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...reacher and patriot. In addition to his moral stature, he was a man of great physical bearing as well, standing six feet four inches tall. During the American Civil War he upheld the cause of the North and opposed slavery, and his sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln was an eloquent expression of the character of both men. He was asked to be the full-time chaplain at Har...

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..., and more and more followers choosing to be slaves. How can this kind of civilization bring happiness to society? Unfortunately Eastern people are ... ...n people are turning to the West. more and more people prefer a material civilization to spiritual harmony. As a matter of fact, those material civ... ... in such a polluted society. The nation is marching quickly to the edge of war due to such arrogance toward other nations, and the world is moving cl... ...parently science is currently more a means to achieve wealth than the true civilization, because it is developed to satisfy human greediness and thus... ... though it is God, as if it can prolong lives, solve environmental crises, war, disasters, etc. However this is the fiction of science fiction. Beyon... ..., such as a PhD. Science is, on one hand, putting people through an unseen war: combat among our selves, with its unique bewitching power. On the oth... ...al view, the relationship between the fundamental and the incidental: Are Americans universally unselfish, living on highly advanced science and tec... ...k series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203) The point is: absolute truth do... ... series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203 Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Cons...

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... television, and in communication networks of enterprises and communities. In civil society, a culture of alternative living and re- sponsible values... ... form productive partnerships. Thus, rather than breaking down in conflict and war, humanity will break through—not merely to a sustainable world of... ... poverty, crime, environmental degradation, disease, and other “sicknesses of civiliza- tion” with the same methods that produced them in the first ... ...rts of a greater whole, have been considered the exception in the history of civilization. But if we look at the history of ideas, we will find that... ...oism to altruism, everything else will be corrected, as well—ecology, famine, war, and soci- ety at large. ENHANCED PERCEPTION There is a special bon... ...ding to the New England Journal of Medicine, “Annu- ally, more than 46 million Americans, ages 15-54, suffer from depressive episodes.” And the Archi...

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...teness and brevity. ?Luther is still the greatest name in Protestantism. We want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther?s for the general American market. Will you do it??...

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... want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther’s for the general American market. Will you do it?” “I will, on one condition.” “ And what is... ...t is that?” “The condition is that I will be permitted to make Luther talk American, ‘streamline’ him, so to speak—because you will never get people, ... ... actually to read Luther unless we make him talk as he would talk today to Americans.” I illustrated the point by reading to Mr. Zondervan a few sente... ...alley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain. In civil life obedience to the law is severely required. In civil life Gospel,... ...essing in Christ. The reader is reminded that all this has no bearing upon civil laws, customs, or political matters. Civil laws and ordi- nances have... ... place and purpose. Let every government enact the best possible laws. But civil righteousness will never deliver a person from the condemnation of Go...

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... there were gathered some people on both sides, standing in a row; but in so civil a fashion, as if it had been, not to wonder at us, but to welcome u... ...wo together. The chambers were handsome and cheerful chambers, and furnished civilly. Then he led us to a long gallery, like a dorture, where he showe... ...e chief family of the earth), they were not able to leave letters, arts, and civility to their posterity; and having likewise in their mountainous hab... ...low. So you see, by this main accident of time, we lost our traffic with the Americans, with whom of all others, in regard they lay nearest to us, we ... ...reatest cannons and basilisks. We represent also ordnance and instruments of war and engines of all kinds; and likewise new mixtures and compositions ...

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...ower of Evil Shall not for ever on this fairest world Shake pestilence and war, or that his slaves With blasphemy for prayer, and human blood For sacr... ... more _500 The voice that once waked multitudes to war Thundering thro’ all their aisles: but now respond To the death dirge o... ...turn, Surpassing Spirit, to that world, where thou Art destined an eternal war to wage With tyranny and falsehood, and uproot ... ...he victory of established power; the consequences of legitimate despotism,—civil war, famine, plague, supersti- tion, and an utter extinction of the d... ...sidered as one of those manifestations of a general state of feeling among civilised mankind produced by a defect of correspondence between the knowle... ... tyrannies in France, was terrible, and felt in the remotest corner of the civilised world. Could they listen to the plea of reason who had groaned un... ... the revolution eight hundred students, and among them several Germans and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merc... ... reported that this Messiah had arrived at a seaport near Lacedaemon in an American brig. The association of names and ideas is irresistibly ludicrous...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...ages (which I had studied at UTS) to teaching the history of pre-Christian civilizations and religions. It was not long before I discovered Carl Jung’... ...alled “mystical” in a pejorative way, because in modern Western scientific civilization there is no room for subjective experience or for the importan... ... unlike Plato who had become my 3. Jung, C.W., vol. 16, paragraph 99 4. In Civilisation and Its Discontents, (original 1930), the first two pages, in ... ...d former Yugoslavia. When this chapter was first formulated, nine years of war had just ended between Iraq and Iran which, among other causes, found a... ...cticed amongst the nations that were members of their League despite their war complex that led them into revenge raids and also into depicted between... ...ded to captives taken from tribes outside the League in ever proliferating war parties often undertaken, at least ostensibly, to console and avenge th...

