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...s were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously a... ... 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recov... ... (Professor Hart points out that paper‘s low cost made it possible for libraries not only to afford to stack more books but also to produce inexp... ...d the very wealthy could afford them. Books were still so precious that libraries linked them to desks with metal chains to prevent theft. One had... ...from place to place in search of manuscripts they might copy in scattered libraries could now afford to have copies of books sent to them. Before ... ...ed at all. By the fourteenth century, a patriotic desire for a complete national Bible had arisen. “Poor priests” followed Wycliffe Foremost amon... ...er printed, generated ―the germs of that opinion which … made Henry V the national hero and the struggle of Lancaster and York the theme of a nation... ...otype came into use. That number continued to grow for decades. Pioneer national printers union was powerful Ironically, although two compositors ... ...d a limit on the maximum output per man per day. The ITU was the oldest national organizer of American labor. No other union managed so quickly an...

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...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...ry rendezvous for them; in that void Palace of the Tuileries, now void and National, and not a Palace, but a Caravansera. As for the Spontaneous Commu... ... hid in a napkin! Two great movements, as we said, agitate this distracted National mind: a rushing against domestic Traitors, a rush- ing against for... ...as Carlyle ture driving them on: love, hatred; vengeful sorrow, brag- gart Nationality also vengeful,—and pale Panic over all! Twelve Hundred slain Pa... ...can character. Ever fresh Novelgarbage, as of old, fodders the Circulating Libraries. (Moniteur of these months, passim.) The ‘Cess- pool of Agio, ’ n...

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...nation, instead of the canonical appointment emanating from Durham, and as national feeling went with the Regent’s nomi- nee, it was by no means certa... ...! I’ve heard of it,’ cried the English knight. ‘I sent to half the convent libraries to beg the loan when Gilbert de Lannoy set forth for the survey o... ...d at Dreux, yet whenever he was obliged to enforce anything unpopular, the national dis- like to the Scot was apt to show itself, and the whole army w... ... himself accounted for. He had heard a Scots tongue among his foes, though national feeling had made him ut- terly silent on that head to the Duke of ...

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...sible, particularly of documents which shed new light on the history of the islands. For this purpose, extensive research has been carried on in the national archives of the United States, Great Britain, and France, and minor investigations have been made in the archives of Belgium and Mexico and in a number of libraries and collections in the United States. Many thousan...

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...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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...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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... religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national faith 107 * Temple monks 108 * Ordination of monks 110 Po... ...lopment has rendered locality, village and municipal communities, even the national state, old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its co... ...ned outside local communities, now even nation states. In the delocal era, national culture superseded local communities, and in international competi... ...al culture superseded local communities, and in international competition, national economies have been continually forced to grow and centralize; the... ...ministrative and cultural technosystems that no longer adapt to a local or national environment, but the environment is adapted to suit their requirem... ...ing the international culture, for it to invest in information technology, libraries, sport and the arts and generally in areas that bring new creativ...

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.... Again, physical fitness is an idea that quickly becomes asocial cause in time of national emergency. So, in terms of group process, ideas frequen... ...in cell (1). Cell (2) depicts nonprofit services rendered by such institutions as libraries, post offices, YMCAs, chambers of commerce, museums, th... ...ey are marketed by nonprofit organizations, the measuring services such as Leading National Advertisers, Inc., count their ad billings in with comme... ...of constituents who hold opposing views. Lobbyists include representatives of the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commer... ...e, trade and professional organizations, such as the American Medical Association, National Rifle Association, American Petroleum Institute and labor... ...ily) socialist countries portraying political leaders in the effort to enhance the nationalist image. There too, are posted photos of outstanding co... ..., the sheet maker pays the Met royalties of more than $200,000 a year" (p. 171). Libraries similarly have broken out of their traditional role as b...

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...reds of examples - from bankruptcy law to income security, from flood mitigation to national defense, and from consumer protection to deposit insur... .... Aware of the existence of this Damocles sword, the European Union and the trans-national pharmaceutical lobby have come out last May in favor of... ...al Drugs" discovered immense variations in the prices of medicines among different national markets. But, surprisingly, these price differences wer... ...rent national markets. But, surprisingly, these price differences were unrelated to national income. Even allowing for price differentials, the one... ...ple across the UK took part in Living Innovation 2002. The extravaganza included a national broadcast linkup from the Eden Project in Cornwall and ... ...ten to stifle innovation and competition. Intellectual property - patents, content libraries, copyrighted material, trademarks, rights of all kinds...

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...the role that the library has played. Any city that has had a great impact on learning has had a great library behind it, fueling that learning. Libraries date back to 1900 BC in the Sumerian city of Nippur. Nippur’s library held tens of thousands of inscribed clay tablets. These tablets themselves dated as far back as 2600 BC and included mathematical tables and alma...

