...The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms — as sounds and rhythms — and includes elaborate annotations to guide its spoken performance. Lindsay categorized The Congo as “h...

...o play the piano and play with her kitties. Finally, the youngest, artistic Amy, who longs for an aristocratic nose! The story takes place during the American Civil War, and begins with Mr. March away from home as a chaplain to the Union army, while his wife and daughters remain at home to work and wait for his safe return. This book follows their joys and sorrows and scra...

...g his life. This story follows Willie as a young orphan, later as a journalist, and finally as a soldier who enlists in the army at the outset of the American Civil War. The book was immensely popular when it was published in 1900 and the years to follow, as the characters were all drawn from people who the author had known himself. (Summary by Roger Melin)...

...is youth in Indiana, his adult life in Illinois and his years in the White House. She also provides a good background on the causes and course of the American Civil War. Hamilton is not always historically precise. For example, she erroneously names Jefferson Davis as the Southern Democratic candidate for president running against Lincoln and Douglas in 1860 rather than Jo...

...ing receipts did not contain abbreviations and were laborious to use. They were, however, rich in error! Later in her career, due to circumstances of war and the resulting social stress and poverty, many of her knitting books were printed for ladies' charitable societies, which used her knitting receipts to clothe the poor mill workers who were out of work due to the Ameri...

...Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at first the conflict seemed far away, it would eventually be brought home to her in very personal terms. Her family's loyalties were divided. Sarah's father, though he disapproved of sec...

War stories, Memoirs

...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ... of their enclave they would have sewn not only rice but the continuation of civilization. Their footprints in mud were ephemeral, but they had their ... ...red an article he had forgotten to bring to them: the Taliban's restraint of war ravaged widows from work. The doctors liked such things. As Dr. Lee ... .... The hail seemed to her like the bullets that she imagined from the distant war that America wedged against Iraq. Then he saw the antithesis of this:... ... thwart his primitive hungers for sex and socialization (synonymous words of civilization's shaping, but base nonetheless), and sensing the true vacuo... ...ould be performed with conscience. Gabriele did not subscribe to the idea of civilized man that life was ranked into a hierarchy of importance. A huma... ...of "the year of our lord" which also happened to be the year of the American war against Mesopotamia. The sleet was mixed in the wind; and for those ...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

..., 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...

..., in truth they had both sighed to back amongst the 4 The Duke’s Children war-trumpets. They had both suffered much among the trumpets, and yet they ... ...three of four,— of English gentlemen who had come up from a former Carlist war, bearing the title of colonel, without any con- tradiction or invidious... ...llope quiet;—but then you wished me to be in the House. They were all very civil to me at Silverbridge, but there was very little said. ‘Your affectio... ...ing that they would like to lick the Russians, or to get the better of the Americans in a matter of fisheries or frontiers. But he invented a pseudo-p... ... said you came to see me, you know. Have you met Miss Boncassen yet?’ ‘The American beauty? No. Is she here?’ ‘Yes; and she particularly wants to be ... ... standing there amidst a crowd, and to Miss Boncassen. Mr Boncassen was an American who had lately arrived in England with the object of carrying out ... ...aiden- head. Mr Boncassen had looked about for some means of returning the civilities offered to him, and had been insti- gated by Mrs Montacute Jones... ... myself. I’m as honest as another man. ’ ‘That’s of course, said the Major civilly. ‘But if I don’t keep my mouth shut, somebody’ll have my teeth out ... ... hope, that I should make no inquiry into the matter, unless I felt myself war- ranted in doing so by what you had yourself told me in London. ’ ‘I un...

...e with Maule’s malediction in The story. Furthermore, there occurs in The “American Note-Books” (August 27, 1837), a reminiscence of The author’s fami... ...nt of lands in Waldo County, Maine, owned by the Pyncheon family. In the “ American Note-Books” there is an entry, dated August 12, 1837, which speaks... ...n Gables, antique as it now looks, was not the first habitation erected by civilized man on pre- cisely the same spot of ground. Pyncheon Street forme... ...nswered Phoebe, and added, with a little air of lady-like assumption (for, civil as the gentleman was, he evidently took her to be a young person serv... ...ess still in his garb and mien, and a red-coated officer of the old French war; and there comes the shop-keeping Pyncheon of a century ago, with the r...

