatigue am worn; Nor I sole spirit in this woe: all these Have by like crime incurr’d like punishment.” The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell 18 ... ...lip assign’d.” He answer’d straight: “These are yet blacker spirits. Various crimes Have sunk them deeper in the dark abyss. If thou so far descendest... ...Which they howl forth, at each extremity Arriving of the circle, where their crime Contrary’ in kind disparts them. To the church Were separate those,... ... empty vantages of life From race to race, from one to other’s blood, Beyond prevention of man’s wisest care: Wherefore one nation rises into sway, An... ...r this He in the second round must aye deplore With unavailing penitence his crime, Whoe’er deprives himself of life and light, In reckless lavishment...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... been no example of a capital punish ment being inflicted on anyone for the crime of high INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES ... ...ts have been condemned to suffer death, the punishment due to that atrocious crime. The decisions of upright and enlight ened tribunals fall equally ... ...e decisions of upright and enlight ened tribunals fall equally on all whose crimes subject them, by a fair interpretation of the law, to its censure.... ...nt of the Government should never be used “to clear the guilty or to varnish crime.” A decent and manly examination of the acts of the Gov ernment sh... ...hout these quali ties in their public servants, more stringent laws for the prevention or punishment of fraud, negligence, and peculation will be vai... ...l of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes. I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press up...

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Utilitarianism

By: John Stuart Mill

...inherent in themselves, or as means to the promo tion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds, and a... ...ory; since utility includes not solely the pursuit of happi ness, but the prevention or mitigation of unhappiness; and if the former aim be chimerica... ...for his trouble: he who betrays the friend that trusts him, is guilty of a crime, even if his object be to serve another friend to whom he is under gr... ...s prominently forward the interest that mankind have in the repression and prevention of con 23 J S Mill duct which violates the moral law, is likel... ...elonging to him, would utili tarianism compel one to call the betrayal ‘a crime’ as much as if it had been done from the meanest motive?” I submit, t... ...our own consciousness as completely a part of our nature, as the horror of crime is in an ordinarily well brought up young person. In the mean time, h...

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The Treaty of the European Union the Maastrict Treaty, 7Th February, 1992

By: Various

... support to their action. Community ac- tion shall be directed towards the prevention of dis- eases, in particular the major health scourges, includ- ... ...rorism, unlawful drug trafficking and other serious forms of international crime, including if necessary certain aspects of customs co-operation, in c... ...identify investi- gative approaches; – collection and analysis of national prevention programmes for forwarding to Member States and for drawing up Eu... ... programmes for forwarding to Member States and for drawing up Europe-wide prevention strategies; – mea- sures relating to further training, research,...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

...ns, they are like to procure them happiness or misery from the hands of the Almighty. 9. Civil law the measure of crimes and innocence. Sec- ondly, t... ...ompare it to the civil law, the rule made by the legislative power of the country, I call it lawful or unlawful, a crime or no crime. So that whenceso... ...e law of fashion, in some countries, valour and virtue; and to the municipal laws of some govern- ments, a capital crime. In this case, when the posit... ...ind, the greater care should be taken to lay it open under its due name, thereby to excite the greater care in its prevention and cure. 5. From a wro... ...o make a distinct species from killing a man’s son or neighbour, it is because of the different heinousness of the crime, and the distinct pun- ishmen...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...enomenology is deceiving: the acts look the same (cessation of life functions, the prevention of a future). But murder is the intentional terminati... ...untable philosophical problems. No one disputes the now common view that the main crime committed in aborting a pregnancy – is a crime against pot... ...to construct the ideal community. This, of course, is its Achilles' heel. Consider crime. Anarchists of all stripes agree that people have the righ... ...rty represents the disproportionate accumulation of wealth by certain individuals. Crime is merely the natural reaction to these glaring injustices... ...Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in front' in terms of damage and number of crimes ...". Lewis averred that " ... (t)here is nothing else g... ... country over the last several years that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and terrorist actions". MSNBC notes that "(t)he Animal L... ... prevented from using the same levels of excitation. Activation and inhibition, or prevention are simultaneous. The Model of Internal Compatibilit...

