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...versity. 3 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book I I. ON A JANUARY EVENING of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing ... ...r opened the door at the back of the club box the curtain had just gone up on the garden scene. There was no reason why the young man should not have ... ...ted herself to say to her son: “I’m thankful that Augusta Welland received us alone.” These indications of inward disturbance moved Archer the more th... ...actically a prisoner? Well, what if he did? I hope there isn’t a man among us who wouldn’t have done the same in such a case.” Mr. Jackson glanced ove... ...annoyed that Mr. Letterblair (no doubt prompted by old Catherine Mingott) 66 The Age of Innocence should be so evidently planning to draw him into th... ..., and then trust to her to look after him. In the complicated old European communities, Archer be- gan to guess, love-problems might be less simple an... ...e had spoken of business to Beaufort simply to get rid of him; and to have routed Beaufort was something of a triumph. “I am here to talk about it,” h... ...o know Mr. Winsett.” “Oh, yes—I reached him some time ago; but not by that route,” Winsett said with his dry smile. The Marchioness shook her head rep...

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...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 for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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................................................................. 330 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view ................. ... sleep anywhere and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these ai... ...e, but he thinks after he‘s dead he‘ll be in ‗da skies‘ while the rest of us will be resting deep below---on the other side of the grass! But at lea... ...w---on the other side of the grass! But at least he says he‘s praying for us.‖ --―Wreck, I‘m just hoping for heaven. I‘m not there yet. But i... ...o we have to use different assumptions than Euclid‘s to find the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rathe... ...y closer to the poles. Winds and other things are factored into the flight route by using the knowledges of other sciences. --―But Commander,... ...who are not so stuck on themselves and are doing selfless things in their communities.‖ —―Of course. But the general tendency is obvious. It s... ...ion of Independence but he made the Louisiana Purchase from France for 3 66 cents an acre, land that is now over a fifth of the whole U.S. and wh... ... the budget. Whenever a recession hits their tax revenues decrease. Local communities may get some help from the states, for example with schools. T...

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...respondent was dis- couraged to the point of elimination—it was discovered on both sides that this was a struggle in which Opinion was playing a large... ...ultivated flower. There was Opinion flowering away at home, feeding rankly on rumour; Opinion in neu- tral countries; Opinion getting into great tangl... ...orrespondents’ work as Mr. Philip Gibbs or Mr. Washburne has done. Some of us writ- ers—I can answer for one—have made our T our of the Fronts with a ... ..., but, as the strange, dramatic end of Lord Kitchener has served to remind us, there is no single individual of all the allied na- tions whose death c... ...sks, waggons discreetly veiled, columns of infantry, cavalry, batteries en route. Every waggon that goes up full comes back empty, and many wounded we... ...hed my historical memories; it was rather like leaving a card on Gibbon en route for contemporary history. By devious routes I went on to certain batt... ...n trench, and we stick to our track across the open. Three or four shells 66 War and the Future shiver overhead, but we decide they are British shell... ... 3 3 3 The impression I have of the present mental process in the European communities is that while the official class and the rentier class is think...

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...ly countenance and a waistcoat to match it, crossing London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached from his con- flict wit... ...hastily brightly back, seeming with the contraction of his brows to frown, on the little band of observant Samaritans; in the centre of whom a man who... ... give sign of a particular surliness when our wealthy superiors would have us think their con- descending grins are cordials. The gentleman’s eyes wer... ...be stretched by malevolence to a semblance of haughty dis- gust; reminding us, through our readings in journals, of the wicked overblown Prince Regent... ...ladies, in- viting them to join him at the station to-morrow, for a visit 66 One of Our Conquerors of inspection to the house of his building on his ... ...utes; Barmby, intonation; in all, nine of us; and by the dear old Normandy route, for the sake of the voyage, as in old times; towers of Dieppe in the... ...d to the capi- tal! Just three days in Paris, and home by any of the other routes. It’s the drive we want. Boredom in wet weather, we defy; we have ou... ...t ensued (and here is the danger for illogical individuals as well as vast communities, who continue to batten upon fiction when the convenience of it...