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... seventy thousand times! Very curious: if one sought for “discrepancies of national taste,” here surely were the most eminent instance of that! We als... ... so far as writing goes, as badly as almost any book ever was! So much for national discrepancies, and the standard of taste. Yet I should say, it was... ... Fifth and the others, which is worth remembering. He calls them a kind of National Epic. Marlborough, you recol- lect, said, he knew no English Histo... ...a Puri- tanism, which even got itself established as a Presbyterianism and National Church among the Scotch; which came forth as a real business of th... ... the two men are not dissimilar. Burns too could have governed, debated in National Assem- blies; politicized, as few could. Alas, the courage which h... ...more, about the “Divine right of Kings,” moulders unread now in the Public Libraries of this country. Far be it from us to dis- turb the calm process ... ... this,—what can we do with this but leave it to rot silently in the Public Libraries? But I will say withal, and that is what these Divine-right men m...

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...ut into him by the brave spirit of the Scottish people, who took this as a national insult, that he refused to come any more. Thereupon, the King furt... ...d; did great injustice; demolished many beautiful things and many valuable libraries; destroyed numbers of paintings, stained glass windows, fine pave... ...oo fed the fire. All this the people bore, and more than all this yet. The national spirit seems to have been banished from the king dom at this time... ...lar, how it comforted him, at that pass, to have assisted in reforming the national religion, a member of the Council was seen riding up on horseback.... ...ament joined in a petition expressive of their sorrow at the change in the national religion, and praying him to receive the country again into the Po... ... complete defeat. The losses they met with in France greatly mortified the national pride, and the Queen never recovered the blow. There was a bad fev...

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...till set 80 percent of the world’s text, most of those once-wondrous machines were junked before 2000. -- 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories.-Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ?Scientific Revolution.? -- 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise-Smoke and...

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...s were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously a... ... 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recov... ... (Professor Hart points out that paper‘s low cost made it possible for libraries not only to afford to stack more books but also to produce inexp... ...the very wealthy could afford them. Books were still so precious that libraries linked them to desks with metal chains to prevent theft. One had... ...from place to place in search of manuscripts they might copy in scattered libraries could now afford to have copies of books sent to them. Before... ... at all. By the fourteenth century, a patriotic desire for a complete national Bible had arisen. “Poor priests” followed Wycliffe Foremost am... ...er printed, generated ―the germs of that opinion which … made Henry V the national hero and the struggle of Lancaster and York the theme of a nation... ...otype came into use. That number continued to grow for decades. Pioneer national printers union was powerful Ironically, although two compositor... ... a limit on the maximum output per man per day. The ITU was the oldest national organizer of American labor. No other union managed so quickly an...

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................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...east there used to be, some communication with the interior deep; they are national Institutions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal Inst... ...ackness, envelop us: are we breaking down, then, into the black horrors of national bankruptcy? Great is Bankruptcy: the great bottomless gulf into wh... ... of him shall be seen hovering on the Northern Border, seeking election as National Deputy; but be sternly beckoned away. Dimmer then, far-borne over ... ...can character. Ever fresh Novelgarbage, as of old, fodders the Circulating Libraries. (Moniteur of these months, passim.) The ‘Cesspool of Agio,’ now ...

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...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... ...ess, en- velop us: are we breaking down, then, into the black hor- rors of national bankruptcy? Great is Bankruptcy: the great bottomless gulf into wh... ... of him shall be seen hovering on the Northern Border, seeking election as National Deputy; but be sternly beckoned away. Dimmer then, far-borne over ... ...to speak his opinion, went the length, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You demand States-Gen- eral?” asked Monseigneur with a... ...and Newspaper matter, lie rotting slowly in the 207 Thomas Carlyle Public Libraries of our Europe. Snatched from the great gulf, like oysters by bibl...

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... 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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... 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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...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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... 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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...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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...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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... 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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...e meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that ... ...ere any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Bléri... ...people all told. It is difficult to see whence the necessary impetus for a national renascence is to come.... The universities are poor and spiritless... ...ti- 19 H. G . Wells cal life, especially State life as distinguished from national political life, is degraded because of the natural and inevi- tabl... ...e no rôle of almost indifferent abstinence from the broad processes of our national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above ... ...o read much more and better books than they do, and that found- ing public libraries was the way to induce them to do so, what sort of public librarie... ..., to make a list of that collection. What books, he would say, have all my libraries to possess anyhow? And he would begin to jot down—with the assist... ...philosopher, he would decide that if he was going to buy a great number of libraries in this way, he was going to make an absolutely new sort of deman... ...uld emerge from these negotiations in possession of a number of com- plete libraries each of—how many books? Less than twenty thousand ought to do it,...

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...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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...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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..., 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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...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....