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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James 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... ...ous in- cubation of motives— Self-surrender— Its impor- tance in religious history— Cases. LECTURE X CONVERSION—concluded Cases of sudden conversion— ... ... this lectureship, I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch ... ...nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now ... ...nd of the experience of Henry Alline, a devoted evan- gelist who worked in Nova Scotia a hundred years ago, and who thus vividly describes the high-wa... ... the experience of Henry Alline, a devoted evan- gelist who worked in Nova Scotia a hundred years ago, and who thus vividly describes the high-water m... ... description of the divided will in the autobiography of Henry Alline, the Nova Scotian evangelist, of whose melancholy I read a brief account in my l...

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...OND EDITION; MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him. It could hardly have been more violent, indeed, had he burned down the Custom ...

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...Table of Contents: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, 1 -- THE CUSTOM HOUSE INTRODUCTORY, 2 -- 1 THE PRISON DOOR, 31 -- 2 THE MARKET-PLACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59...

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...E LEECH AND HIS PATIENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 12 THE MINISTER’S... ...NISTER’S VIGIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 14 HESTER AND THE P... ...4 17 THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 18 A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 19 THE CHIL... ...alf way down its melancholy length, dis charging hides; or, nearer at hand, a Nova Scotia schooner, pitching out her cargo of firewood — at the head, ... ...ay down its melancholy length, dis charging hides; or, nearer at hand, a Nova Scotia schooner, pitching out her cargo of firewood — at the head, I say... ...hings of the pen. Yet not altogether worthless, perhaps, as materials of local history. Here, no doubt, statistics of the former commerce of Salem mig... ...reafter, or not impossibly may be worked up, so far as they go, into a regular history of Salem, should my veneration for the natal soil ever impel me... ... when the antiquary of days to come, among the sites memo rable in the town’s history, shall point out the locality of THE TOWN PUMP. THE SCARLET LE...

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

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...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...

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...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... ... distance from both. The nations that, according to the best authenticated history, appear to have been first civilized, were those that dwelt round t... ...r value, though perhaps the greatest, is by no means the only one of which history gives some account. But as a measure of quantity, such as the natur... ...to this subject {See his scheme for the maintenance of the poor, in Burn’s History of the Poor Laws.}. In 1688, Mr Gregory King, whose skill in politi... ...er part of the sugar colonies of the other European nations. The colony of Nova Belgia, now divided into the two provinces of New York and New Jersey,... ...at of Virginia and South Carolina, £8000 each. The civil establishments of Nova Scotia and Georgia are partly sup- ported by an annual grant of parlia... ...a and Georgia are partly sup- ported by an annual grant of parliament; but Nova Scotia pays, besides, about £7000 a-year towards the public expenses o...