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...he bureaucracy The avoidable disasters An earthquake The guilds The common courtesies in English A quotation from History Effect of abstinence Political control on Bureaucracy Hierarchy from the other end The report dt. dec 26 2003. Making of laws and rules Megalomania Schizophrenia The international dealings Chapter 10 The social affects of a feudal langu...

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...e bureaucracy The avoidable disasters An earthquake The guilds The common courtesies in English A quotation from History Effect of abstinence Political control on Bureaucracy Hierarchy from the other end The report dt. dec 26 2003. Making of laws and rules Megalomania Schizophrenia The international dealings Chapter 10 The social affects of a feuda...

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...pers, foreign as well as French; he had really mastered a good deal of the political religion of a French publicist. It is curious to read, sixty year... ...ellaneous writ- ings—reviews (including puffs), comic or general sketches, political diatribes, “physiologies” and the like—which, with his discarded ... ...es The Lesser Bourgeoise 39 Balzac Scenes de la Vie Politique Scenes from Political Life Une T enebreuse Affaire The Gondreville Mystery An Historica... ... please the poet, the philosopher, and the masses who want both poetry and philosophy under strik- ing imagery? Though I could conceive of the importa... ...humanity stirs within their frame, which often covers a complete system of philosophy. Thus Walter Scott raised to the dignity of the philosophy of Hi... ...ecome absolute, every one will feel that a brief preface ought not to be a political treatise. I cannot, therefore, enter on religious discussions, no... ... treatise. I cannot, therefore, enter on religious discussions, nor on the political discussions of the day. I write under the light of two eternal tr...

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...books of every kind, feeding indiscriminately on religious works, history, philosophy, and physics. He has told me that he found indescribable delight... ...bert would leave it at the end of 1814, when he had finished the course of Philosophy. I doubt whether dur- ing the whole time he ever heard a word of... ... boy left Blois just at the time when Louis passed out of the college. The political events that ensued were then a sufficient excuse for this gentlem... ... as third and second; and the first class comprised the senior students—of philosophy, rhetoric, the higher mathematics, and chemistry. Each of these ... ...hapel he was equally apt to think of God or to meditate on some problem of philosophy. To him Jesus Christ was the most perfect type of his sys- tem. ... ...aws and his system of government—for the Books of Moses are a reli- gious, political, and civil code—that character bears the au- thority of terror; c... ...d protection.” His kind heart did not therefore allow him to sympathize in political ideas; his system led rather to the passive obedi- ence of which ... ...mely witty; Bossuet and Pascal, incomparable in argument. A pro- fessor of philosophy may make a name by explaining how Plato is Platonic. Another dis... ...t subtle genius can discover no common bond between great social facts. No political theory has ever lasted. Governments pass away, as men do, without...

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...l do something. Married! arried!! The ig norance of the first principles of political economy on the part of these people; their improvidence; their ... ...er as it is!’ Mrs. Tugby tried to comfort her with kindness. Mr. Tugby tried philosophy. ‘Come, come!’ he said, with his hands in his pockets, ‘you mu...

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... wayside preacher, discarded in a moment his name, his old nature, and his political principles, and with the zeal of a proselyte sealed his adherence... ...‘his position became intolerable’; it was plain he must choose between his political and his religious tenets; and in the last years of his life, abou... ...ove himself in mathematics, chemistry, natural history, agriculture, moral philosophy, and logic; a bearded student -although no doubt scrupulously sh...

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...ndition is that which adults recognize as the most miserable and dangerous politically possible for themselves: namely, the condition of slavery. For ... ...not save children from the slavery that denial of rights involves in adult political relations. It some- times intensifies it, sometimes mitigates it;... ... children and parents confront one another as two classes in which all the political power is on one side; and the results are not at all unlike what ... ...e and the other simple. Not that Nature counts for nothing in the case and political rights for everything. But a denial of political rights, and the ... ...scertain what the real natural relations of the two classes are until this political relation is abolished. 8 A Treatise on Parents and Children What...