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... “Day in and day out we take pride in claiming that India has a 5000 year old civilization. But the way Dalits and those suppressed are being treate... ...and authority speaks volumes for the degradations of our moral structure and civilized standards.” Ex-President of India, the late K. R. Narayana... ... a pool of refugees, waiting in a political refugee camp in Turkey to get the American visa, a% have the chance to be accepted – where a varies in t... ...indeterminacy exists the judgment ought to be very carefully analyzed be it a civil case or a criminal case. FCMs are deployed only when the existen... ...agistrate and he held 29 honorary positions at that time in banks, libraries, war recruitment committee, merchant associations, school committees e... ...pposed this imposition of a language and organized a campaign against it on a war footing. On 26 December 1935, at a conference convened in Tiruchi,... ...ces resigned on 29 October 1939, following the outbreak of the Second World War. They protested against the British rulers involving India in the ... ...mparative Study. In Proc. of the 18 th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, by NAFIPS, New York, (1... ...e, F., A Unifying Field in Logics: Neutrosophic Logic, Preface by Charles Le, American Research Press, Rehoboth, 1999, 2000. Second edition of the ...

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...o any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, the commercial navy) of Christendom is the sure receptacle of all the ... ...alified to act as ‘able’ sea- men: but at all times, and especially during war, only a small proportion (or nucleus) of each ship’s company consists o... ...was an old man above seventy, and was well fitted for his situation, being civil, and not at all morose, but, at the same time, firm in maintaining or... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...urke’s generation, were pretty nearly as broad distinctions, and as much a war-cry, as English and French, Roman and Punic. Now, however, all this is ... ...ployed to make an index, introduced Milton’s name among the M’s, under the civil title of—‘Milton, Mr. John.’ 8 ‘Louis Baboon:’—As people read nothin... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... kingly rights are almost inevitably carried too high in ages of imperfect civilization: and the well-known laws of Henry the Seventh, by which he eit... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...ggest that the great outline of the theological struggles of that phase of civilisation and world unity which produced Christianity, was a persistent ... ... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ... his election to his bishopric), had been pitchforked into the church from civil life; they lived in a time of pitiless factions and personal feuds; t... ...hat recently compiled by Dr. Foakes Jack- son, entitled “The Faith and the War,” a volume in which the curious reader may contemplate deans and canons... ...icipatory condemnations but also upon the relations of the weather to this war. He is convinced quite simply and honestly that God has been persistent... ...f Chelmsford, for ex- ample, has recently ascribed our difficulties in the war to our impatience with long sermons—among other similar causes. Such Ch... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th... ...gine a modern ecclesiastic conversing with a Magdalen in terms of ordinary civility, unless she was in a very high social position indeed, or blending...

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...ral: herdsmen, carriers, traders, generally robbers too; being oftenest at war one with another, or with all: held 46 Thomas Carlyle together by no o... ...ike; in his eighteenth year one finds him a fighter following his Uncle in war. But perhaps the most significant of all his journeys is one we find no... ... 64 Thomas Carlyle self, “the respect due unto thee.” In a life-and-death war with Bedouins, cruel things could not fail; but neither are acts of mer... ...ean History; the point, indeed, from which the whole subsequent history of civilization takes its rise. Af- ter multiplied negotiations, disputations,... ...th. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower,... ...o men, founded churches, made en- dowments, regulations; everywhere in the civilized world there is a Pulpit, environed with all manner of complex dig... ...Evangelist in Rousseau. His semi-delirious speculations on the miseries of civilized life, the preferability of the savage to the civilized, and such ...

