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...e entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well a...

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...e University is an equal opportunity University. MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY By Karl Marx From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich ... ...ersity is an equal opportunity University. MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY By Karl Marx From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels... ...tternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German po lice spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its oppon... ...s. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back ... ..., now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending... ...heir place stepped free competition, accompa nied by a social and political constitution adapted to it, and by the economical and political sway of t... ...ial status in production. Capital is a col lective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the unite... ...to. The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster. United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the... ...sides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc. that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes a...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own i...

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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a pub... ...nts to prove a negative. And even if I could do all and leave the opposite party with a host of unanswered arguments against them, and not a single un... ...reated. Though slaves were no part of the commonwealth, it was in the free states that slaves were first felt to have rights as hu man beings. The St... ...oms which never had any ground but the law of force, last on into ages and states of general opinion which never would have permitted their first esta... ... still exists, or has only just ceased to exist, and has even now a strong party favourable to it in all ranks of the people, espe cially among perso... ... why need I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with whic... ...ear more urgent. Though there are not in this country, as there are in the United States, periodical conventions and an organised party to agitate for... ...while the exclusion of thou sands of unfit persons is no gain; for if the constitution of the electoral body disposes them to choose unfit persons, t... ...ous, there are people who think that the Irish are naturally idle. Because constitutions can be overthrown when the authorities appointed to execute t...

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Excerpt: A Theologico-Political Treatise: Part Four -- Chapters XVI to XX by Baruch Spinoza, translated by R.H.M. Elwes.

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...Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. Thi... ... and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave your enchanting party ,” said he, turning to Anna Pavlovna. His daughter, Princess Helene, ... ...answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a states- man one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as... ...childhood; that same Julie Karagina who had been at the Rostovs’ name- day party. Julie wrote in French: Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and fr... ... up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of ... ...e conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not only that all the... ... his soul. He firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that... ...iate As- sessor and State Councilor—and not merely these but a whole state constitution, intended to change the existing order of government in Russia... ...Emperor’s speech had been extraordinary. It had been a speech such as only constitutional monarchs deliver. “The Sovereign plainly said that the Counc...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...shall come last,” said Miss Wilson, irritated by his as- sumption that the party was a family one. “Gertrude, you had better go first.” “ Allow me,” s... ... is sorry for it,” said Mr. Jansenius, instinctively inclining to Agatha’s party as the stronger one and the least dependent on him in a pecuniary sen... ...she looked beseech- ingly at him, “I have too much Manchester cotton in my constitution for long idylls. And the truth is, that the first condition of... ...d gets into Sir Charles’s, and the difference between the first and second states is noth- ing but imagination, except that the last state is worse th... ...at 178 An Unsocial Socialist private man in England is worse off than the constitutional monarch? We deny him all privacy; he may not marry whom he c... ..., for instance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, the- atre of manhood suffrage, k... ...nstance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, the- atre of manhood suffrage, kingless... ...you at?” “The third.” “Then the hero and heroine are on the point of being united?” “I really don’t know. This is one of your clever novels. I wish th...

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...RESURRECTION BY C OUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated by Mrs. Louis Maude A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Re... ...rning the schools and the roads, as a strong opposition by the reactionary party was expected. The marechal was a liberal, and was quite engrossed in ... ...the night in a hotel playing cards with a friend who was giving a farewell party. Up to five in the morning they played and drank, so he had no time t... ... I think this is a case for putting Article 817 into practice (Article 817 states that if the Court considers the decision of the jury unjust it may s... ...ves another a thrashing, who goes on the loose, is a fine fellow. Ill, his constitution undermined by unhealthy labour, drink, and debauchery—bewilder... ...red and that an important change was going on in her soul, and this change united him not only to her but also to Him for whose sake that change was b... ... always very backward in these things.” 273 Tolstoy CHAPTER XV AN AVERAGE STATESMAN Count Ivan Michaelovitch had been a minister, and was a man of st... ...e sectarians punished for violating Orthodoxy, and Gourkevitch for wanting constitutional government, and Nekhludoff clearly saw that all these people... ...vlovna in her turn, and she learned to love Katusha. These women were also united by the repulsion they both felt to sexual love. The one loathed that...

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Excerpt: Up from Slavery. An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington.

