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...a dialectical relation between postmodernity and the level of civilization and culture of a country; and this relation remains identically available ... ...mulae for spirit, The sense of non-sense), mentioning that in these ones “are cultivated everywhere the shock of matching, the contrasts, the oxymor... ...marandache himself finds out - in his play Antique Tragedy - paradoxes in the Greek philosophy, without fear or other resentments. The debate among t... ...rom the artistic complexity of some “classic” characters. Thus, the “negative” hero from the first play symbolizing the totalitarian evil is the mili... ...le dramatic jewel is Antique Tragedy, in what the three sacred monsters of the Greek theatre, Eschyl, Eurypide and Sofocle are brought in the same pe... ...deation and language. The author proves an excellent knowledge of the antique Greek theatre and reality and of the socratian heuristic method and, m... ...he paradoxist “adventure”, developing the idea that this movement recalls the historical avant-garde’s experiences, finds that Smarandache’s approac... ...eth...Fuuiii...Fuuiii(...)An open window. Towards the sky.Net.Mosquitoes”.(The heroic day of an ordinary man). The syntax is not, in fact, fragmented... ...way Cartarescu cites: Marquez, Doctorow, Banulescu aso. However, the literary-historical associative flash functions automatically: is not the litera...

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...fied as achievements, in other words, as a result of value judgements within given historical, psychological and cultural contexts. Judgement has t... ... should we consider only organisms with extremities and the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche... ...e same words, or symbols, often have different meanings. Meaning is dependent upon historical, cultural, and personal contexts. There is no telling... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ...urposeful action). c. The dreamer must be the main protagonist of his dreams, the hero of his dreamy narratives. This, overwhelmingly, is the cas... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...euthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is deat... ...n had been but a fantasy." (Napoleon Bonaparte, "Thoughts") "They may all e called Heroes, in as much as they have derived their purposes and their... ...into pieces - such were Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon ... World- historical men - the Heroes of an epoch - must therefore be recognized as its clear-s...

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.............. 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR .................................................................

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................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ............................................................ ...ER O MER O MER O MER O MERCUR CUR CUR CUR CURY Y Y Y Y Translated from the Greek of Homer Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. This al... ...—T 1.—T 1.—TO STELL O STELL O STELL O STELL O STELLA. A. A. A. A. From the Greek of Plato. Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair l... ...t, and that I must lament Forever. In my attributes I stood So high and so heroically great, In lineage so supreme, and with a genius ... ... Strangers, and ships, and merchandise: Once peace and freedom blessed The cultivated plain: But wealth, that curse of man, Blighted the bud of its pr... ...ells with the unnatural pride of crime, and lifts His baby-sword even in a hero’s mood. _110 This infant-arm becomes th... ...e and wealth by the exercise of his useless and ridiculous art; whilst the cultivator of the earth, he without whom society must cease to subsist, str... ...mmages a des agents presidant aux elements, a des genies inferieurs, a des heros, ou a des hommes doues de grandes qualites. A force de reflechir il c... ... explicit, yet it does not exceed in clearness the oracles of Delphos. The historical proof that Moses, Isaiah, and Hosea did write when they are said...

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...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS ... ...nity university. 3 Aristotle A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. LONDON &.TORONTO PUBLISHED BY J M... ...ome respects a critical history of the workings of the institutions of the Greek city state. In Books IV ., V ., and VI. the ideal state seems far aw... ...ing is said on those two points. We are accustomed since the growth of the historical method to the belief that states are “not made but grow,” and ar... ...as a state doctor, called in to pre- scribe for an ailing constitution. So Herodotus recounts that when the people of Cyrene asked the oracle of Delph... ...raight” and drew up a new constitution for Cyrene. So again the Milesians, Herodotus tells us, were long troubled by civil discord, till they asked he... ...abitations on account of their flocks, which they are compelled to follow, cultivating, as it were, a living farm. Others live exercising violence ove... ...but the greater part of mankind live upon the produce of the earth and its cultivated fruits; and the manner in which all those live who follow the di... ...gly. A fourth species of kingly government is that which was in use in the heroic times, when a free people submitted to a kingly government, accordin...

