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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...ements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigrants in 1887 (... ... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...o protect its trade with Britain. The constitution of the Confederacy prohibited African slave trade (buying slaves from Africa), though it allow... ...mber of the executive committee of the London Vegetarian Society. He went to South Africa because he couldn't find work in India. He was a poor la... ... M May Day Long before the first congress (1889) of the Second International, a socialist gathering, appropriated May 1, it was being celebrated... ...f of the Duc de Richelieu in 1756. The Duc was in the habit of holding nude dinner parties. Having beaten the British at Port Mahon, he instructed ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan entry on page 274) 5... ... Strip entry on page 276) 129 Kenya 130 Kiribati 132 Korea, North 133 Korea, South 134 Kuwait 136 Laos 137 Lebanon 138 Lesotho 140 Liberia 142 Libya 1... ...eychelles 216 Sierra Leone 218 Singapore 219 Solomon Islands 220 Somalia 221 South Africa 223 Soviet Union 224 Spain 226 Page Sri Lanka 228 Sudan 230... ...United Arab Emirates UK United Kingdom US United States USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) YAR Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) ... ..., Prime Minister (since June 1981) Suffrage: universal from age 18 Political parties and leaders: the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ... ...% industry and commerce, 38% other (1978) Government Official name: People's Socialist Republic of Albania Type: Communist state Capital: Tirane Admin... ...al elections held every four years; last elections 1 February 1987 Political parties and leaders: Albanian Workers Party only; First Secretary, Ramiz ...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disp...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Kremlin's pressure. The Turks switched sides a... ...d in both capacities he operated in the areas that are today North- Central Greece, Southwestern Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia. He felt equ... ...O had no support left anywhere. In 1934, it was disbanded (together with other parties) by Colonel Kimron Georgiev, the new Prime Minister of ... ...acedonia is today ruled by a party called VMRO-DPMNE. It is one of a few political parties to carry this name and the biggest and weightiest amongs... ...th the rising, ignore at your peril, Central European force. The Austrian national socialists who were implicated in the murder of the Austrian pri... ... the national average. Infant mortality was 6 times that in Slovenia. Kosovo was an African enclave in an otherwise Europe-aspiring country. Caught ... ...an vice president of the Bujanovac branch of President Slobodan Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party, who was assassinated three months ago). Moreove...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...EWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache e-mail:... ...andasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Deman... ... 3 PERIYAR, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW AGE THE SOCRATES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA FATHER OF THE SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENT AND ARCH ENEMY ... ...stem. For six decades, he powerfully influenced the course of politics in the South- Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His ideology and struggle to attain... ...l to get elected and the dummy dalit candidates out up by the major political parties 76 end up holding public office. Also, electoral violence a... ...radical outlook enabled him to even support the progressive policies of other parties such as the South Indian Liberation Federation (popularly, the... ...he Communist Party of India and similar organizations, Periyar toned down his socialist activities. Because of his experience he knew that there we... ...her magazine Puratchi (Revolution). In 1934, Jayaprakash Narayan, the reputed Socialist Leader asked Periyar to join the Socialist party. The same y... ...y based on this philosophy, Mahatma Gandhi carried out a Satyagraha in South Africa, and the Kenyan Boycott of Imperialism Day was celebrated. ...

...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern S... ...odern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gull... ...n‘t want the farmers going into the information technology businesses. But South Korea is just as high, and I don‘t know how many snow plows they ne... ...cotton is being raised, even though it isn‘t needed. Meanwhile sub- Saharan African countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in los... ... was learned or bought from the United States and Western Europe, the post-socialist Kinese left here to learn at the great universities of the world... ...n China to emulate their Western cousins—peroxided California blonds, rave parties, gratuitous uncaring and unprotected sex, and the selfishness tha... ...eference for males and seldom use amniocentesis for sex selection. South Korea showed us the way when they reversed their male to female birt... ... The Republicans think they know. The Democrats think they know. The Green parties think they know. The kings think they know. The revolutionaries t... ... ―We have enough arguments among the society-centered people—communists, socialists, and free enterprisers. We have arguments about globilization,...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...ve a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other ... ... is). Still, if a contract has been signed - implicitly or explicitly - between the parties, then such a right may crystallize in the contract and c... ...ve birth to Zionism. But, again, they were not racist. On the very contrary. Their socialist roots called for close collaboration and integration ... ...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...mbangala in today's Angola and Congo, the Fang in Cameroon, the Mangbetu in Central Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the ... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ...ht of the political map - all three polities of central Europe lurched to the left. Socialists were elected to replace economically successful right...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...ve a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other ... ... is). Still, if a contract has been signed - implicitly or explicitly - between the parties, then such a right may crystallize in the contract and c... ...ve birth to Zionism. But, again, they were not racist. On the very contrary. Their socialist roots called for close collaboration and integration ... ...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...mbangala in today's Angola and Congo, the Fang in Cameroon, the Mangbetu in Central Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the ... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ...ht of the political map - all three polities of central Europe lurched to the left. Socialists were elected to replace economically successful right...

