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...contravening the captain's professional judgement. All these seem to be sufficient grounds to the death penalty. And yet, this is not the real que... ...pecial status. But, that one follows the other (even if invariably) is insufficient grounds to endow them with this status. This is the famous "Post... ...he answers, in my view, are that no basis of discrimination can hold the moral high ground. They are all morally problematic because they are determ... ...ational institutions, professionalism, government and so on. Osmotic and diffusive forces in human society are all the results of incongruences, di... ... are invariably European; a decadent and unfaithful Icelandic, seductive Czech and Russian women, a Dr. Mengele type German, a Ukrainian pimp. The ...

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...long them at society's expense. Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may be required to fulfill society's obligations - but fu... ...ghly surveyed, models constructed, one of them selected (on empirical or aesthetic grounds), a goal formulated, an experiment performed and a negat... ...oposition. It is predicated on people's well-developed sense of responsibility and grounded in their "natural morality". Yet, all anarchists admit ... ...stablishment, they were "decadent", they were hated on religious and socio-economic grounds (see Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners"), they ... ... Because of obvious conflicts of interest, Arabs cannot serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Consequently, they don't enjoy the special benefit... ...long them at society's expense. Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may be required to fulfill society's obligations - but fu... ...he new "democracies" are thinly-disguised and criminalized plutocracies (recall the Russian oligarchs), authoritarian regimes (Central Asia and the ... ...ut then expanded them to include "east European" whites, such as the Poles and the Russians. Germany was not alone in its malignant nationalism. Th... ...el has a Law of Return which makes an instant citizen out of every spouse of every Russian Jew while denying this privilege to Arabs born on its s...

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...wards <Non-A> (not <Anti-A> as Hegel said), and reciprocally. There are forces which act on <A>, directing it towards <Non-A>, until a critical po... ... version and the centroid "star" <A>, there are attraction and rejection forces. They approach each other until arriving to certain minimum critic... ...avior, etc. b) conditioned - by military, ideological, economical imposed forces (in dictatorships, for example see Arthur Koesler, <Le zéro et l'i... ...out being made known, an echo of the Buddhist paradox of presence-absence grounded by Nâgârjuna. While Hegel (according to H. Küng) shows a "God wh... ...ly and qualitatively heaps of grain, starves to death because there is no ground for preferring one heap to another. The neutrosophic value of ass’... ...v, I. T., Introduction to Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory, Translated from Russian by Stephen A. Fulling and Ludmila G. Popova, W. A. Benjamin, Inc.,... ...32, Computer Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1980 (in Russian). [103] Nobre, Farley Simon M., E-mails to M. Perez, August 1999. ...

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...never brought happiness to anyone and has, instead, brought great grief and tragedy. It is based on a love that needs sky and earth, cosmic and human forces to be realized; a love that must meet and fuse within the hearts of Ulysses and Penelope. It is a love based on truth and freedom, values that are conquered at a very high price, where life faces pain and death over an...

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...n of secondary beauty, which is the result of a fusion of cosmic and human forces. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been told ... ...ther, they are only symbolic representations of cosmic and human spiritual forces, and the meaning of a human life lies in the ability to unite thes... ...forces, and the meaning of a human life lies in the ability to unite these forces and create immortal beauty for the individual and for the entire Un... ...y heartless. At the third round, he humiliates him; he pounds him into the ground and destroys him in front of all those who had so admired him. Mor... ...h a rope, until a candle slowly burns through the rope and he falls to the ground. The master then writes on the wooden boards that surround his ... ...ing a fan on your shoulder, at that spot plant your well-made oar in the ground, and offer good sacrifices to sovreign Poseidon - a ram, a bull... ...nna and Moscow. I also thank them for having created training seminars for Russian therapists and for those from the Baltic countries in their Insti... ...of the PPL in Moscow, who published my book on Existential Anthropology in Russian and who has created a website on Sophia-Analysis in Russian and E...

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...Excerpt: On comparing with the original Russian some English translations of Count Tolstoi?s works, published both in this country and in England, I concluded that they were far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the French, and I fo...