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...of the last few months, has been chiefly spent by the author tossing about on the wide ocean. Sailors are the only class of men who now-a-days see any... ...oncerning their origin and purposes. As writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse on these subjects, he deems it right... ... writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse on these subjects, he deems it right to advert to what may be considered a ... ...unt of whose proceedings in different quarters of the globe—transmitted to us through their own hands— very generally, and often very deservedly, rece... ...us of the vast amount of descriptive detail which is being poured out upon us. It is the varying fortune of the hero which engrosses our attention. We... ...elves for their repulse by setting fire to every house and temple in their route; and a long line of smoking ruins defaced the once-smiling bosom of t... ...to ascend. For a moment we gazed about us in quest of a more prac- ticable route; it was, however, at once apparent that there was no resource but to ... ...ere mockery. In vain did I try to elude the incessant streams that poured 66 Typee upon me; by protecting one part I only exposed another, and the wa... ...Y OF THE TYPEES—THEIR ENJOY- MENTS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF MORE ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITIES—COMPARA- TIVE WICKEDNESS OF CIVILIZED AND UNEN- LIGHTENED PEOPL...

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...hese warn- ings by the standard of a decade of realities. The book is weak on anti-aircraft guns, for example, and still more neg- ligent of submarine... ...tic “Bert” may not ultimately get even with his Highness? Our author tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World ... ... others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, t... ... been telling us this year in his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the... ...ve soon produced a sympathetic ripple in the Bun Hill establishment. Grubb routed out his flying- machine model again, tried it in the yard behind the... .... “I’ll have to be more careful next time. No good wastin’ drink.” Then he routed about for matches to utilise Mr. Butteridge’s cigars; but here again... ...ngest forms and reactions. Particularly did the fine old tradition of pa- 66 The War in the Air triotism get perverted and distorted in the rush of t... ...usly, back to the land came the common man, back to the manure. The little communities, still haunted by ten thousand memories of a greater state, gat... ...est. The world rediscovered religion and the need of something to hold its communities together. At Bun Hill this function was entrusted to on old Bap...

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...sh expedition the ambition of their protector might lead him to undertake. On the other hand, such and so multiplied were the means of vexation and op... ...t of the battle of Hastings, and it had been used, as our histories assure us, with no moderate hand. The whole race of Saxon princes and nobles had b... ...erly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical su- perstition; for, on the summit of a hillock, so regular as to seem artificial, there still r... ...Dunstan,” answered Gurth, “thou speakest but sad truths; little is left to us but the air we breathe, and that ap- pears to have been reserved with mu... ...rup. This, however, was a slight inconvenience to the gallant Abbot, who, 66 Ivanhoe perhaps, even rejoicing in the opportunity to display his ac- co... ... the lists, and the dispersion of the multitude became general. In various routes, according to the different quarters from which they came, and in gr... ...nds. He paused for the night at a small hostelry lying out of the ordinary route, where, however, he obtained from a wandering minstrel news of the ev... ...dest not to be told that thy race are held to be accursed in all Christian communities, and trust me that we cannot endure thy presence among us. Thin...

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...– THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE T HE STORY I HAVE TO TELL is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contem... ... are the contemporaries of our tattooed ancestors who drove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passed the feudal system; they... ...y are in a period of communism. And this makes them hard to understand. To us, with our feudal ideas, Samoa has the first appear- ance of a land of de... ...me word means to cherish a chief and to fondle a favourite child. Men like us, full of memories of feudalism, hear of a man so addressed, so flattered... ...y un- derstood) for Samoa, anchored in England on a Sunday, were joined en route by the famous Dr. Knappe, passed through “a narrow passage where they... ... the night, the majority of the defenders had taken advantage of the rain 66 A Footnote to History and darkness and stolen from their forts unobserve... ...ey got the gun aboard; and the night being then come, returned by the same route in the shallow water along shore, singing a boat-song. It will 76 A ... ...ediate family of the chief. But these, though so important, are only small communities; and per- haps the chief numerical force of the Malietoas inhab...

