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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...ND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING... ...ON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY. PART II. (CONTINUE... ...VII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY. PART II. (CONTINUED) PHENOME... ...s which we now proceed to examine, viz. the Christian church, and the captivity of Babylon, do not deserve so much the name of Phenomena, as of Anti... ...r universal, because, being essentially one, it comprehendeth within itself all peoples, tribes, and languages, which have sought and may henceforth ... ..., to Zion, to Jerusalem, to Judah, to Israel, and to the relics of that unhappy people. This reasoning, in appearance just, has been as it were a do... ...sure, and we are in great distress.” Nehemiah ix.36,37. True liberty forsooth! Republic worthy of the name! For this my friend, is the illustrious ... ...erubbabel, Esdras, and Nehemiah. The reason they have for giving it the name of republic, is so clear that the most short-sighted may see it. After ... ... all the inhabitants of those very vast countries of Asia, from the Euphrates to China, idolaters, and are they not so until this day? Those of the i...

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Frate Cu Meridianele Si Paralelele, Vol. 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...de oaspe ţi. Pe urm ă – la spectacolul de balet al unei trupe venite din China, bazat pe o povestire de Lu Xun, muzica de Liu Tingyu, coregrafia de... ... puncte distincte trec mai multe drepte! A doua prelegere, “A function in the number theory” (O func ţie în teoria numerelor – “Func ţia Smarandache... ...Ghisa de la 19 York University – Toronto, D. Pa şnicu de la University of Puerto Rico). Irinel Dr ăgan (de la Texas State University, Arlington)... ...Cor de fete în blugi. Dr ăcoase! Altele, cu fuste scurte, dau University of Las Cruces – Campusul 31 din fese. Strig ă in şii înnebuni ţi!... F... ...a. Vârfuri muntoase, ici-colo, ţâ şnesc din p ământ, în plin de şert (in the midle of nowhere). Straniu relief. Mergi, iar muzica de la radio î ţi ... ...serica romano-catolic ă Santa Fé Institute of Spirituality apare revista „People of God”. Credincio şii cânt ă aleluia şi se ridic ă în picioare. ... ...ubramur ă din Taino Arawaki, din Hispañola (insula care cuprinde Haiti şi Republica Dominican ă de ast ăzi) şi Cuba. Satele lucayane erau a şezate ... ...nc ţii administrative, politice, economice, plus apartamente gratuite, în Republica 124 Moldova de pild ă, constituind astfel elemente de rusific... ..., sunt blamate, respinse ab-initio (f ăr ă m ăcar s ă fie verificate). − People don’t risk change, continu ă Homer. Oamenii prefer ă comoditatea cu...

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Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florenitin Smarandache's Work

By: Ion Soare

...n be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann... ....com/bod/ (Books on Demand) Copyright 2001 by American Research Press and the Author Rehoboth, Box 141 NM 87322, USA More literary books to ... ...cover painting by Florentin Smarandache, from his cycle intituled: Kachina, the Great Spirit! http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/a/outer-art... ... 1-931233-32-2 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Ion Soare PARADOXISM AND POSTMODERNISM I... ...e writer Smarandache is full of contradictions himself. His childish trust in people becomes, not just once, an unfair suspicion. Optimist, he builds... ...considering it ”a lamentable ariergardism” 1) and its adherents ” some polite people, that’s all! ” 2) . Another Romanian writer, the lamented poet ... ...the history of paradox on periods, in a few countries (ancient India, ancient China and Japan) and analyses the paradox in science (especially in ma... ...ards a somehow utopian world; to Dinu Flamand this world reminded of Plato’s Republic ! 2) The complex nature of Smarandache with his deliberate se... ..., the original title. I have told, at the respective time, that this volume ( republication of the book Laws of internal composition, Fez- Maroc, 19...

...As if it wanted to be in accordance with the paradoxism and even to confirm it, the way the mathematician writer Florentin Smarandache is received is ... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist and smarandachi...

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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

... by Ford Madox Ford A Penn State Electronic Clas- sics Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...s Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...out 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 th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ...days when you might travel the world over without finding any- thing but a Republican. Anyhow, they went round the world. I think an anecdote is about... ...curious, sinister expression—like a mosaic of blue porce- lain set in pink china. And that chap, coming into a room, snapped up the gaze of every woma... ...ow im- becile, in view of that engrossment, appear the ways of princes, of republics, of municipalities. A rough bit of road beneath the motor tyres, ...

