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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...ary. It is elitist. But Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Nationalist... ...nism to racism. The Jewish Response: Zionism is undoubtedly a typical 19th century national movement, promoting the interests of an ethnically- hom... ...ent anti- Arab racism. The Jewish Response: East European Jews were no doubt more nationalistic and etatist than the West European visionaries who... ... move about. The miniaturization of storage devices will permit them to carry whole libraries of data and entertainment in their suitcase or backpac... ...ble order, classification, or categorization. Amazingly, as opposed to "classical" libraries, no one has yet invented a (sorely needed) Internet ca... ...ers will be akin to catalogues, very much like the applications used in modern day libraries. Compare this utopia to the current dystopy. Users str... ...or "Just in Time Information". The Library of Congress - together with a few other libraries - is in the process of making just such a service avai...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ts to con- nect his own human institutes with the venerable sanctions of a national religion, or the case where a learned antiquary unfolds historical... ...ing such, you will participate in all advantages, if any there are, or our national religion; and, without needing a process of conversion, either in ... ...ituents in pagan idolatries. First, then, as to the CULTUS, or form of the national worship:—In our Christian ritual I recognise these separate acts; ... ...the lips of an individual; and the state thanksgiving for a triumph of the national armies, was but a mode of ostenta- tiously publishing the news. As... ...ttributes as express a divine nature, we recognise one great function of a national worship,—not otherwise. This, however, we must overlook and pardon... ...ble list of such people—even Rome has a smaller list. Rome, that weeds all libraries, and is continu- ally burning books, in effigy, by means of her v... ...r, a large Jewish society, together with unusual provision in the shape of libraries, on a scale probably at that time unprec- edented, but also as ha...

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Lady Britomart Undershaft

By: George Bernard Shaw

... BILL. Im that wrastled in the music all? SHIRLEY. The competitions at the National Sportin Club was worth nigh a hundred a year to him. He’s gev em u... ... cowards at home who egg on others to fight for the gratification of their national vanity! All this makes money for me: I am never richer, never busi... ...want anything to keep my dividends up, you will discover that my want is a national need. When other people want something to keep my dividends down, ... ...PHEN. Neither yours nor mine, father, but the best elements in the English national character. UNDERSHAFT. Stephen: I’ve found your profession for you... ... the nursing home!? [She sits down on the shell]. STEPHEN. Did you see the libraries and schools!? SARAH. Did you see the ballroom and the banqueting ... ...n, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, all faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes. The firs...

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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

... into the waste-paper basket, or put them away on the fiction shelf of our libraries. I venture to reply that we shall be, on the contrary, in the pos... ...lief that it is possible to assign to each person the exact portion of the national income that he or she has produced. T o a child it seems that the ... ...at problem is at last faced, the question of the pro- portion in which the national income shall be distributed can have only one answer. All our shar... ...al incomes. Foreign travel is an obvious instance. We are so far from even national com- munism still, that we shall probably have considerable de- ve... ...us is therefore, for the present, equal distribution of the surplus of the national income that is not absorbed by simple communism. JUDGE NOT In deal...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, an... ...nt of what manner of persons they were and what they did. We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric... ...age was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers; and the cumulative values ... ...t in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs, libraries, and the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined villas. What is the ... ... year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload his 48 Essays wit; the insurance-office increases the n... ...o last. Gilt edges, vellum and morocco, and presentation-copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic 83 ... ...has sped in the his- tory of this sentiment? What books in the circulating libraries circulate? How we glow over these novels of pas- sion, when the s... ...hat we, by the depth of our living, should deck it with more than regal or national splendor, and act on principles that should inter- est man and nat... ...-stick, the pal- metto, and all the cognizances of party. See the power of national emblems. Some stars, lilies, leopards, a cres- cent, a lion, an ea...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... direction of the public minister who presided over that department of the national administra- tion, no person could be admitted to an interview with... ...ughout the year in which the prisoners were al- lowed to celebrate a great national event: and in those days of relaxed prison management the utmost l... ...iery child, whose girlish romance, whose patriotic heroism electrified the national imagination. The King of Spain must kiss his faithful daughter, th... .... We shall have occasion farther on to compare this event with other great national catastrophes as to the magnitude of the suffering. But it may also... ...ive ferocity was exasperated by debasing forms of supersti- tion, and by a nationality as well as an inflated conceit of their own merit absolutely un... ...rative and Miscellaneous Papers the claims of Coleridge? for, upon Milton, libraries have been written. There has been time for the malice of men, for...