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...The Confidence-Man By Herman Melville CHAPTER I. A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi AT SUNRISE on a first of April there appeared, suddenly ... ...ame moment with his advent, he stepped aboard the favorite steamer Fidèle, on the point of starting for New Orleans. Stared at, but unsaluted, with th... ...oved, how are we admonished by the melancholy spectacle of this raver. Let us profit by the les- son; and is it not this: that if, next to mistrusting... ... vain, he will con- clude he has been made a fool of, and so not return to us for pure shame. Fact is, I begin to feel a little qualmish about the dar... ... all the stony strata of hard considerations, and drop warmly and ruddily 66 The Confidence-Man into the cold cave of truth? T ruth will not be comfo... ...-all heroes; and there’s the Five Nations, and Araucanians—federations and communities of heroes. God bless me; hate Indians? Surely the late Colonel ... ...cies, and yet all the time you get on; while the dullest part of the whole route is what the boatmen call the ‘long level’—a con- sistently-flat surfa...

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...e; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the e...

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...he American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warran... ...raries, so that very many statements, references, and citations, were made on the au- thority of my unassisted memory. Under such circumstances were m... ...conscience against perfidious despots and murdering oppressors, exhibit to us the incarnations of Wordsworth’s principle. Such wars are of rare occurr... ...minately, and not merely by verbal ordinances, but by establishing counter us- ages against this spirit of barbarity, otherwise it would have increase... ...ISIT T T T T TO L O L O L O L O LAXT AXT AXT AXT AXTON. ON. ON. ON. ON. MY ROUTE, after parting from Lord Westport at Birming- ham, lay, as I have men... ...r none of the commanding power demanded. Often, again, it happened, as our route was very circuitous, that no inns lay in our neighborhood; or, if the... ...uity of learn- ing; and felt, perhaps not unreasonably, that possibly the 66 Memorials, and Other Papers same learning united with the same zeal migh... ...al proportions on the scale of local importance, attached to the different communities, next comes the very natural question, What are the chief deter... ...stance from each other, or (which is even more im- portant) reporting from communities occupying different stages of civilization. There was no harmon...

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...e lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who have been touched with the spirit of science, prophesying i... ...aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which is a miss on the other side. He will draw a modest veil over certain still wider miss... .... It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new furniture on the stage of the world for some considerable time; that if there is much... ...g to quite another system of consequences. The broad material facts before us are plain enough. It is the mental facts that have to be unravelled. It ... ...annoy one another with tar- iffs, with the blocking and squeezing of trade routes, with the ill-treatment of immigrants and travelling strangers, and ... ...inguish- able from those on the Braintree side. The inhabitants of the two communities intermarry freely. If this absurd separation did not exist, no ... ...teenth century system of private capitalism that this war has smashed for 66 What Is Coming? ever, there will arise, there does even now arise, in th... ...on to be individually unbribable. The judges, moreover, in the Anglo-Saxon communities are appointed from among the leading barristers, an arrange- me... ...must be very present in Italian thought. The allied conception of the land route from the West and America to Bagdad and India is by Mont Cenis, Tries...

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...endered such im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occa... ...ebel gunboats, rams, etc., in April 1862. For their services and gallantry on those occasions I cordially rec- ommend that they should, by name, recei... ... General McDowell has been ordered to march upon that city by the shortest route. He is ordered, keeping himself always in position to save the capita... ...you will instruct your staff-officers to be prepared to supply him by that route. The President desires that General McDowell retain the com- mand of ... ...laces that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infan- try, two Companies cavalry, putting General Banks... ...l, after he joins you, precisely as you indicated in your long despatch to us of the 21st. A. LINCOLN. 15 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six T... ... for troops by proclamation, I have deemed it best to address you in this 66 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six form. To accomplish the object... ...whites. Could the one in any way greatly disturb the seven? There are many communities now having more than one free colored person to seven whites, a... ...ir sympathizers invaded all depart- ments of the government and nearly all communities of the people. From this material, under cover of “liberty of s...