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...ss is found in its best development at the higher stages of the bar barian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such commun... ...recognised evidence of a reputable degree of success as distinguished from heroic or signal achievement. It therefore becomes the conventional basis o... ... a satisfactory spiritual plane with “high thinking.” From the days of the Greek philosophers to the present, a degree of leisure and of exemption fro... ...ng the Japanese, Chinese, and other Ori- ental nations; likewise among the Greeks, Romans, and other Eastern peoples of antiquity so also, in later ti... ...ce of its existence as is afforded by usages and views in vogue within the historical present, whether in civilized or in rude communities; but less d... ...d cajoling has much in common with the crasser forms of worship —if not in historical derivation, at least in actual psychological content. It obvious... ...f vicarious leisure is performed. It is also to be noted that, in point of historical fact, the furtherance of learning or the maintenance of scholarl... ...th the animistic superstitions and the exuberant truculence of the Homeric heroes, for instance, is, aesthetically considered, more legitimate than th... ...r and tempera- ment. In the German universities the place of athletics and Greek-letter fraternities, as a leisure-class scholarly occupa- tion, has i...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated in... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Fran... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Fran... ...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ...in Chronicle of the Counts of Anjou. It is accepted, and rightly so, as an historical document, but that is no reason for thinking that the truth may ... ... the truth. Le Duchat had already given too much im- portance to the false historical explanation. Here it is con- stantly coming in, and it rests on ... ...surface, and it is a waste of time to look for knots in a bulrush. All the historical explanations are purely imaginary, utterly without proof, and sh...

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... her character. She was a woman of a strong, fiery, perhaps I might say of heroic mind, sup- ported by a courage that was absolutely indomitable, and ... ...the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contemporary chronicles, and from several official sources sc... ... VER THE ANDES THE ANDES THE ANDES THE ANDES THE ANDES THREE DAYS our poor heroine followed the coast. Her horse was then almost unable to move; and o... ...of the T en Thousand. Xenophon affirms that there were ‘many’ women in the Greek army—pollai aesun etairai en tosratenaeazi; and in a late stage of th... ...t variety, however, there was, will be most naturally exhibited by tracing historically the suc- cessive stages of the general misery, exactly as it u... ...an honest answer, as his modern successor; or else it refers simply to the Greek form of Christianity professed by the Russian Emperor and Church. *Th... ...ttle versed in biblical language as not to know that (except in the merely historical parts of the Jewish records) every section of time has a secret ... ...en a superb animal; that it is spo- ken of prophetically as such; and that historically the Syrian ass is made known to us as having been used in the ... ...isfortune, like a poor Negro of Koromantyn who is the victim of Obi.* As a Greek word, which it was, the name imported no ill; but for a Roman to say ...

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...an to make any serious effort to obtain 50 pounds is nothing to the diffi- culty of inducing him to make a serious effort to keep alive. The moment he... ...ance becomes more and more intolerable as the grown-up person becomes more cultivated, more sensi- tive, and more deeply engaged in the highest method... ...ere, and much more responsible and anxious ones. They could not impose the heroic attitude on their employers; nor would they have been able to obtain... ... have been able to obtain places as schoolmasters if their habits had been heroic. For the best of them their employ- ment was provisional: they looke... ...chool made only the thinnest pre- tence of teaching anything but Latin and Greek. When I went there as a very small boy I knew a good deal of Latin gr... ...t seen a Latin inscription on a tomb that I could translate throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In sho... ... Cae- sar meant only being set at Virgil, with the culminating hor- ror of Greek and Homer in reserve at the end of that. I pre- ferred Caesar, becaus... .... They are presented as good and evil, as vice and virtue, as villainy and heroism. The boy feels mean and cowardly when he obeys, and selfish and ras... ...jective need for a religion and its right to an impartially communi- cated historical objective knowledge of all the creeds and Churches. Just as a ch...

