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...Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his defense of atheism. This book is the first of two volumes collecting Ingersoll's speeches....

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...Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War (1898). Written when Dewey was seventy-five years old and had served fifty-nine years in the navy, this book offers not only an excellent account of the famous naval battle in the Philippines, but also stories of...

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...4 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- The Strength of the Strong, 373 -- War, 391 -- The Mexican, 398 -- Told in the Drooling Ward, 428...

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.... . . . . 354 The Strength of the Strong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 The M... ...elt, — felt as only one can feel who has been shut out for years from all that civilization means. Morning brought consciousness to the stricken man, ... ...utfit for some suddenly indispensable article, — and these two effete scions of civilization discovered sprains or blisters requiring instant atten ti... ...he healthy physiques of the Inca pables. Yellow and weak, fleeing from a South American fever hole, he had not broken his flight across the zones, and ... ...ent away on the wind. “The people said it was good, for there would be no more war of the bloods in Akatan; but I said never a word, waiting till the ... ...n us a schooner, with close in her wake the cloudy funnels of a Russian man of war. We fled away on the beam of the wind, with the schooner jamming sti... ...t ’s where the Yukon empties, — and from there it won’t be hard to get back to civilization. Take my word for it and get out of here as fast as God ’l... ...fused to ease down his pace and bleated about freedom of contract, independent Americanism, and the dignity of toil, they proceeded to spoil his pace ... ...nce, while Fred die Drummond condemned shirking as vicious, criminal, and un American, and devoted whole chapters to condemnation of the vice. Fredd...

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...Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor. His book's hero leads the democratic western U.S. in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes the dictator of America. Dru as dictator impose...

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...Page's plantation fiction, The Conjure Woman consciously moved away from these models, instead offering an almost biting examination of pre- and post-Civil War race relations. These seven short stories use a frame narrator, John, a white carpetbagger who has moved south to protect his wife Annie's failing health and to begin cultivating a grape vineyard. Enamored by remnan...

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...Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course...

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...eteors With Antecedents A BROADWAY PAGEANT SEA-DRIFT Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life Tears To the Man-Of-War-Bird Aboard at a Ship's Helm On the Beach at Night The World below the Brine On the Beach at Night Alone Song For All Seas, All Ships Patroling Barnegat After the Sea-Ship BY THE ROADSIDE A Boston Ballad Europe ...

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...roughout his career, he was active in politics and government service. He was elected to numerous terms in the legislature and served as an educator, civil servant and judge....

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...eturn Home. 23 -- Birth of Kamehameha I. 25 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Becomes an Instructor. 28 -- Battle of Kalaeokailio, Kaupo. 30 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Again Takes War to Maui. 33 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Disregards his Kahuna. 35 -- Kekuhaupi‘o’s Adventure with Kamehameha on Maui. 38 -- Disaster at Kakanilua, Maui. 41 -- Slaughter on Maui. 44 -- Kiwala‘o Sent to Sue for Peace. 47 -- On Board Ca...

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...roughout his career, he was active in politics and government service. He was elected to numerous terms in the legislature and served as an educator, civil servant and judge....

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...n Home.. 23 -- Birth of Kamehameha I.. 25 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Becomes an Instructor.. 28 -- Battle of Kalaeokailio, Kaupo.. 30 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Again Takes War to Maui. 33 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Disregards his Kahuna. 35 -- Kekuhaupi‘o’s Adventure with Kamehameha on Maui. 38 -- Disaster at Kakanilua, Maui. 41 -- Slaughter on Maui. 44 -- Kiwala‘o Sent to Sue for Peace. 47 -- On Board Ca...

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...................................................................................................................... 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS ..............................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...n in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third ... ...ountry knee deep into the mud, wading through snipe grounds, look- ing for civilization where none exists. All these avenues have a slanting direction... ... in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13. It was then finished according to the original plan, with a... ...se instructions, were carefully followed. Indeed, nothing could exceed the civility of the officials within; but so also nothing can exceed the barbar... ...aise at Washington a vast obelisk to the memory of Washington—the first in war and first in peace, as the country is proud to call him. This obelisk i... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...f ambition and ostentation, and that he had the good sense to be guided in civil matters by men who had studied the laws of social life and the theori... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ...