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...UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...ght about, and that had so dwarfed the mass of English men in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years behind their fellows in every o... ...n- nection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rath... ...The car was full of Southern white men, most of whom had their eyes on our party. When I found that supper had been ordered, I tried to contrive some ... ...d of people anxious to shake hands with me. The papers in all parts of the United States published the address in full, and for months afterward there... ...es to it. Mr. Clark Howell, 138 UP FROM SLAVERY the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, telegraphed to a New York paper, among other words, the follo... ... to go with a part of a half-dozen persons on a trip through Holland. This party included Edward Marshall and some American artists who had come over ... ...ave done in regard to the evil habit of lynching. When the Louisiana State Constitutional Con- vention was in session, I wrote an open letter to that ...

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...S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...ar would soon have buried its causes in oblivion. When the new Confederate States, made an in dependent Power by English help, had begun their crusad... ...t up, not even against both parties equally, but almost solely against the party in the right, and the ungenerous refusal of all those just allowances... ...interpretation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de ny... ...etation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de nying tha... ...s and in the plains of Kansas; on the slavery question exclusively was the party constituted which now rules the United States: on slavery Fremont was... ...slavery question exclusively was the party constituted which now rules the United States: on slavery Fremont was rejected, on slavery Lincoln was elec... ...ions. The Republican party have taken their stand on law, and the existing constitution of the Union. They have disclaimed all right to attempt anythi... ...f the Union. They have disclaimed all right to attempt anything which that constitution forbids. It does forbid interference by the Federal Congress w...

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...Considerations on Representative Government By JOHN STUART MILL A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATI... ...nds of those who adopt this view of political philosophy. They look upon a constitution in the same light (difference of scale being allowed for) as t... ... from outward pressure have not had it in their power to give themselves a constitution by the tenta tive process of applying a corrective to each ev... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ...sarily with those who are in pos session of the government. A much weaker party in all other elements of power may greatly preponderate when the pow ... ...stood by “consenting unto his death,” would any one have supposed that the party of that stoned man were then and there the strongest power in society... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Political Power. Firstly, it having been shown in the foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly, that if he had, his heirs yet had no right to it. Thirdly, that if...

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF POLITICAL POWER............................................3 CHAPTER II OF THE STATE OF NATURE.....................................5 CHAPTER III OF THE STATE OF WAR......................................12 CHAPTER IV OF SLAVERY.......................................................14 CHAPTER V OF PROPERT...

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...: AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT by John Locke Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: An Essay Concerni... ...erybody, the other of taking reparation, which belongs only to the injured party) comes it to pass that the magistrate, who by being magistrate hath t... ...ur and industry began. And the leagues that have been made between several states and kingdoms, either expressly or tacitly disowning all claim and ri... ...abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge free dom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is n... ...ey laid the foundations of hereditary or elective king doms under several constitutions and manors, accord ing as chance, contrivance, or occasions ... ...res, that so their industry might be encouraged, and their interest better united, to make provision and lay up goods for their common issue, which un... ...nd maintenance might be varied and regulated by that contract which first united them in that society, nothing being neces sary to any society that ... ...ber too, with a little common wealth, yet is very far from it both in its constitution, power, and end; or if it must be thought a monarchy, and the ... ... tendency of it to injure or oppress the people, and to set up one part or party with a distinction from and an unequal subjection of the rest. Whatso...

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...the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the oth...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn... ...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...jects under her protection, and placing herself at the head of a religious party which it was his aim and en- deavour to extirpate. In Germany, the sc... ...by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- able to their interests. States which hitherto scarcely concerned themselves with one another’s exis... ...hrough the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relati... ...n of the tenth and the twentieth penny, the See of Rome had never lost the United Netherlands. Princes fought in self-defence or for aggrandizement, w... ... motives suffi- cient to prevent the Emperor from declaring in favour of a party which strove to annihilate the papal see, and also to induce him to s... ...ated to com- ply. For Hungary was an elective monarchy, and the republican constitution of the country jus- tified to himself their demands, and to th... ...ty of making use of 67 Friedrich Schiller that privilege, merely from the constitution of the Diet itself. Complaints of the judicial usur- pations o...