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...S by Count Leo Tolstoi TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE On comparing with the original Russian some English trans- lations of Count Tolstoi’s works, published bot... ...ugh which they had passed tended to obliterate many of the beauties of the Russian lan- guage and of the peculiar characteristics of Russian life. A s... ...n can be made only by one who un- derstands the language and spirit of the Russian people. As Tolstoi’s writings contain so many idioms it is not an e... ...ortrays Tolstoi’s communis- tic ideas, involving the abolition of military forces, middle- men, despotism, and money. Instead of these he would establ... ...er, wishing to stop the conversation on this embarrassing and too exciting ground. “Have you read how he killed his 15 The Kreutzer Sonata & other st... ...the rest? He was not married, was in good health (I remember how his teeth ground the gristle of the cut- lets, and how eagerly he emptied the glass o... ...er the whole world for him. The Emperor made him commander-in-chief of the forces, and sent him with an army to fight the Viceroy of India. Having sta... ...er, fixing it securely, and resumed work. Going beneath the surface of the ground I took hold of the plowshares, but did not succeed in stopping Ivan....

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...Excerpt: Exception has been taken to the title of this seeming tomfoolery on the ground that the Catherine it represents is not Great Catherine, but the Catherine whose gallantries provide some of the lightest pages of modern history. Great Catherine, it is said, was the Catherine whose diplomacy, whose c...

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... Exception has been taken to the title of this seeming tom- foolery on the ground that the Catherine it represents is not Great Catherine, but the Cat... ...hess had any notion of the real history of their own times, or of the real forces that were moulding Europe. The French Revolution, which made such sh... ...ne kept this vast Guignol Theatre open for nearly half a century, not as a Russian, but as a highly domesticated German lady whose household routine w... ...eroes being theatrical snobs of superhuman pretensions which, though quite groundless, are admitted with awe by the rest of the human race. They say I... ...raiture was the motive of a play that will leave the reader as ignorant of Russian history as he may be now before he has turned the page. Nor is the ... ... virtuoso, which by definition far transcends the modesty of nature. If my Russians seem more Muscovite than any Russian, and my English people more i... ...t anything out of my sacred predecessor Eliza- beth [the Court bows to the ground]; but now that I am Empress he never gives me a kopek. When I have h... ...f-control. Self-control, Catherine. Philosophy. Europe is looking on. [She forces herself to sit down.] EDSTASTON. Steady, dearest: it is the Empress....

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...: to say that the field of battle at Borodino remained in the hands of the Russians, or that after Moscow there were other battles that destroyed Napo... ... his opponent who threw away the rapier and snatched up the cudgel was the Russian people; those who try to explain the matter according to the rules ... ...onobservance of the rules, in spite of the fact that to some highly placed Russians it seemed rather dis- graceful to fight with a cudgel and they wan... ...other, the men disperse, attack singly, run away when attacked by stronger forces, but again attack when opportunity offers. This was done by the guer... ...pted as infallible. That rule says that an attacker should concentrate his forces in order to be stronger than his opponent at the moment of conflict.... ...o the higher command, to attack and seize that convoy with their own small forces. On October 22 it was moving from the village of Mikulino to that of... ...ll wet, *A captain of Cossacks. 13 Tolstoy slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road. The men sat huddled up ... ...in the house, in the garden, by the well, by the pond, over all the rising ground, and all along the road uphill from the bridge leading to the villag... ...e they were talking in undertones the crack of a shot sounded from the low ground by the pond, a puff of white smoke appeared, then another, and the s...

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...he enemy and so on, the farther movement of the fleeing French, and of the Russians who pursued them, continued as far as Krasnoe without a battle. Th... ...inued as far as Krasnoe without a battle. The flight was so rapid that the Russian army pursuing the French could not keep up with them; cavalry and a... ...received of the movements of the French was never reliable. The men in the Russian army were so worn out by this con- tinuous marching at the rate of ... ...Tolstoy “If he fell into my hands, when I’d caught him I’d bury him in the ground with an aspen stake to fix him down. What a lot of men he’s ruined!”... ... mouth. The soldiers surrounded the French- men, spread a greatcoat on the ground for the sick man, and brought some buckwheat porridge and vodka for ... ...e informed Kutuzov of the Emperor’s displeasure at the poor success of our forces and the slowness of their ad- vance. The Emperor intended to join th... ...mpaign— to transfer the authority to the Emperor himself, thus cutting the ground from under the commander in chief’s feet without upsetting the old m...

