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...d Halverson, Jerry and Harriet Dorf, Charles Peebler, Harold McGraw, Jr., Phil and Dorothy Pierson, Sharon and George Darling, Ray and Adrienne Swee... ... Barb Godin, George Molteni, Howard and Marie Hausman, Henry Clark, Jr., Philip Kamil, John and Patsy Robinson, John and Mar­ ilyn Rosica, Mike and ... ...e Diamond, Mark and Elizabeth Williams, Joe and Theresa Moore, Del Smith, Phil and Donna Gray, Mike and Susan Cheney-O'Byrne, Chris Smith, David Ka... ...ery experience has the capacity to nourish your soul. My wish is that in reading of my experiences your memory will be jarred, stirring up personal... ...ected with chocolate chip cookies. So Chip & Cookie stayed on the shelf, ready to be picked up when the time was right. And that time was now! My r... ...llace, Jr. These were hard times, and for Ruby and Wallace, who could not read or write, keeping their jobs came first. Having two working parents d... ...he only non-farm work available to a black woman in the South who did not read or write was as a domestic servant. So that meant Ruby helped support... ...I learned that service to others would bring the best to my own life. My philosophy evolved into one of production, promotion and service. I was se... ... discover it to be a well of good fortune in our lives. My experience and philosophy is that everything works out to enhance our lives, even if the ...

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...z INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments... ...he first of the reformatory treatises of 1520, as they have been called, we read at the close: “I know another little song about Rome, and if their ... ...om each of these is translated in Preserved Smith, Luther’s Correspondence (Philadelphia, 1913), Vol. I, No. 199. These two writings may be regarded... ...f the Holy Spirit, granting an indulgence of ten years to everyone who would read it, and bestowing upon Henry and his successors the title “Defender... ...Bugenhagen, who had previously regarded Luther as a reckless heretic, but on reading through the Captivity was completely converted to the cause of t... ...ond was by A. T. W. Steinhäuser and is included in the second volume of the Philadelphia edition of Luther’s works (1915). The third came from the f... ...claim to fame. Cf. the Introduction. 8 Cratippos. Cratippus, a peripatetic philosopher of Mytilene, had taught Cicero’s son at Athens and received t... ...yclopedia (15 vols.), IV, 650. 19 Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, was accused of atheism by his contemporaries because of his... ..., 177 n. 5: Julius Köstlin, The Theology of Luther, trans. Charles E. Hay. (Philadelphia, 1897), I, 403; and below, pp. 93–94. 29 Luther inserted t...

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...ause of his verse, which is rich with sonic texture and gothic subject matter: insanity, darkness, ghosts, death, etc. It is also quite manageable to read in its entirety at 75 poems depending on how many of those of questionable authorship or in various stages of completion one is willing to include in the official oeuvre. (In fact, it has been some time since I’ve heard ...

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...w she esteem’d him; and his Vertue 62 By her electio[n] may be truly read, what kind of man he is. 63 2 I honor him, euen out of your ... ... Pisa. Madam, I shall. Exeunt. Scena Quinta. 314 Enter Philario, Iachimo: a Frenchman, a Dutch-man, 315 and a Spaniard. 316 ... ...321 bin tabled by his side, and I to peruse him by Items. 322 Phil. You speake of him when he was lesse furnish’d, 323 then now hee ... ...e is to soiourne 338 with you? How creepes acquaintance? 339 Phil. His Father and I were Souldiers together, to 340 whom I haue bin... ...ore of Theeues, notwithstanding 413 I feare not my Ring. 414 Phil. Let vs leaue heere, Gentlemen? 415 Post. Sir, with all my he... ...thinking. I dare you to this match: heere’s my 462 Ring. 463 Phil. I will haue it no lay. 464 Iach. By the Gods it is one: if I... ...an I shall flying fight, 616 Rather directly fly. 617 Imogen reads. 618 He is one of the Noblest note, to whose kindnesses I am mos... ...cordingly, as you value your 620 trust. Leonatus. 621 So farre I reade aloud. 622 But euen the very middle of my heart 623 Is warm... ...is it? 907 Lady. Almost midnight, Madam. 908 Imo. I haue read three houres then: 909 Mine eyes are weake, 910 Fold downe t...

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...following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wishes to make himself familiar wi...

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...ent times, especially, one may say, since the date of Herbart. There is much in the writings of Sextus that finds a parallel in the methods of modern philosophy. There is a common starting-point in the study of the power and limitations of human thought. There is a common desire to investigate the phenomena of sense-perception, and the genetic relations of man to the lower...

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...The Ninth Trope.—The Tenth Trope.—The five Tropes of Agrippa.—The two Tropes.—The Tropes of Aenesidemus against Aetiology.. 31 -- Aenesidemus And The Philosophy Of Heraclitus-Statement of the problem.—The theory of Pappenheim.—The theory of Brochard.—Zeller's theory.—The theory of Ritter and Saisset.—The theory of Hirzel and Natorp.—Critical examination of the subject.. 63...

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...RICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY ... ...red to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaus... ...rincipal modern authors consulted are the following: Ritter, Geschichte der Philosophie, II. Auf., Hamburg, 1836—38. Zeller, Philosophie der Grieche... ...r, Philosophie der Griechen, III. Auf., Leipzig, 1879—89. Lewes, History of Philosophy, Vol. I., London, 1866. Ueberweg, History of Philosophy, IV. ... ...s, 1877. Brochard, Pyrrhon et le Scepticism Primitive, No. 5, Ribot's Revue Phil., Paris, 1885. Saisset, Le Scepticism Aenésidème-Pascal-Kant, Paris... ...t could have originated, as those who have studied the origin of names will readily grant, perhaps indeed, from the title of the above-named work, ἐκ... ...s works are compilations from other books; but on the contrary, the careful reader of Sextus' works must find in all of them much evidence of person... ..., or as Sextus calls them, phenomena. It is very noticeable to any one who reads the refutation of causality by Aenesidemus, as given by Sextus, [3... ... books were well known, and Sextus would most certainly take the trouble to read them. His reputation as an historian would not sustain such an accu...