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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 an active part in the war ...

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... 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 end War,” got into circulat... ...ay many men, essen- tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent w... ...broken mass of mental habit and public tradition. While we talked of this “war to end war,” the diplomatists of the Powers al- lied against Germany we... ...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...rs of discussion that the point was conceded; it was indeed only after the Civil War that the implications were fully established, that there resided ... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...ht by that very division. No one can vie with me in my appreciation of the civiliza- tion of Switzerland, Sweden, or Holland, but the plain fact of th... ...ns in the idea, and, since they have got to be digested sooner or later if civilization is not to collapse, there is no reason why we should not begin...

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...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controve...

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...call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some... ... the delicate dressing of the old knight, came on him almost like gracious civilities. There was no love lost between the Chevalier and the chap- lain... ...resence at the table; and Berenger, though his kinsman’s patronage secured civil treatment, felt much out of his element, confused, unable to take par... ... Roy,’ but ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at l... ...ut ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at least aga... ...g himself from the thraldom of his mother, and engag- ing the country in a war against Philip II. Sidney listened, but Berenger chafed, feeling only t... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri...

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... and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but the Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled the Chapins? suite of cabins with overwhelming flower-works....

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...he Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled ... ...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ... Cry, which to a bee of good blood should be what the trumpet was to Job’s war-horse. In spite of her immense age (three, years), it rang between the ... ...d out how to steer dirigible balloons. Magniac invented his rudder to help war-boats ram each other; and war went out of fashion and Magniac he went o... ...w score of persons of both sexes, controls this planet. “Transportation is Civilisation,” our motto runs. Theoretically, we do what we please so long ... ...d by the way,” said he to her, stepping forth in sunshine under the hat of civil life, “I saw young Williams in the Mark Boat. I’ve asked him to tea o... ... your cannibals to work for you?” asked Strickland. “They got converted to civilization after my Chief smashed Ibn Makarrah—just at the time I wanted ...

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...WTH RATE 146 REAL WEALTH PER PERSON 147 BORROWING 147 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS 148 CRIMEANDITSCOSTS 150 FOREIGN AID AND GLOBILIZATION 152 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING...

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...S POWER ................................................................................................................................... 41 WAR AN... ...ng conscious choices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterlife and our civil ... ...id backwards while Kino and Singaling have taken over the values which once made us great. This saddens me, but it was to be expected. ―All civili... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...eas here. ―The physiological, safety, love and esteem needs are called ‗basic needs‘ by Maslow. These needs should be easily met in any civili... ...Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countries during and after the World War. ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...mit that violence in films, TV programming and video games, helps to make better soldiers—where killing is an ideal form of behavior. In World War I ...

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...OWER............................................3 CHAPTER II OF THE STATE OF NATURE.....................................5 CHAPTER III OF THE STATE OF WAR......................................12 CHAPTER IV OF SLAVERY.......................................................14 CHAPTER V OF PROPERTY......................................................16 CHAPTER VI OF PATERNAL P...

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...ENT SECOND ESSAY : AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT by John Locke Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: ... ...ent, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Govern ment by John Locke, trans. William Popple is a publication o... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Exten... ...the unjust vio lence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, de clared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or a tige... ... 2nd Essay – Locke CHAPTER III OF THE S TATE OF W AR 16. The state of war is a state of enmity and destruc tion; and therefore declaring by word... ... but sedate, settled design upon another man’s life puts him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intention, and so has exp... ...annot be a clearer demonstration of any thing than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land and poor in all the comforts of... ... Essay – Locke the first commoners of the world look after—as it doth the Americans now—are generally things of short dura tion, such as if they ar... ...em. They are of no more account by her standard than the Wampompeke of the Americans to an European prince, or the silver money of Europe would have b...

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...Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their cons...

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...ivil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, ...

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...Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Rufus King, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from West point in 1866 and served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. He w...

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....................................................................................................................................... 71 AUTOCRACY AND WAR?1905 ............................................................................................................................... 71 THE CRIME OF PARTITION?1919.............................................................