...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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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ...there were people who were worse off and who longed for the return of the socialistic dictatorship. ―So tradition is generally the basis for wh... ...rd to life? Why save the AIDS doomed child for a life of poverty in rural Africa when the child would be immediately accepted into Heaven upon death... ...nd the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s only a small par... ...o to college is it to gain knowledge and experiences now, like sports and parties, or is it to gain the tools you need for your future occupation or... ...evasion in a corruption probe that has linked him with lawmakers from both parties ―We can certainly argue that these individuals who proclaim ... ...hey had money, the capitalists. The workers would then revolt and begin a socialist economy where payment was ‗from each according to his ability to...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...b countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans and Arabs, Asians and Africans - think that "the spread of American ideas and customs ... ... the fervid demonstrations against its military presence in places as disparate as South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. In Janua... ...nd even more so in geopolitics, double standards and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel ... ... more so in geopolitics, double standards and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel - and ... ...ge both Thrace and his own daughter, Theodora, whom Orhan married. Ottoman raiding parties between Gallipoli and Thrace became a common sight. The ... ... is an empty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are there: candidate lists, parties, election propaganda, and voting. But its quiddity is ab... ... a man claiming to be an Islamic fundamentalist supported the invasion by the Arab socialist (and thereby atheist) Iraq against Kuwait and Saudi Ar...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...s reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write... ... or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vakni... ...ade unions, the employers (Chamber of Commerce) and the Central Bank. All parties will have to concede some things. The Employers will guarantee the... ... their own), mediation (a third party makes nonbonding suggestions to the parties) and arbitration (a third party makes final, binding decisions), o... ...rkforce) - is not clear. Add to this stubbornly high birth rates (esp. in Africa) and a steady decline in government hiring al over the world - and ... ...tinues in many countries - from deflationary Japan to racially imbalanced South Africa - to this very day. Such workers are usually paid a salary eq... ...a had 20 Million migrant workers, North America - 17 million, Central and South America - 12 million, Asia - 7 million, the Middle East - 9 million,... ... safety nets threatened, the unions' success was less than striking. Only socialist dominated regions and cities responded and demonstrations flared... ...enefits is called for, on a scale which far exceeds anything dreamt of in socialist countries. The Future of Work By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also publis...

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

...t Singh 3 Fixing Global Finance Fixing Global Finance was first published in 2010 by Madhyam and SOMO. Madhyam 148, Maitri Apartments Plot No.28 Patp... ...one: 91-11-43036919 Email: madhyamdelhi@gmail.com Website: www.madhyam.org.in Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen Centre for Research on ... ...dian Economy 64 6 Fixing Global Finance Acronyms ASEAN The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ATMs Automated Teller Machines BCBS Basel Committee... ...0 additional children may have died of malnutrition in 2009 in Sub-Saharan Africa because of the financial crisis. 8 There is a growing concern that t... ...rength to deal with external shocks. Since social welfare programs in many African countries are heavily dependent on international aid, it would make... ...e flows were much lower in 2009 than pre- crisis levels. In contrast, many South Asian countries (such as India and Pakistan) which receive substantia... ...re relatively regulated, OTC contracts are informal agreements between two parties and therefore carry heavy risk. The Risks While financial derivativ... ..., 1986. James Crotty and Gerald Epstein, “In Defense of Capital Controls,” Socialist Register, 1996, pp. 118-149. James Tobin, “A Proposal for Interna...

...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the wo...