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...I have no need to observe that I do not wilfully or negligently mislead my readers and that before I wrote that description I took pains to investi g... ...f a century, plants himself in a good place and keeps an eye on the judge, ready to call out “My Lord!” in a voice of sonorous complaint on the instan... ...ce and Jarndyce than anybody. He is famous for it— supposed never to have read anything else since he left school. “Have you nearly concluded your ar... ...tleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rat... ...nd Conversation Kenge! Ha! Pray accept my blessing!” CHAPTER IV Telescopic Philanthropy WE WERE TO PASS THE NIGHT, Mr. Kenge told us when we arri... ...t is consid ered likely to be a good work and who is much sought after by philanthropists, has, I believe, a very high opinion of Mrs. Jellyby.” Mr. ... ...ed to the back of his head, who came in the evening, and told Ada he was a philanthropist, also informed her that he called the matrimonial alliance o... ...n’t want to look about him.” This appeared to Mr. Skimpole to be the drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good phi losophy, always supposing th... ... submit to be proposed to by Mr. Quale. A pretty thing, indeed, to marry a philanthro pist. As if I hadn’t had enough of that!” said poor Miss Jelly...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 91 THE FEMALE PHILOSOPHER ................................................................................................. 92 THE FIRST ACT OF A COMEDY .........................................................................................

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............................................................... 91 THE FEMALE PHILOSOPHER .................................................................. ...y Mother and my Isabel, I accompanied Ed- ward to his Aunt’s in Middlesex. Philippa received us both with every expression of affectionate Love. My a... ...She re- ceived me with equal surprise though not with equal Cordiality, as Philippa. There was a disagreable cold- ness and Forbidding Reserve in her... ...uel and Unrelenting Baronet. Altho’ Lady Dorothea’s visit was nominally to Philippa and Augusta, yet I have some reason to imagine that (acquainted wi... ...spleasure of my Father!” So saying, he took my hand and whilst Sir Edward, Philippa, and Augusta were doubtless reflecting with admiration on his unda... ...f such trifles, but as we were convinced he had no soul, that he had never read the sorrows of Werter, and that his Hair bore not the least resemblanc... ...y girls, than we are; not an hour in the Day hangs heavy on our Hands. We read, we work, we walk, and when fatigued with these Employments releive ou... ...ving laboured both by Night and by Day, in order to get the Wedding dinner ready by the time appointed, after having roasted Beef, Broiled Mut- ton, a... ...f humour. She is naturally extravagant and not very af- fected; she never reads anything but the letters she re- ceives from me, and never writes any...

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..................... 86 BROTHER SQUARE-TOES ........................................................................................................ 88 Philadelphia ................................................................................................................................................................. 88...

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.......................................................................... 88 Philadelphia ................................................................. ...ou are bringing him up to act and influence on folk in housen, when you’re ready to let him go,” I said. “Now he’s begun to do it, why do you cry sham... ...gers wide and a thumb thick, and there is writing on the breadth of it.” ‘“Read the writing if you have the learning,” I called. The darkness had lift... ... lifted by then, and the owl was out over the fern again. ‘He called back, reading the runes on the iron: “Few can see Further forth Than when the chi... ...ey grew older, they contrived to keep it most particu- larly private. Even Phillips, the gardener, told them every time that he came in to take a hop-... ...member when she danced after the banquet at Brickwall. They say she danced Philip of Spain out of a brand-new king- dom that day. Worth the price of a... ...and stooped forward to look at its broad flashing buckle. ‘You’ve heard of Philip of Spain—long-suffering Philip,’ she said, her eyes still on the shi... ... I had been a man, and a woman had played with me as Elizabeth played with Philip, I would have—’ She nipped off one of the Virginia stocks and held i... ...any—for the Queen’s time is never her own—and, while the music strikes up, read- ing Philip’s letter, as I do.’ She drew a real letter from her pocket...

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...son, being by birth and by—ha—by educa- tion a—hum—a gentleman, would have readily adapted him- self to any obligingly expressed wish on the subject o... ... it not?’ 17 Little Dorrit – Book Two The lady took it, and said yes, and read it. Her visitor watched her as she did so. It was very short. She flus... ...’s names had been registered when he was absent. Taking it in his hand, he read these entries. William Dorrit, Esquire Frederick Dorrit, Esquire Ed... ...of drivers and riders sounded musically. Some of the earliest had even al- ready resumed their journey; and, both on the level summit by the dark wate... ... Assuredly he did look then, though he looked his politest, as if any real philanthropist could have desired no better employment than to lash a great... ...r me! a person’s thoughts,’ Mrs Tickit said this with an argumentative and philo- sophic air, ‘however they may stray, will go more or less on what is... ... call her?’ ‘Wade,’ said Mr Casby. ‘Oh, always Wade.’ After looking at the philanthropic visage and the long silky white hair for a few seconds, durin... ...’ said Clennam. ‘Truly,’ assented the Patriarch, with a shining face as he phil- anthropically smiled at the fire, ‘none at all, sir. Y ou hit the wis... ...lton, Bacon, Newton, Watt, the land of a host of past and present abstract philoso- phers, natural philosophers, and subduers of Nature and Art in the...

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................... 137 FALSIFICATION OF ENGLISH HISTORY ............................................................................. 154 A PERIPATETIC PHILOSOPHER............................................................................................. 170 ON SUICIDE.............................................................................................................