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...winge or suspicion of a sting from the tone of his host, though he was not political and was of 17 George Meredith a mood to pity the poor gentleman’... ...ons running through him were not of a solidity to support any structure of philosophy. He reverted, though rather in name than in spirit, to the abstr... ...hire Riviera. ‘I will venture to guess at nonsense,’ he answered. ‘Nothing political, then.’ ‘That scarcely follows; but a host at his own table may b... ...long way to see the exhibition.’ ‘But why cannot men be temperate in their political argu- ments?’ ‘The questions raised are too close about the roots... ...y had written of late about Irish affairs recurred to Captain Con, and the political fires leaped in him; he sparkled and said: ‘Let me beg you to pas... ...with their bloody beaks.’ ‘We obey our orders, and leave you to settle the political business,’ Philip replied. Forbery declined the fray. Patrick was... ...revolutionising, wagering on tentative politics; your Germans ploughing in philosophy, thumbing classics, composing music of a novel order: both are m...

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...Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Russia, Goldman emigrate...

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...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...it was not intended to include other colored races -creates a new phase of political conditions that M. De Tocqueville could not foresee. Yet, in his ... ...ounty governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our political organization which, in the end, will render harmless this wide de... ...tera- ture: nor is there any subdivision of the work in which the severest philosophy is not invested with the grace of poetry, and the driest statist... ...hink that in no country in the civilized world is less atten- tion paid to philosophy than in the United States. The Ameri- cans have no philosophical... ...ding alone. America is therefore one of the coun- tries in the world where philosophy is least studied, and where the precepts of Descartes are best a... ...enth century, Bacon in the natural sciences, and Descartes in the study of philosophy in the strict sense of the term, abolished recognized formulas, ...

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...ashington’s work. The literature of the Negro in America is colossal, from political oratory through abolitionism to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and “Cotton i... ...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 ... ...Their objects, in the main, were to crush out the 55 Booker T. Washington political aspirations of the Negroes, but they did not con- fine themselves... ...Negro would be the one to suffer for this in the end. Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fun... ...s- tries at their doors and in securing property. The temptations to enter political life were so alluring that I came very near yielding to them at o... ...hern whites have a feeling that, if the Negro is permitted to exercise his political rights now to any degree, the mistakes of the Reconstruction peri...

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... Helen. But Helen was now down in the dining room preparing a speech about political economy. At times her voice could be heard declaiming through the... ...It is so slurred over and hushed up, there is so little clear thinking—oh, political economy, of course, but so few of us think clearly about our own ... ...to a few, was the utmost she dare hope for. Between the idealists, and the political economists, Margaret had a bad time. Disagreeing elsewhere, they ... ...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... ...her reminds me of Dolly.” Helen looked out at the sea. “Don’t ever discuss political economy with Henry,” advised her sister. “It’ll only end in a cry...

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...finishes by looking at humanity from the angle of disgust and despair. The philosophy of the romances and nov- els of De Maupassant is so continuously... ...orld which in itself is the highest remains closed to it. In revenge, this philosophy finds itself in a rela- tion cruelly exact with the half-civiliz... ...ver, been greatly agitated for a month over an encounter between the rival political par- ties. The mayor, Viscount de Varnetot, a small, thin man, al... ...Lieutenant hurried off. The doctor was go- 44 De Maupassant ing to make a political banner, a white one, that would perhaps, rejoice the heart of tha... ... rejoice. I read until one o’clock in the morning! Herestauss, Doc- tor of Philosophy and Theogony, wrote the his- tory and the manifestation of all t... ... head; not in order that she might cut it off, but that she might make the philosophy of Nihilism flourish there. “What a temptation to become the lor... ...ushed to extreme and practical conclusions. It was, in a word, the applied philosophy of chance, the indeterminate end of anarchy. Monstrous it may 2...

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...it for your child if she could get the same pay . Y.M. This is an infernal philosophy of yours. O.M. It isn’t a philosophy, it is a fact. Y.M. Of cour... ...voids, and which breed of mass meetings he attends in order to broaden his political knowledge, and which breed of mass meetings he doesn’t attend, ex... ...s wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather. If he was seeking after political T ruth he found it in one or another of the hundred political gos... ...ur gess has always found happiness and Adams unhappiness in these several political beliefs and in their migrations out of them. Both of these men ha... ... tian Science, now, with the customary result, the inevi table result. No political or religious belief can make Bur gess unhappy or the other man h... ...re absent, and this enables a nation to learn to accommodate itself to its political and religious circum stances and like them, be satisfied with th... ...f Commons and in the courts of law, he still found leisure for letters and philosophy. The noble treatise on the Advancement of Leearning, which at a... ... have taken all knowledge to be my province.” Though Bacon did not arm his philosophy with the weap ons of logic, he adorned her profusely with all t...