...Excerpt: This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove?s with...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...t, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for the... ...s than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the In visible Hand which c... ... since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of gov ernment are justly considered, perhaps, as deepl... ...AL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 13 principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a d... ...he part which the United States bore so honorably in the thrilling scenes in China, while new to American life, has been in harmony with its true spir...

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard... ...Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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 not as a propagandist, that he is con- veying to the German speaking peoples political criticisms which occasionally reflect on contemporary aut... ...nvective as a drily scientific treatise of the sort that used to impose on people in 1860, when any book that pretended to be scientific was accepted ... ...self which will destroy its artificial empire of law, and establish a true republic of free thought. This is by no means the only difficulty in the do... ...thinkers—that is, without intel- lectual Anarchists—will share the fate of China. It is also true that our criminal law, based on a conception of crim... ...d composer of Siegfried, with the levity of a schoolboy, mocked the French republicans who were do- ing in 1871 what he himself was exiled for doing i...

Excerpt: The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung?s Ring by George Bernard Shaw.

...Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................................................ 5 Preface to the Second Edition ...........................................................................

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ity. 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...tory which followed the one great structural mistake of the Fathers of the Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of ... ...out me were victims of it. I, too, was an innocent victim of it. The whole Republic was a victim of that fundamental error of importing Africa into Am... ...is to change the whole economic basis of life and the whole character of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Inst... ...e period, he was necessar- 8 UP FROM SLAVERY ily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every ste... ...ad studied. While they could locate the Desert of Sahara or the capital of China on an artificial globe, I found out that the girls could not locate t...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... an interruption, he said that tragedy ought to be the school of kings and peoples; that there was no subject worthier of treatment than the death of ... ... a commotion in our young heads that was not easily settled. But the young people felt the in- convenience less, because they had somewhat more space ... ...t now have burst, and another have followed it;—in these rooms, the cursed China-paper of which I have spared, incommod- ing myself by not nailing up ... ...ultheiss I had not remained unacquainted with the secret defects of such a republic; the less so, as children feel quite a peculiar surprise, and are ...

...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...ward Estlin Cummings) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the... ...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...oice: “Give this great criminal something to eat in the name of the French Republic!” And for the first time in three months I tasted Food. T-d seated... ...d- ded a number of times. The moustache rang. I understood that these kind people were planning to make me out the innocent victim of a wily villain, ... ... as my friend has so often said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a s... ... (and for all I know may still boast) God Himself knows. At least, in that Republic, amnesty has been proclaimed, or so I hear.—But to return to the S... ...ass legs and tin 111 e e cummings hands and wooden eyes would not stand a Chinaman’s chance of winning the affection and admiration of the fair sex. ...

...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...nett Complete Edition A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance ... ... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...odor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in... ...delaida Ivanovna Miusov’s action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people’s ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental free... ... others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is qui... ...ther holy pic- tures in shining settings, and, next them, carved cherubim, china eggs, a Catholic cross of ivory, with a Mater Dolorosa embracing it, ... ...? Answer me that, Alexey. Goodness is one thing with me and another with a Chinaman, so it’s a relative thing. Or isn’ t it? Is it not relative? A tre... ... blows, not only among us but all over the world, be it even the full- est republic of France, just as in the time of Adam and Eve, and they never wil...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall des...

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Lady Britomart Undershaft

By: George Bernard Shaw

...eries Publication Major Barbara G(eorge) B(ernard) Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...es Publication Major Barbara G(eorge) B(ernard) Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...a pig-headed T ory one. We are Whigs, and believe in liberty. Let snobbish people say what they please: Barbara shall marry, not the man they like, bu... ...t be too sure of that, Stephen. I know your quiet, simple, refined, poetic people like Adolphus—quite content with the best of everything! They cost m... ...rice for them, without respect of persons or principles: to aristocrat and republican, to Nihilist and T sar, to Capital- ist and Socialist, to Protes... ... out to fight for Hellas. My parting gift to him was not a copy of Plato’s Republic, but a revolver and a hundred Undershaft cartridges. The blood of ... ...nly she thought it was the houses and the kitchen ranges and the linen and china, when it was really all the human souls to be saved: not weak souls i...

...Excerpt: ACT I. It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft?s house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on hi...

