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...ision of man’s material destiny that opens out before me. I see the desert continents transformed, the poles no longer wildernesses of ice, the whole ... ...nca for the world. They seem to have given little attention to the various theoretical universal languages which were proposed to them. They wished to...

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...ay in ships. I got my work to do, and do it I will.” And in no time all my continents and lands were swirling water and swiping strokes of house-flann... ...idge, rather stunted and spiritless and very dif- ficult to idealise. That theoretical Working Man of ours!—if we felt the clash at all we explained i... ...ty thousand a year,” she maintained. “That’s my remedy.” In my new role of theoretical aristocrat I felt a little abashed. “T wenty thousand,” she rep...

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... seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into the silent continents of Death and Eternity, a brave man?s judgments about his own sorry work in the field of Time are not apt to be too lenient. But, in fine, here was some portion of his work which the world had already got hold of, a...

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...e had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into the silent continents of Death and Eter- nity, a brave man’s judgments about his own ... ...ne than the managers of the Religious-Tract Society fancy, because it is a theoretical dispute; and in dealing with notions and authorities, I can qui...

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..., with its sister mate, the Moon. It is a planet like our planet, the same continents, the same islands, the same oceans and seas, another Fuji- Yama ... ...testify that these conditions are satisfied. From the point of view of the theoretical Utopian State, these licenses are the feature of primary import...

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... was this Festival, which from their isles _2305 And continents, and winds, and oceans deep, All shapes might throng to share, t... ... _20 Swayed by the summer air; my streams will flow Round many-peopled continents, and round Fortunate isles; and from their glassy thrones Blue P... ... _310 Were monarch beasts, and on the slimy shores, And weed-overgrown continents of earth, Increased and multiplied like summer worms On an aband... ...ry. He asserted that he was too metaphysical and abstract, too fond of the theoretical and the ideal, to succeed as a tragedian. It perhaps is not str... ...lantides: The all-beholding Sun had ne’er beholden In his wide voyage o’er continents and seas So fair a creature, as she lay enfolden ... ... overleaps all fence: Like lightning, with invisible violence Piercing its continents; like Heaven’s free breath, _400 Which he who g...

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...re, no doubt, museums and town halls and even cathedrals of a sort to mark theoretical centres of mu- nicipal and religious organisation in this confu... ...ght over New York were the men given short rifles with detonating bullets. Theoretically, the drachenflieger were to have been the fighting weapon. Th... ...ey talked, of great issues at a crisis, of nations in tumultuous march, of continents overthrown, of famine and destruction beyond measure. Ever and a...

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...re a new people, a pioneer people, a people destined by fate to break up new continents and experiment in new social conditions; and therefore it may ... ...s the esteem in which the whole race holds ideas and their noble expression. Theoretically, America holds art and ideas in esteem also; but she does n... ... is the practical fact? That the Frenchwoman has gone straight through these theoretical restrictions to the heart of reality, and become her husband’...

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...tizenship. M. De T ocqueville found in these minor local jurisdictions the theoretical conservatism which, in the aggregate, is the safest reliance of... ...o wishes to be understood is obliged to push all his ideas to their utmost theoretical consequences, and often to the verge of what is false or imprac... ...lone. If the judge had been empowered to contest the laws on the ground of theoretical generalities, if he had been enabled to open an attack or to pa... ...s hit upon by the legislators, which brought together by force two systems theoretically irreconcilable. The principle of the independence of the Stat... ...e spirit of the Americans is averse to general ideas; and it does not seek theoretical discoveries. Neither politics nor manufactures direct them to t... ...nufactur- ing at home most of the articles which they require; but the two continents can never be independent of each other, so numerous are the natu...

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...e; one of Nature’s own Poems, such as she writes in broad facts over great continents. For it was prop- erly the beginning of America: there were stra... ...you do or work at all? Such Gos- pel Johnson preached and taught;—coupled, theoretically and practically, with this other great Gospel, “Clear your mi... ...annot continue forever to sit. What is to be done?—It was a question which theoretical constitution-builders may find easy to answer; but to Cromwell,...

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...wn little methods, which are, if he won’t mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him... ...al adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is strange and biz...

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...ke is his fundamental belief: doubts have been thrown on this principle by theoretical writers alone. When a deviation appears not unfrequently, and w... ...s, is also applied arbitrarily, and for mere con- venience sake. Guided by theoretical considerations, I thought that some interesting results might b... ...from the first pair. But we have better evidence on this subject than mere theoretical calculations, namely, the numerous recorded cases of the astoni... ...no beast of prey, has been caused by disuse. The ostrich indeed in- habits continents and is exposed to danger from which it cannot escape by flight, ... ...thers have remarked, this is not the case, and the cave-insects of the two continents are not more closely allied than might have been anticipated fro... ...e affinities of the blind cave-animals to the other inhabitants of the two continents on the ordinary view of their in- dependent creation. That sever... ... the sediment was derived, occurred in the neighbourhood of the ex- isting continents of Europe and North America. But we do not know what was the sta... ...rhaps in- fer, that during the palaeozoic and secondary peri- ods, neither continents nor continental islands ex- isted where our oceans now extend; f...

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... the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents. They are the natural highways of all nations, not only levellin... ...leasant to them. Why do you not try it? Don’t let me hinder you. There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on antic... ...s in his mind to the brightness of the vision in his starriest hour. These continents and hemispheres are soon run over, but an always unexplored and ...

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...whose strong hands shall no more be gyved; to whom boundless uncon- quered continents lie disclosed. The weary day-drudge has heard of it; the beggar ... ...he art of producing zero, are they not great? Nay, best of all, some happy Continents (as the Western one, with its Savannahs, where whosoever has fou... ...ng but only drilling, this question, How you rise from the ranks, may seem theoretical rather. But in reference to the Rights of Man it is continually...

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...ul ture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations con... ...rgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole. Of all the classes that... ...the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat. The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or... ...the contest, these fantastic attacks on it, lose all practical value and all theoretical justification. There fore, although the originators of these...

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...mor- tality,” cover no distinctive sense-content whatever, it follows that theoretically speaking they are words devoid of any significance. Yet stran... ...lf, or accuse outside powers; and he may or he may not be tormented by the theoretical mystery of why he should so have to suffer. Most cases are mixe... ...a deity were really there demanding such sacrifices, you would be making a theoretical mistake by tacitly assuming that the deity must be non-existent... ... truth of theology. The plot inevitably thickens upon us; we cannot escape theoretical considerations. I propose, then, that to some degree we face th... ...rface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most certain there ...