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...dvocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes us... ...question is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question... ...n is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question foreve... ...s that in that year there were over four hundred thousand mulattoes in the United States. Now let us take what is called an Abolition State—the Republ... ...in that year there were over four hundred thousand mulattoes in the United States. Now let us take what is called an Abolition State—the Republican, s... ...1805, prescribing rules for the subdivision of sections of land within the United States system of surveys, standing unrepealed, in my opinion, is bin... ... 34 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five 1859 FIRST SUGGESTION OF A PRESIDENTIAL OFFER. TO S. GALLOW A Y . SPRINGFIELD, ILL., July 28, 1859. HO... ...body else, that all the elements of the opposition shall unite in the next Presidential election and in all future time. I am anxious that that should... ... ever, A. LINCOLN. [The custom then, and it may be a good one, was for the Presidential candidate to do no personal canvassing or speaking—or as we ha...

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...ed glow of embers. “I shall see Holroyd himself on my way back through the States,” said Sir John. “I’ve ascertained that he, too, wants the railway.”... ...siness of living. Don Jose Avellanos, their neighbour across the street, a statesman, a poet, a man of culture, who had rep- resented his country at s... ...ed backwards and forwards in a rocking-chair of the sort exported from the United States. The ceiling of the largest drawing-room of the Casa Gould ex... ...wards and forwards in a rocking-chair of the sort exported from the United States. The ceiling of the largest drawing-room of the Casa Gould extended ... ... might fall of their legitimate expectations, no gang in possession of the Presidential Palace would be so incompetent as to suffer itself to be baffl... ..., with my dear mother, for a whole year, while poor father was away in the United States on business. You shall be the new mis- tress of the Casa Goul... ...romo twenty-dollar pieces was a secret between himself, a great man in the United States (who condescended to answer the Sulaco mail with his own hand... ...) had 107 Joseph Conrad certainly helped so greatly in bringing about the presidential tour that he began to think that there was something in the fa... ...t quite safe for anybody of mark to stay away from these manifestations of presidential piety. Having thus acknowledged the only power he was at all d...

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... with him, and with two cups of coffee and a chicken patty, upon a pile of presidential overshoes in the coat-closet under the stairs, and as the thin... ...es the permanent Mother Chautauqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest to... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-... ...l derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-known r... ... known to be honest and courteous. London is a large city. A distinguished statesman once 246 Main Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” w... ...c situation.” Oscarina went back home to help on the farm, and Carol had a succession of maids, with gaps between. The lack of servants was becoming o... ...d to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers. Beavers, human Beavers, were everywh... ...wers and poetry and music and everything; he spieled like he was a regular United States Senator; and Myrtle—she’s a devil, that girl, ha! ha!—she kid... ...ollars a quart, recipes for home-made beer, the “high cost of living,” the presidential election, Clark’s new car, and not very novel foibles of Cy Bo...

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...umulating, not from the ranks of the half-freed colored people of the free states, but from the very depths of slavery itself; the indestructible equa... ...rgan of the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in the United States. 13 Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on ... ... the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in the United States. 13 Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his ret... ... Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely again... ...ick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely against the ... ...f his paper, may be estimated by the fact, that anti-slavery papers in the United States, even while organs of, and when supported by, anti-slavery pa... ...es to hinder or to prevent the operation of these electric conduc- tors. A succession of earthquakes would be less destructive, than the insurrectiona... ...deeper, and strained harder, in their conventions, preparatory to the late presidential election, to meet the demands of the slavery party than at any...

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...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ...te man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which states a fact without interpreting it: it is something like giv ing the ... ...of them that you are allowed to run at all down stream. There’s a law of the United States against it. The river may be rising by the time we get to 1... ..., he promptly resented even the merest sugges tions. Indeed, the law of the United States forbade him to listen to commands or suggestions, rightly c... ...ould get a pilot’s license for him by signing an application directed to the United States Inspector. Noth ing further was needed; usually no questio... ...ke him see it all and feel it all. But if he wait? If he make ten voyages in succession—what then? Why, the thing has lost color, snap, surprise; and ... ... rab bit—limbs and features merged together, not strongly de fined; pewter presidential campaign medal; miniature card board wood sawyer, to be att... ...d vexation it may cost. Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 271 We had a succession of black nights, going up the river, and it was observable tha...