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........................................................... 154 A PERIPATETIC PHILOSOPHER................................................................... ...ONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS.’ 1 1854 IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to conciliate readers of so saturnine and gloomy a class, that they cannot enter with gen... ...ulsive. The very excess of the extravagance, in fact, by suggesting to the reader continually the mere aeriality of the entire speculation, furnishes ... ... of eighteen miles, were thrown into terror and agitation. Men, of course, read in this hurrying overhead of scintillating and blazing vortices, the a... ...pted the present writing. A sec- ond purpose of this paper is, to make the reader acquainted circumstantially with three memorable cases of murder, wh... ...on, he had not shared in the prevailing panic; him they effected only as a philosopher, and threw him into a profound reverie upon the tremendous powe... ...ture, are equally true, whether accounted for by one hypoth- esis which is philosophically just, or by another which is popular and erring. Now, on th... ...ere can be no schism or feud upon these subjects between the Bible and the philosophies outside. 60 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater SCHL SCHL... ...owever, is right in a graver reflection which he makes upon the prevailing philosophy of Swift, viz., that ‘all his views were directed towards what w...

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...repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the composition of their reading class, that a success amongst them counts for a success amongst our... .... These pretensions I will explain hereafter. All the rest I resign to the reader’s unbiased judg- ment, adding here, with respect to four of them, a ... ...y refused to say. In the daily jour- nals, which he was allowed to see, he read with eagerness the police examinations of Williams; and on the same da... ...erciful bloodshed* has been authorized by the ex- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Macc... ...he Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophic reader will have felt the true and transcendent spirit of mercy... ...- eral politics (meaning by general not personal politics) and with social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political ... ... question, when practically treated for purposes of present legislation or philosophic inference. One hundred years ago, such was the difficulty of so... ...se words: “Jeremy T aylor, the most eloquent and the subtlest of Christian philosophers, was the son of a barber, and the son-in-law of a king,”— allu... ...d from the labor as too overwhelmingly exacting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of that man 80 “myriad-minded,” and of that century...

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...xpressed in those phrases a dream? Is it already proven a dream? Or can we read between the lines of the war news, diplomatic disputations, threats an... ...f a permanent world peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provisi... ...ystem has been strained, and will be strained, and will need unprecedented readjust- ments. In the past such phases of uncertainty, sudden im- poveris... ...find, what it is impossible to find now, a number of devoted men and women ready to give their whole lives, with a quasi-religious enthusiasm, to this... ...the Ostwald-Krupp Germany of 1915. That Germany, one may now perceive, had read and thought over and thought out the Bloch problem. There was also a t... ...a “ha’p’orth the worse.” And their creditors have found a balm in time and philosophy. Bankruptcy is only painful and destructive to small people and ... ...payment and fee-snatching, to insist upon 72 What Is Coming? a scientific philosophical training for its practitioners, to make the practice of advoc... ...at never get from “exercises” to practice. There is a pretence of studying philosophy based on Greek texts that few of the teachers and none of the ta... ...on. But the essence of the higher education is now, as it always has been, philosophy; not the antiquated pretence of “reading” Plato and Aristotle, b...

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...ds; like a thoroughbred horse, which is too expensive to keep up to find a ready purchaser. If you go out walking with such a woman on your arm, every... ...take up with a Josepha, a Jenny Cadine, why should not one be found who is ready to make a fool of himself under legal formalities? If it were not for... ...23 Balzac exhausted; she sank on the sofa in her blue room, as if she were ready to faint, and sat there with her eyes fixed on the tumble-down summer... ...the coach, at the time of the levies, a sort of conscription made by Louis Philippe on the old Napoleonic soldiery. From the time when the younger bra... ...e in the world knew anything of her troubles. Now, if Crevel went about so ready to talk of the Baron’ s excesses, Hector’s reputation would suffer. S... ...a disgrace to the Louvre and the Place du Carrousel. I am devoted to Louis-Philippe, he is my idol; he is the august and exact representative of the ... ...sin Betty There are some of every sort, rich and poor, envious and envied, philosophers and dreamers, all grouped like the plants in a flower-bed roun... ...he savings bank. And the smug Puritans who amuse themselves in France with phil- anthropic experiments fancy that they are making the com- mon people ... ...ominous silence. Catastrophes lead intelligent and strong-minded men to be philosophical. The Baron, morally, was at this moment like a man trying to ...

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...Majesty, The borrowed Majesty of England heere. Elea. A strange beginning: borrowed Majesty? K. John. Silence (good mother) heare the Embassie. Chat. Philip of France, in right and true behalfe Of thy deceased brother, Geffreyes sonne, Arthur Plantaginet, laies most lawfull claime To this faire Iland, and the Territories: To Ireland, Poyctiers, Aniowe, Torayne, Maine, Desi...

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... K.Iohn. Silence (good mother) heare the Embassie. 12 Chat. Philip of France, in right and true behalfe 13 Of thy deceased broth... ...ditions charge: what men are you? 57 Enter Robert Faulconbridge, and Philip. 58 Philip. Your faithfull subiect, I a gentleman, 59 ... ...he heyre? 66 You came not of one mother then it seemes. 67 Philip. Most certain of one mother, mighty King, 68 That is well know... ...hy mother, 73 And wound her honor with this diffidence. 74 Phil. I Madame? No, I haue no reason for it, 75 That is my brothers p... ...yonger born 80 Doth he lay claime to thine inheritance? 81 Phil. I know not why, except to get the land: 82 But once he slanderd... ...ace, 94 The accent of his tongue affecteth him: 95 Doe you not read some tokens of my sonne 96 In the large composition of this man?... ...agement. 516 The Canons haue their bowels full of wrath, 517 And ready mounted are they to spit forth 518 Their Iron indignation ’gains... ...he Dolphin there thy Princely sonne, 801 Can in this booke of beautie read, I loue: 802 Her Dowrie shall weigh equall with a Queene: 803 ... ...temperate order in so fierce a cause, 1395 Doth want example: who hath read, or heard 1396 Of any kindred- action like to this? 1397 F...