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...e Three NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure... ... NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the... ... marvellous that, unsupported as my assertions must necessarily be (except by the evidence of a single individual, and he a half-breed Indian), I coul... ...troduction to a longer and more momentous narrative. One night there was a party at Mr. Barnard’s, and both Augustus and myself were not a little into... .... He went to sleep, as I thought, very quietly (it being near one when the party broke up), and without saying a word on his favorite topic. It might ... ...er as far as we could on the ladder, and giving a pull against it with our united strength, succeeded in breaking it down. The third attempt was equal... ...of the voyage I had been in bad health, and was at all times of a delicate constitution, I suffered less than any of us, being much less reduced in fr... ...igator, and this, too, without encountering extraordinary difficulties. He states that although he was fre- quently hemmed in by ice before reaching t... ...e chronic disease which had thus, apparently, taken too sure hold upon her constitution to be eradicated by human means, I could not fall to observe a...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...S AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State El... ...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...re to have the charge of this garrison, with a 114 Gargantua & Pantagruel party competent for keeping of the place, which, besides its natural streng... ...e passed the Rhine over the bellies of the Switzers and lansquenets, and a party of these hath sub- dued Luxembourg, Lorraine, Champagne, and Savoy, e... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he... ...nd binary, the first of the even numbers, as of a male and female knit and united together. In very deed it was the fashion of old in the city of Rome... ...ho are of a sound, vigorous, and healthful tempera- 381 Rabelais ment and constitution. It is not unlikely that he may have the ascarids, and the lum... ...er such, which, by convenient doses proportioned to the peccant humour and constitution of the patient, being duly and sea- sonably received within th...

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...Cashel Byron’s Profession By George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ccurred. One day, at Naples, she had arranged to go riding with an English party that was staying there. Shortly before the appointed hour he 25 Geor... ... presently intercepted a servant who was bearing an apology to the English party, read the note, and went back to his daughter, who was already busy a... ... never approach the subject without confirming my opin- ion that women are constitutionally incapable of compre- hending it.” “It is natural for you t... ...he treasury bench. It is doubly erroneous in dealing with me; for I have a constitutional antipathy to it.” “Yes,” he said, hurriedly; “but give me on... ... the best 129 George Bernard Shaw fourteen-stone men in the Colonies, the States, or in En- gland.” Cashel ceased. As he sat eying her wistfully, Lyd... ...paragon should turn aside from her friends, the artists, philosophers, and statesmen, to give herself to an illiterate prize-fighter. I felt a pang of... ...e talking—now for a screech, Miss Carew!—to the champion of Australia, the United States, and England, holder of three silver belts and one gold one (...

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...GETTING MARRIED and “Preface to Getting Married” by George Bernard Shaw 1908 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...I do not know whether they make less fuss than ordinary people when either party claims the benefit of the treaty; but the existence of the treaty she... ... and nobody likes to give. What is driving our minis- ters of religion and statesmen to blurt it out at last is the plain fact that marriage is now be... ...und and every year. How they settled even such minor questions as to which party should decide whether and how much the window should be open and how ... ...inds nor their bodies to the full pitch of their capacities. Compared with statesmen, first- rate professional men, artists, and even with laborers an... ...informed by at least some pretence of knowledge of economics, history, and constitutional law, such paltry follies and sentimentalities, snobberies an... ...r from refusing to marry their daughters. As to law, religion, ethics, and constitutional government, any counterfeit could impose on them. Any atheis... ...f ascertaining that every possible effort has been made to keep the couple united against their wills, such privacy will only be tolerated when we at ... ...time that they have long since lost interest in one another, and have been united only by a common interest in their children. We may expect, then, th...

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........................................................... 4 EDGAR ALLAN POE BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ...................................................... ...urred in 1829, Poe, through the aid of Mr. Allan, secured admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Any glamour which may have at... ...n 1829, Poe, through the aid of Mr. Allan, secured admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Any glamour which may have attached ... ...nd to disregard his duties, his aim being to secure his dismissal from the United States service. In this he succeeded. On March 7, 1831, Poe found hi... ...isregard his duties, his aim being to secure his dismissal from the United States service. In this he succeeded. On March 7, 1831, Poe found himself f... ...by whose portals his disturbed soul sought to forget the ills to which his constitution subjected him—close by the Aidenn where were those he loved-th... ...ing spirit that breathed around him like a fiery atmosphere—had raised his constitutional self-confidence into an arrogance that turned his very claim... ... your expedition into the hills?” “It has.” “Then, Legrand, I can become a party to no such absurd proceeding.” “I am sorry—very sorry—for we shall ha... ...eing left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen. To be less abstract - Let us suppose...