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...ated, but it was neither speculative nor experimental as to the principles on which it 4 Democracy in America was based. If they were true principles... ... have slumbered in the minds of the people until they were suddenly forced on our attention by unexpected events. In his introductory chapter, M. De T... ...ed in the United States, and that the democracy which governs the American communities appears to be rapidly rising into power in Eu- rope. I hence co... ...vident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on amongst us; but there are two opinions as to its nature and consequences. To some i... ...ient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, when the terr... ...nglish decimated the nobles and divided their possessions; the erection of communities in- troduced an element of democratic liberty into the bosom of... ...gold and silver mines. See Marshall’s “Life of Washington,” vol. i. pp. 18-66. **A large portion of the adventurers, says Stith (“History of Virginia”... ... in the South, and furnished the best leaders of the American revolution. 66 Democracy in America At the period of which we are now speaking society ... ... peopled countries, as long as it encounters no dense populations upon its route, through which it cannot work its way, it will assuredly continue to ...

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...on’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. Gene... ...w Freemason, Robert R. Livingston administered the oath of office. The Bible on which the oath was sworn belonged to New York’s St. John’s Masonic Lod... ...ernment the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with th... ...mprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our n... ...to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting onc... ...merican people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves; and candid men will ack... ..., and it will, of INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 66 course, demand no inconsiderable share of my official solicitude. Und... ... access to the Pacific Coast, because such a power would instantly close the route across the isth mus of Central America. It is impossible to concei... ...ar formidable, will in a great degree vanish as soon as the nearest and best route shall have been satisfactorily ascertained. It may be proper that o...

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...ming events? about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I have so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do ?events? of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing houses and lands, and oxen and a...

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...I got your letter; but I have so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. ... ...day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do “events” of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing houses and lands, and oxen and asses,... ...ur room (the same that Dr. Wallace occupied there) and boarding only costs us four dollars a week. Ann Todd was married something more than a year sin... .... I most heartily wish you and your Fanny would not fail to come. Just let us know the time, and we will have a room provided for you at our house, an... ...tmarsh and Fuller, report: That, as proved to their satisfaction, the mail routes from Milledgeville to Athens, and from Warrenton to Decatur, in the ... ...was right, in good faith commenced the transportation of the mail on these routes, and after difficulty arose, still trusting that all would be made r... ...utionality. I wish now to submit a few remarks on the general proposition 66 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two of amending the Constitution. ... ...undation of the sense of justice there is in me. I extend the principle to communities of men as well as to individuals. I so extend it because it is ... ... 241 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two and the other young rising communities of the Northwest. “This current of travel,” said he, “has its r...

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...he woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my livin... ...journer in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the no tice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been mad... ...ospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in all ... ...importance of what work we do; and yet how much W alden 10 is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick? How vigilant we are! determined not... ...ly; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across lot routes, keeping them open, and ravines bridged and passable at all seasons,... ... within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course. Walden 66 Undoubtedly, in this case, what is true for one is truer still for a ... ...ok up at the opening between the trees above the path in order to learn my route, and, where there was no cart path, to feel with my feet the faint tr... ... pond itself, impaling the legislature for a bait. Thus, even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of devel opmen...

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...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPP...

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...qual opportunity university. Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY... .............................................................. 39 39 39 39 39 ON ON ON ON ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FOR ETERNIT THE SUPPOSED ... ...eeling with heavenly science, upon arches of divine geometry: suddenly, to us, it shall appear unaccountably ret- rograde; flying when none pursues; a... ...rk. Let this planet in its utmost elongations travel out of sight, and for us its course will become incoherent: because our sight is feeble, the beau... ...e do not propose to defend the varieties of doctrine held by the different communities of Protestants.’ Why, no; that would be a sad task for the most... ... an eddy in its own circumjacent waters, except that famous passage about 66 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One the three witnesses—‘T... ...hil., meantime, is no friend to that Newmanian doctrine; and in sect.31, p.66, he thus describes it:—‘ According to these writers’ (viz., the writ- er... ...er Papers – V olume One for Acre, could at least have intercepted the Acre route from the prisoners. No other remained but that through the de- files ... ...s; besides that, the line of the French operations never came near to that route. Then, again, if provisions were so scarce, how were the unarmed pris...