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...in. A few minutes ago she had been all high spirits, talking as a woman of culture, and half persuading herself that she was full of original- ity. No... ...gdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and in- tellect and culture have alike rejected. The common- place person begins to play, and s... ...all the local colour—this novel is to be about modern Italy; the other was historical—but that she could not start till she had an idea. First she tri... ...e same time furnish an excellent plot. 48 A Room with a View “What is the heroine’s name?” asked Miss Bartlett. “Leonora,” said Miss Lavish; her own ... ... experience, not before. Here, not only in the solitude of Nature, might a hero meet a goddess, or a heroine a god. “Charlotte!” cried the girl sudden... ...blue, and for a mo- ment he looked like some one in a book.” “In a book?” “Heroes—gods—the nonsense of schoolgirls.” “And then?” “But, Charlotte, you ... ... View shipped as asceticism. A Gothic statue implies celi- bacy, just as a Greek statue implies fruition, and perhaps this was what Mr. Beebe meant. A... ...Mr. Vyse?” 173 EM Forster “Never.” “Then you don’t see the wonder of this Greek visit. I haven’t been to Greece myself, and don’t mean to go, and I c... ...nk too highly of her. But the future. Seriously, what do you think of this Greek plan?” He pulled out the letter again. “I don’t know whether you over...

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...these, Less intricate the brakes, wherein abide Those animals, that hate the cultur’d fields, Betwixt Corneto and Cecina’s stream. Here the brute... ...stion them be mine, For I divine thy wish: and they perchance, For they were Greeks, might shun discourse with thee.” When there the flame had co... ...that dame The false accuser of the Hebrew youth; Sinon the other, that false Greek from Troy. Sharp fever drains the reeky moistness out, In such a cl... ...h, And all the world be witness to thy guilt.” “To thine,” return’d the Greek, “witness the thirst Whence thy tongue cracks, witness the fluid mo... ...ndoubtedly merits praise, as for his other endowments, so especially for his cultivation of the liberal arts, his exercise and knowledge of music and ... ...his poems, see Millot, Hist. Litteraire des Troubadors t. i. p. 210; but the historical parts of that work are, I believe, not to be relied on. CANTO ... ... such a growth has sprung Of rank and venom’d roots, as long would mock Slow culture’s toil. Where is good Lizio? where Manardi, Traversalo, and Carpi... ... taken with some allowance, observes that “his grammatical theological, and historical productions, discover more learning and pedantry, than judgme... ...sades, ed. Par. 1682. 12mo. t. i. p. 96.) but rather the two more celebrated heroes in the age of Charlemagne. The former, William l. of Orange, sup...

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... ority in the latter than in the former. Their lands are in general better cultivated, and having more labour and expense bestowed 13 Adam Smith upon... ...rhaps inferior to England. The corn- lands of England, however, are better cultivated than those of France, and the corn-lands of France are said to b... ...n those of France, and the corn-lands of France are said to be much better cultivated than those of Poland. But though the poor country, notwithstandi... ...ern code. The Roman law is perfectly silent with regard to them. I know no Greek or Latin word (I might venture, I believe, to assert that there is no... ..., but their slavery was of a milder kind than that known among the ancient Greeks and Romans, or even in our West Indian colonies. They were supposed ... ... and sometimes of the general amount only of all those taxes. {see Brady’s Historical Treatise of Cities and Boroughs, p. 3. etc.} But how servile soe... ...hose times, some countries that were opulent and industrious. Such was the Greek empire as long as it subsisted, and that of the Saracens dur- ing the... ...ntury. They were banished from thence by the tyranny of one of Machiavel’s heroes, Castruccio Castracani. In 1310, nine hundred families were driven o... ...e sober and judi- 609 Adam Smith cious writer, Mr Anderson, author of the Historical and Chrono- logical Deduction of Commerce, very justly observes,...

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...ays talking like that,” said Cashel, plaintively. “I can’t learn Latin and Greek; and I don’t see what good they are. I work as hard as any of the res... ...Moncrief House, the name of Cashel Byron was remembered there as that of a hero who, after many fabulous exploits, had licked a master and bolted to t... ... circumstances, she enjoyed a reputation for vast learn- ing and exquisite culture. It was said in Wiltstoken that she knew forty-eight living languag... ... harder lessons than those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into... ... much occupied during Alice’s first season in London with the upshot of an historical event of a common kind. England, a few years before, had stolen ... ...t. Not one of them turned a somersault or uttered a shout. Intent on their hero, they pattered along, coming into collision with every object that lay... ...t? But he is generally a common laborer. The waterside is prolific of such heroes.” “Do they never come from a higher rank?” “Never even from the bett... ... Paragraphs in the papers mentioned large sums as the cost of mounting the historical masterpiece of the national bard. All the available seats in the... ...ens, and to the Bacchus or David of Michael Angelo. They fell short of the Greek stat- ues in refinement, and of the Italian in impressiveness as they...