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... such rashness and impiety. I have called you Daniel in Babylon; and every reader thoroughly knows with what distinguished zeal I defended your conspi... ...the decrees of the Fathers. There are now not a few persons who preach and read about Christ with the object of moving the human affections to sympath... ...in the fulness and riches of his own faith. Thus, when Paul had taught the Philippians how they had been made rich by that faith in Christ in which th... ... every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others” (Phil. ii. 1-4). In this we see clearly that the Apostle lays down this rule... ... in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death” (Phil. ii. 5-8). This most wholesome saying of the Apostle has been darkened... ...lcated, that Christians should be subject to principalities and powers and ready to 37 Martin Luther every good work (Titus iii. 1), not that they ma... ...ore need to pray that God will lead us and make us taught of God, that is, ready to learn from God; and will Himself, as He has promised, write His la...

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...aking allow ance for variations of spelling and sundry minor differences of reading, by no means always in favour of the earlier scribe, the Berne fr... ...d up into one little chapter, from which it would seem that the Welshman had read the French, but thought it waste of pains to translate it. In all, n... ...vo Galief”, which, unless it be a mis 6 The High History of the Holy Graal reading or miswriting for Perceval le Galois, is to me wholly unintelligi... ...s “Y Seint Greal.” This unhappy collocation has led not a few of M. Potvin’s readers to neglect his First Part, under the impression that the story is... ...r volumes containing the Ro mance in verse; while not a few of Mr Williams’ readers have neglected his Second Portion under the impression that there... ...s a historian but as a troubadour at one time in high favour at the court of Philip Augustus, and in later years as one of the most ardent preachers o... ...c. viii. and p. 389 et seq. 5 Rigord. “Chron.” 196, p. 288. Wm. le Breton, “Phil.” xi. 547. See also Birch Hirschfeld, “Die Gralsage”, p. 143. 6 2 v... ...t, that Virgil founded it in the air by his wisdom in such fashion, when the philosophers went on the Quest of the Earthly Paradise, and it was prophe...

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...the Byron. So you prefer living abroad? THE COUNT. I find England ugly and Philistine. Well, I dont live in it. I find modern houses ugly. I dont live... ...irst rehearsals with the gentleman you call the producer, because he hadnt read the play; but the moment he found out what it was all about everything... ...es! Do you mean to say it is a modern play? SAVOYARD. I dont know: I didnt read it. I handed it to Billy Burjoyce—the producer, you know—and left it t... ...THE COUNT . Oh indeed. I am very glad you have secured Mr T rotter. I have read his Playful Impressions. SAVOYARD. Well, I was rather in a funk about ... ...ng] My dear young lady— FANNY. I dont mean morally innocent: everybody who reads your articles knows youre as innocent as a lamb. TROTTER. What! FANNY... ...he dinner-bell will ring presently? FANNY. What does it matter? We’re both ready. I havnt told you yet what I want you to do for me. TROTTER. Nor have... ... lying about; but you might trust her with untold silver. GILBEY. My Uncle Phil was a teetotaller. My father used to say to me: Rob, he says, dont you... ...u find one getting a hold on you, make a merit of it, he says. Y our Uncle Phil doesnt like spirits; and he makes a merit of it, and is chairman of th... ...ings as they really are, the calm judgment, the open mind, 65 GB Shaw the philosophic grasp, the foresight and true courage, which are so natural to ...

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... total drama of this world. I will endeavor to ex- plain my views. And the reader, who takes any interest in the subject, will not need to fear that t... ...Latin author, in speaking of an individual, without more or less of sneer. Reading that word, in a Latin book, we all try it and ring it, as a petty s... ...eems to me, the deepest of errors. Great theologians are they, and eminent philosophers, who have presumed that (as a matter of course) all religions,... ...s oftentimes *This is not generally perceived. On the contrary, people are ready to say, ‘Why, so far from it, the very earliest language in which the... ...h the Gospels appeared, excepting only St. Matthew’s, was the Greek.’ Yes, reader; but what Greek? Had not the Greeks been, for a long time, colonizin... ...t into its latent sense by placing it in juxtaposition with paganism. If a philosophic theist, who is also a Christian, or who (not being a Chris- tia... ...ly in clouds. Now, this antagonism utterly collapses in paganism. And to a philo- sophic apprehension, this peculiarity of the heathen gods is more sh... ...with a mode of the ludicrous. For the sake of explaining myself to the non-philo- sophic reader, I beg him to consider what is the sort of feel- ing w... ...an was even created by Prometheus: but no accounts, un- til lying Platonic philophers arose, in far later times, repre- sented man as created by Jupit...

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...ing; ducks by the hun dred, all uneasy in the surf, in the raw wind, just ready to rise, and now going off with a clatter and a whistling like rigger... ...ity With a wet eye. A sound estate they ever mend T o every asker readily lend; T o the ocean wealth, To the meadow health, To Time ... ...f arms a field verdant, with the Concord circling nine times round. I have read that a descent of an eighth of an inch in a mile is sufficient to prod... ... the meadow is not reclaimed so fast as the woods are cleared. Let us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows in his “Wonder working Providen... ... be hoof after the spawning season. Away with the superficial and selfish phil anthropy of men,—who knows what admi rable virtue of fishes may be b... ...heir floating there was a beautiful and successful ex periment in natural philosophy, and it served to ennoble in our eyes the art of navigation; for... .... The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in ad vance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this au roral atmosphere. As we said before, ... ...nipiseogee, one of the head waters of this river. It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be re minded of these shoals of migratory fishes, ... ... aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place. The wisest definition of poetry the poet...