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...ke a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace had ever found him “with his boots off”; but I may say that wh... ... time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, honestly, I had seen already the shadow of coming events I... ...rendre c’est tout pardonner. And in this benevolent neutrality towards the war- ring errors of human nature all light would go out from art and from l... ...of Im- 43 Joseph Conrad perial Penguins. Tracing the development of their civilisation, the absurdity of their desires, the pathos of their folly and... ...ng, and he talked slowly with an into- nation which on some people, mainly Americans, had, I believe, a jarring effect. But not on me. What- ever he s... ..., very simply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his tim... ...y of true wisdom for men and States to take account of things as they are. Civilisation has done its little best by our sensi- bilities for whose grow... ...ich in its na- ture must for ever remain short-sighted. The trouble of the civilised world is the want of a common con- servative principle abstract e... ...ell where they were. His eldest son was about the decks somewhere. “We are Americans,” he remarked weightily, but in a rather peculiar tone. He spoke ...

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... was drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 as a list of grievances against the King of England, George III. The Declaration expresses the conviction of Americans in a philosophy of self-evident truths of what individual liberty and freedom should be. The Declaration was the beginning to separation from England and the catalyst for a birth of a nation. The Gettysburg Address:...

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...Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and o...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had pr...

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...lay which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the profes... ...y because they had not been prevented. They were not undone by winning the war. The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors. The W... ...eback Hall unfortunately suffered from both. For half a century before the war civilization had been going to the devil very precipitately under the i... ...k Hall unfortunately suffered from both. For half a century before the war civilization had been going to the devil very precipitately under the influ... ...ng outside their little circle of interest. But the ordinary war-conscious civilian went mad, the main symptom being a conviction that the whole order... ...ous voluntary organizations for doing what was plainly the business of the civil and military authorities, but actually handed out money to any thief ... ...l sense and reason. In European Courts there was vindictive illegality: in American Courts there was raving lunacy. It is not for me to chronicle the ... ...t is not for me to chronicle the extravagances of an Ally: let some candid American do that. I can only say that to us sitting in our gardens in Engla... ...or ourselves alive next morning, the newspaper ac- counts of the sentences American Courts were passing on young girls and old men alike for the expre...

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...eadly peril. I knew better; and I have represented Caesar as knowing better himself. But it was one of the quaintnesses of popular feeling during the war that anyone who breathed the slightest doubt of the absolute perfection of German organization, the Machiavellian depth of German diplomacy, the omniscience of German science, the equipment of every German with a complete...

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... himself. But it was one of the quaintnesses of popular feeling during the war that anyone who breathed the slightest doubt of the absolute per- fecti... ... by the sacri- fice of every recreative activity to incessant and vehement war work, including a heartbreaking mass of fussing and cadg- ing and bluff... ...nk I want one. It’s so unpatriotic to want anything now, on account of the war, you know. I sent my maid away as a public duty; and now she has marrie... ...tea at once; and do not presume to bring it yourself: have it brought by a civil waiter who is accustomed to wait on ladies, and not, like you, on com... ...ards and moustaches? Do the hawkers in the streets of every capital on the civilized globe sell ingenious cardboard representations of their faces on ... ...the ca- reer is open to the talents: before ten years have elapsed ev- ery civilized country from the Carpathians to the Rocky Mountains will be a Rep... ... written by some noodle of a min- ister and read it aloud. But look at the American President! He is the Allerhochst, if you like. No, madam, believe ... ...chst, if you like. No, madam, believe me, there is nothing like Democracy, American Democracy. Give the people voting papers: good long voting papers,... .... ERMYNTRUDE. What! You too worship before the statue of Liberty, like the Americans? THE INCA. Not at all, madam. The Americans do not worship the st...