...ith restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone into the requisite civility. “Good-morning, Ethel, good-morning, Flora,” said the prim, middle... ...ck, and all Margaret’s work will be un- done. No notice to us—not even the civility to wait and see when she gets better.” “If we left them now for Co... ...were over!” said Norman, with a yawn, as expressive as a sigh. “That’s not civil, on the third day,” said Margaret, smiling, “when I am so glad to hav... ...k- ing that he deemed it, as he tried to do himself, merely the fortune of war, and was sensible of no injury. And, for Norman himself, when the first... ... own brother. It was believed that the Alcestis was destined for the South American station. “A three years’ business,” said Dr. May, with a sigh. “Bu... ... up.” “Wrong?” said Ethel. “Of course. It would be against the articles of war,” said Harry, opening his door another inch. “But, Ritchie, I say, do t... ...cussed the delightful probability, that this might have been raised in the war with Caractacus, whence, argued Ethel, since Caractacus was certainly A... ...e enough, and they saw our signal of distress!” The vessel proved to be an American whaler, which had just parted with her cargo to a homeward bound s... ... hunt him up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected,...

...id Blondet; “but we, and we alone, can comprehend that this means bringing war into the financial world. A banker is a conquering general making sacri... ...self, ‘It is silly to care so much about other people.’ But while I was in civil service, I was fool enough to take a personal interest in the houses ... ...ngen had purposely and with his eyes open invested his five millions in an American investment, foreseeing that the profits would not come in until it... ...on has lost us more victories here in France than the vexatious chances of war. I once spent seven years in the hulks of a government depart- ment, ch... ...air dancing saloons at the barriers; him he engaged to play the part of an American captain staying at Meurice’s and buying for export trade. He was t... ...to the woolen weaver and rushed upon the stock. After that, no more of the American captain, you understand, and great plenty of caps. If you interfer...

...e! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving... ... “Why, of course,” objected Stepan Arkadyevitch. “But that’s just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.” “Well, if that’s ... ...of the fiddles of the orchestra beginning the first waltz. A little old man in civilian dress, arranging his gray curls before another mirror, and diffu... ...ey Alexandrovitch did.) “ ‘I warned you of the results in the religious, the civil, and the domestic relation. You have not listened to me. Now I cann... ...ish Lady Somebody, and of a German countess and her son, wounded in the last war, and of a learned Swede, and of M. Canut and his sister. But yet in ... ...he higher functionaries. “If only Countess Marya Borissovna were Minister of War, and Princess Vatkovskaya were Commander in Chief,” said a gray heade... ...here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, ther... ...ked Levin. Katavasov in a few words told him the last piece of news from the war, and going into his study, introduced Levin to a short, thick set man... ...re of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American al liance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritu...

...e) the arrival of a nephew whom she had not seen since the outbreak of the war with Spain, the old lady took off her spectacles with alacrity, shut th... ...was detained, like 25 Balzac all his fellow-countrymen, by Bonaparte when war broke out. That monster cannot live without fighting. The young English... ...- fices of inclination demanded by its laws? If you accept the benefits of civilized society, do you not by implication en- gage to observe the condit... ... woman, and springs per- haps from a natural virtue which neither laws nor civilization can silence. And who shall dare to blame women? If a woman can... ...he vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. 66 A Woman of Thirty Should any artist or dreamer of dreams ch... ...ded. And so they went, and the father returned to his home again. Then the war began. He had letters from Fleurus, and again from Ligny. All went well... ...s of him; but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one f... ...rcelain vases painted by Madame Jacotot; tiny South 150 A Woman of Thirty American birds, like living rubies, sapphires, and gold, hov- ered among th...

