...Most countries and peoples of Europe and Asia are grouped in the spheres of direct geopolitical influence of Russia, Germany, Serbia, Iraq and China. Repetition of relationship (defined by ethnic and religious proximity) between countries from these sp...

...It is natural to consider the following countries as belonging or having once belonged to the zone of direct geopolitical influence of Germany: Austria, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark. The reasons (e...

... words Chapter 2. Resemblances between different geographical regions Chapter 3. Resemblance between historical events Chapter 4. The five spheres of direct geopolitical influence in the Old World Chapter 5. The rules of the American history Chapter 6. The rules of the Russian history...

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...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and specia...

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...in a judging God, but act quite differently in real life. Some have cited former U.S. Congressional; leader Tom DeLay who in 2006 resigned his congr... ...logy of their research, much of the reasoning seems to revolve around the former required atheism of the USSR, which when it ended allowed some of t... ...ort for religions and work done by religions. Its co-presidents include a former fundamentalist minister who became an atheist. ―It makes ... ...uerors that appear every generation? Pacifism, as emphasized by Sweden or Switzerland, is not necessarily a position that promotes peace. It just sa... ...democracies in the world. They only work in small populations, like Swiss cantons and New England town meetings. ―The big democracies are re... ...e Israel and Greece at around 3%, Japan and Sri Lanka at under 2, Cyprus, Switzerland and Hong Kong at around 7 Is it a stronger religious conviction...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ty, but fear now extorts a larger tribute of obedience than that which was formerly paid by reverence and by love. I perceive that we have destroyed t... ...ich controls it, and his egotism is no less blind than his devotedness was formerly. If society is tranquil, it is not be- cause it relies upon its st... ...me of them attack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it. In former ages slavery has been advocated by the venal and slavish-minded, whi... ...ch have existed in modern Europe, without adverting to those of antiquity. Switzerland, the Germanic Empire, and the Republic of the United Provinces ... ...deration than a uniformity of interests in the States which compose it. In Switzerland the difference which exists between the Canton of Uri and the C... ...nd has never possessed a fed- eral government. The union between these two cantons only subsists upon the map, and their discrepancies would soon be p...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...wain (Samuel L. Clemens), the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced a... ... 23 A Tramp Abroad on the side of his head and gave his opponent one like it. In the third round the latter received another bad wound in the head, a... ...antagonist’s ear and cut an artery which could not be reached if the sword remained whole. This has happened, sometimes, and death has resulted on the... ...keep swords, but do not allow them to use them. This is law is rigid; it is only the execution of it that is lax. 29 A Tramp Abroad defeated him. The... ...d in our customs; especially the alpenstocks, for they had not seen any before. They said that the Neckar road was perfectly level, so we must be go- ... ...d find fault with it; but I was mistaken. Harris had been snarling for several days. He was a rabid Protestant, and he was always saying: “In the Prot... ...cation would reduce bastardy and intemperance was an error—it has not that effect. He said there was more seduction in the Protes- tant than in the Ca...

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e is bound to a system; his concern is with the interests of the people of Switzerland or of the United States of America. President Wilson, for examp... ...ess. She has prob- ably suffered economically no more than have Holland or Switzerland, and Italy and Japan have certainly suffered less. All these th... ... far they will prove able to get out of the habits and traditions of their former social state, how far they will be able to take generous views and m... ... and he is aware of a vigour of public criticism that did not exist in the former time…. How far will these men get out of the tradition of their birt... ...th who feels toward his country as a sheep-dog feels toward the flock. The former is the spirit of individualism, “business,” and our law, the latter ... ... the case of Switzerland, where we have the community not in countries but cantons, each with its own religion, its culture and self- government, and ...

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...Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...y cheap terms, you must know that Amedee de Soulas had been three times to Switzerland, by coach and in short stages, twice to Paris, and once from Pa... ... YOUNG MEN, having agreed as a plan for a holi- day to make a tour through Switzerland, set out from Lucerne one fine morning in the month of July in ... ...r Fluelen, intending to stop at every notable spot on the lake of the Four Cantons. The views which shut in the waters on the way from Lucerne to Flue... ...id he to his friend. “We meant to make Lucerne our headquarters for seeing Switzerland; you will not take it amiss, Leopold, if I change my mind and s... ...ng to the poll, to oblige the daughter of the Rupts. It was known that the former Master of Appeals, the secretary of one of the most faithful ministe... ...ding of Monsieur le Duc de Rhetore, eldest son of the Duc de Chaulieu, the former Ambassador, to Ma- dame la Duchesse d’Argaiolo, nee Princess Soderin...