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...by it. Utilitarianism, therefore, could only attain its end by the general cultivation of nobleness of character, even if each individual were only be... ...r them objects of personal affection, and espe cially those who have also cultivated a fellow feeling with the collective interests of mankind, retai... ...ss, the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory, is want of mental cultivation. A cultivated mind—I do not mean that of a philosopher, but any... ...re least deep in barbarism; and it often has to be done voluntarily by the hero or the martyr, for the sake of something which he prizes more than his... ... which is better than happiness, I ask, would the sacrifice be made if the hero or martyr did not believe that it would earn for others im munity fro... ...anou comes from dichae, of which the prin cipal meaning, at least in the historical ages of Greece, was a suit at law. Originally, indeed, it meant ... ...anation from the Supreme Be ing. But other nations, and in particular the Greeks and Romans, who knew that their laws had been made origi nally, and...

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...m, if only to explain one queer fact, which is that I have to introduce my hero to the reader wearing the cassock of a novice. Y es, he had been for t... ...relics of saints, nor wonder—working ikons, nor glori- ous traditions, nor historical exploits. It had flourished and been glorious all over Russia th... ... her an offer? No, I simply wanted to revenge myself, because I was such a hero and she didn’t seem to feel it. “Meanwhile, I spent my time in dri... ...ent the thousands fly- ing. In three days’ time I was stripped bare, but a hero. Do you suppose the hero had gained his end? Not a sign of it from her... ...s found grace, yet we have our own speciality, which is all but worse. Our historical pastime is the direct satisfaction of inflicting pain. There are... ...der the Tatars. There is, for instance, one such poem (of course, from the Greek), The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell, with descriptions as bold ... ...ther into one whole, and foretold, and in them are united all the unsolved historical contradictions of human nature. At the time it could not be so c... ...o our schools.” By degrees Kolya began to get breathless again. “Latin and Greek were introduced because they are a bore and because they stupefy the ... ...ore, so what could they do to make it more sense- less? So they thought of Greek and Latin. That’s my opinion, I hope I shall never change it,” Kolya ...

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...as better-looking than he at eight and twenty) I’ d have been a conquering hero just as he is. He is a low cad! But he shan’ t have Grushenka, anyway ... ...henceforth be spent in painful brood- ing over your own feelings, your own heroism, and your own suffering; but in the end that suffering will be soft... ... cease to love him. But you need him so as to contemplate continually your heroic fidelity and to reproach him for infidelity. And it all comes from y... ...es not care for her, and may marry Ivan Fyodorovitch—such an excellent and cultivated young man, who loves her more than anything in the world. We are... ...s found grace, yet we have our own speciality, which is all but worse. Our historical pastime is the direct satisfaction of inflicting pain. There are... ...out as a remembrance of it. But men, too, can be beaten. A well- educated, cultured gentleman and his wife beat their own child with a birch-rod, a gi... ...her types of humanity these torturers behave mildly and benevolently, like cultivated and humane Europeans; but they are very fond of tormenting child... ...der the Tatars. There is, for instance, one such poem (of course, from the Greek), The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell, with descriptions as bold ... ...ther into one whole, and foretold, and in them are united all the unsolved historical contradictions of human nature. At the time it could not be so c...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclo...

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...his book. Michael suggested valuable edits—though I did not always lis- ten. Historical work by Carla Hesse, Martha Woodmansee, and Mark Rose Acknowle... ...ree public access to knowledge for over two hundred years. Librarians are my heroes. They should be yours, too. Some of the work contained here has be... ...about. We are mak- ing bad decisions that will have a negative effect on our culture, our kids’ schools, and our communications networks; on free spee... ...28/08 11:04 AM Page xii there are powerful counterweights in both law and culture to the negative trends I describe here. There are lots of reasons... ...o the online photograph library, mean- ing to show him the wealth of amazing historical photographs. Instead, I found myself brooding over the lengthy... ... the patent. 8 But while it is impressive to see Jefferson’s easy command of historical evidence or his grasp of the importance of limiting the subjec... ... who cast each junior downloader of corporate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative landscape in music. (It is almos... ...ster—as individual companies—lost their specific legal battles. There are few heroes in this story. But if we had to rely on heroes, nothing would ever... ...ructed.” And to give lawyers fits. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. In Greek mythology, Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted its prospective o...