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... WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy BOOK TWO: 1805 CHAPTER I IN OCTOBER, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the vil- lages and towns of the Archduchy of Aus... ...he town, waiting to be inspected by the commander in chief. Despite the un-Russian appearance of the locality and surroundings— fruit gardens, stone f... ...that the inhabitants (who gazed with curi- osity at the soldiers) were not Russians, the regiment had just the appearance of any Russian regiment prep... ...st words as soldiers do and waved his arms as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome soldier of forty—looked sternly at the... ...to believe me and I don’t even care whether you do or not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. And that is the whole point.” The Austrian gener... ...n German, from the Archduke Ferdinand’s letter: We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thou- sand men with which to attack and defeat the... ...; Rostov especially detested him and was unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. “Well, young cavalryman, how is my Rook be... ... Rus- sian army, and Kutuzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of. Instead of an... ...ost unattainable aim re- maining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were advancing from Russia, without losing his army as Mack had...

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...nds with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to appreciate at a glance her superiority to the p... ...preciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her off; and here... ...ses, would fall in love with her and carry her off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew a story, heard from her aunt bu... ...igh and graceful action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. Rostov himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and fee... ...uture but in the past. All the advantages were on our side. Our enor- mous forces, undoubtedly superior to Napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place,... ...Wischau, within sight of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us at the least firing. The Emperor’s gratitude was announced to ... ...ave been at the outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are situated,” said Prince Andrew. He wished to explain to Dolgoruko... ...geting horse. Rostov’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. The shout... ...nothing could be seen of what was going on in front. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, six miles away, or whether they were near by i...

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...I notice this now with the more emphasis, because I am coming rapidly upon ground where it will be seen that this one qualification was of more summar... ... persisted in dis- owning any schemes of the sort, and especially upon the ground of their hopelessness. But this, on the other hand, was a ground tha... ...ld have wrecked a wilderness of simple truth trusting to its own un- aided forces. What followed? Did this judgment of the court settle the opinion of... ...es, different sexes, were carried up to the throne, praying, upon manifold grounds, but all noticing the extreme doubt- fulness of the case, for an un... ...disastrous than any of them, and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3d... ...and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodu... ...ight (as it literally was in its commencement)—to the T artar siege of the Russian fortress Koulagina—the bloody engagement with the Cossacks in the m... ...sses at Ouchim—the surprisal by the Bashkirs and the advanced posts of the Russian army at Torgau—the private conspiracy at this point against the Kha... ...ed pride and military abasement, under the eyes of the Turkish Sultan. The forces, and more espe- cially the artillery, of Russia, were far too overwh...

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...d which they have not? The District Zemstvo refuses to assist them, on the ground that their names have been taken off the register of this district, ... .... I was writ- ing “A History of Railways”; I had to read a great number of Russian and foreign books, pamphlets, and articles in the magazines, to mak... ...ve it was disappointment. I had actually given up my post in the *Sobol in Russian means “sable-marten.”- TRANSLATOR’S NOTE. 6 Anton Chekhov Departme... ...his big soft head, with the hair combed down on the forehead like a Little Russian’s, and went off into a thin, aged laugh. “ And you go on getting yo... .... Legal justice!” said my wife, and 30 Anton Chekhov she laughed. “On the ground of your legal rights and in the interests of morality, you refuse to... ...ing and busying oneself with trifles. When you have to deal with elemental forces you must put out force against them, be firm and as unyielding as a ... ...t being in debt to my footman; she sees how often anxiety over petty debts forces me to lay aside my work and to walk u p and down the room for hours ... ...ter in which, among other things, this passage occurred: “My liver trouble forces me to spend every summer abroad, and as I have not at the moment the... ...s and there was a wind blowing dust, bits of paper, and feathers along the ground.… It felt as though rain were coming. There was a look of boredom in...

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...once revenged himself; he threw a stone, but it missed the boy and hit the ground. The boy on the other side of the ditch, the pocket of whose coat wa... ...at, what chance was there of peace? Were there not, on the con- trary, new grounds for hatred and hostility in their family? And with which of them wa... ...of all sorts, and there were several people in it. On the left was a large Russian stove. From the stove to the window on the left was a string runnin... ...st touched. “Nikolay Ilyitch Snegiryov, sir, formerly a captain in the Russian infantry, put to shame for his vices, but still a cap- tain. Though... ...dent, dying to get back to Petersburg, to work for the emancipation of the Russian woman on the banks of the Neva. I won’ t speak of Ilusha, he is onl... ...r truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I’m convinced in my... ...r ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their hap- piness those forces are miracle, mystery and authority. Thou hast rejected all three and...