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.... We may know his work, may know it well, and admire it more every time we read it. After being amused by it, after having enjoyed it, we may return a... ...he little vineyard of La Deviniere, near Chinon, and famil- iar to all his readers, is supposed to have belonged to his father, Thomas Rabelais, some ... ...is work was translated into French—as also the Dames Galantes of Brantome. Read the Journal of Heroard, that honest doc- tor, who day by day wrote dow... ...t Satyrique proves what, under Louis XIII., could be written, printed, and read. The collection of songs formed by Clairambault shows that the sevente... ...; Where, though you monsters and grotescoes see, You meet all mysteries of philosophy. For he was wise and sovereignly bred To know what mankind is, h... ...: He from wise choice did the true means prefer, In fool’s coat acting th’ philosopher. Thus hoary Aesop’s beasts did mildly tame Fierce man, and mor... ...e praises of his schoolmaster Socrates (without all question the prince of philosophers), amongst other discourses to that purpose, said that he resem... ... mouth,—the beast of all other, says Plato, lib. 2, de Republica, the most philosophical? If you have seen him, you might have remarked with what devo... ...igh matters and deep sciences: as Homer knew very well, the paragon of all philologues, and Ennius, the father of the Latin poets, as Horace calls him...

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...lter Savage Landor, from whose Imaginary Conversations she had promised to read at frequent intervals during the day. It was rather difficult. Somethi... ...the emotions of fear and love. To Margaret—I hope that it will not set the reader against her—the station of King’s Cross had always suggested Infinit... ...has been no misunderstanding,” qua- vered Mrs. Munt. “Her letter certainly read that way.” “What way?” “That you and she—” She paused, then drooped he... ... appeared, flushed with the triumph of getting through an examination, and ready to flirt with any pretty girl, Helen met him halfway, or more than ha... ...ess they are dead at once, and naturally. Your po- ets too are dying, your philosophers, your musicians, to whom Europe has listened for two hundred y... ...e and so widening is the gulf that stretches be- tween the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross ... ...- erty had had its say—a saying that is necessarily ungracious—the various philanthropists stepped forward. Something must be done for “Mr. Bast”; his... ...ght run inland from the sea, the chauf- feur might conceal all passion and philosophy be- neath his unhealthy skin. They knew their own busi- ness, an... ...ieda appropriated it passion- ately, for she had a patriotic rather than a philosophic mind. Yet it betrayed that interest in the universal which the ...

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...AN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ......................................................................... 6 EPISTLE TO THE READER ............................... ...ble to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader’s fancy. But there being not... ...ur allowance and approbation of the design of this Treatise will at least preserve it from being condemned without reading, and will prevail to have t... ...p’s most humble and most obedient servant, JOHN LOCKE Dorset Court, 24th of May, 1689 9 John Locke EPISTLE TO THE READER I HAVE PUT INTO THY HANDS wh... ..., affected, or unin- telligible terms, introduced into the sciences, and there made an art of, to that degree that Philosophy, which is nothing but th... ...ne (ch. xxviii. sect. II): “Even the exhortations of inspired teachers have not feared to appeal to common repute, Philip. iv. 8"; without taking noti... ...xioms. Nor is this the prerogative of numbers alone, and propositions made about several of them; but even natural philosophy, and all the other scien... ...l answer:—Because the public requires it, and the Levia- than will punish you if you do not. And if one of the old philosophers had been asked, he wou... ...nted the opinions of another. And if the taking up of another’s principles, without examining them, made not him a philosopher, I suppose it will hard...

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...eives at Hampton, which, in- deed, the autobiography does explain. But the reader does not get his intellectual pedigree, for Mr. Washington him- self... ...ed the low level of public life in all the “black” States. Every effort of philanthropy seemed to have miscarried, every effort at correcting abuses s... ...n. But I felt the weight of twenty well-nigh hopeless years of thought and reading and ob- servation; for the old difficulties remained and new ones ... ...It is on this that his claim to our gratitude rests. To teach the Negro to read, whether English, or Greek, or Hebrew, butters no parsnips. To make th... ... that they will teach others with a missionary zeal that puts all ordinary philanthropic efforts to shame,—this is to change the whole economic basis ... ..., not his teaching the pupils of Tuskegee, nor even gaining the support of philanthropic persons at a distance, but this—that every Southern white man... ... in the discussion of the Negro problem. Two or three de- cades ago social philosophers and statisticians and well- meaning philanthropists were still... ...Tom’s Cabin” and “Cotton is King”—a vast mass of books which many men have read to the waste of good years (and I among them); but the only books that... ...he country. Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work. To say that ...

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...nely curved, impudent chin. Her half ca- joling, half mocking air, and her ready smile, were difficult to confront with severity; and Miss Wilson knew... ...ce, when a sound of voices above reached her, her eyes brightened, and her ready lip moved; 6 An Unsocial Socialist but the next silent moment she re... ...ies that are not mine. Sarah Gerram! What has she been confessing?” “Don’t read it,” said Miss Lindsay quickly. “Y ou know that it is the most dishono... ...s are not worth making such a fuss about. I always like to have my entries read: it makes me feel like an author; and so in Christian duty I always re... ...er and Miss Wylie. Miss Wylie went first.” “You wretch!” exclaimed Agatha, reading over her shoul- der. “And your father is an admiral!” “I think it i... ...ramped along, chatting subduedly, occa- sionally making some scientific or philosophical remark in a louder tone, in order that Miss Wilson might over... ...ung woman with a basket of clothes, if that mout be her. Some thought that Phil Martin the carrier would see her if anybody would. None of them had an... ...hat score; but I must disclaim the credit of having borne her death like a philosopher. I ought to have done so, but the truth is that I was greatly a...

