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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... .............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...asting a hill on a bicycle. It wasn’t a tithe of the thrill of those three descents one gets on the great mountain railway in the White City. There on... ...t flow to and fro across the Atlantic of labourers from the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the sp... ...phlet full of mis- representation and bad argument against Socialism by an Australian Jew, published by the Single-Tax people appar- ently in a disint... ... men presented for my selection have not been English at all, but of alien descent. This, then, is the sum of the political liberty of the ordinary Am... ...ay, incessantly, the immigrants go, wild- eyed Gipsies, Armenians, Greeks, Italians, Ruthenians, Cos- sacks, German peasants, Scandinavians, a few Iri...

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...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..., and adapt ourselves to them. The fundamental political institutions of a people are considered by this school as a sort of organic growth from the n... ...y this school as a sort of organic growth from the nature and life of that people; a product of their habits, instincts, and unconscious wants and des... ...cepting or claiming, but also for working, the institution. What means had Italian patriots, during the last and present generation, of preparing the ... ...r oligarchical despotism: the Greek cities with the Persian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feud... ...ed by various causes. Some times it is the effect of identity of race and descent. Commu nity of language and community of religion greatly contrib ... ...e whole of the unappropriated lands in the regions behind our American and Australian colonies have been given up to the uncontrolled disposal of the ... ...hich one third was British American, and an other third South African and Australian. Yet to this it must come if there were any thing like fair or e...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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