...Excerpt: One of the few drawing-rooms where, under the Restoration, the Archbishop of Besancon was sometimes to be seen, was that of the Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly attached on account of her religious sentiments. A...

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...r land fall a prey to the conquerors. T rue it was that ten years back the former Great King had sent his best troops to be signally defeated upon the... ...osed of the patricians, or citizens of highest birth, and of those who had formerly been consuls. They decided on peace or war, and made the laws, and... ...at the end of the day, and they were but poorly armed. He told them of the former aid that had come to their fathers in extremity, and made them bold ... ...iss mountains, expect- ing shelter there; but the stout, honest men of the cantons were resolved not to have any connection with assassins, and refuse... ...397 1397 NOTHING in history has been more remarkable than the union of the cantons and cities of the little republic of Switzerland. Of differing race... ...ukes of Austria and their ponder- ous German chivalry wanted to reduce the cantons and cit- ies to vassalage, not to the Imperial Crown, a distant and...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...y. Sects have risen, and cried by every pen, “Arise, working-men!” just as formerly they cried, “Arise!” to the “tiers etat.” None of these Erostrates... ...h valley, which is framed in the far distance by the mountains of a lesser Switzerland, called the Morvan. These forests belong to Les Aigues, and to ... ...emark some persons will expect to see the flash- ing of the cuirass of the former colonel of the guard, and the raging of his anger as he falls like a... ... the river. The sole garments of this curious fig- ure were an old blouse, formerly blue, and trousers of the coarse burlap used in Paris to wrap bale... ...ess, if you choose—on this point is so great that in at least one thousand cantons of the three thousand of French territory, it is impossible for a r... ...o the term “papers,” which Mouche used to express legality. Many mayors of cantons (not to speak of the district mayors) put up their bundles of seeds...

Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...ics Series Publication The Professor by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...fficile, monsieur, quand on n’en a plus l’habitude.” “You had the habitude formerly, I suppose? Now answer me in your mother tongue.” “Yes, sir, I spo... ...he least; have the goodness to explain.” “Why, monsieur, it is just so. In Switzerland I have done but little, learnt but little, and seen but little;... ...omfort they could not drain, a pillar of support they could not overthrow: formerly, when insulted, she wept; now, she smiled. The public reading of o... ...am gone, so friendless:’ she wished too that she could have been buried in Switzerland, and it was I who per- suaded her in her old age to leave the b... ...heard with a grim calm very different from the petulant pleasure they were formerly wont to excite. For a long time Pelet bore with my frigid demeanou... ...t of Swit- zerland; for if you begin blaspheming Helvetia, and cursing the cantons —above all, if you mention the word ass in the same breath with the...

...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... 27 Balzac system of irrigation by means of cross trenches, like those in Switzerland, Auvergne, and Limousin. Much to their aston- ishment, the town... ... its precincts, this lavish supply was Jacquotte’s doing—Jacquotte who had formerly been the cure’s housekeeper—Jacquotte who always said “we,” and wh... ...that won him over. He had very benevolently yielded to my importunities on former occasions, and I succeeded in making it clear to him that in so doin... ... Not one of them was ill treated. The cows and oxen were rubbed down as in Switzerland and Auvergne. Sheep-folds, stables, byres, dairies, and barns w... ...immed hats that are worn in this part of the world. He sells them in other cantons, and even sends them into Switzerland and Savoy. So long as the qua... ...slight them, and to-day I think more good and less evil of them than I did formerly.” “What a deal of trouble you have taken!” said Genestas. “Not at ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...d His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...afterwards the famous Cardinal Dubois), whose history was singular. He had formerly been a valet; but dis- playing unusual aptitude for learning, had ... ...erred it upon the Comte de T oulouse, giving to the friend and heir of the former the successorship to the government of Guyenne, by way of recompense... ...he ground floor. Our festivi- ties finished by a supper that I gave to the former friends of my father, whose acquaintance I had always cultivated wit... ...rmity with that of the country; the support of the neighbouring Protestant cantons, allies, and protectors of Neufchatel; the pressing reflection that... ...tle state. This minister of the Elector was in concert with the Protestant cantons, who upon 331 Saint-Simon his declaration at once sided with him; ... ...lected, no matter which one. It was too late. The affair was finished; the cantons were engaged, without means of withdrawing. They, moreover, were pi...

Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

...hristoph Freidrich von Schiller, trans. Theodore Martin is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...entury and was incorporated into the history of the struggle of the Forest Cantons for deliv- erance from Austrian domination, it unites with the them... ...lace and residence of Tell. A chapel, erected in 1522, remains on the spot formerly occupied by his house. 12 Wilhelm T ell RUODI. Safe in the port, ... ...s strong horn, And tosses his tormentor to the clouds. FURST. If the three Cantons thought as we three do, Something might then be done, with good eff... ...rding to the conditions of his service. *The League, or Bond, of the Three Cantons was of very ancient origin. They met and renewed it from time to ti... ...and the last, Where all life’s pulses cease. I now am but The shadow of my former self, and that Is fading fast—’twill soon be but a name. KUONI (offe... ...re crowding round Tell, and em- bracing him, Rudenz and Bertha appear. The former sa- lutes the peasantry, the latter embraces Hedwig. The mu- sic fro...

...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant... ... the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the in- troduction of des... ...less has its advocates; and certain characters who were much opposed to it formerly, are at present of the number. Whatever may be the arguments or in... ...of one third of its people and territories. The connection among the Swiss cantons scarcely amounts *Pfeffel, Nouvel Abreg. Chronol. de l’Hist., etc.,... ...f some regular and permanent provision for accomodating disputes among the cantons. The provision is, that the parties at variance shall each choose f... ...t the parties at variance shall each choose four judges out of the neutral cantons, who, in case of disagree- ment, choose an umpire. This tribunal, u...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...undance or scantiness of this supply, too, seems to de- pend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter. Among the savage na... ...mmonly more distinguished by their superi- ority in the latter than in the former. Their lands are in general better cultivated, and having more labou... ...e of wood; a country smith in every sort of work that is made of iron. The former is not only a carpenter, but a joiner, a cabinet-maker, and even a c... ... the pope, established with great ease the reformation in their respective cantons, where just before some of the clergy had, by an imposture somewhat... ...ny Roman catholic country, In Geneva, on the contrary, in the prot- estant cantons of Switzerland, in the protestant countries of Ger- many, in Hollan... ...tself. In several protestant countries, particularly in all the protestant cantons of Switzerland, the revenue which an- ciently belonged to the Roman...

Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ublic authori ties. But in this larger use of the term, as well as in the former narrow one, Order expresses rather one of the conditions of governme... ...degree of those agencies is required for the latter pur pose than for the former. What, for example, are the qualities in the citizens indi vidually... ... only a somewhat less degree of them will, on the average, suffice for the former purpose than for the latter. T o pass now from the mental to the out... ...ree towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal mon archies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and England, with Austria or ante revolutionary Franc... ...however, are either indispensable or necessarily sufficient by themselves. Switzerland has a strong sentiment of nationality, though the cantons are o... ... themselves. Switzerland has a strong sentiment of nationality, though the cantons are of different races, different languages, and different religion...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... of civilization make a path for it- self from the latter to enlighten the former coun- tries. All this was effected by religion. Religion alone could... ... were unfortunate enough to become the weaker party. The greediness of the former for the property of the church, gave no reason to expect indulgence;... ... the other, remained irresolute and useless, equally unable to destroy the former or to command the latter. What had the Empire to look for from a pri... ...oad into a district hitherto unvisited by war. A post on the en- trance to Switzerland, would be highly service- able to the Swedes, and the town of K... ...l fitted to be a point of communication between him and the confed- erated cantons. Accordingly, Gustavus Horn immediately commenced the siege of it; ... ...e reason to expect, and the advantage of possessing a pass into the Tyrol, Switzerland and Italy, induced the Swedish general to ven- ture an attack u...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...wo clauses a new one. He expressed his meaning in a lengthier way, and the former clause is found in its integrity along with the additional one, of w... ... and it is quite natural that his work was not re- 27 Rabelais printed in Switzerland, which would certainly have happened had the Protestants looked... ...t making additions or insertions, or juxtaposition of things that were not formerly found together. For each of the books he has followed the last edi... ...u, I cannot think but I am come of the race of some rich king or prince in former times; for never yet saw you any man that had a greater desire to be... ...w, French, Italian, and Spanish, respectively distributed in their several cantons, ac- cording to the diversity of these languages. In the midst ther... ...o come, betwixt the Great King and the Venetian State, the Emperor and the Cantons of Swit- zerland, the English and the Scots, and betwixt the Pope a...

...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....