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The Longest Journey

By: E. M. Forster

...rney by E. M. Forster A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...s Series Publication The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscuits; then he had walked with people he liked, and had walked just long 6 The Longest Journey enough; an... ...ust long 6 The Longest Journey enough; and now his room was full of other people whom he liked, and when they left he would go and have supper with A... ... or foolish. It is the saddest truth I have yet perceived that the Beloved Republic”—here she took up a book—”of which Swinburne speaks”—she put the ... ...alk slipped from his fingers, and fell on the coffee-cup, which broke. The china, said Leighton, was expensive. He believed it was impossible to match...

...Excerpt: ?THE COW IS THERE,? said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ?She is there, the cow. There, now.? ?You have not proved it...

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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... a new structure out of living Russian words. The spoken word, born of the people, gave soul and wing to litera- ture; only by coming to earth, the na... ...of which he was not a little contemptuous, that he read the history of his people. Time and again, in his essays and in his letters to friends, he exp... ... than the rest, because farther removed from all experience. Moreover, the republican constitution of the academy, the fearful multitude of young, hea... ... but with them were also some who knew about Horace, Cicero, and the Roman Republic. There were many leaders who afterwards distinguished them- 36 Go... ...had heard rumours as indistinct as though they had concerned the Empire of China. There he dined, casting proud glances at the other visitors, and con...

...S BULBA.............................................................. 13 ST. JOHN?S EVE ......................................................... 130 THE CLOAK ................................................................ 146 HOW THE TWO IVANS QUARRELLED .................. 176 THE MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT ................................ 223 THE CALASH .........................

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...od friend who’s a kike.” They were coming out of the movies in a stream of people in which the blackish clothes of factory-hands predominated. “I came... ...selli, “everything’s awful pretty-like. Picturesque, they call it. And the people wears peasant costumes … . I had an uncle who used to tell me about ... ...rthrow the capitalist gov- ernment. —The social revolution.” “But you’re a republic already, ain’t yer?” “As much as you are.” “You talk like a social... ...s that?” “A stuff that makes you go to sleep and have wonderful dreams. In China … .” “Dreams,” interrupted Chrisfield. “Ah had one of them last night... ...tem’s gone down before; it will happen again.” “They’re fighting the Garde Republicaine now before the Gare de l’Est,” said the Chink in an expression...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ... a marrowbone in his mouth,—the beast of all other, says Plato, lib. 2, de Republica, the most philosophical? If you have seen him, you might have rem... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...osopher’s answer was that, not being em- ployed in any other charge by the Republic, he thought it expedient to thunder and storm it so tempestuously ... ...were to pass by Lanternland. The third ship had for her device a fine deep china ewer. The fourth, a double-handed jar of gold, much like an ancient u...

...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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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...vid Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication ... ...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ...for wheat and potatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others ac... ...d, and see the world; and would possibly visit the Falkland Isles, and the China seas, before they again saw the waters of the Merrimack, or, perchanc... ... Whether she bears Manilla twine, Or in her hold Madeira wine, Or China teas, or Spanish hides, In port or quarantine she rides; Far fr...

Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ...es here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C ... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...hn Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nati... ...is it all-encompassing. Communism The core countries of Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experienced i...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... .../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...t ten years. None of that work has been done alone. As a result, the list of people to whom I am indebted makes Oscar night acknowledgments look haiku... ...creative commons” with private tools—of allowing creative collaboration with people you have never met—has shaped this book far beyond the chapter dev... ... the appropriate region code. If you try to play a movie coded for region 6 (China) in a DVD player from re- gion 1, it will not play. This allows film... ...been produced. Such a law would be all restraint of expression, performance, republication, adap- tion, and so on, with no incentive benefits. The Cour... ...nded yet again. The widest legal restriction of speech in the history of the Republic—putting off-limits most twentieth-century books, poems, films, an...

... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...The Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...T. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the ine... ...It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the importa... ...han the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the great- est number have begun their career by paying an obseq... ...ct The conformity of the proposed constitution to the true prin- ciples of republican government Its analogy to your own state constitution and lastly... ...will be more their policy, to restrain than to promote it. In the trade to China and India, we interfere with more than one nation, inasmuch as it ena...