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... be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a little to the strain?. The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts in the case....

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...nt, the present rebellion brought our re- public to a severe test, and the Presidential election, oc- curring in regular course during the rebellion, ... ... yet it is in a peculiar degree both illustrative and typical of the great statesman who made it, alike in its strong com- 4 The Writings of Abraham ... ...He says: “….the moral qualities that are required in the higher spheres of statesmanship [are not] those of a hero or a saint. Passionate earnestness ... ...re that of skil- ful compromise, and in the conditions of modern life, the statesman is likely to succeed best who possesses second- ary qualities to ... ...s; he read Robinson Crusoe, The Pilgrim’s Progress, a short history of the United States, and Weems’s Life of Washington. To the town constable’s he w... ... his- toric rails which were destined to play so picturesque a part in the Presidential campaign twenty-eight years later. Having come of age, Lincoln... ...n their claims seemed to him unfair. Presenting his very first case in the United States Circuit Court, the only question being one of authority, he d... ...promise of 1850 with reluctance and a mental reservation, supported in the Presidential campaign of 1852 the Whig candidate in some spiritless speeche... ...854. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, opening the Territories of the United States, the heritage of coming generations, to the invasion of slave...

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...er mistaken. Prejudiced, I never have been otherwise than in favour of the United States. No visitor can ever have set foot on those shores, with a st... ...aken. Prejudiced, I never have been otherwise than in favour of the United States. No visitor can ever have set foot on those shores, with a stronger ... ...Prejudiced, I am not, and never have been, otherwise than in favour of the United States. I have many friends in America, I feel a grateful interest i... ...ced, I am not, and never have been, otherwise than in favour of the United States. I have many friends in America, I feel a grateful interest in the c... ...t the Custom—house above all others would do well to take example from the United States and render itself somewhat less odious and offensive to forei... ...ustom—house above all others would do well to take example from the United States and render itself somewhat less odious and offensive to foreigners. ... ... and made refreshing to the sight by turf and trees. Soon we shot in quick succession, past a light house; a madhouse (how the lunatics flung up their... ...ir favours so abundantly upon the car pet, that I take it for granted the Presidential housemaids have high wages, or, to speak more genteelly, an am... ...on nearly double, return but a hun dred and forty two. Before whom do the presidential candidates bow down the most humbly, on whom do they fawn the ...

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...habitants must all have felt like brethren. They were fitted to become one united People at a future period. Perhaps their feelings of brother hood w... ... good old gentleman really seemed to suppose that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his ... ...ld gentleman really seemed to suppose that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his chair u... ...es, for mutual defence against their enemies. They called them selves the United Colonies of New England.” “Were they under a government like that of... ...ies of New England.” “Were they under a government like that of the United States?” inquired Laurence. “No,” replied Grandfather; “the different colon... ...event,” observed Grandfather, “was a thousand times greater than that of a Presidential election in our own days. If the people dislike their Presiden... ...in of peaceful and humble hopes had been wrought by the cold policy of the statesman and the iron band of the war rior, might have drawn a deep moral... ... Adams. He made minute researches into its history, and ascertained what a succession of excellent and famous people had occupied it.” “How did he fin...

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...still would be to exchange congratulations with you, as the members of one united fam ily, on the thriving vigour of this strongest child of a strong... ...d with all conditions of men, and all periods of time. The scholar and the statesman, men of peace and men of war, have agreed in all ages to delight ... ...mbers themselves. I am truly sensible, gentlemen, that my friends who have united in this address are partial in their kindness, and regard what I hav... ...morrow—from that venality which, by a fine moral retribution, has degraded statesmen even to a greater extent than authors, because the statesman ente... ...have had experience in that way, but at home, and within the limits of the United Kingdom. I dare say most of us have Speeches: Literary and Social 5... ...me to see the place where he lived and wrote. Setting aside the orator and statesman—for hap pily we know no party here but this agreeable party—set ... ...ge, and which is not without its moral as applied to myself, in my present presidential position. In a certain theatrical company was included a man, ... ...excellence supremely asserts itself, and from which promise of a brilliant succession in time to come is not wanting. They naturally see with especial...