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...W SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAIN?A DESCENT?HURRIED DEPARTURE?A -- NEW SHIPMATE, 104 -- CHAPTER XXV ? RUMORS OF WAR?A SPOUTER?SLIPPING FOR A -- SOUTH-EASTER?A GALE, 108 -- CHAPTER XXVI ? SAN FRANCISCO?MONTEREY, 117 -- CHAPTER XXVII ? THE SUNDAY WASH-UP?ON SHORE?A SET-TO?A -- GRANDEE???SAIL HO!???A FANDANGO, 122 -- CHAPTER XXVIII ? AN O...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 NEW SHIPMATE CHAPTER XXV — RUMORS OF WAR—A SPOUTER—SLIPPING FOR A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 SOUTH EASTE... ...els stood ‘‘head on,’’ bowing and curvetting at each other like a couple of war horses reined in by their riders. It was the first vessel that I had ... ... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ...ears Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana A.M., till twelve, P.M. In a man of war, and in some merchantmen, this alternation of watches is kept up t... ...the cook. ‘‘I was mighty ’fraid he was a Fin. I tell you what, I been plaguy civil to that man all the voyage. - 19 - Two Years Before the Mast Richa... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun... ... board, and soon after, the governor, dressed in a uniform like that of an American militia officer, the Padre, in the dress of the grey friars, wit... ...t Richard Henry Dana a Christian (which in the sailor’s vocabulary means civilized) country. The first impression which California had made upon... ...ey, as far as my observation goes, is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized looking place in California. In the centre of it is an open sq...

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...1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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..........................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14 4 Miscella... ...ed. The one point for him is the statutory Parliament, so that Ireland may civilly govern herself; and standing be- fore the world as representative o... ...ge the issue. For the sole alternative is distinct antago- nism, a form of war. Mr. Gladstone’s Bill has brought us to that definite line. Ireland hav... ...herself as greatest among the giants that do not go to pieces, she had, as Americans forgivingly remem- ber, without mentioning, a series of flicks of... ...em he will live despite the word farewell. CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY Letters Written to the Morning Post from the Seat of War from ... ...th an interminable line of cars and the like, forming the military and the civil train of the moving army. Then it was that it needed as much patience... ... seven in the morning on the 10th, but the troops and the military and the civil train that remained followed the Po without crossing to Stellata, in ...

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...tates through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other n...

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...Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take t...

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... agazine T HE CLOUD which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has p... ... over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been... ...s, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong... ... the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would ... ...ve been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagatio... ... a conspiracy of slave own ers, who have broken their connection with the American Federation on the sole ground, ostentatiously proclaimed, that the... ...el ings which have been manifested since the beginning of the 5 J S Mill American contest—the judgments which have been put forth, and the wishes wh... ... for God. Now, when the mind of England, and it may almost be said, of the civilized part of mankind, has been relieved from the incubus which had wei... ... terms of communion without their consent. But the parties in a protracted civil war almost invariably end by taking more extreme, not to say higher g...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 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...

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...ment 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B... ...adin 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 Afghani... ...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...10. WARTIME 325 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home 326 10.2 Planning for War 330 10.3 “Phase Two” and the Question of Iraq 334 11. FORESIGHT—AND... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We learned that ... ...con. We learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this thr... ...nidentified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration (FA...

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...PTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS...

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........................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON – CIVIL ENGINEER ...................................................... 58 CH... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...use, and his dogs my quest- ing dragoons. Little by little we dropped into civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ... all our veins there run some minims of his old, wild, tree-top blood; our civilised nerves still tingle with his rude terrors and plea- sures; and to... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ... got to Philadelphia before me. He introduc’d me to his son, who receiv’d me civilly, gave me a breakfast, but told me he did not at present want a ha... ...the impropriety of it, and at last gave a flat denial to it. Then he wrote a civil letter to Sir William, thanking him for the patronage he had so kin... ...ollins with me but that he was not so ber. The gov’r. treated me with great civility, show’d me his library, which was a very large one, and we had a... ...d pounds, and in 1739 to eighty thousand pounds, since which it arose during war to upwards of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds, trade, buildin... ...an not have the help expected from my papers, many of them being lost in the war. I have, however, found the following. ]* HAVING mentioned a great an... ... when collected. With respect to defense, Spain having been several years at war against Great Britain, and being at length join’d by France, which br...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...oy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who support the litter, civilisation, in which we ourselves are so smoothly carried forward. People... ...t in masterly coincidence with the artis- tic effect. The deadly weight of civilisation to those who are below presses sensibly on our shoulders as we... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ...se States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war a period of great trial to his soul. The new virtue, Unionism, of which... ...em to be; what is once well done is done for ever.” Such was his theory of civil disobedience. 106 Robert Louis Stevenson And the upshot? A friend pa...