...1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 4. The Rise of New Global Players 5. Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk 6. Global Financial Crisis and India 7. Guid...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...uture ones. Export and credit insurance schemes - such as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC... ...surance premiums in case of an unusual catastrophe, natural or man made. In Israel, South Africa, and Spain, terrorism and war damages are indemnifi... ...ct also stipulates the maximum claim within the life of the arrangement. Thus, both parties know what to expect and - a usually well known or antici... ..., 25 in Europe, 11 in Japan, 7.5 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 5 in China and South East Asia, less than 2 in East Europe and India each, abou... ...sprung all over the world and their philosophy permeates the ideology of political parties in many countries, not least the USA. Taxes are punitive... ... adopt strict anti-corruption legislation. In Albania, the Chairman of the Albanian Socialist Party, Fatos Nano, was accused by Albanian media of l... ...n. They are the movers, the shakers, the pushers, the energy. Without them, we have socialist economies, where everything belongs to everyone and, ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...werful example of animal instincts was shown in the work of Eugene Marais. I‘m sure you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds in Africa... ...need for this vitamin. ―If people got 10 to 15 minutes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southe... ... Charles Taylor of Liberia or Slobodan Milošević, the former president of Serbia. You see it in parents vying for the most expensive birthday partie... ...mentioned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South ... ...who procrastinated. We put off studying for tests or writing research papers. Neither were as interesting as talking with friends or going to partie... ... think much about contentment and real happiness. Your ‗more is better‘ attitude doesn‘t sit well with us. On the other hand we think that the social... ...t new ideas. The way to stop progress is to make everyone a drone. At this point in time we have an economy that is more free enterprise than social...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF G...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...original ecosystem we were genetically designed to function in…. That is; in Africa, where we originally came from, as naked apes who stood up and ... ...riginal Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver than Lion... ...e not to do so. There is no human relationship, which cannot be saved if the parties involved work at that relationship using the basic human tools... ...was no such thing as a desert on Earth. The oldest desert is Namib Desert in Southern Africa: Reverse the name Namib Desert and you get Bi-man… yo... ... The U.S. Government has systematically undermined, sabotaged and aborted any socialist/democratic movement in poor countries who want to improve th... ...the actual truth. Then what people say can be used to find the actual guilty parties. Then the entire basis of Western Justice will change from peo... ...t is. Period. Simple. All of Europe was responsible for the Nationalist Socialist movement that spawned Hitler. All of Europe created its own...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...t of lawsuit that were filed against the firm and that the firm filed against third parties (litigation) plus a list of disputes which are likely t... ...d family members of influential politicians - they often end up fostering a bubble. South Korean chaebols, Japanese keiretsu, as well as American c... ... Friedberg Mercantile Group, this was the sequence in London in 1720 (the infamous "South Sea Bubble"), and in the USA in 1835-40 and 1929-32. IV. ... ...ed States and Italy (65% rise since 1997), it falls behind Ireland (179%) and South Africa (195%). It is in league with Australia (with 113%) and Sp... ..., in the process of securitization, "risk" was dissected, bundled and sold to third parties who were equally at a loss as to how best to evaluate it... ...evisited - Maritime Piracy Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe Begging Your Trust in Africa Slush Funds Return The Future of the SEC Interview wit... ...re separate corporate bodies, or legal persons. But in Russia, and in other former socialist countries, they have often been granted "de jure" (leg...

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State U... ...one by them. Probably the farmers expected them not to eat. ‘There are two parties to a bargain,’ said Everard, ‘and one gets the worst of it. But if ... ...cer, one of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftl... ...sturb their calculations. It was an extraordinary sitting, but none of the parties to it thought of it so when Nevil Beauchamp had plunged them into i... ...siduities. Nevil obtained his appointment to a ship bound for the coast of Africa to spy for slavers. He called on his uncle in London, and spent the ... ...his ‘banana-wreath,’ he liked the fel- low for having volunteered for that African coast-service, and the news of his promotion by his admiral to the ... ...r from her lips. She held out a bunch to him. ‘Grapes take one back to the South,’ said he. ‘How do you bear compliments? You have been in Italy some ... ...t. ‘I have no doubt Shrapnel has a scheme for Jenny. The old communist and socialist!’ He folded up the letter: ‘A curious composition, is it not, Mis...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life b... ...-bitten iris leaves and then the sea, greatly wrinkled and astir under the south- west wind. There is a boat going out which I think may be Jim Pain’s... ...ugh at it as absurd. If one sits on a popular evening in that long room at South Kensington which contains Raphael’s cartoons, one remarks that perhap... ... method of human intercourse. I know that here I go beyond the limits many Socialists in the past, and some who are still contemporary , have set them... ... of brotherhood, so social and economic organization will develop. But the Socialist may attack poverty for ever, disregarding the intellectual and mo... ...r conversion we did this darkly and with our hate spreading to persons and parties from the things for which they stood. But the believer will hate lo... ...ocolate makers, and the practical slavery under the Portuguese of the East African negroes who grow the raw material for Messrs. Cadbury, is an illumi... ...radiction that in Great Britain and Western Europe gener- ally, just those parties that stand most distinctly for personal devotion to the State in ec...