...d go. All the ways dis- covered so far lead to the horrors of our existing civiliza- tions, described quite justifiably by Ruskin as heaps of ago- niz... ...hat all enjoyment consists in undetected sinning; and in certain phases of civilization people of this kind are apt to get the upper hand of more amia... ...: they win everything on condition that they are afraid to enjoy it. Their civilizations rest on intimidation, which is so necessary to them that when... ...of Moses, and the speeches and pamphlets of the people who want us to make war on Germany, and the Noodle’s Orations and articles of our poli- ticians... ...set free, to be anything else than the slave he actually is, clamoring for war, for the lash, for police, prisons, and scaffolds in a wild panic of de... ...which he has been brought up to consult his own honor. As a Sportsman (and war is fundamentally the sport of hunting and fighting the most dangerous o... ...ry art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized En-...

..., 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...

...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...

...rlier.” “Yes, we did.” She gave a cautious smile, as though surprised by his civility. “I’m very sorry about what I said earlier. Thank you for try... ...rt’s voice but Otto only grunted again, and the sound blasted Kurt out of his civility zone. “One grunt yes, two grunts no?” he asked. “Fuck off,” ... ...in awards like that without a shitload of talent.” “So he and Otto are both Americans?” Kurt leaned closer to Adam. “Do they travel together?” “N... ...eg bands jangled under his curious fingers. Draped next to it were a homemade war bridle and a casting harness. He blew out a sympathetic breath fo... ...blanket was folded on a chair and littered with pocket castoffs: a mixture of American and Canadian coins, a clump of wrinkled betting tickets and a... ...sture. And though it was clear sex meant little to him, she’d assumed he’d be civil. Had assumed they would still have a professional relationship—a ...

...evenson Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. ON THE DEATH OF FLEEMING JENKIN, his family and friends d... ...ll out, took refuge in the Marines, and was lost on the Dogger Bank in the war-ship Minotaur. If he did not marry below him, like his father, his sist... ...e, 64, that the lad made his only campaign. It was in the days of Rodney’s war, when the Prothee, we read, captured two large privateers to windward o... ...r of medicine, so that when the crash came he was not empty-handed for the war of life. Charles, at the day-school of Northiam, grew so well ac- quain... ...h laugh at us a little, and call out Goddam in the streets; but to-day, in civil war, when they might have put a bullet through our heads, I never was... ...self. Whatever virtues Fleeming pos- sessed, he could never count on being civil; whatever brave, true-hearted qualities he was able to admire in Mrs.... ... the morrow of his return. She had been used to the society of lawyers and civil servants, moving in that circle which seems to itself the pivot of th... ...s.’ A TELEGRAM OF JULY 20: ‘I have received your four welcome letters. The Americans are charming people.’ VI. AND HERE TO MAKE AN END are a few rando... ...phonograph which to our great joy talked, and talked, too, with the purest American accent. It was so good that a second instrument was got ready fort...

...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two consider...

...le English; she tells me she had to learn it in order to converse with the Americans who come in such numbers to this hotel. She has given me a great ... ... if I should gain all I desire. 6 A Bundle of Letters I meet a great many Americans, who, as a general thing, I must say, are not as polite to me as ... ...gentlemen— are much more what I should call attetive. I don’t know whether Americans are more sincere; I haven’t yet made up my mind about that. The o... ...ey call it, is rather odd, and exceedingly foreign; but she is wonderfully civil, and is perpetually sending to my door to see if I want anything. The... ...o care what my nationality is, and I am treated, on the contrary, with the civility which is the portion of every traveller who pays the bill without ... ... the very definite image the German personality pre- sented to them by the war of 1870, they have at present no distinct apprehension of its existence... ... has more of the freshness and vigour that we suppose to belong to a young civilisation. But unfortunately she pro- duces nothing but evil, and her ta...

...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...ccess or failure with that unending stream of babies is the measure of our civilization; every in- stitution stands or falls by its contribution to th... ...c to so many of our innovations. I believe that if a canvass of the entire civilized world were put to the vote in this matter, the proposition that i... ...s that have had fermented drinks the longest are also those that have been civilized the longest. The passage of a 40 Mankind in the Making people fr... ...d training “gentlemen.” When they met them socially no doubt was meant; in war the disadvantage might prove the other way about. 157 H G Wells the st... ...races are making our struggle in our turn. Slavery still fights a guerilla war in factory and farm, cruelty and violence peep from every slum, barbari...