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...ruth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translated by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and F... ..., but full of solemnity and loveliness? How has the belief of a Saint been united in this high and true mind with the clearness of a Sceptic; the devo... ...found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the smaller states surrounded them- selves with literature and art. The duke of Brunswi... ... rela- tions, may be presented by you in chronological order, and that the states of life and feeling which afforded the examples that influenced you,... ...ining to themselves or their district: they went out to meet the advancing party; and thus contests of- ten arose as to how far the escort should adva... ...erably wide court, sur- rounded by irregular buildings, which were now all united into one dwelling. We usually hastened at once into the gar- 57 Goe... ...tory at Lowositz, the capture of the Saxons, were so many triumphs for our party. Every thing that could be alleged for the advantage of our opponents... ...unate persons who might be regarded as sacrifices made for a future better constitution. 149 Goethe For from that time was dated the regulation which... ...owers became gradually disagreeable to me, so also was I displeased at the constitution of the city; all that hitherto seemed so worthy of honor now a...

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...in and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had n...

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...rd A Penn State Electronic Clas- sics Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...astians; or she would give him a short lecture on the early history of the United States. And it was done in a way well calculated to arrest a young a... ...; or she would give him a short lecture on the early history of the United States. And it was done in a way well calculated to arrest a young attentio... ... occupation, my career, my ambition. It is not often that these things are united in one body. Leonora was a good actress too. By Jove she was good! I... ... whilst Florence, below the window, talked to Captain Ashburnham about the Constitution of the United States… . Yes, it would have left a better taste... ... window, talked to Captain Ashburnham about the Constitution of the United States… . Yes, it would have left a better taste in the mouth if Florence h... ...erend Mother at the convent she had left and about whether her frock for a party when they got home should be white or blue. It hadn’t come into his h... ...enever the four parents met in London, Edward Ashburnham was always of the party. He was at that time twenty-two and, I believe, almost as pure in min...

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...e mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make ...

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...ent or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ... fiable. A second, and generally a later expedient, was the establishment of constitutional checks; by which the consent of the community, or of a bod... ...mporary rulers became the prominent object of the exertions of the popu lar party, wherever any such party existed; and su perseded, to a considerab... ...wer are regularly accountable to the community , that is, to the stron gest party therein. This view of things, recommend ing itself equally to the ... ...njury. For the same reason, we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its no... ...nd judges from their propriety; 1 and, speak ing generally, it is not, in constitutional countries, to be apprehended that the government, whether ... ...er—and that a high general average of energy is not desirable. In some early states of society , these forces might be, and were, too much ahead of th... ...ely realized—where both society and the government are most demo cratic—the United States—the feeling of the ma jority , to whom any appearance of a... ...nting intemperance the people of one English colony , and of nearly half the United States, have been interdicted by law from making any use whatever ...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck,...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...truly as a church, a labor union, a business partnership, or a politi- cal party. Each of them is a mode of associated or com- munity life, quite as m... ..., trans- portation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with differ... ...- portation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with different tra... ...stitutions change as history shows; but their change, the rise and fall of states, is the work of the “world-spirit.” Individuals, save the great “her... ...wledge re- sults if the mind discriminates and combines things as they are united and divided in nature itself. But the im- portant thing for educatio... ... some into masters, educate others into slaves. And the experience of each party loses in meaning, when the free interchange of varying modes of life-... ...le. There were only three types of faculties or powers in the individual’s constitution. Hence education would soon reach a static limit in each class... ...hey had a less definite training. But, most of all, the present industrial constitution of society is, like every society which has ever existed, full...

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...vinces of the Netherlands, and through him they had passed into the power of his descendant, the Emperor Charles V. This powerful ruler abolished the constitutional rights of the provinces, and introduced the Inquisition in order to stamp out Protestantism....