... a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ... speeches, to the cartoons of the comic papers or a chance reading of some Socialist pamphlet for any general ideas whatever about the huge swirling w... ... tobacco smoke against a background brown and deep. He professed himself a socialist with anarchistic leanings— he had suffered the martyrdom of ducki... ... and the illus- trated newspapers one learnt something of the way in which parties were split, coalitions formed, how permanent offi- cials worked and... ...ving been born and brought up in Bromstead and Penge, and the war in South Africa being yet in the womb of time, could quite honestly entertain the no... .... I saw myself striding on down that winding road, talking of politics and parties and bills of parliament and all sorts of dessicated things. That ro...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...ntly occupied by the affairs of the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of ... ...th the present United States. The thing has been ably advocated already in South America. Whatever appearances of separate sovereignties are kept up a... ...r getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the main war. They have no ... ...dst the general perplexity. For it would not be upon a credit basis, but a socialistic basis, a basis of direct reality, and its need for payments wou... ...and consciences about property; whereas we were Individualists, now we are Socialists. The British lord, the German junker, has none of the sense of u... ...e the traffic across. Beyond that point one is struck by the fact that the south side is considerably higher than the north, that storm water must run... ...ought and sold, in gross and detail, by financiers, advertisers, political parties, and the like. Ger- many came into the market rather noisily, and g...

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Touch and Go a Play in Three Acts

By: D. H. Lawrence

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Touch and Go by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... bits they might really go straight for one another. They are like hostile parties on board a ship, who both proceed to scuttle the ship so as to sink... ... Walsall’s ‘ll make a number of compounds, such as they keep niggers in in South Africa, and there you’ll be kept. And every one of you’ll have a litt... ...ll’s ‘ll make a number of compounds, such as they keep niggers in in South Africa, and there you’ll be kept. And every one of you’ll have a little bra... ...as all our interests at heart. JOB ARTHUR. I don’t profess to be a red-rag Socialist. I don’t pretend to think that if the Government had the pits it ... ...he rich. If every rich man withdrew from the system, the working class and socialists would keep it going, every man in the hope of get- ting rich him... ...g weeks they were. It was like a fox-hunt, so lively and gay—bands and tea-parties and excitement everywhere, pit-ponies loose, men all over the count...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State... ...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ...she asked. “I thought he would.” “Poff,” she cried suddenly, “you’re not a socialist?” “Such a vague term.” “But these friends of yours—they seem to b... ...ist?” “Such a vague term.” “But these friends of yours—they seem to be all Socialists. Red ties and everything complete.” “They have ideas,” he evaded... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...ays, he had been attentively inconspicuous in several really good week-end parties. He had spent a golden Octo- ber in North Italy with his mother, an... ...things, the only course for a sane man of honour was to stand out from the parties and try and get them back to sound issues again. There must be endl...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ve the British arrived at common views with France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa about the administration of Cen- tral Africa? Suppose Germany ... ... British arrived at common views with France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa about the administration of Cen- tral Africa? Suppose Germany makes ... ...ting side by side with a dissentient and probably revolutionary Labour and Socialist convention—both gatherings with unsatisfac- tory credentials cont... ...andates in this matter. At present all the po- litical luncheon and dinner parties in London are busy with smirking discussions of “Who is to go?” The... ...hat is so or not, whether Germany is or is not to be one of the interested parties in the African solution, the fact remains that it is impossible to ... ...hese people scheme to prevent any communication between the Republican and Socialist classes in Germany and the Allied population. At any cost this cl... ...he New Statesman. Then a kind of illustrative gesture would be made to the South American republics, although the in- ternal disturbances of the South...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

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...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now ...

....................... 55 CHAPTER VII: THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN................................................................. 64 CHAPTER VIII: A PUNCH IN THE WIND........................................................................ 71 CHAPTER IX: LOW-WATER MARK ................................................................................... 84 CHAPTER X: THE WAR AGAIN...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

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.................................................................................................................................. 11 CHAPTER I MARX AND SOCIALIST DOCTRINE................................................................................................. 11 CHAPTER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM.............................................................................