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... stamp, if one only goes properly about it. Of course I don’t speak of the political articles. Everybody knows how they are managed, since Dr. Moneype... ...‘Confessions of an Opium-eater’—fine, very fine!—glorious imagination—deep philosophy acute specula- tion—plenty of fire and fury, and a good spicing ... ...r. Is it not truly remarkable that, before the magnificent light shed upon philosophy by Humanity, the world was accustomed to regard War and Pes- til... ...OST NOTORIOUS ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy—as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless vigilance of an enemy... ... might even have a tangible form. Most philoso- phers, upon many points of philosophy, are still very unphilosophical. William Godwin, however, says i... ...uch new light might be thrown upon a highly interesting branch of physical philosophy. To all this I am sorry that I cannot reply. A hint is the only ... ...cess in the fashionable extravagances of his time; or busying himself with political in- trigues; or aiming at ministerial power, or purchasing increa...

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...ffered in a manner unex pected.* One of the pieces in our newspaper on some political point, which I have now forgotten, gave offense to the Assembly... ...ving his books, which were a pretty col lection of mathematicks and natural philosophy, to come with mine and me to New York, where he propos’d to wa... ...d produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Poli tics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss’d by the company; and once in three months prod... ... much originality as if you had been conducting discus sions in politics or philosophy; and what more worthy of experiments and system (its importanc... ... found useful, and flour ishes to this day; and I do not remember any of my political manoeuvres, the success of which gave me at the time more The A... ...ation of my improvements and discov eries in the electric branch of natural philosophy. In 1754, war with France being again apprehended, a con gres... ...merica. My plan, with my reasons in sup port of it, is to be found among my political papers that are printed. Being the winter following in Boston, ... ...ted at Paris. The publication offended the Abbe Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had form’d ... ... old friend Jas. Ralph was still alive; that he was esteem’d one of the best political writers in England; had been employ’d in the dispute between Pr...

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...ur attitude towards the contending parties (I mean our moral attitude, for politically there was no other course open to us than neutrality) has not b... ... any persons, as organs of the will of the people, to dispose of the whole political existence of a country, I ask to see whether their credentials ar...

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...e a dupe of me, even as he was seeking to make a dupe of himself, wresting philosophy to the needs of his own sorrow. But in the light of this new fac... ...s a contribution to the theory of life. So with the more icy parts of this philosophy of Thoreau’s. He was affecting the Spartan- ism he had not; and ... ... beyond, for which he had found or sought no formula, on which perhaps his philosophy even looked askance, is wanting in my study, as it was wanting i... ... in romance, that has since renewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested... ...s which arose from his sympathy with the great French Revolution. His only political feeling had been hith- erto a sentimental Jacobitism, not more or... ...domontade, but filled with living indignation, to de- clare his right to a political opinion, and his willingness to shed his blood for the political ... ... and between friends of the same sex, but in the field of the less intense political sympathies; and his ideal man must not only be a generous friend ... ...should prevail.” For his part, he would not “for an instant recognise that political organisation for his government which is the slave’s government a... ... thus did it come twice, though in a subaltern attitude, into the field of political history. NOTE. – For many facts in the above essay, among which I...

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... a bare name be thus influential on the minds and affections of men, and a political aggregation blind them to the nature of facts? The story of the A... ...ent; and soon after the time of which I write, he made a showy speech at a political dinner, was cried up to heaven next day in the Courant, and the d... ...er by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. That which is understood excels... ...oment he transmigrates, dons the required character, and with moon- struck philosophy justifies the act in question. I can fancy nothing to compare wi... ...men than increase of knowl- edge or clarity of thought. The drama, not the philosophy, of life is the sphere of their intellectual activity. Even when...