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

... CARE OF THE AIDS INFECTED PERSONS CREATION OF AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS PREVENTION OF SPREAD OF AIDS EPIDEMIC MEDICAL TREATMENT OF AIDS PATIEN... ...io-economic model. A Socio-economic model is constructed with Population, Crime, Economic condition, Poverty and Unemployment as nodes or concept. H... ...POPULATION C 1 POVERTY C 4 ECONOMIC CONDITION C 3 UNEMPLOYMENT C 5 CRIME C 2 -1 +1 -1 -1 +1 -1 +1 -1 FIGURE: 1.2.1 12 Concept ... ...isease model, personality-medicine model in case of Homeopathy medicines, crime and punishment, in judicial problems (where evidences may be indeter... ...tion System As computer technology advances and the threats of computer crime increase, the apprehension and preemption of such infractions become... ...it is a highly common practice to hack e-mail. Hacking is legally a cyber crime but is also one of the crimes that does not leave any trace. Hacking ... ...the AIDS epidemic gather momentum. As a first step the motivation of AIDS prevention and AIDS patients care can be linked to get a better socially s... ...IV/AIDS epidemic are A 1 - Care for the AIDS infected persons A 2 - Prevention of spread of HIV/AIDS epidemic A 3 - Creation of Awareness ab... ...t it remains indeterminate about the care for the AIDS infected patients, prevention of spread of HIV/AIDS patients and the concept of social stigma....

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...operty’s outside, its opposite. Most of these critics take as their goal the prevention or limitation of an “artificial” monopoly; without this monopol... ...t in itself but harmful in its consequences: a cause of economic inequality, crime, and social dislocation. In a wonderfully bizarre passage he argues... ...closure. Enclosure disrupts the life of the poor farmer. Disruption leads to crime and violence. Writing 400 years later, Karl Polanyi echoes More pre... ...e rights, increase the penalties, and make noncommer- cial illicit copying a crime. We must move outside the traditional realm of copyright altogether... ...ce resources and prison sentences, perhaps pass new legislation creating new crimes related to car theft. We would do all of this even if the technolo... ...ghts, changing the architecture of our communications networks, creating new crimes, and so on. Remember, many of the things that the content industri...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...2 1922 1922 1922 1922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the P... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow, the Pennsylvania State U... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 CRIME ITS CAUSE AND TREATMENT BY CLARENCE DARROW 1922 1922 1922 1922 1922 P... ... and understood, the sooner will sane treatment be adopted in dealing with crime. The sooner too will sensible and humane remedies be found for the tr... ...th the best thought of the time. I am aware that scientifically the words “crime” and “crimi- nal” should not be used. These words are associated with... ...p, the use of fire-escapes and all of man’s conduct and ac- tivity for the prevention of accidents and disease. Quite apart from the question of the w...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

... hating each other with a bitter hatred, accusing each other often of such crimes as being in the pay of the police, and demanding, of any speaker or ... ...attracts to itself much that lies on the borderland of insanity and common crime.[ The atti- tude of all the better Anarchists is that expressed by L.... ... which all humane people desire. Let us begin with the question of private crime.[On this subject there is an excellent discussion in the before-menti... ...dden by law. We may put the chief of these under three heads: 1. Theft. 2. Crimes of violence. 3. The creation of organizations intended to subvert th... ... theft on their part and a new necessity for some form of criminal law. 2. Crimes of Violence.—Cruelty to children, crimes of jeal- ousy, rape, and so... ...d so forth, are almost certain to occur in any society to some extent. The prevention of such acts is essen- tial to the existence of freedom for the ... ...ons may be taken to be two: First, the avoidance of wars, and, second, the prevention of the oppression of weak nations by strong ones. These two obje... ...nt are to be reduced to the bare minimum com- patible with justice and the prevention of private violence. In such a world the present harmful outlets...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...l torn my garments, and my bosom bare, 140 My woes, thy crimes, I to the world proclaim; Such inconsistent things are love and sham... ... swear by all th’ unpitying powers of Heaven, 70 No wilful crime this heavy vengeance bred; In mutual innocence our lives we led: 64 ... ...lows with his meridian ray, And the cold north receives a fainter day; For crimes like these, not all those realms suffice, Were all those realms the ... ... 300 And force unwilling vengeance from the sky? O race confederate into crimes, that prove T riumphant o’er th’ eluded rage of Jove! This wearied a... ...unter and the haunted wood? The direful banquet why should I proclaim, And crimes that grieve the trembling gods to name? Ere I recount the sins of th... ...e heartily wish our great predecessors had heretofore set, as a remedy and prevention of all such abuses. Provided always, that nothing in this Dec- l...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

