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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...r list...letters from King Francis...from Duke Lorenzo...from Christopher Columbus...Machiavelli...Father Pacioli...Beatrice d’Este...Cesare Bor- gia... .... July 11, 1863 Was it twenty or thirty years ago, we drifted down the Mississippi, three of us on a loaded flatboat? She was well overloaded bec... ... that song in New Orleans on my first visit; I heard it later when on the Mississippi, when we were on our cargo-raft, when we tied up at a wharf. T...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...hey will nearly always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when peo... ... its flag and its country in 1954 when the Catholic group, the Knights of Columbus, asked President Eisenhower to put it in the Pledge.‖ ... ...p all the states or countries together. California produces more GDP than Mississippi, and Ireland produces more than Italy. ―There are som...

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... ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ................................................................. ........................................................................... 11 FROM THE PAST AND INTO THE FUTURE .......................................... ...... 81 4 THE RETURN FROM SPACE — “5-4-3-2-1-Touch down! . . . and Gulliver returns. Th... ...table for underground cities. But there is no place in our solar system as ‘people friendly’ as our own Earth.” —“What made you volunteer for the... ... country on October 12, 1999 it was not significant that my voyage began on Columbus Day. What was significant was that it was the day that the six ... ... in the cities. Here in California our population will double to 60 million people in the first half of this century. Most of this growth occurs bec... ...ulation, but of eliminating misery and increasing the ‘the good life.’ Some people ask why some should be so poor while others are so rich. Did you ... ...uela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,000 or rich Connec...

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...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...e.. New York Cor. Main & Bank^Sts., No. Adams Conklin's rulingPen For busy people. No bother. Fills itself. Cleans itself. No dropper. Nothingtotakeap... ...ederick F. Wright of Newark, ()., hos recently «n,t,ered the employ of the Columbus Na- tional Bank of Columbus, O. A. D. BASTIEN i'HUI'HIKTOK or TUB ... ... Dr. Kennon intends to devote his time to visits in Baltimore, Md., and in Mississippi, Dr. King will renmin in Will- iamstown to complete a German te... ...amon attended a meet- ing of the American Modern Lan- guage ABBooiation at Columbus, O, December 28. Make-up examinations in Ger- man 2 and 3 (Dr. War...

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...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State ... ...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...ames. No other river has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlant... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ...t always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around. It happened so i... ... getting down into the upper edge of the former battle stretch by this time. Columbus was just behind us, so there was a good deal said about the famo... ...he morning. I was on the “R. H. W . Hill.” T ook over a load of troops from Columbus. Came back, and took over a bat tery of artillery. My partner s...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...ut consulting me. A. LINCOLN. 9 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL McCLELLAN. W ASHINGTON, May 18, 1862. GEN... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ... war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. This duty has been, under existing circu... ...ton to Richmond. It is believed that the quickest route would be by way of Columbus, Ky., and up the Ohio River. But in detaching your force the Presi... ...R TOD, EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, March 9, 1863. GOVERNOR DA VID TOD, Columbus, Ohio: I think your advice with that of others would be valuable i... ...Cipher.] EX- ECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, June 18, 1863. GOVERNOR D. TOD, Columbus, O.: Yours received. I deeply regret that you were not renomi- nat...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ...started the boat along the water like a hor izontal burst boiler out of a Mississippi steamer. As for Fedallah, who was seen pulling the harpooneer o... ...ling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superfici... ...niversally applicable. What was America in 1492 but a Loose Fish, in which Columbus struck the Spanish standard by way of waifing it for his royal mast...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ..., however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ...ng; though we know the sea to be an ever- lasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over number- less unknown worlds to discover his one superf... ...bardy, in France, in England, in Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Among the more curi- ous of such remains is part ... ...rk, however the baser currents of the sea may turn and tack, and mightiest Mississippies of the land swift and swerve about, uncertain where to go at ...

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... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...e odds and ends of thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously from a thou sand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of thou... ...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ...h I have been insisting upon. You must remember and always distinguish the people who can ’t bear things from people who can. It will throw light up... ...ctedly, and turns these modest riots into a revolution. And there was poor Columbus. He elaborated a deep plan to find a new route to an old country. ... ...s, which was a most unusual for tune for a king to possess in those days. Columbus’s great Mark T wain 107 achievement gave him the discovery fever,... ...arth is 1492 miles in circumference. To proceed with “History” Christopher Columbus was called the Father of his Country. Queen Isabella of Spain sold...

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...ss of his company — for he did all the talking. We fell together, as modest people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he... ...s?” I said I had not heard of it. He was so little interested — just as when people speak of the weather — that he did not notice whether I made him ... ...” Then, after a pause, added: “I did it myself.” By the time I had recovered from the electric surprise of this remark, he was gone. All that evening ... ...rain beat upon the windows, and the wind roared about the eaves and corners. From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory’s enchanting book, ... ... Fair damsels, he said, my name is Sir Launcelot du Lake. And so he departed from them and betaught them unto God. And then he mounted upon his horse,... ...nd the buzzing of insects, and the twitter ing of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court M... ...” You see, it was the eclipse. It came into my mind in the nick of time, how Columbus, or Cortez, or one of those people, played an eclipse as a savin... ...ttributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus W ard. It was about a humorous lecturer who floo... ...hing, very neat and pretty to see. It resembled a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi; and dur ing the next fifteen minutes we stood under a stead...