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...OTHER, – … Wick lies at the end or elbow of an open triangular bay, hemmed on either side by shores, either cliff or steep earth-bank, of no great hei... ...utherly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway boats) have beaten out of... ...foam, spray, and great, grey waves. Of this hereafter; in the meantime let us follow the due course of historic narrative. Seven P .M. found me at Bre... ...lad to hear from you; you know, you and I have so many old stories between us, that even if there was nothing else, even if there was not a very since... ...be as right as possible. Thanks for your letter. – Your faithful R. L. S. 66 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO MRS. SITWELL 17 HERIO... ...ng. Donkey purchased – a love – price, 65 francs and a glass of brandy. My route is all pretty well laid out; I shall go near no town till I get to Al... ...est you, and where your name appears. It is called ‘Fontainebleau: Village Communities of Artists,’ and the signature of R. L. Stevenson will be found...

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...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, essentially pacifists, towards taking ...

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... PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 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 e... ...as three years and a half ago, and since then this “war of ideas” has gone on to a phase few of us had dared hope for in those opening days. The Russi... ...half ago, and since then this “war of ideas” has gone on to a phase few of us had dared hope for in those opening days. The Russian revolution put a m... ...t English-speaking nation across the At- lantic that has carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” ... ...r is not going to alter this essential fact, that the great educated world communities, with a social and industrial organization on a war-capable sca... ...t also of the regulation of the sea ways, the regulation of the coming air routes, and the distribution of staple prod- ucts in the world. I will not ... ...f several Powers) and in the regula- tion of the big railway lines and air routes that will speedily follow the conclusion of peace. Now this I take i... ...e out across very narrow fronts. A fence of mines less than three hundred 66 In the Fourth Year miles long and two hundred feet deep would, for examp...

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...itz is right. I’m dead; only I don’t see why he left out the ‘In Memoriam’ on the ribbons!” “Nonsense!” his wife answered, and poured him his tinc- tu... ...away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn’t it s... ...s it? I never dreamed of anything like that steel-cut fender. Does he mean us to go everywhere?” “He’s catching the dog,” said George, looking out. “W... ...ether those painted floors in the green room were real oak. Don’t you like us exploring things together— better than Pompeii?” George turned once more... ... doctors thought marching in the cool of the day would do them good. Their route lay south to a place called Umballa, a hundred and twenty miles or mo... ...ing toadstool. “Not altogether,” the son corrected. “There’s one line, at 66 Actions and Reactions least, of perfectly good cells.” “My work,” said S... ...ed official Mr. L.L. Geary, Sec- 69 Kipling ond Despatcher of the Western Route—to the Captains’ Room (this wakes an echo of old romance), where the ... ...ut when one recalls the large, prosperous, and presumably public- spirited communities which during the last few years have deliberately thrown themse...

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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 throbbings. Then in elfin tones the r...

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............................................................................. 66 THE GREAT STATE ........................................................... ...ce that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in conne... ...l, and Mr. Latham, his rival, had jolly bad luck. That is what it means to us first of all. It also, I reflect privately, means that I have under-esti... ...ically driven road vehicle possible, the motor-car set an enormous premium on the development of very light, very efficient en- gines, and at last the... ...purpose. And here we are! Or, rather, M. Blériot is! What does it mean for us? One meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough t... ...r than getting into bed. This alone is likely to deter- mine the aeroplane routes along the line of the world’s coast- lines and lake groups and water... ...lake, bay, and mountain chain that cut it meridianally. Obviously its main routes and trades and rela- tions lie naturally north and south; obviously ... ...ion, but more usually there are tracks or roads to the centres of adjacent communities, and a certain drift of travel, a certain trade in non-essentia... ...tries when this was the state of affairs, when a countryside of prosperous communities with a healthy family life and a wide distribu- tion of propert...