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...y E. M. Forster Chapter 1 THEY WERE ALL at Charing Cross to see Lilia off— Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired b... ...gcroft, get us foot-warmers.” The good-natured young man hurried away, and Philip, taking his place, flooded her with a final stream of advice and inj... ...he people are more marvellous than the land.” “How I wish you were coming, Philip,” she said, flattered at the unwonted notice her brother-in-law was ... ...line, my Caroline! Jump in, or your chaperon will go off without you.” And Philip, whom the idea of Italy always intoxi- cated, had started again, tel... ...ain, and there was a moment’s silence. They all smiled steadily, excepting Philip, who was choking in the fog, and old Mrs. Theobald, who had begun to... ...up by her grandmother. Then the two ladies worked and played cards. Philip read a book. And so they all settled down to their quiet, profitable existe... ...and not be the better for it.” Just then Irma came in from school, and she read her mother’s letter to her, carefully correcting any grammatical error... ...rs. Herriton sat a little longer at 11 EM Forster the breakfast table, re-reading Lilia’s letter. Then she helped the cook to clear, ordered dinner, ... ...ere expensive too. “Actually old Mrs. Theobald!” said Harriet, returning. “Read me the letter. My hands are dirty. How in- tolerable the crested paper...

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...n place; though the writer is aware that there is no incident to tempt the reader—no siege of the one castle, no battle more im- portant than the comb... ...otte M. Yonge gateway and tower having been pitched into the ditch, as the readiest way of getting rid of them when the castle was dismantled afterwar... ...Fide. The deed of settlement was executed in Hyde Abbey, in the year 1291; Philip de Barton, John de Ffleming, William de Wenling, and others being wi... ...ur family, and Merdon was resumed by the Crown. It was then granted to Sir Philip Hobby who had been one of King Henry’s privy councillors, and had be... ...r of Merdon, with his liberty, on Queen Mary’s accession. Then it was that Philip of Spain rode through one of these villages, probably Otterbourne, s... ...ed by the Attorney General Story, who is said to have been an enemy of Sir Philip Hobby. The case was argued in the House of Lords, and given against ... ... was thus in 1558 for ever alienated from the dio- cese of Winchester. Sir Philip Hobby is said to have first built the Lodge, as it was called, of Hu... ... and daughter. He wishes Richard to study mathematics and cosmography, and read history, especially Sir Walter Raleigh’s. “It is a Body of history, an... ...towards the Baddesley road. There, no doubt, the procession halted for the reading of the Gospel for Rogation week. There are two curious entries in t...

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...es a letter somewhat similar to the one in question, opens it, pretends to read it, and then places it in close juxtaposition to the other. Again he c... ...tance from their master’s apart- ment, and, being chiefly Neapolitans, are readily made drunk. I have keys, as you know, with which I can open any cha... ...“Oh yes!”—And here the Prefect, producing a memoran- dum-book proceeded to read aloud a minute account of the internal, and especially of the external... ...entful in their movements than those of infe- rior grade, are yet the less readily moved, and more embar- rassed and full of hesitation in the first f... ... now growing, are partly petrified. This is a star- tling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify the existing theory of petrific... ...hief placed at the distance of six inches from the eye.” — Murray, p. 215, Phil. edit. **In the year 1790, in the Caraccas during an earthquake a por-... ... as regards any distance upon the earth. ****Common experiments in Natural Philosophy. If two red rays from two luminous points be admitted into a dar... ...ed, in spirit and in effect, if not to the letter, the old chimaera of the philosopher’s stone, no sane person is at liberty to doubt. The opinions of... ...e and exer- cise, but take no hold on the mind. Here upon earth, at least, philosophy, I am persuaded, will always in vain call upon us to look upon q...

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...e looked down the long row of lawns and porches where violet arc lamps al- ready contested the faint afterglow, drooping from their iron stalks far ab... ...ou fellers quit talkin’? It’s after taps,” thundered the sergeant, who sat reading the paper at a little board desk at the door of the barracks under ... ...her, listening to the sound of the typewriter and of the man’s voice as he read out each word of the report he was copying. “Recommendation for discha... ...ing sergeant came back. “Look here, if you don’t have that recommendation ready in ten minutes Captain Arthurs’ll be mad as hell about it, Hill. For ... ...it. But suddenly he laughed aloud. Why, it was in German. He was being got ready to kill men who said that. If anyone said that, he was going to kill ... ...as picking his teeth meditatively with the splinter of a pine board. “Say, Phil, you couldn’t lend me a half a dollar, could you?” Fuselli stopped, pu...

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...nment must depend. George Washington SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF PHILA DELPHIA MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1793 President Washington’s second oath o... ...’s second oath of office was taken in the Senate Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia on March 4, the date fixed by the Continental Congress for i... ...the federal and district courts, foreign officials, and a small gathering of Philadelphians, the President offered the shortest inaugural address ever... ... of the present solemn ceremony. John Adams INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1797 The first Vice President became the ... ...y altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by ... ...n, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choi... ...onstitutionally expressed. To this end it becomes the duty of all to yield a ready and patriotic submission to the laws constitutionally en acted and... ...olemnly impressed with these considerations, my countrymen will ever find me ready to exercise my constitutional powers in arresting mea sures which ... ...supporting it, therefore, we support all that is dear to the freeman and the philanthropist The time at which I stand before you is full of inter est...

