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......................................................................... 44 POLITICAL SYSTEM ............................................................. ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ... foreign financing. I think that some countries are so busy chasing their political tails that they can‟t move forward. Your lawyers, journalists an... ... the long term trends and possible outcomes, you focused on the immediate political interests. Look what it has done to your economy and your intern... ...ry, the right to marry and found a family, and other such rights. But the writers of the document put some boundaries on these rights. Military serv... ...tion for a crime, according to Article 5, or in the armed services. So the writers didn‟t allow individuals the rights to do anything they wanted if ... ...films a week, and sell as many recordings as you can-- you have to rely on writers with little imagination. Crash cars, yell „kill the cops‟, shoot p...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...s might do it.’ ‘Does that ever do it?’ ‘Why yes, that’ll do it sometimes. Political friends’ll do it sometimes. It’s pretty often done, one way or an... ...ry? I saw in them, the wheels that move the meanest perversion of virtuous Political Machinery that the worst tools ever wrought. Despicable trickery ... ...and kept in very good and clean repair. It is a matter of deep regret that political differences should have run high in this place, and led to most d... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ... the pavement. We have not to ask what he judged. But Dorset Wilmers was a political opponent of the eminent Peer who yields the second name to the sc... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...end bore such reminders meekly. They were read- ers of books of all sorts, political, philosophical, economical, romantic; and they mixed the diverse ... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ...aloof, and actually supposed she was a contemplative, simply specu- lative political spirit, impersonal albeit a woman. This, as Emma, smiling at the ... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...ng case; and the interesting Arkansas dooel with Bowie knives; and all the Political, Commercial, and Fashionable News. Here they are! Here they are! ... ...were on missions from neighbouring States; one on monetary affairs, one on political, one on sectarian. Among the ladies, there were Mrs Pawkins, who ... ...rpose, which you may hear any hour in the day; simply because we began our political life with two inestimable advantages.’ ‘What were they?’ asked Ma...

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...e generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his c...

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... it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite a... ...afford entertaining and even profitable reading to the later generation of writers whose pleasant fortune it is to charm one another and the public. I... ...st, has ventured in some manner to disregard the modern canons which debar writers from betraying towards their cre ations any warmer feeling than a ... ...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... ... a sixpence and shakes his horse whip at him. Had the grim Doctor been an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace o... ...n his infancy and youth. He was a gem of coarse texture, just hewn out. An American with a like education would more likely have gained a certain fine... ... this wretched business, and there had been a scheme at once religious and political to wrest the estate and the lovely lady from the for tunate heir... ... have held such position as this title denoted in the fiercely con tested political struggles of the new democracy. “Do you know, Mr. Redclyffe, that... ...don newspaper of the preceding day; Lillebullero, Chevy Chase, and the old political ballads; and, what a little amused Redclyffe, the three volumes o...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...hington, a prestige suffi- cient to bind his successors to his wishes. The political leaders of the country have done what they could for Washington. ... ...fused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among the cities of the earth. They are ... ...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... ... no politi- cal power, as power is counted in the States. They vote for no political officer, not even for the President, and return no member to Cong... ...” 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 ... ...s expressed in my first volume, be- cause I still see it stated by English writers that the se- cession ordinance of South Carolina should have been a... ...American of- fice has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters. This it is now going to do. ... ...uch inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively to the writers of books—not ac- knowledging as we should do that the literary char...

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...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...he number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all. The journalists o... ...h the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience. If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply g... ...ce of their political institutions. America has hitherto produced very few writers of distinc- tion; it possesses no great historians, and not a singl...

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...ecific instances. There fore, when he had laid down the principle that every American’s ruling passion is money making, he cast about for an instance,... ... strong in death seems to establish once for all the good old truth that the American cares only for money making; and it was clever of the critic to ... ...an ones as well. It is probable that not a day passes in which the observant American new to France does not reach conclusions as tempting, but as wid... ...nd until this war did away with distances we were free to try any social and political experiments we pleased, without, at any rate, weakening ourselv... ...ave nearly two thousand years of history and art and industry and social and political life to “conserve”; that is another of the reasons why their in... ...yet for us to “conserve” except a few root principles of conduct, social and political; and see how they spring up and dominate every other interest i... ...t. Therefore the Academy does not simply call to its ranks famous or careful writers, but soldiers as well, bishops, scientists, men of the world, men... ... matter—and even that, as one of the most acute among their recent political writers has said, “on condition that each man commands.” Their past histo...

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...teness and brevity. ?Luther is still the greatest name in Protestantism. We want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther?s for the general American market. Will you do it??...

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... want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther’s for the general American market. Will you do it?” “I will, on one condition.” “ And what is... ...t is that?” “The condition is that I will be permitted to make Luther talk American, ‘streamline’ him, so to speak—because you will never get people, ... ... actually to read Luther unless we make him talk as he would talk today to Americans.” I illustrated the point by reading to Mr. Zondervan a few sente... ...Paul is not going to be inferior to the rest of the apostles. Some secular writers put Paul’s boasting down as carnal pride. But Paul had no personal ... ...ader is reminded that all this has no bearing upon civil laws, customs, or political matters. Civil laws and ordi- nances have their place and purpose...

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...e lines of the war news, diplomatic disputations, threats and accusations, political wranglings and stories of hardship and cruelty that now fill our ... ...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ...e sufficiently occupied by the affairs of the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the se... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ...Is Coming? it means that there lies ahead a period of extreme economic and political dislocation. The credit system has been strained, and will be str... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...nce of machine guns, a significance thoroughly ven- tilated by imaginative writers fifteen years before, was being grasped by the conservative but by ... ... large a proportion of its mem- bers to the front; the scientific men, the writers, have been begging to be used in any capacity at any price or none;... ...ne of the many corrupting lies in British intellectual life. English comic writers never weary of sneering at the Hindu who claimed to be a “failed B....