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... task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice o... ...children were all born in this country. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have bee... ...acquainted in that vicinity. Sometimes one of the brothers would accompany us, sometimes one of the younger sisters. If the 4th infantry had remained ... ... we would join our fortunes, and not let the removal of a regiment trouble us. This was in May, 1844. It was the 22d of August, 1848, before the fulfi... ...as intended to invade Mexico from the North. In that case the most natural route to take was the one which General T aylor selected. It entered a pass... ...with General Scott looking to the surrender of the town, forts and garri- 66 Personal Memoirs son. On the 29th Vera Cruz and San Juan de Ulloa were o... ... CHAPULTEPEC—SAN COSME—EVACUATION OF THE CITY— HALLS OF THE MONTEZUMAS THE ROUTE FOLLOWED by the army from Puebla to the City of Mexico was over Rio F... ...nst our front again until we met at Jackson. In this battle McPherson lost 66 killed, 339 wounded, and 37 missing —nearly or quite all from Logan’s di... ...of the European states during our troubles shows the lack of conscience of communities where the responsibility does not come upon a single individual...

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... Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ... Life and Letters it is very much like the destiny of man. They share with us the great incertitude of ignominy or glory— of severe justice and sensel... ...ll the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thought, our ambitions, our indig- nations, o... ...pset the venerable (and comparatively naive) chemistry of our young days. 66 Notes on Life and Letters There are times when the tyranny of science an... ...kind. This ser- 83 Joseph Conrad vice of unification, creating close-knit communities possessing the ability, the will, and the power to pursue a com... ... thirty-six times longer than the Dover-Calais passage this rather unusual route had an air of ad- venture in better keeping with the romantic feeling... ...eamer, homeward-bound from Java with London as a port of call. On that sea-route I might have picked up a memory at every mile if the past had not bee...

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... existence of any one individual. Reproduction of other forms of life goes on in continuous sequence. And though, as the geological record shows, not ... ... the Life of Lincoln we do not expect to find within its covers a treatise on physiology. We look for an account of social antecedents; a description ... ...ustification is found in the fact that such emphasis is a means of getting us away from an unduly scholastic and formal notion of educa- tion. Schools... ...deas and emotions are aroused in him that animate the others. A tribe, let us say, is war- like. The successes for which it strives, the achievements ... ...ence unconsciously and apart from any set purpose. In savage and barbarian communities, such direct par- ticipation (constituting the indirect or inci... ...ern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing cus- toms, traditions, aspirations, and forms o... ...cures immediate efficiency, but, like a railway ticket, it is good for one route only. A being who, in order to use his eyes, ears, hands, and legs, h... ...emains is to exer- cise them in constant and graded repetitions, and they 66 Democracy & Education will inevitably be refined and perfected. In the p...

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...r 47 2.2 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 Nonadap...

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... 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... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...Law 107-306, November 27, 2002). Our mandate was sweeping.The law directed us to investigate “facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attack... ...rld by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitless. Its purpose is to rid the world of religiou... ... needed to alert other aircraft in the air that they too might be at risk. 66 United 175 was hijacked between 8:42 and 8:46, and awareness of that hij... ...d slammed into the World Trade Center. 77 At 9:39, the FAA’s Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center overheard a second announcement indicating tha... ...ce between airborne aircraft. 91 Many controllers work at the FAA’s 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers. They are grouped under regional offices and ... ...the federal bureaucracy, particularly the law enforcement and intelligence communities. The second, related development was a significant transfer of ... ...e sharing of such information between the intelligence and law enforcement communities, was not a priority before 9/11. Guidelines on this subject iss...