...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 subjec...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ons on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., 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... ...ign conquest, be made to endure a monarchy; others are equally averse to a republic. The hindrance often amounts, for the time being, to im practicab... ...holy facts in history. The Egyptian hierarchy, the pater nal despotism of China, were very fit instruments for carry ing those nations up to the poi... ...chical despotism: the Greek cities with the Persian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal mon ...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyo... .............................................................. 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... ...back that migrations on a far huger scale from India into Africa, and from China and Japan into Australia and America are prevented. All the indicatio... ...s- sible social fragmentation. The transport service is to be a democratic republic, the mines are to be a democratic re- public, every great industry... ... to be a democratic re- public, every great industry is to be a democratic republic 67 H. G . Wells within the State; our community is to become a co...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...erto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose “Republic” set the model for the Utopias of subsequent phi- losophers. Whoev... ...lasses, and goes through life believing that he and his friends are kindly people, because they have no wish to injure those toward whom they enter- t... ...e certain of him. The last part of this statute provides that certain poor people may be employed by a place or by persons, who are willing to give th... ...government. Take, for example, the liquor traffic, or the opium traffic in China. If alcohol could be obtained at cost price without taxa- tion, still... ...d threatens to dominate the future economics and the politics of the great Republic. The financial economy of American capitalism exhibits in more dra...

...ER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ...............................................................

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...CATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...andment could not be meant to for- bid killing animals. Yet there are many people who believe that it does, or at least should. No Christian state mak... ..., if conscience has been placed in man by a divine power, why have not all peoples been furnished with the same guide? There is no doubt that all men ... ...s uses every means in its power to perpetu- ate itself. This is as true of republics as of monarchies, al- though the severity of punishment and the a... ...e obedience leads to submission, to aggression and to despotism. Doubtless China has fewer crimes than England. The power of resistance is so crushed ...

...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ... luxu- rious dining room. Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore that imprint of newness found in the households of th... ...verity to his wife was wrong and that *The Illuminati sought to substitute republican for mo- narchical institutions. 246 War & Peace he was neglecti... ...eved it! Had he not at one time longed with all his heart to estab- lish a republic in Russia; then himself to be a Napoleon; then to be a philosopher...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for an... ...r own risk. her own risk. her own risk. her own risk. her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ar governments of Greece) as in a nec essarily antagonistic position to the people whom they ruled. They consisted of a governing One, or a governing... ...ource against rulers whose interests were habitually opposed to those of the people. What was now wanted was, that the rulers should be identified wit... ...nst monarchi cal and aristocratic despotism. In time, however, a democratic republic came to occupy a large portion of the earth’s surface, and made ... ... of its citizens, a mode of thinking which may have been admissible in small republics sur rounded by powerful enemies, in constant peril of being su... ...oth, of producing something better than either. We have a warning example in China—a nation of much tal ent, and, in some respects, even wisdom, owin...

...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be ...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

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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...

...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget ... ...Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of ... ... Series Publication Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of... ...ries Publication Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of th... ...uence of his honesty and partly of mental despair. He never accepted other people’s views on the questions of life. He looked into such prob- lems for... ...r glasses, and scarcely removing the long, bent stems, which terminated in china bowls painted in a manner to delight a Hottentot, from their mouths. ... ... officers laughed among themselves at that inoffensive courage, and as the people in the whole country round showed them- selves obliging and complian... ...ant AN AFFAIR OF ST ATE PARIS HAD JUST HEARD of the disaster of Sedan. The Republic was proclaimed. All France was panting from a madness that lasted ... ...ful adversary, in the great, sanguine form of Doctor Massarel, head of the Republican party in the district, venerable chief of the Masonic lodge, pre...

...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

........................................................................................................................................... 22 AN AFFAIR OF STATE............................................................................................................................................... 36 THE ARTIST ..............................................................

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...E VOLUMES Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication ... ...Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pen... ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ity. 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... ...cumference, and entirely surrounded by gentle hills, over whose summit the people have never yet ventured to pass. For this they assign the very good ... ...y of outrider. Between each cabbage and the time-piece, again, is a little China man having a large stomach with a great round hole in it, through whi... ...e fond of their sauer-kraut, but then they were proud of their clocks. All people who hold sinecure offices are held in more or less respect, and as t... ...as discovered that what is everybody’s business is nobody’s, and that theRepublic” (so the absurd thing was called) was without a government at all.... ...icularly, the self-complacency of the philoso- phers who constructed this “Republic,” was the startling dis- covery that universal suffrage gave oppor...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four.

...Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY ................................................................................................................................... 4 LIONIZING ............................................................

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...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 . G... ...GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pe... ...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...or earthquakes and tempests, the breaking of a flower-pot or the fall of a China jar; for the tug and war of the elements, or the deadly strife of the... ...civil regimen, or the science of politics, in which the several forms of a republic were to have been examined and explained; together with the severa... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...e laws in execution against a thief or impostor. The same will hold in the republic of letters, if the critics and judges will let every ignorant pret...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................

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