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... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...e country. This will heal a dangerous schism for him. It will relieve him from a dangerous position or a misunderstanding, as I think he is in danger... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...eeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of wors... ...e known that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Nort... ...OUGH. EXECU- TIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, January 15, 1864. GOVERNOR BROUGH, Columbus, Ohio: If Private William G . Toles, of Fifty-ninth Ohio V oluntee... ...RAM TO GOVERNOR BROUGH. W ASHING- TON CITY, May 24, 1864. GOVERNOR BROUGH, Columbus, Ohio: Y ours to Secretary of War [received] asking for something ...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...art shock before com ing below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist... ...and vivacity. Before descending into the bowels of the ship, we had passed from the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse wi... ... little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe how v... ...wn, and every little boat was splashing noisily in the water; and knots of people stood upon the wharf, gazing with a kind of ‘dread delight’ on the f... ...two ways about THAT; and so I tell you. Now! I’m from the brown forests of Mississippi, I am, and when the sun shines on me, it does shine —a little. ... ...5 CHAPTER XIV —RETURN TO CINCINNATI. A STAGE COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA... ...ground accursed, and made obscene and rank by some great crime. We reached Columbus shortly before seven o’clock, and stayed there, to refresh, that d...

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...had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight proc... ...wain 3 the high strikes. It made him sick to listen to Tom, and to hear the people say “My land!” “Did you ever!” “My good ness sakes alive!” and a... ...“My good ness sakes alive!” and all such things; but he couldn’t pull away from it, any more than a fly that’s got its hind leg fast in the molasse... ...he would sneak there and get it out and bury it in another place. Of course, people got to avoiding him and shaking their heads and whispering, becaus... ...ade him the greatest man in all that region, and the most talked about; and people come from as much as thirty miles back in the country, and from o... ... greatest man in all that region, and the most talked about; and people come from as much as thirty miles back in the country, and from over in the I... ...perience I knowed it wouldn’t take much short of two weeks to do it down the Mississippi on a raft. Jim was working his mind and studying. Pretty soon... ...elt pretty good, too, and proud; and we kept watching with the glasses, like Columbus discovering America. But we couldn’t see nothing but ocean. The ... ...ing pretty near hot enough to scald your mouth. We couldn’t drink it. It was Mississippi river water, the best in the world, and we stirred up the mud...

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...re nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour. Similar fac... ...bserved on the 23rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company. But this ... ...Navigation Company. But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an inter- val of... ...ed in the pa- pers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary crea- ture, from the white whale, the terrible “Moby Dick” of sub-arctic regions, to th... ...e form of the dilemma. Either we do know all the varieties of beings which people our planet, or we do not. If we do not know them all—if Nature has s... ... board, but after a reason- able period of obstinacy, Captain Farragut (as Columbus did) asked for three days’ patience. If in three days the monster ... ...lled in its cage in the Jardin des Plantes, and have drawn all the curious people of the capital!” “As you say, Conseil. I fancy we shall run a fair c... ...ngs, gave free vent to his indignation. “Confound it!” cried he, “here are people who come up 38 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to the Scotch for hospi... ...ike that oc- 165 Jules Verne cupied by the pilot on the steamboats of the Mississippi or Hudson. In the midst worked a wheel, placed verti- cally, an...

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...of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I... ... the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of the globe. They observe no order o... ...quence, but appear and vanish as they will—‘come like shadows, so depart.’ Columbus, alone upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the wast... ...one upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain... ...into a little trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character ... ...ging Letter Writer, for it is a part of his specula tion) in the aversion people feel to exhibit themselves as having been imposed upon, or as having... ...edings; it has been his busi ness to write to all sorts and conditions of people, in the names of persons of high reputation and unblemished honour, ... ... Rhine, and the Rhone; and the Seine, and the Saone; and the St. Lawrence, Mississippi, and Ohio; and the Tiber, the Po, and the Arno; and the—‘ Peaco...

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...t whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but... ...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...spirit. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintanc... ...her wife or chil- 5 Jules Verne dren, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. ... ...ND HIS IDEAL “Faith,” muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame T ussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame T ussaud’s ... ... reappeared in Illinois, and in 1839 founded a community at Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, numbering twenty-five thousand souls, of which he became mayor... ...is section ascended from the south-west to the north-west by Great Island, Columbus, an important Nebraska town, Schuyler, and Fremont, to Omaha. It f... ...Council Bluffs, Des Moines, and Iowa City. During the night it crossed the Mississippi at Davenport, and by Rock Island entered Illinois. The next day...