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...ibed in Portia’s song, — ‘It is engendered in the eyes, By reading fed—and there it dies,’— that faculty, I say, has learnt to feed up... ..., Scott’s Louis XI., Manzoni’s Federigo Borromeo, Bulwer’s Harold, James’s Philip Augustus, are all real contri- butions to our comprehension of the m... ..., what is still more de- sirable, requiring an effort of the mind which to read of mod- ern days does not. The details of Millais’ Inquisition or of h... ...he bounds of historical verity. How far this has been done, critics better read than myself must decide. I have endeavoured to speak fairly, to the be... ...ly sage he is represented; his daughter Frances was a mere infant, and Sir Philip Sidney was not knighted till much later. For the rest, I have tried ... ... ‘Thou canst not help it.’ ‘I will. I will tell my father what M. le Baron reads and sings, and then I know he will.’ ‘And welcome.’ Eustacie put out ... ... between a maid of honour and a pupil to the ladies there, and her brother Philip, so soon as he was old enough, daily rode thither to share with Bere... ... without much alarm, and retaliated by an endeavour to box his ears, while Philip, slowly making his way back to the mainland, ex- claimed, ‘Ah there’... ...hat he must have been very glad to get out.’ ‘ And what came of it?’ cried Philip. ‘Are you to go and get yourself unmarried?’ ‘Unmarried!’ burst out ...

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...........................................................................15 PHIL FOGARTY ................................................................. ...r yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow! Dost know him, reader? Old is he, Eros, the ever young. He and Time were children together... ...the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. And the Philosopher, as he regarded the hot strife and struggle of these Candidates... ...ocoa-nut, whose milk has refreshed the traveller and perplexed the natural philosopher. The shop in question was, in a word, a Grocer’s. In the midst ... ...he sun shone on Chepe; he only asked that it should illu- mine the page he read. The knave might filch his treasures; he was heedless of the knave. Th... ...I say, young man!” the customer exclaimed. “Ton d’apameibomenos prosephe,” read on the student, his voice choked with emotion. “What language!” he sai... ...ardon, fair Maiden,” said he, with high-bred courtesy: “’twas not French I read, ’twas the Godlike language of the blind old bard. In what can I be se... ...ion; you fancy yourselves men of taste; in fancy, in taste, in opinion, in philoso- phy, the newspaper legislates for you; it is there you get your jo... ...ingle with yon springalds and beaux.” “To vaunt a knowledge of the stoical philosophy,” said the youth addressed as Sam, “might elicit a smile of incr...

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...n a less prepossessing youth. He is promptitude itself, and has a question ready the moment he enters. THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN. Am I on time? THE YOUNG LA... ...? THE YOUNG LADY. Oh, something awful. Mr. Valen- tine: this is my brother Phil. Phil: this is Mr. Valentine, our new dentist. (Valentine and Phil bow... ... my tooth out beautifully at the first go; and he and I are great friends. PHILIP . Been asking a lot of questions? THE YOUNG LADY (as if incapable of... ...questions? THE YOUNG LADY (as if incapable of doing such a thing). Oh, no. PHILIP . Glad to hear it. (T o Valentine.) So good of you not to mind us, M... ...the twins is swift and continuous.) THE YOUNG LADY. Oh, do, Mr. Valentine. PHILIP . At the Marine Hotel - half past one. THE YOUNG LADY. We shall be a... ...to tell mamma that a respectable Englishman has promised to lunch with us. PHILIP . Say no more, Mr. Valentine: you’ll come. VALENTINE. Say no more! I... ...inen for hard family use, two dol- lars. No family should be without them. Read them, Mr. Valentine: they’ll improve your mind. DOLLY. But not till we... ... and carries on the conversation whilst he selects a forceps and places it ready to his hand with a gag and a drinking glass.) You were asking me what... ...self. Valentine stands upright and places the glass with the forceps in it ready to his hand, chatting on with provoking indifference.) And so you adv...

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....................... 99 THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL ...............................................................................................110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ...

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......................................................................110 THE PHILOSOPHER’S PUBLIC LIBRARY.................................................. ...eak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British reading and thinking public probably does not number fifty thousand people ... ... flying, which had become a little fagged and flat by too much hearing and reading about the thing and not enough participation. Sixteen years ago, in... ...t aboard the waterplane this morning—that sort of faint, thin funk that so readily invades one on the verge of any new experience; when one tries one’... ... o begin with, we went out to sea before the wind, and the plane would not readily rise. We went with an undulating movement, leaping with a light spl... ...ack by Thursday; and he had talked to the President in Washington, visited Philadelphia, and had a comparatively loitering afternoon in New York. What... ... Will our literature escape at last from pretentiousness and timidity, our philosophy from the foolish cerebrations of university “characters” and emi... ... be English teaching. And everyone who wants to read science or history or philoso- phy, to come out of the village life into wider thoughts and broad... ... other literatures well trans- lated into English, and all science and all philosophy, have to be brought within the reach of everyone capable of avai...

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...i: Sola contemnunt Phlegethonta, et Orci Jura superbi.” That his philosophy was empirical, is proved by his “Essay on Man,” which, notwithst... ...ne of the most interest- ing of writers, and many find a greater luxury in reading his pages than those of any other poet. He is the facile princeps o... ...n literature. The portraits of “Villars” and “Atticus” will occur to every reader as mas- terpieces in power, although we deem the latter grossly un- ... ... no real or new light cast in it on man’s nature or destiny. (We refer our readers to the notes of Dr Croly’s edition for a running commentary of conf... ...into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat.” Read, and admired, Pope must always be—if not for his po- etry and passion,... ...re,’ and ‘Knave,’ Though many a passenger he rightly call, You hold him no philosopher at all. And yet the fate of all extremes is such, Men may be re... ...a state: The same adust complexion has impell’d Charles 5 to the convent, Philip 6 to the field. Not always actions show the man: we find Who does a... ...e, and analysed your meat, Yet on plain pudding deign’d at home to eat; So Philomedé, 14 lecturing all mankind On the soft passion and the taste refi... ...urn: Night shades the groves, and all in silence lie, All but the mournful Philomel and I: With mournful Philomel I join my strain, Of Tereus she, of ...