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...EGMONT A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Translated by Anna Swanwick A Penn State Elec... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication Egmont: A Tragedy in Five Acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Anna Swanwick is a publication of the... ... his descendant, the Emperor Charles V . This powerful ruler abolished the constitutional rights of the provinces, and introduced the Inquisition in o... ...t. Never let me hear such words again. Full well I know that the policy of statesmen rarely maintains truth and fidel- ity; that it excludes from the ... ... no moment, he answered: “Were the Netherlanders but satisfied as to their constitution! The rest would soon follow.” 16 Egmont Machiavel. There was,... ...iately on their guard the moment he was for overstep- ping his bounds. The states were down upon him at once; for every province, however small, had i... ... Freneda, the steadfast Las Vargas, and others who join them when the good party are in power. But there sits the hollow-eyed T oledan, with brazen fr... ... to hold her peace. Clara. Step nearer, that we may speak low, till we are united and more strong. Not a moment is to be lost! Audacious tyranny, that... ...rself in the celestial garb of my friend. In a solemn moment they appeared united, with aspect more earnest than tender. With bloodstained feet the vi...

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..., which should ever distinguish him who aspires to the title of historian. By the united aid of medals, manuscripts, and inscriptions, I am enabled to... ... should ever distinguish him who aspires to the title of historian. By the united aid of medals, manuscripts, and inscriptions, I am enabled to say, p... ...urning. There was an air of oddity, in short, about the dress of the whole party, which, at first, caused me to recur to my original idea of the “soot... ... not understand him to the letter.” “And then,” said some other one of the party,—“then there was Bouffon Le Grand—another extraordinary personage in ... ...dam Kirschenwasser. Thus re- venged himself the Angel of the Odd. [Mabbott states that Griswold “obviously had a revised form” for use in the 1856 vol... ...nturies ago, certainly—the North- ern and Southern Kanadaw continents were united; the Kanawdians, then, would have been driven, by necessity, to a gr... ...operated to prevent any definite impressions of either time or place. I am constitutionally nervous—this, with me, is a family failing, and I can’t he... ...re for a livelihood, was somewhat ill-adapted to the delicate nature of my constitution; but I went to work in it with a good heart, and found my acco... ...r. Maelzel. Of late years it has visited the principal towns in the United States. Wherever seen, the most intense curiosity was excited by its appear...

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...ECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...y felt in the mere wars and conquests of the Romans. I dis cussed all the constitutional points as they arose: though quite ignorant of Niebuhr’s res... ...nce of Livy, and upheld, to the best of my ability, the Ro man Democratic party. A few years later, in my contempt of my childish efforts, I destroye... ... a severity, at that time most un 17 John Stuart Mill usual, the English Constitution, the English law, and all par ties and classes who possessed ... ...ub lished, they would, I am convinced, place his character as a practical statesman fully on a level with his eminence as a speculative writer. 18 A... ...blic and private. He was acquainted with many of the chiefs of the Liberal party, and I saw various noteworthy persons while staying at this house; am... ...spondence with India in one of the leading departments, that of the Native States. This contin ued to be my official duty until I was appointed Exami... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ... the name of friendship, in a really earnest mind. All these circumstances united, made the number very small of those whose society, and still more w...

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...me T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR ... ... position, as belonging to the Roman Catholic faith, the feebleness of his constitution, the uncertainty of his real creed, and one or two other circu... ...rdest things, 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or... ...n knights and squires confound, Or water all the quorum ten miles round? A statesman’s slumbers how this speech would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a th... ...d, ashamed to see Senates degenerate, patriots disagree, And nobly wishing party-rage to cease, T o buy both sides, and give thy country peace. ... ... abused all, even to women, and whose prostituted papers (for one or other party, in the unhappy divisions of their country) have in- sulted the falle... ...dull and unjust abuse of a person who wrote in defence of our religion and constitution, and who has been dead many years.’ 158 This seemeth also mos... ...d for wit! See under Ripley rise a new Whitehall, While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall; 379 While Wren with sorrow to the grave descends, 229... ... Button’s, and a justice of the peace.’—P . 379 ‘While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall:’ at the time when this poem was written, the banquetin...