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... activity applies to getting through speech or reading the idea of, say, a Greek helmet, where no direct use of any kind enters in. What shared activi... ...stand are combined. Thus the words in which a child learns about, say, the Greek helmet originally got a meaning (or were understood) by use in an act... ...helmet has its use. For the time being, the one who understands the words “Greek helmet” becomes mentally a partner with those who used the helmet. He... ...iple is effected. According to Hegel, it is worked out through a series of historical institutions which embody the differ- ent factors in the Absolut... ...y were evident to him; he saw the impossibility of making a clean sweep of historical institutions, of treating them as despotisms begot in artifice a... ...of states, is the work of the “world-spirit.” Individuals, save the great “heroes” who are the chosen organs of the world- spirit, have no share or lo... ...ent upon the idea of something operating from without. Herbart is the best historical representative of this type of theory. He denies absolutely the ... ...e natural mode of approach to historical study. The lives of great men, of heroes and leaders, make concrete and vi- tal historic episodes otherwise a... ...intellectual history. We are only just beginning to realize that the great heroes who have ad- vanced human destiny are not its politicians, generals,...

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...— “Once-born” and “twice-born” charac- ters— Walt Whitman— Mixed nature of Greek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Libera... ...in success of every life—Pessimism of all pure naturalism— Hopelessness of Greek and Ro- 6 The V arieties of Religious Experience man view— Pathologi... ...e felt that it would never do to decline. The academic career also has its heroic obligations, so I stand here without further deprecatory words. Let ... ...s, when they delivered their utterances? These are manifestly questions of historical fact, and one does not see how the answer to them can decide off... ...m to have 38 The V arieties of Religious Experience preceded inward piety historically—at least our records of inward piety do not reach back so far.... ... as objective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only... ...me into many biographies, as if al- most essential to the formation of the hero. I ought to speak of these, to say that any man has an advan- tage, no... ...xperience of his life. This, he says, is truly to live, and I exult in the heroic opportunity and adventure. The systematic cultivation of healthy-min... ...lacate him would be too sanguinary to be taken seriously. Even if powerful historical cre- dentials were put forward in his favor, we would not look a...

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...occur:— “How can one praise and glorify a nation as a whole?— Even among the Greeks, it was the individuals that counted.” “The Greeks are interesting... ...he relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the con- ditions were unusually favourable for the development of ... ...ristianity, whereby the whole of the deified mode of life and thought of the Greeks, as well as strong Romedom, was almost annihilated or transvalued ... ... whereof they are proud. What do they call it, that which maketh them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguisheth them from the goatherds. They di... ...like the camel, and wanteth to be well laden. What is the heaviest thing, ye heroes? asketh the load- bearing spirit, that I may take it upon me and r... ...creepeth about, and defileth where it gnaweth. Once they thought of becoming heroes; but sensualists are they now. A trouble and a terror is the hero ... ...y love and hope I conjure thee: cast not away 50 Thus Spake Zarathustra the hero in thy soul! Maintain holy thy highest hope!— Thus spake Zarathustra... ...s ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and troub... ...s principle of the desirability of rearing a select race. The biological and historical grounds for his insistence upon this principle are, of course,...

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...d mind were always pleasures, and babies, like tough steaks, or the modern Greek olive trees, are invari- ably the better for beating—but, poor woman!... ...ry gener- ally comprehended, still it did not follow that they were diffi- cult of comprehension. It was, I think, on account of their self- evidency ... ...f mine imagine that, in fulfilling his hereditary duties in that line, our hero wanted a proper estimation of their dignity and importance. Far from i... ...isagreed with the Chinese, who held that the soul lies in the abdomen. The Greeks at all events were right, he thought, who employed the same words fo... ...stances of the external meta- physician. I might hint that the hair of our hero was worn short, combed smoothly over his forehead, and surmounted by a... ...ints if I pleased,—but I forbear, merely personal de- tails may be left to historical novelists,- they are beneath the moral dignity of matter-of-fact... ...ly whispered a whining voice in the apartment. “The devil!” ejaculated our hero, starting to his feet, over- turning the table at his side, and starin... ...in pure good humor, on a fork. But they want flavor, these Romans. One fat Greek is worth a dozen of them, and besides will keep, which cannot be said... ...owers during the most violent heat of the day.—B. de St. Pierre. ‡There is cultivated in the king’s garden at Paris, a species of serpentine aloes wit...