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

.... . . . . . 1 The White Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The W... ... . . . . 230 To Build a Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 South of the Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 The C... .... . . 391 The Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Told in the Drooling Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 CONTENTS ii... ...s draw closer, and experienced vague yearnings for the sunnier pastures of the Southland, where life promised something more than a barren struggle wi... ...sual about this party, except its plans. Even its goal, like that of all other parties, was the Klondike. But the route it had mapped out to attain th... ..., these poor murdered people, and they had been slain singly, in pairs, and in parties. And so purposeless and wanton had been these killings, that th... ...day Evening Post, 22 May, 1909. Second magazine publi cation in International Socialist Review, V ol. 15, No. 1, July 1914, pp. 7 17. South of the S... ...e adventur ers, soldiers of fortune, bandits, disgruntled American union men, socialists, anarchists, rough necks, Mexican exiles, peons escaped from... ...on the rim of an exca vation for all the world like the diamond pits of South Africa. But no diamond this that he gazed down upon. Rather was it a pe...

...But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll le...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life...

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Preface to Major Barbara First Aid to Critics

By: George Bernard Shaw

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernar... ...d sanity was deemed comic: Hogarth shows us how fashionable people went in parties to Bedlam to laugh at the lunatics. I myself have had a village idi... ... Schopenhauer, or even knew whether he was a philosopher or a chemist, the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties brought me into contact, both li... ...ontact, both literary and personal, with Mr Ernest Belfort Bax, an English Socialist and philosophic essayist, whose handling of modern feminism would... ... part played by Christian mission- aries in reconciling the black races of Africa to their subjuga- tion by European Capitalism, we can judge for ours... ...history of the English factories, the American trusts, the exploitation of African gold, diamonds, ivory and rub- ber, outdoes in villainy the worst t... ...with a Russian man of genius who has changed wives without the sanction of South Dakota; to grotesque hypocrisy, cruel persecution, and final utter co... ...t to pay his own life as the price of one terrible blow at the responsible parties. Unhappily his poverty leaves him also ignorant enough to be duped ...

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

By: H. G. Wells

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...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 in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

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...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...Y H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...rating me from every En- glish-speaking, English-thinking person who lives south of the Great Lakes. So long as men are content to work in the 21 H G... ...thlessly and entirely. And these repudiations extend also to the political parties that struggle to realize themselves within the forms of our establi... ...action-fighting may be turned for a time to- wards his remoter ends. These parties derive from that past when the new view of life had yet to establis... ...ype, the dusky Jewess, the tall, fair Scandinavian, the dark and brilliant south Italian, the noble Roman, the dainty Japanese—to name no others. Each... ...unavoidable epidemic of measles killed some thousands of children in South Africa, who, for some idiotic or wicked vote-catching purpose, attempted to... ...proffered half-crown. He will have listened to T rade Union organizers and Socialist speakers; he will have read the spe- cial papers of his class. Th... ...ds a profounder revolu- tion, the control of private property. “We are all Socialists nowadays,” and it is needless, therefore, to argue here at any l...

...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attem...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...ffeln! Not that! Never! … I don’t know whether I dare boast like a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace ... ...ect who look at life from under a parasol. Naturally, being a man from the South, he had a rather outspoken belief in himself, but his small dis- tinc... ...ift, has sarcastically remarked in one of his public speeches: “We are all Socialists now.” And in the sense in which it may be said that we all in Eu... ...a good prince and a good Republican, will succeed no doubt in being a good Socialist. He will disregard the stupid- ity of the dogma and the unlovely ... ...he earth, on the model of the territo- rial spheres of influence marked in Africa to keep the competitors for the privilege of improving the nigger (a... ... modified and confirmed by two other treaties, which guaranteed to all the parties in a just and eternal union all their rights, liberties, and respec... ...at different times, simply be- cause good care was taken by the interested parties to stop the mouth of the accused. But it has never carried much con...

......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

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Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing

By: Lucy Morrison

...of Four Volume 7 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publication Editor in Chief Jim Manis Editor Lucy Morrison Associate Editors Liz Wright Suzann... ...the student essays contained herein were produced by students regis- tered in English 004, within the Commonwealth College of the Pensylvania Univer- ... ...tion in Shanksville following the colli- sion of the second plane with the South Tower. Before my dad would arrive there, a Boeing 757 had crashed jus... ...eutical plant. They kill us, we kill them: repeat. One of the two involved parties needs to realize that killing will only bring more killing. History... ...ously affected by the AIDS epidemic, those in developing countries like in Africa. The majority of an article by Jon Cohen discusses the scientific ob... ...re begins his discus- sion with the roots of the AIDS virus, pri- mates in Africa. The fact that the AIDS virus is not only a human disease but can al... ...oquest.umi.com>. Vann, Bill. “US propagandists invoke the Cold War.” World Socialist Web Site 30 Oct. 2001: n. pag. 31 Oct 2001 <http://www.wsws.org/a...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the seventh volume of Best of ?. For the past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Commonwealth College campuses, and this year we made the big plunge into accepting submissions from...