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...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pe... ...ies Publication The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...l lands should unite. I have pointed out that the German Social-Democratic party has done nothing at its Congresses for the last ten years except the ... ...these reasonable remarks were received as hideous blasphemies; none of the party papers were allowed to print any word of mine; the very Revisionists ... ... who have no general ideas, no touch of the concern of the philosopher and statesman for the race, can- not enjoy The Rhine Gold as a drama. They may ... ...day from their bondage to custom, caste, and law by appeals to morality or constitutional agita- tion for Liberal reforms, made common cause with the ... ...; and the intellectual, moral, talented people who devise and adminis- ter States and Churches. History shows us only one order higher than the highes... ...id not send us back again with equally excessive zeal. Ecclesiasticism and Constitutionalism send us one way, Protestantism and Anarchism the other; O... ...ve. Now a human being is both man and woman: it is only when these two are united that the real human being exists; and thus it is only by love that m...

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...and perform the office of the heraldic display in monar- chical countries. By a transition readily understood, and which might have been as readily fo... ...fensive to the eye of an artist than the interior of what is termed in the United States— that is to say, in Appallachia—a well-furnished apartment. I... ... to the eye of an artist than the interior of what is termed in the United States— that is to say, in Appallachia—a well-furnished apartment. Its most... ...nciples which regulate all varieties of art; and very nearly the same laws by which we decide on the higher merits of a painting, suffice for decision... ...te), to put in execution the scheme of Hop-Frog. His mode of equipping the party as ourang-outangs was very simple, but effective enough for his purpo... ...ere then saturated with tar. At this stage of the process, some one of the party sug- gested feathers; but the suggestion was at once overruled by the... ...mankind. They as- sembled their wise men, and concocted the most ingenious constitution it is possible to conceive. For a while they man- aged remarka... ...odi- gious. The thing ended, however, in the consolidation of the thirteen states, with some fifteen or twenty others, in the most odious and insuppor... ... thou art already altered— Thy looks are haggard—nothing so wears away The constitution as late hours and wine. Cas. (musing.) Nothing, fair cousin,...

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...n bold. The document in question—a letter, to be frank—had been re- ceived by the personage robbed while alone in the royal bou- doir. During its peru... ...ne in the royal bou- doir. During its perusal she was suddenly interrupted by the entrance of the other exalted personage from whom especially it was ... ...or two motives, each of a given value, have not, necessarily, a value when united, equal to the sum of their values apart. There are numerous other ma... ...“There is a game of puzzles,” he resumed, “which is played upon a map. One party playing requires another to find a given word—the name of town, river... ...ach square yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes “‘No sooner ha... ...are yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes “‘No sooner had we go... ... The only consideration which restrains us is our conception of its atomic constitution; and here, even, we have to seek aid from our notion of an ato... ... minuteness, solidity, palpability, weight. Destroy the idea of the atomic constitution and we should no longer be able to regard the ether as an enti... ...l view the swollen and blackened tongue. I pre- sume that no member of the party then present had been un- accustomed to death-bed horrors; but so hid...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...A IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia ... ...tion Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... .... And of the two atmospheres it is hard to say which was the more fatal to statesmanship. Revolution on the Shelf Heartbreak House was quite familiar ... ... climax of legal lawlessness was reached in France. The greatest Socialist statesman in Europe, Jaures, was shot and killed by a gentleman who resente... ... wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the... ... leav- ing it to be inferred that our own militarism and our own political constitution are millennially democratic (which they certainly are not); bu... ...o apologize publicly for bawling Pacifist or Pro-German at their opponent. Party leaders seek such followers, who can always be depended on to walk ta... ...lowers, who can always be depended on to walk tamely into the lobby at the party whip’s orders, provided the leader will make their seats safe for the...

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... by John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (First pubulished 169... ... it with that seasoning; and it must be dressed another way, if you will have it go down with some, even of strong constitutions. The truth is, those ... ....” I shall not deny him the privi- lege he claims (p. 52), to state the question as he pleases, especially when he states it so as to leave nothing in... ... by what kind of logic will it ap- pear that any notion is originally by nature imprinted in the mind in its first constitution, because it comes firs... ...deavoured to be proved; unless those men will think it reasonable that their private persuasions, or that of their party, should pass for universal co... ...hich is every- where prepared for those who dare venture to dissent from the received opinions of their country or party? And where is the man to be f... ... the man is not conscious of. For, I suppose nobody will make iden- tity of persons to consist in the soul’s being united to the very same numercial p... ...he cask, and manifestly derive their original from that union. If it always thinks, and so had ideas before it was united, or before it received any f... ... society. For, not- withstanding these learned disputants, these all-know- ing doctors, it was to the unscholastic statesman that the governments of t...