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...er the mur- der of the duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. If to some people,” he went on, turning to Anna Pavlovna, “he ever wa... .... If to some people,” he went on, turning to Anna Pavlovna, “he ever was a hero, after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and o... ...o, after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth.” Before Anna Pavlovna and the others had time to smile ... ...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian cou... ...y following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pic- tured to himself the cou... ...nding to the seven steps of Solomon’s temple, which every Freemason should cultivate in himself. These virtues were: 1. Discretion, the keeping of the... ...ry act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history ... ...that is, to doing the very thing that was bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying th... ...e masses. In- stead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jew- ish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing ...

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... we hold to be a calumny. Moral considerations greatly increase the diffi- culty of clear thinking in this matter. It is commonly argued that people a... ... world, or conceal your identity and live in Putney, like Arnold Bennett’s hero. Although the prime cause of this desire is a false judg- ment as to y... ...ogical Review,” vol xix, No. 5, pp. 404-413, September, 1912). After a few historical quota- tions, he comes to two modern defenders of introspection,... ...n, compare the dif- ferent appearances of the star to the conjugation of a Greek verb, except that the number of its parts is really infinite, and not... ...lour is something other than my seeing of the colour. This argument, to me historically, was directed against idealism: the emphatic part of it was th... ...omething is familiar. This is illustrated by Turgenev’s “Smoke,” where the hero is long puzzled by a haunting sense that something in his present is r... ... their reliability in this negative observation to make us accept a diffi- cult and revolutionary view of thought, merely because they have failed to ... ...ts of his mind at that moment; but Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon was an historical physical event, which is distinct from the present contents of e... ...can see, solves the problems of introspective knowledge, without requiring heroic measures such as those proposed by Knight Dunlap, whose views we dis...

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...our people free, contented, and united, they will be much more disposed to cultivate our friendship than provoke our resentment. If, on the other hand... ...ntions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord. Is it not (we may ask these... ...omantic than the monster-taming spirit which is attributed to the fabulous heroes and demi- gods of antiquity. Even in those confederacies which have ... ... had become, in fact, satellites of the orbs of primary magnitude. Had the Greeks, says the Abbe Milot, been as wise as they were courageous, they wou... ...ts former oppressor. The latter expedient was adopted. The contests of the Greeks always afforded a pleasing opportunity to that powerful neighbor of ... ...e of Macedon, soon provoked by his tyrannies, fresh combinations among the Greeks. The Achaeans, though weakenened by internal dissensions and by the ... ...rescribed for the senators. It was by them shown, as well on the credit of historical examples, as from the reason of the thing, that the most popular... ...se have embroiled the peace of the republic. But quitting the dim light of historical research, attaching ourselves purely to the dictates of reason a... ...se have embroiled the peace of the republic. But quitting the dim light of historical research, attaching ourselves purely to the dictates of reason a...

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...y gentility. He will find no quiet clique of the exclu- sive, studious and cultured; no rotten borough of the arts. All classes rub shoulders on the g... ...tant resolution are the fibres of the legend of his country’s history. The heroes and kings of Scotland have been tragically fated; the most mark- ing... ...again, they have Professor Butcher, and I hear he has a prodigious deal of Greek; and they have Professor Chrystal, who is a man filled with the mathe... ...in the professor’s own hand, I cannot remember to have been present in the Greek class above a dozen times. Professor Blackie was even kind enough to ... ...al of trouble to put in exercise – perhaps as much as would have taught me Greek – and sent me forth into the world and the profession of letters with... ...rtance and immediacy of that life in which they stand; books of smiling or heroic temper, to excite or to con- sole; books of a large design, shadowin... ...e to gird and carry him. II I WOULD FAIN STRIKE a note that should be more heroical; but the ground of all youth’s suffering, solitude, hysteria, and ... ...an, he had some other drawbacks as a gardener. He shrank the very place he cultivated. The dignity and reduced gentility of his appear- 37 Memories a... ...strata. Masses of experience, anecdote, incident, cross-lights, quotation, historical instances, the whole flotsam and jetsam of two minds forced in a...