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...: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good ...

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...vy,” approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have ... ...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ...nd such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their ser... ... officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services a... ...’S ORDER OF MILITARY EMANCIPA- TION, MAY 19, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation Whereas there appears in the publi... ...R OF MILITARY EMANCIPA- TION, MAY 19, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation Whereas there appears in the public print... ...t powerful position and army on that very day. And not only so, but in the succession of battles in Pennsylvania, near to us, through three days, so r... ..., it is plain to me it can gain nothing by attempting to follow him over a succession of intrenched lines into a fortified city. Y ours truly, A. LINC... ...an to whose statements I attach credit, that the opposition policy for the Presidential campaign will be to “abstain from voting.” J. [Comment.] More ...

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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. T... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...ronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics ... ...ransmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics Series ... ...TIVE OATH OF OFFICE.........370 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STAT... ...TH OF OFFICE.........370 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM... ... in a place of the Capitol associated with the Congress as a whole. The Vice Presidential oath of office for most administrations was taken in the Sen... ...DAY, MARCH 5, 1821 In 1821, March 4 fell on a Sunday for the first time that presidential inaugurations had been observed. Although his previous term ... ...try men who were favorable to my election was gratified “I must go into the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every at...

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...ned. Again, if we take the Whig votes of the counties as shown by the late Presidential election as a basis, the thing is still worse. It seems to me ... ...ink annexation an evil. I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, and perhaps to liberty itself (para... ...berty itself (paradox though it may seem), to let the slavery of the other States alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear that ... ... LINCOLN. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The Pres... ...N. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President o... ... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President of the United States, in his mes- sage of May 11, 1846, has declared that “the Mex... ...the Mexican Gov- ernment not only refused to receive him [the envoy of the United States], or to listen to his propositions, but, after a long-continu... ...ing a sort of cau- cus of the Whig members, held in relation to the coming Presidential election. The whole field of the nation was scanned, and all i... ...t. He thought it altogether novel and un- precedented for a President or a Presidential candidate to 74 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two thi...

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.............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States- General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is... ...in for his share. (August, 1784.) Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. In such succession of singular prismatic tints, flush after flush suffusing our hor... ...gth, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You de- mand States-General?” asked Monseigneur with an air of mi- natory surprise.—”Yes... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...earn the shadow of a name. Experienced Mounier, experienced Malouet; whose Presidential Parlementary experience the stream of things shall soon leave ... ...owever, in defect of such transcendent supreme man, Time with its infinite succession of merely superior men, each yielding his little contribution, d... ...elf aiding from within: the railing gives way; Majesty and Legislative are united in place, unknown Destiny hovering over both. Rattle, and again ratt...

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............................................................. 100 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States-General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is ... ...in for his share. (August, 1784.) Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. In such succession of singular prismatic tints, flush after flush suffusing our hor... ...imi- nary shadows, poor M. Fourqueux, poor M. Villedeuil, do hold in quick succession some simulacrum of it, (Besenval, iii. 225.)—as the new Moon wil... ...ength, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You demand States-Gen- eral?” asked Monseigneur with an air of minatory surprise.— ”Ye... ...Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall n... ...ntation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...earn the shadow of a name. Experienced Mounier, experienced Malouet; whose Presidential Parlementary experience the stream of things shall soon leave ... ...ever, in defect of such transcendent su- preme man, Time with its infinite succession of merely superior men, each yielding his little contribution, d...

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...ke plain, through having them returned upon his hands by a dozen agents in succession who could make neither be- ginning, middle, nor end of them or h... ...n the ground-floor in which it was held, was the Snuggery in question; the presidential tri- bune of the chairman, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, to... ...into a very fair bed; and the stranger was left to the Windsor chairs, the presidential tribune, the beery atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of states- manship, How not to do it, in motion. Because the Circumlo- cution ... ...as always voted immaculate by an accommodating majority. Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this natu... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...t was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as t... ...ut self-commendation, a fitness in it. Say things prospered, and they were united. She, the child of the Marshalsea; he, the lock-keeper. There was a ...