............... 6 Adam Shaffer ?And Unknown Leader? .................................................................... 7 Khyati Valand ?A Neighborhood in India?............................................................... 9 Katie Aughenbaugh ?My Grandfather? ................................................................. 11 Devon Bowlin ?Almost Famous?.....................

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Captain Brassbound's Conversion

By: George Bernard Shaw

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...Excerpt: ACT I. On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly Scotchman, spiritually a little weather beaten, as having to navigate his creed in strange waters crowded...

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Howards End by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University,... ... had to raise and lower the window again and again. She passed through the South Welwyn Tunnel, saw light for a moment, and entered the North Welwyn T... ...ointed to the same post by the same authority. Were both these loud-voiced parties right? On one occasion they had met and Margaret with clasped hands... ...will they not discuss this most clear question?” Her father, surveying the parties grimly, replied that he did not know. Putting her head on one side,... ... Thomas’s Hospital, and through the immense tun- nel that passes under the South-Western main line at Vauxhall. In the tunnel he paused and listened t... ...o India in November, but I forgot.” “He sailed on the 17th for Nigeria, in Africa.” “I knew—I know. I have been too absurd all through. I am very much... ...o the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.” “Every one admits that.” “Your Socialists don’t.” “My Socialists do. Yours mayn’t; but I strongly sus- pec... ...y Socialists do. Yours mayn’t; but I strongly sus- pect yours of being not Socialists, but ninepins, which you have constructed for your own amusement...

...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and th...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... in summer and to Babylon for the winter. In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts. The geograph... ...and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts. The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life. But the nomads were the terror of all t... ...eing. In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, 23 Emerson east, west, to the centre of every province of the empir... ...ng that all things go well. Vast spaces of nature, the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. Thi... ...hen urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregati... ...rriage, on socialism, on se- 84 Essays cret societies, on the college, on parties and persons, that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as ... ...perance and non-resistance societies; in movements of abolitionists and of socialists; and in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Con...

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Cashel Byron's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylva... ...t the corners, each bastion terminating skyward in a T urkish minaret. The southwest face was the front, and was pierced by a Moorish arch fitted with... ...dland, thirty acres of which were enclosed as Wiltstoken Park. Half a mile south was the little town of Wiltstoken, accessible by rail from London in ... ... occasion will be a special one, as Herr Abendgasse, a remark- able German socialist and art critic, is to deliver a lecture on ‘The T rue in Art.’ Be... ...speaking of him in society, to refer to him as a sociologist, and not as a socialist. Are you particularly anxious to hear him lecture?” “No doubt it ... ...f into a street fight; for it’s low, and generally turns out badly for all parties. However, that’s only a bit of practical advice. It doesn’t alter t... ...nd, a few years before, had stolen a kingdom from a considerable people in Africa, and seized the person of its king. The conquest proved useless, tro... ...eave, expressing a hope that things would turn out to the advantage of all parties. Then Lydia insisted on her partaking of some solid refreshment, an...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...athetic kind of folly. Money, being a means of happiness, should make both parties happy when it changes hands; rightly disposed, it should be twice b... ...ating that they were prepared to join in any enterprise commenced by their south- ern brethren. The leader of the persecutors was Sir James Turner, an... ...prinkled trees, and fading gradu- ally into shadow in the distance. To the south, too, they beheld a deep-shaded amphitheatre of heather and bracken; ... ...very semblance of life from the victim enclosed in his toils. The flanking parties of horse were forced in upon the centre, and though, as even Turner... ...nd of Laputa. It is for this reason in particular that we are all becoming Socialists with- out knowing it; by which I would not in the least refer to... ...e branch on which some other interest is seated, do we apply in detail our Socialistic remedies, and yet not perceive that we are all labouring togeth... ...aleatory, whether it touch life, or fortune, or renown– whether we explore Africa or only toss for halfpence– that is what I conceive men to love best...

...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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