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

... of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. It assumes that preparation against dange... ... by the self-denial of the first. What right had “Mr. Bast” to profit? The National Gallery was good enough for the likes of him. After prop- erty had... ...ought this would pauperise him. Should he and those like him be given free libraries? I said ‘No!’ He doesn’t want more books to read, but to read boo... ...em, and cause Mr. Wilcox to write letters to the papers complaining of our national degeneracy, or else they entrap a boy into marriage before it is t... ... It was as if some work of art had been broken by him, some picture in the National Gallery slashed out of its frame. When he recalled her talents and...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...out the Fatherland like the call of a warder’s trumpet, till it produced a national courage, founded on the recollection of an illustrious past, which... ... had noted our sport,—in which I came off well, and won general praise. No libraries for children had at that time been established. The old had thems... ...hy endeavors, however, the doors and gates were thrown open to an extended national insipidity, nay,— the dike was dug through by which the great delu... ...at was wanting in the Ger- man poetry, it was a material, and that, too, a national one: there was never a lack of talent. Here we make mention only o... ...bei Mühlberg”) was, perhaps, the first worthy ob- ject, provincial, if not national, which presented itself to a poet. Two kings saluting one another ... ...s determined the form, the Germans sought everywhere. They had handled few national subjects, or none at all. Schlegel’s “Hermann” only showed the way...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Member of the Paris Bar, Ex-President of the National Assembly , and Former Minister of the Interior Dear and Illustriou... ... at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries. Through Walter Scott, later on, she fell in love with his- toric... ...efect and the names of the successful farmers who had obtained prizes. The National Guard of Buchy (there was none at Yonville) had come to join the c... ...rot in front of the peristyle of the town hall at the very moment when the National Guard and firemen deployed, beating drums and marking time. “Prese... ...f the jury all round, the municipal council, the notable per- sonages, the National Guard and the crowd. The councillor pressing his little cocked hat... ...ent vic- tors, going back to the stalls, a green-crown on their horns. The National Guards, however, had gone up to the first floor of the town hall w...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

... the cham- bers. From the Arctic tower unto the Criere were the fair great libraries in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Italian, and Spanish, respective... ...he world is full of know- ing men, of most learned schoolmasters, and vast libraries; and it appears to me as a truth, that neither in Plato’s time, n... ...gentler en- emies than they were before; but since the denunciation of the national Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly 602 Gargantua & Pant...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...r craft. To them, poetry is nothing. Do they read it at all? However, the libraries will be pleased to receive these copies. I am sure this is my b... ...sting, masques, jewelry, perfume... I need great art. I need antique art. Libraries. Last night, at Amboise, in the garden, at the pergola, I explai... ...gamins! Threatened. While others hunted rabbits in the Coliseum, I sought libraries and worked in my own laboratory. But work was difficult be- cause... ...one’s intellect, guard one’s health. It is also an opportunity to perfect national and international law. Cer- tainly, freedom should not be a code b... ...g room, I face away from it. Carpenter says he will take the picture on a national tour. I believe that is an error. Monday evening Fireplace fir... ...difficult bridge between home and capitol. Crossing it, he is involved in national issues and problems he could not anticipate. About him is a sea o... ...e information? I learn that two million dollars have disappeared from our national treasury. I learn that General Grant is seriously ill. I learn t... ...cceed. This war has taken four years! It was begun or accepted to restore national authority over the whole national domain. Yes, we must succeed. ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...astrophysics, and Harlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The... ... biology and the human genome was supported in part by a CEER grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy (P5... ... appropriate culture to be produced this year, or turning the entire path of national innovation policy over to the government, intellectual property ... ...older—are called “orphan works.” They make up a huge percentage of our great libraries’ holdings. For example, scholars estimate that the majority of ... ...ult to know exactly who owns the copy- right (or copyrights) on a work, many libraries simply will not reproduce the material or make it available onl... ...... ..., though that brain has been dust for more than a century and a half. I love libraries. I love the mushroom smell of gently rotting paper, the flaky cr... ...nd utilitarian strands suffuse even “the sacred rights of authors.” So, on a national level, we have rejected or dramatically limited the natural righ... ...vers in a number of other countries, including Britain, concluded that their national patent systems were doomed. Various proposals were made to repla...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...rk on Professor Teufelsdr¨ ockh “were undoubtedly welcome to the Family, the National, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory... ...ubtedly welcome to the Family, the National, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolu... ...for the rest, with such issue as is now visible. As to those same “patriotic Libraries,” the Hofrath’s counsel could only EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES 9 be... ...all miracles have been out miracled: for there are Roth schilds and English National Debts; and whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of six... ...Invisible World Displayed; which, however, by search in all the Weissnichtwo Libraries, I have not yet succeeded in procuring (verm¨ ochte night aufzu... ...ly given out, where divisor and dividend are both unknown? What are all your national Wars, with their Moscow Retreats, and sanguinary hate filled Revo... ...ARTUS things, might not Teufelsdr¨ ockh acquire! “I have read in most Public Libraries,” says he, “including those of Con stantinople and Samarcand: ... ...idest heraldic Coats of arms; military Banners everywhere; and generally all national or other sectarian Costumes and Customs: they have no intrinsic,... ...nherited habitudes, at this juncture, hold us from Dispersion, and universal national, civil, domestic and personal war! He says expressly: “For the l...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...ith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not m... ...porter of the Government during the war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June,... ...and Lieutenant George G. Meade, afterwards the commander of the victorious National army at the battle of Gettysburg—made a reconnoissance to the Salt... ...ing of the troops asked for by the ad- ministration. A bill was before the National Legislature from early in the session of 1846-7, authorizing the c... ...ss of build- ings on the east side in which Congress has its sessions, the national courts are held, the public offices are all located, the President... ... up a regimental fund sufficient to give extra pay to musicians, establish libraries and ten-pin alleys, subscribe to magazines and furnish many extra...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