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...ke plain, through having them returned upon his hands by a dozen agents in succession who could make neither be- ginning, middle, nor end of them or h... ...n the ground-floor in which it was held, was the Snuggery in question; the presidential tri- bune of the chairman, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, to... ...into a very fair bed; and the stranger was left to the Windsor chairs, the presidential tribune, the beery atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of states- manship, How not to do it, in motion. Because the Circumlo- cution ... ...as always voted immaculate by an accommodating majority. Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this natu... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...t was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as t... ...ut self-commendation, a fitness in it. Say things prospered, and they were united. She, the child of the Marshalsea; he, the lock-keeper. There was a ...

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...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he... ... herbs, sponges, and plant-animals, to eternize and continue them unto all succession of ages (in their several kinds or sorts, at least, although the... ...s who in the chamber of lots are said to rule, sit in judgment, and bear a presidential sway? Neither him nor them, answered Pantagruel; only open up ... ...nd binary, the first of the even numbers, as of a male and female knit and united together. In very deed it was the fashion of old in the city of Rome... ...aging of some formidable war, or the notable change and mutation of potent states and kingdoms; but, in conclusion, the world laugheth at the capricio... ...make it sound several times upon the stall of the cook’s shop. Then with a presidential majesty holding his bauble sceptre-like in his hand, muffling ... ... upon the manner of obviat- ing a so dreadful danger, Jove, sitting in his presidential throne, asked the votes of all the other gods, which, after a ...

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...e end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply ... ...t will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an ... ...d a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration of all the Atlantic Allies in favour of a League of Nati... ...raight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the concluding pa... ... forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the concluding parts of ... ...onal” Authority, prac- tically taking over the sovereignty of the existing states and empires of the world. Most people’s ideas of the League fall bet... ...es the election of a President follow upon a preliminary elec- tion of two Presidential Candidates. The point I am making here is that he is a special... ...toral representation of the nations upon these three bod- ies that must in succession set themselves to define, orga- nize, and maintain the peace of ... ...erence of Indian princes and leading men. The chief defect of the American Presidential election is that as the old single vote method of election is ...

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...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...ation my father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I ... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ...uld not write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at ... ... write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at West Po... ...afforded, it would not have voted for Jefferson Davis for President of the United 15 U. S. Grant States, over Mr. Lincoln, or any other representativ... ...hile a citizen of Missouri, my first opportunity for cast- ing a vote at a Presidential election occurred. I had been in the army from before attainin... ...exation of Texas, “the inevitable conflict” commenced. As the time for the Presidential election of 1856—the first at which I had the opportunity of v... ...opes that the four years which had elapsed since the first nomination of a Presidential candidate by a party distinctly opposed to slavery extension, ...

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...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ...unctions of a government are not a fixed thing, but different in different states of society; much more extensive in a backward than in an advanced st... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...e Athenian Con stitution had many such provisions, and so has that of the United States. But while it is essential to representative government that ... ...icity and liberty of dis cussion, whereby not merely a few individuals in succession, but the whole public, are made, to a certain extent, partici p... ...ided with less reference to its merits than to its expected bearing on the presidential election. If a system had been devised to make party spirit th... ...ountry ought to be able to do for its subjects all that could be done by a succession of absolute monarchs, guaranteed by irresistible force against t...

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...gion on that account—Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted— All states of mind are neurally conditioned— Their significance must be tested ... ...h. LECTURES XVI AND XVII MYSTICISM Mysticism defined— Four marks of mystic states— They form a distinct region of consciousness— Examples of their low... ...ism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effects of mystic states— They describe by nega- tives— Sense of union with the Absolute— Mys... ... the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- t... ...g that it cometh from the Lord.” And again: “Consider the little infants, united and joined to the breasts of their nursing moth- ers you will see th... ... plea- sure of sucking prompts them. Even so, during its orison, the heart united to its God oftentimes makes attempts at closer union by movements du... ... thing that might chance; and went, with indefatigable industry, through a succession of servile employments in dif- ferent places, of longer and shor... ...ness for a vacation, changes his system of ideas from top to bot- tom. The presidential anxieties have lapsed into the background entirely; the offici... ...4 The V arieties of Religious Experience ites. For them the soul is only a succession of fields of consciousness: yet there is found in each field a p...

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...2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation?...

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