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... had strange whims of fasting like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a 7 George Eliot wife might awaken you so... ...ishman of the red-whis- kered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I am reading the Agricultural Chemistry,” said this excellent baronet, “because ... ...aid Mr. Brooke, smiling towards Mr. Casaubon. “I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. There is a book, now. I took in all the new ideas at on... ...dark ages. But talking of books, there is Southey’s `Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. Y ou know Southey?” “No” said Mr. Casaubon, not ... ...do, I should sit on the independent bench, as Wilberforce did, and work at philanthropy.” Mr. Casaubon bowed, and observed that it was a wide field. “... .... “Casaubon and I don’t talk politics much. He doesn’t care much about the philanthropic side of things; punishments, and that kind of thing. He only ... ...ry at least. They owe him a deanery.” And here I must vindicate a claim to philosophical reflective- ness, by remarking that Mr. Brooke on this occasi... ...newly elected mayor of Middlemarch, who happened to be a manufacturer; the phil- 80 Middlemarch anthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated... ...se ears and power of interpretation were quick. “I believe he is a sort of philanthropist, so Brooke is sure to take him up.” “James,” said Lady Chett...

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... had strange whims of fasting like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a wife might awaken you some fine morning w... ...glishman of the red whiskered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I am reading the Agricultural Chemistry,” said this excellent baronet, “be caus... ...aid Mr. Brooke, smiling towards Mr. Casaubon. “I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. There is a book, now. I took in all the new ideas at on... ...dark ages. But talking of books, there is Southey’s ‘Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. You know Southey?” “No” said Mr. Casaubon, not k... ...do, I should sit on the independent bench, as Wilberforce did, and work at philanthropy.” Mr. Casaubon bowed, and observed that it was a wide field. “Y... ...alk politics 40 Book I — Miss Brooke much. He doesn’t care much about the philanthropic side of things; punishments, and that kind of thing. He only ... ...ry at least. They owe him a deanery.” And here I must vindicate a claim to philosophical reflectiveness, by remark ing that Mr. Brooke on this occasio... ...wly elected mayor of Middlemarch, who happened to be a man ufacturer; the philanthropic banker his brother in law, who predominated so much in the to... ...se ears and power of interpretation were quick. “I believe he is a sort of philanthropist, so Brooke is sure to take him up.” “James,” said Lady Chett...

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...iversity is an equal opportunity university. Contents MUIRHEAD LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY ................................................................... ... Russell The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell 1921 MUIRHEAD LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY An admirable statement of the aims of the Library of Phi- losoph... ... his description of the original programme printed in Erdmann’s History of Philosophy under the date 1890. This was slightly modified in subsequent vo... ...umes to take the form of the following statement: “The Muirhead Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosop... ...secondly of different Sub- jects—Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. While much had been done in England in tracing the co... ...events,” from which “matter” is derived by a logical construction. Whoever reads, for example, Professor Eddington’s “Space, Time and Gravitation” (Ca... ... My thanks are due to Professor John B. Watson and to Dr. T . P . Nunn for reading my MSS. at an early stage and helping me with many valuable suggest... ...ritten before I had been in China, and are not intended to be taken by the reader as geographically accurate. I have used “China” merely as a synonym ... ...rather wild theories of psychoanalytic pioneers, it will be worth while to read a little book by Dr. Bernard Hart on “The Psychology of Insanity.”* On...

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...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general ter...

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...Lib erty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and lim... ...hich for a time encouraged it had continued unaltered. But, in political and philosophical theories, as well On Liberty — Mill 5 as in persons, succ... ...t seem axiomatic, when popular government was a thing only dreamed about, or read of as having existed at some distant period of the past. Neither was... ...nd have been encouraged in the belief by some who aspire to the character of philosophers, that their feelings, on subjects of this nature, are better... ... from public opinion. But, as yet, there is a considerable amount of feeling ready to be called forth against any attempt of the law to control in di... ...cient commonwealths thought themselves entitled to practise, and the ancient philosophers countenanced, the regulation of every part of private conduc... ...ed in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers. Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual think On Libe... ...the arguments of op ponents, in order to answer them, and may, there fore, read heretical books; the laity, not unless by special permission, hard t... ...ent state of the world, it is practically impossible that writings which are read by the instructed can be kept from the unin structed. If the teache...

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... the public, asking no favor but hoping they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCES... ...thirst for education was intense. He learned rapidly, and was a con- stant reader up to the day of his death in his eightieth year. Books were scarce ... ...th year. Books were scarce in the Western Reserve during his youth, but he read every book he could borrow in the neighbor- hood where he lived. This ... ...scarcity gave him the early habit 7 U. S. Grant of studying everything he read, so that when he got through with a book, he knew everything in it. Th... ...ve me the opportu- nity of visiting the two great cities of the continent, Phila- delphia and New York. This was enough. When these places were visite... ...ce could be more pleasant, when time was not an object. From Harrisburg to Philadelphia there was a railroad, the first I had ever seen, except the on... ...miles an hour. This seemed like annihilating space. I stopped five days in Philadelphia, saw about every street in the city, attended the theatre, vis... ...in McCall, who resigned from the army after the Mexican war and settled in Philadelphia. He was prompt, however, to volunteer when the rebellion broke... ...o could have been entered without much further bloodshed. In fact, Captain Philip Kearney — afterwards a general in the war of the rebellion—rode with...