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...own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an indi vidual — he is a combi... ...s new interest was a valued novelty in whistling, which he had just acquired from a negro, and he was suffering to practise it undisturbed. It consis... ...d each other. Presently they were shoulder to shoulder. Tom said: “Get away from here!” “Go away yourself!” “I won’t.” “I won’t either.” So they stoo... ...t ten the cracked bell of the small church began to ring, and presently the people began to gather for the morning sermon. The Sunday school children... ...ver. Tom eyed it, and longed for it; but it was safe out of his reach. Other people uninter ested in the sermon found relief in the beetle, and they ... ...wing with unimaginable splendor. How his name would fill the world, and make people shudder! How gloriously he would go plowing the dancing seas, in h... ...ented to be a pirate. Three miles below St. Petersburg, at a point where the Mississippi River was a trifle over a mile wide, there was a long, narrow... ...d it, pushed his head and shoulders through a small hole, and saw the broad Mississippi rolling by! And if it had only happened to be night he would... ...en Christ was crucified; when the Conqueror created the British empire; when Columbus sailed; when the massacre at Lexington was “news.” It is falling...

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ......................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI................................................................... .................................................... 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI................................................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ... high ground, and to say that we, the older and therefore more experienced people as regards the United States, and the better gov- erned as regards F... ...er realized the doctrine that honesty is the best policy. Cortez, and even Columbus, the prince of frontier men, are in the same category. The names o...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times,... ...gions so immensely remote from Europe. The longer the way was by the east, Columbus very justly concluded, the shorter it would be by the west. He pro... ... and afterwards the great is- land of St. Domingo. But the countries which Columbus discovered, either in this or in any of his subsequent voyages, ha... ...irma, and towards the Isthmus of Darien. In consequence of this mistake of Columbus, the name of the Indies has stuck to those unfortunate countries e...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ..................423 BOOK XXVII..................................435 Prayer of Columbus...........................435 BOOK XXVIII.......................... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ...ity and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 19 We co... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ...es of Grass –Whitman 25 Chants of the prairies, Chants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illino... ... 7 I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith. Omnes!...

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...tieth anniversary—on the night preceding that thirtieth of April, 1789, when from the balcony of your city hall the chancellor of the State of New Yor... ...of the principles of piety, of justice, of honor, of benevolence, with which from his earliest in fancy he had hitherto walked through life, in the p... ...o mortal eye), the predestined and prophetic history of the one confederated people 3 of the North American Union. They had been the settlers of thir... ...lasses which for the two preceding cen turies had agitated and divided the people of the Brit ish islands—and with them were intermingled the de s... ...ngled the de scendants of Hollanders, Swedes, Germans, and French fugitives from the persecution of the revoker of the Edict of Nantes. In the bosoms... ...the persecution of the revoker of the Edict of Nantes. In the bosoms of this people, thus heterogeneously composed, there was burning, kindled at dif... ...ed her rival totally from the continent, over which, bounding herself by the Mississippi, she was thenceforth to hold divided empire only with Spain. ... ... of strong passions. From the first discovery of the West ern Hemisphere by Columbus until the settlement of Virginia which immediately preceded tha...

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...owing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...eard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in ... ...ecomes impossible for them to resume 2 Walden their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stomach;... ...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...now enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe... ...e coast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a North West Passage around this continent, that we would... ...for a sign. Were preserved meats invented to preserve meat merely? Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new chann... ... enlist. Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a worn out China or Japan, ...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...pture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people—who with permission of Mexico had colonized T exas, and afterwards s... ...e was a scout of General Fremont. He re- ported that he had just come from Columbus, a point on the Mississippi twenty miles below on the Kentucky sid... ...re expecting rebel troops that day. In fact, nearly four thousand men from Columbus were at that time within ten or fifteen miles of Paducah on their ... ...s and one battery with me, but the enemy did not know this and returned to Columbus. I stationed my troops at the best points to guard the roads leadi...

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...d a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and ask... ..., so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity... ...rs in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would de rive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sen... ...hed by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels. It is true, we are but faint hearted crus... ...lker, Errant. He is a sort of fourth estate, outside of Church and State and People. We have felt that we almost alone hereabouts practiced this noble... ...es, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap. A people who would begin by burning the fences and let the forest stand! I ... ... may name it America, but it is not America; neither Americus Vespueius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer amoun... ...ky, the gar dens of the Hesperides, and the foundation of all those fables? Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obe... ...athed an atmosphere of chivalry. Soon after, I went to see a panorama of the Mississippi, and as I worked my way up the river in the light of today, a...

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...ing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...rd of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sin cerely, it must have been in ... ...l it becomes impossible for them to re sume their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stom ach”... ...for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...nd find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...nough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe w... ...coast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would fi... ...r a sign. Were preserved meats invented to preserve meat merely? Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channel... ...nlist. Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a wornout China or Japan, bu...

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...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...te so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between ... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ... hold but speak not, silently glided past the firm lands of Concord, both peopled cape and lonely summer meadow, with steady sweeps. And yet we did u... ...it did first, in days of cheap printing! Who knows what shape the fable of Columbus will at length assume, to be confounded with that of Jason and the... ... And pawn the jewels of the crown To call your distant soil their own. Columbus has sailed westward of these isles by the mariner’s compass, but n... ...ossip would be Universal History. The fourth old woman from myself suckled Columbus,—the ninth was nurse to the Norman Conqueror,—the nineteenth was t...