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...nsecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...th social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political Justice;” not the second and emas- culated edition in octavo, but... ...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...broad evidences of the credulity with which we have adopted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fiel... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al...

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...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... ...duce now as a pair of skates in winter when the ice begins to bear. All we writers find ourselves engaged perforce in some part or other of a world-wi... ...ther of a world-wide propaganda of this the most cre- ative and hopeful of political ideas that has ever dawned upon the consciousness of mankind. Wit... ... the last year the writer has been doing what he can—and a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration o... ...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... ...om the English liberal left; but the reader must understand that these two writers seem disposed to welcome a peace with an unrevolutionized Germany, ... ...y. I follow the man who is, more than any other man, the leader of English political thought throughout the world to-day, President Wilson, in inserti... ...ware of a distinctive national character and involved in some big existing political complex, should wish to disentangle themselves from one group of ... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa...

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...; court- ship, which is gone upon by proxy; conversation, which is largely political; and the delights of public oratory, fill in the long hours. But ... ...ong pots of brass and adamant. Apia, the port and mart, is the seat of the political sickness of Samoa. At the foot of a peaked, woody mountain, the c... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...rror of unnec- essary stealth and of the immixture of a trading company in political affairs, has vitiated, and in the end defeated, much German polic... ...ciety, and applying it to another, of 134 A Footnote to History which the writers know less than nothing, and no European knows much. Several interpr...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...own peculiar antagonists. These papers, for in- stance, of mine, not being political, were read possibly in a friendly temper by the regular supporter... ... regular supporters of the journal that published them. But some of my own political friends re- garded me with displeasure for connecting myself at a... ...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ... might have better luck. It saddened me, besides, to find myself under the political necessity of numbering amongst the Philistines, and as daughters ... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre...

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... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...ast, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, among the intelligent bourgeois. T... ...minous; and in both are tall and ancient trees that have outlived a thousand political vicissitudes. But in the one the great oaks prosper placidly up... ...and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbi... ...ining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or the first...

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...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ... I said certain things to him about the difference in com- plexity between political life in Great Britain and the colo- nies, that he was manifestly ... ...of its difficulties and perplexities. Here on the Adriatic side there were political entangle- ments that by comparison made our western after-the-war... ...oubt if English people fully realise either the economic sturdiness or the political courage of their Italian ally. Italy is not merely fighting a fir... ... those great architectural wrecks that seem most to impress con- temporary writers. I have seen the injuries and ruins of the cathedrals at Arras and ... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...es that have happened to all these arms. Before this war began speculative writers had argued that infantry drill in close formation had now no fighti... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ...Another is Blight the solicitor, who goes about bewailing the fact that we writers are “holding out false hopes of higher agricultural wages after the...

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...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...to the right, and the entire admission of the same to the full privileges, political, religious and social, of manhood, requires power- ful effort on ... ...not only won equality to their white fellow citizens, in civil, religious, political and social rank, but they have also illustrated and adorned our c... ...these remarkable men, and is still rising toward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobio... ...nly would his own history have had another termina- tion, but the drama of American slavery would have been essentially varied; for I cannot resist th... ...emove prejudice?’ `Immediately pass laws entitling black men to all civil, political and social privileges,’ was the instant reply— and the questionin... ...rgive me for reminding them that the term “Caucasian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ev...

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...er the name of one of their eminent ministers. The Puritans formed a great political as well as religious party in England, and did not at first separ... ...rincipal object was, to rear up pious and learned ministers; and hence old writers call Harvard College a school of the prophets.” “Is the college a s... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... ...n her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnifi cen... ...es printed volumes, were strewn manuscript sermons, historical tracts, and political pamphlets, all written in such a queer, blind, crabbed, fantastic... ...istance. “It is marvellous,” said Grandfather, “to see how many pow erful writers, orators, and soldiers started up just at the time when they were w...

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...N MENT IN GENERAL. WITH CONCISE RE MARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION SOME WRITERS HAVE so confounded society with gov ernment, as to leave little... ...h part the fault lies; some will say in one and some in an other, and every political physician will advise a dif ferent medicine. I know it is diff... ...e character to be absurd and useless. “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 10 Some writers have explained the English constitu tion thus: The king, say the... ...er lived. “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 25 THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES I offer nothing more than simpl... ...all it. France and Spain never were. nor perhaps ever will be our enemies as AMERICANS, but as our being the sub jects of GREAT BRITAIN. But Britain ... ...t brought to their doors to make THEM feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed. But let our imaginations transport us far... ...mentioned the necessity of a large and equal representation; and there is no political matter which more deserves our attention. A small number of ele... ...sequence a large and equal representation is to a state, should read Burgh’s political disquisitions.] TO CONCLUDE , however strange it may appear to ... ...should the present Proud Imitator of him, come to the same untimely end, the writers and publishers of the Testimony, are bound, by the doctrine it co...

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...y before the last polished phase of the stone age was over he had become a political animal. He made astonishingly far-reaching discoveries within him... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...of the judges and threaten the very existence of the otherwise inattentive political machine. The world was so little governed that with the very com-... ...utward and visible intima- tions of profounder anachronisms. The legal and political organisation of the earth in the middle twentieth century was ind... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ...lities, a pal- impsest of inherited dispositions. It was the habit of many writers in the early twentieth century to speak of competi- tion and the na... ...one comes to the latter nineteenth and the earlier twenti- eth century the writers are much more acutely aware of secu- lar change than their predeces...