...accounted by whole nations, and by some of the best and wisest of men, not a crime, but an act of exalted virtue and that, right or wrong, it is not O... ...e: peculiar ity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nat... ... police; how far liberty may legitimately be invaded for the preven tion of crime, or of accident. It is one of the undis puted functions of governm... ... one of the undis puted functions of government to take precautions against crime before it has been committed, as well as to detect and punish it af... ...ity , or even a private person, sees any one evidently preparing to commit a crime, they are not bound to look on inactive until the crime is committe... ...rely self regarding misconduct cannot properly be meddled with in the way of prevention or punish ment. Drunkennesses, for example, in ordinary cases...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...l destina- tion. An ordinary degree of vigilance would be competent to the prevention of any material infractions upon the rights of the revenue. A fe... ...uld only oper- ate against changes to be effected by violence. Towards the preventions of calamities of this kind, too many checks can- not be provide... ...r to this peculiar danger, by inserting a constitutional definition of the crime, fixing the proof necessary for convic- tion of it, and restraining t... ... impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable... ... President has, if I mistake not, been only contested in rela- tion to the crime of treason. This, it has been urged, ought to have depended upon the ... ...icular the con- currence of that body, or of a part of it. As treason is a crime levelled at the immediate being of the society, when the laws have on... ...ince, or foreign state.’’ Article 3, section 2, clause 3 “The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial sh... ...ich the dissolution of the Confederacy would invite and facilitate; in the prevention of extensive military establishments, which could not fail to gr...

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Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay : An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government

By: John Locke

...Government, 2nd Essay – Locke can put to death or punish an alien for any crime he commits in their country? It is certain their laws, by virtue of a... ...wer than what every man naturally may have over another. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the laws, and varying from the right rule... ...suffered. 11. From these two distinct rights (the one of punish ing the crime, for restraint and preventing the like of fence, which right of puni... ...nder by right of self preservation, as every man has a power to punish the crime to prevent its being committed again, by the right he has of pre ser... ...ers, as he is per suaded the offence deserves, even with death itself, in crimes where the heinousness of the fact, in his opin ion, requires it. Bu... ...blic require the amendment of old or making of new laws, or the redress or prevention of any inconveniencies that lie on or threaten the people. 155...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...n discerns, and welt’ring by his side One next himself in power, and next in crime, Long after known in Palestine, and named Beëlzebub. To whom th’ Ar... ...uling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs, That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation, while he sought Evil to others... ... his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss) condemn’d Fo... ...re shall we find such love, Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Mans mortal crime, and just th’ unjust to save, Dwels in all Heaven charitie so deare... ...cond root shall be restor’d, As many as are restor’d, without thee none. His crime makes guiltie all his Sons, thy merit Imputed shall absolve them wh... ...armed Peers Forth stepping opposite, half way he met His daring foe, at this prevention more Incens’t, and thus securely him defi’d. Proud, art thou... ...t need repeate, As not of power, at once; nor odds appeerd In might or swift prevention; but the sword Of MICHAEL from the Armorie of God Was giv’n hi...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...zation. Yet, if it is effectual to promote Order, that is, if it represses crime, and enables every one to feel his person and property secure, can an... ...ress in its most familiar and vulgarest as pect. The better repression of crime represses the disposi tions which tend to crime, and this is Progres... ...idea of moving onward, whereas the meaning of it here is quite as much the prevention of falling back. The very same social causes—the same beliefs, f... ...t, for obtaining access to the tribu nals; the arrangements for detecting crimes and apprehend ing offenders all these things are not the power, but... ...ts. All is decided for them by a will not their own, which it is legally a crime for them to disobey. What sort of human beings can be formed under su... ... all free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity than any others, or than... ... the House of Commons in 1860, on the operation of the Corrupt Prac tices Prevention Act, some of them of great practical experi ence in election ma...

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Manifesto of the Communist Party

By: Karl Marx

...ith wanting to stop the exploita tion of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of... ...on of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole and corner re...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...red to be on fire; and the unanimous opinion of the neighborhood added the crime of the incendiary to the already hideous list of the Baron’s misdemea... ... and partly in consequence of the laudable efforts he was making for their prevention, and for the preservation of the good order and dignity of Alma ... ...ed number of votes might at any time be polled, without the possibility of prevention or even detection, by any party which should be merely villainou...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...e confederation was for mutual protec- tion against a foreign foe, and the prevention of strife and war among themselves. If there had been a desire o... ...orth and South—who took advantage of their country being invaded to commit crime. They were in but little dan- ger of detection, or of arrest even if ... ...ng. His denunciations of treason and his ever- ready remark, “Treason is a crime and must be made odi- ous,” was repeated to all those men of the Sout...

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