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...aty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility t...

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... Uni­ versity. He was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracte... ...est. He of­ ten felt dumb in her presence when she started talking about Native American history. But right now all he could feel was how much he mi... ...m of a necklace draped smoothly just above her breast. A row of square, silver American Indian amulets diagonally circled her waist from the top of... ... and traded the land of our ancestors for a reservation. 1 did it to buy time. War would have destroyed the best of our people. But more importantl... ...rth ... you believe are all serious. You give media attention to animal rights, civil rights, and human rights ... But what of the earth? .. What of... ...is in desperate need. Her life support systems are being choked by our concrete civilization. She has given up her resources unselfishly to us, she ... ...ng up in Yugoslavia flashed before him in a spiteful collage. There was always war. It was the Germans then, but his coun­ try had had hundreds of y... ...ays war. It was the Germans then, but his coun­ try had had hundreds of years of war. He was sick ofthe fear that filled the air. Death and betrayal ... ...be working together. I know it's highly unusual," The Director said, "to have a civilian involved. But as I said, we've got a situation." And then m...

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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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... From villager to citizen 47 * From citizen to globality 51 * Virtual civilization 53 Marriage 55 Romantic love 55 * Village wedding 57 * ... ...ated. The latest great structural change took place after the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the era of technology based on oil, and tod... ...s will be faced possibly with even greater structural change than the post-war one. In today's scientific-technological visions of the future, mankind... ...le diversity of local cultures that has existed on Earth. The Second World War was followed by a structural change that has reached people's life envi... ... the northern mountains. Later in the 19th and 20th centuries, e.g. during civil wars in China, Chinese people have moved to Thailand. In Lampang, too... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... From villager to citizen 47 * From citizen to globality 51 * Virtual civilization 53 Marriage 55 Romantic love 55 * Village wedding 57 * ... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth...

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...passive-aggressive, and psychoneurotic personality disorders and types. The American Psychiatric Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publish... ...mendments do not constitute a part of the text of the DSM-IV-TR, nor is the American Psychiatric Association (APA) associated with them in any way.]... ...rder By Robert C. Schwartz, Ph.D., DAPA and Shannon D. Smith, Ph.D., DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 200... ...re facts end and wishful thinking takes over. Father acknowledges he was no war hero, though he did his share of fighting. Mother understands she w... ...n. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds narcissistic values and penalises alternative ... ...thic leader is the culmination and reification of his period, culture, and civilization. He is likely to rise to prominence in narcissistic societi... ...e barbarians at our personal gates, and what it was like before we invented civilization. Hitler forced us all through a time warp and many did not... ...opardizing "acceptable (modes of) existence". Except in rare cases (famine, war, plague), survival is rarely at risk. On the contrary, people are m... ... that tells his followers: I can increase your chances to win the constant war that you are waging to find food and shelter, to be respected, to en...

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............................................................................................................................. 24 THE SAVAGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS ........................................................................................... 25 JESUS NOT A PROSLETYST...............................................................................................

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................................................ 24 THE SA V AGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS .............................................................. ...land as Chris- tians than by Mahometans, who are, like their prophet, very civil to Jesus, and allow him a place in their esteem and ven- eration at l... ...be the salt of the earth, these Philistines; but they are the substance of civili- zation; and they save society from ruin by criminals and con- quero... ...n practically all the white inhabitants of the British Isles and the North American continent, to mention no other places) are condemned in the words,... ... body of Russian troops passed through England in 1914 to take part in the war on the western front. The reasons for believing in the murder of Pompey... ... must be faced if civilization is to be saved. It did not need the present war to show that neither the icono- graphic Christ nor the Christ of St. Pa... ...e Pauline theology at a hundred points. His theological allegory, The Holy War, with its troops of Election Doubters, and its cav- 78 Shaw alry of “t...

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...m, or its present value, but as regards its original gen- esis, or what in civil law is called the deductio. Under what 7 Thomas de Quincey angle, un... ...ad before it; first, the diffusion of the Greek language through the whole civilized world [Greek text] some time before Christ, by which means the Ev... ...of forward-looking views, contemplat- ing, for instance, the furthering of civilization, or contem- plating some interests in a world beyond the prese... ...er. His literary fate was what might have been expected. After the Persian war, the reputation of his verses rapidly decayed. Wits arose in Athens, wh... ...purposes. But, for want of room, I confine myself to saying a few words on war, and the mode in which it will be extinguished by Christianity. WAR.—Th... ...public favor. Thirty years ago, there was hardly a breath stirring against war, as the sole natural resource of national anger or national competition... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten...

