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...n imprisoned by it (e.g. Helen’s beauty, that causes an atrocious ten year war and innumerable deaths between the Achaeans and the Trojans; the Sire... ...s, of Aphrodite’s beauty who betrays her lame husband with Ares the god of war, and of Penelope’s beauty that is sought after by 108 suitors, he is ... ...ve suffered immensely, I have faced many dangers between the waves and in war: after all that, may this come to pass as well!” (Od. V. 215-224) ... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ... ...ous barbarian, the Phaeacians have created an evolved, pacific, harmonious civilization that loves games, song and dance. The Cyclops wants to devo... ... I think of the obtuseness of public institutions and of the arrogance of civil servants who force poor citizens to make a journey even more exhaus... ...t another very important thing. What is the passage from barbarianism to civilization? Barbarianism is always present within each of us, but we e...

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... the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to unsurp the n... ...steem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that l... ...en constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests. Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indole... ... as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like. It is the duty of the civil magistrate, by the impartial execution of equal laws, to secure unto ... ...do well to consider with them selves how pernicious a seed of discord and war, how powerful a provocation to endless hatreds, rapines, and slaughters... ...rived of his terrestrial enjoyments upon account of his religion. Not even Americans, subjected unto a Christian prince, are to be punished either in ... ... all their art and strength to excite men to arms and sound the trumpet of war. But that magis trates should thus suffer these incendiaries and dis ...

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...nheriting inferior endowments from nature and un practiced in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficie... ...s deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it ... ...man Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportuni ties for deliberating in perfect tranquil... ... of uncertainty. The zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolu tionary war, supplying the place of government, com manded a degree of order suf... ...y terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who go... ...disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the ... ...e first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS ... ...nufactures, education, and other great objects within each State. In time of war, if injustice by ourselves or others must sometimes pro duce war, in... ...rts may be directed hon estly to the public good, that peace be cultivated, civil and religious liberty unassailed, law and order preserved, equality...

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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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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF ... ... Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, and L. Popescu American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in mic... ...21-0600 http://www.umi.com/bod/ (Books on Demand) Copyright 2002 by American Research Press Rehoboth, Box 141 NM 87322, USA E-mail: M_L_Pere... ...entin Smarandache. * The man whom Constantin M. Popa calls “a paradoxist civil servant” is the possessor of an energy that authorizes him to be, no... ...nary or an encyclopedia); - poems that exist for their absence; - post-war literature: pages and pages full of banalities and nonpoetry; - paral... ...sm and the pragmatism of the century”, “the miming of the contemporaneous civilization”. 22 The specific context of postmodernism renders unlim... ...ion of the illusion. The historian Eugen Simion observes that in the post-war poetry Nichita Stanescu represents “the termination and the beginning”... ...turism, the promoter of a new aesthetics, purged of whatever utilitarian, civil and political residue. In the modern aesthetic symptomatology, the re... ... free scuffle among Wodans, who had generated a splendid divide et impera war that had degenerated the nation achieving the eternal ideal of Hyn fam...

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...urgical" precision. The legal (and moral) imperative to spare the lives of innocent civilians was well observed, they bragged. "Collateral damage" w... ...r pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-off between civilian and combatant casualties. This dilemma is both ethical... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...s and supersedes (subordinates) his moral obligation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The lar... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...al) is a classic narcissistic behavior (of "annexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exace... ...Jewish state as a member of the international community of nations. The Six Days War was, indeed, a classic example of preemptive self-defense. I...

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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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...After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected ...

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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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...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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...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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... 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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...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 ...