..., is equivalent to the breaking down of those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their ... ...tion would infallibly produce minds filled with the truth. 5. Education as National and as Social. As soon as the first enthusiasm for freedom waned, ... ...situation identified the movement for a state-supported education with the nationalistic movement in political life—a fact of incalculable significanc... ...the civic function was identified with the realization of the ideal of the national state. The “state” was substituted for humanity; cosmo- politanism... ...e. The “state” was substituted for humanity; cosmo- politanism gave way to nationalism. To form the citizen, not the “man,” became the aim of educatio... ...ies, biographies, books of travel, scientific treatises, on the shelves of libraries. The imposing stupendous bulk of this material has un- consciousl...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

... investigator, lecturing here in fu- ture, may unearth from the shelves of libraries docu- ments that will make a more delectable and curious entertai... ... so overwhelmingly convincing, to-day does little more than gather dust in libraries, for the simple reason that our generation has ceased to believe ... ...uncon- sciousness was entirely real. He never spoke depre- catingly of any nationality or class of men, or time in the world’s history, or against any... ... Israel just in proportion as they had learned to look upon Him as no mere national divinity, but as a God of justice who would punish Israel for its ... ...such dangers, but would point to athletics, militarism, and individual and national enterprise and adventure as the remedies. These contemporary ideal...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...to the founders of empires, the builders of cities, the collectors of more libraries than they at first destroyed, while cities like Fostât, Baghdad, ... ...me and its application in the present instance, is to be traced to the old national feud between the Jews and Samaritans. See De Sacy, Chrestom. i. p....

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...he next door. He had an immense collection of second hand books. Circulating libraries were not then in use; but we agreed that, on certain reasonable... ...d to one hundred: this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numer ous. It is become a great thing itself, and cont... ... ous. It is become a great thing itself, and continually in creasing. These libraries have improved the general conver sation of the Americans, made... ...fested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fash ionable; and ... ... the government of neighbor ing states, and even on the conduct of our best national allies, which may be attended with the most pernicious con sequ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ... done in a play-book: Tom and Molly retire into a practicable wood. As for nationality and public sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om J... ...nculcates and parades. He thinks very ill of the atmosphere of parlours or libraries. Wisdom keeps school outdoors. And he has the art to recommend th... ... would have been difficult to select for a start in life. Not even a man’s nationality was certain; for the people of Paris there was no such thing as... ...ry way. There must certainly be some mistake. Had not he himself made anti-national treaties almost before he was out of his nonage? And for the matte...

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