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.........145 CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS MAPPING WARFARE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY................................................161 REGIONAL IMPACTS OF CIVIL WARS..........176 THREATS FROM THIRD WORLD REGIONAL HEGEMONS..................................186 INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.................198 THE TRANSMILLENNIAL WORLD FROM AN AMERICAN PER...

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...eturn Home. 23 -- Birth of Kamehameha I. 25 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Becomes an Instructor. 28 -- Battle of Kalaeokailio, Kaupo. 30 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Again Takes War to Maui. 33 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Disregards his Kahuna. 35 -- Kekuhaupi‘o’s Adventure with Kamehameha on Maui. 38 -- Disaster at Kakanilua, Maui. 41 -- Slaughter on Maui. 44 -- Kiwala‘o Sent to Sue for Peace. 47 -- On Board Ca...

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...n Home.. 23 -- Birth of Kamehameha I.. 25 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Becomes an Instructor.. 28 -- Battle of Kalaeokailio, Kaupo.. 30 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Again Takes War to Maui. 33 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Disregards his Kahuna. 35 -- Kekuhaupi‘o’s Adventure with Kamehameha on Maui. 38 -- Disaster at Kakanilua, Maui. 41 -- Slaughter on Maui. 44 -- Kiwala‘o Sent to Sue for Peace. 47 -- On Board Ca...

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...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controve...

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...call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some... ... the delicate dressing of the old knight, came on him almost like gracious civilities. There was no love lost between the Chevalier and the chap- lain... ...resence at the table; and Berenger, though his kinsman’s patronage secured civil treatment, felt much out of his element, confused, unable to take par... ... Roy,’ but ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at l... ...ut ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at least aga... ...g himself from the thraldom of his mother, and engag- ing the country in a war against Philip II. Sidney listened, but Berenger chafed, feeling only t... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri...

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...WTH RATE 146 REAL WEALTH PER PERSON 147 BORROWING 147 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS 148 CRIMEANDITSCOSTS 150 FOREIGN AID AND GLOBILIZATION 152 4 WAR OR 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...

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...S POWER ................................................................................................................................... 41 WAR AN... ...ng conscious choices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterlife and our civil ... ...id backwards while Kino and Singaling have taken over the values which once made us great. This saddens me, but it was to be expected. ―All civili... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...eas here. ―The physiological, safety, love and esteem needs are called ‗basic needs‘ by Maslow. These needs should be easily met in any civili... ...Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countries during and after the World War. ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...mit that violence in films, TV programming and video games, helps to make better soldiers—where killing is an ideal form of behavior. In World War I ...

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...wledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart... ...owledge upset the balance of power and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization.‖ —Brad Bradford Preface Way back in ... ...oved on to evolutions and revolutions that upset the power balance in one civilization after another. • Pioneer leaders of today‘s ongoing informati... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest o... ...use he needed to assemble a council of his leaders to approve his call to war. His decision to cross the Gobi and invade the Jurched territory unl... ...ility of the Mongol Empire he had created. The victor in the family civil war was a grandson able and powerful enough to take that empire to even gre... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1...

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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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... poor George, who had taken the King’s side in our lamentable but glorious war of independence. Neither my father nor my mother ever wore powder in th... ...word, and his order on his cloak, which he had from the Emperor during the war on the Danube against the Turk. Seeing the great and undeniable likenes... ... ann. 1686, Gentle- man Usher of the Back Stairs, and afterwards appointed War- den of the Butteries and Groom of the King’s Posset (on the decease of... ...d on Harry’s shoulder, relented to Mr. Esmond, and condescended to be very civil to him; and some days after his arrival, Harry, laughing, told this s... ...his Grace everywhere—at the Hague, Utrecht, Ruremonde, and Maestricht; the civil authori- ties coming to meet his coaches: salvos of cannon saluting h... ...ore her Majesty, as the world said, though she never could be got to say a civil word to Beatrix, whom she had promoted to her place as maid of honor,... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

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

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