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...es. The forest, thank God! was behind them, and now it would be flat, open ground all the way to Vyazovye, and there was not far to go now. They had t... ...d his shabby black coat, V assilyev thought: “What must an ordinary simple Russian have gone through before fate flung him down as a flunkey here? Whe... ...oated round lazily in the air like down, and still more lazily fell to the ground. The snowflakes whirled thickly round Vassilyev and hung upon his be... ...ad been pushed downstairs. 26 Anton Chekhov He picked himself up from the ground, shook his hat, and, with an angry and indignant face, brandished hi... ...no answer, he stood for a minute, pondered, and answered himself in Little Russian: “Nay. The confounded fellow has gone to the University.” And he we... ...h hatred and repulsion, shivering, and mixing T atar words with his broken Russian, said: “He is good … good; but you are bad! You are bad! The gentle... ...h a day: And I have to do it every year!” 116 Anton Chekhov “Well, nobody forces you to take the job. It’ s not your turn to be on duty today, but Za...

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...Ivanovitch as soon as Stepan Arkadyevitch had left them. “What a typically Russian, Slav nature! Only, I’m afraid it won’t be pleasant for Vronsky to ... ...e took away everything he could have used against himself. We lived on the ground floor, but there was no reckoning on anything. You know, of course, ... ... had believed in his earliest childhood, and ninety-nine hundredths of the Russian people, all the working people for whose life he felt the deepest r... .... He was miserably divided against himself, and strained all his spiritual forces to the utmost to escape from this condition. Chapter 9 These doubts ... ..., that I did, search- ing by the aid of reason for the significance of the forces of nature and the meaning of the life of man?” he thought. “And don’... ...ristians, but simply children, women, old people, feel- ing is aroused and Russians go eagerly to help in stop- ping these atrocities. Fancy, if you w... ...mit that some dozens of men, among them his brother, had the right, on the ground of what they were told by some hundreds of glib volunteers swarming ...

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... came up and, looking se- verely at Pierre, asked the Italian how he stood Russian cli- mate. The Italian’s face instantly changed and assumed an of- ... ... had convinced herself that it was impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in a vigorous attack on the orator. “But, my ... ...story today and must treat you to it. Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be lost….” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his... ...point will be lost….” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman would speak after spend- ing about a year in Russia.... ... with us.” And he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, and began dancing round the room with it. CHAPTER X PRINCE VASILI K... ...t’s fine,” said he. *Do you know the proverb? ** That suits us down to the ground. *** Hollow. **** I just ask you that. 74 War and Peace – Book One ... ... and draw her into the war; how part of that army was to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty thousand Austrians, with a ... ...Prince Andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I never thought much ...

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...ed to draw her into giving ut- 14 Anna Karenina – Part Six terance to the grounds of her disbelief. “I am happy, but dissatisfied with myself...” he ... ...s that reached half-way up his thick thighs, in a green blouse, with a new Russian leather cartridge-belt, and in his Scotch cap with ribbons, with a ... ...kadyevitch, radiant in his rags, graceful, well-fed, and joyous, a typical Russian noble- man. And he made up his mind that next time he went shooting... ...gger, and had left the other hammer still cocked. The charge flew into the ground without doing harm to anyone. Stepan Arkadyevitch shook his head and... .... At last, after a dis- graceful miss, he flung his gun and his hat on the ground. “No, I must control myself,” he said to himself. Pick- ing up his g... ...he was spilling all over her little chest. The baby was being fed, and the Russian nursery maid was evidently sharing her meal. Neither the wet-nurse ... ... of other provinces in every- thing, there was now such a preponderance of forces that this policy, once carried through properly there, might serve a... ...lips with a perfumed handkerchief of bordered batiste. “We are placing our forces,” he said, pulling out his whiskers, “Sergey Ivanovitch!” And listen...

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...ebrate his Majesty when, words failing you, you prostrated yourself on the ground, bathed in tears “ This picture of humble religious faith was among... ...cross or a new order. I see only one thing. To morrow one hundred thousand Russians and one hundred thousand Frenchmen will meet to fight; they who fi... ... struck by the steadfastness under fire which has always distinguished the Russian soldier. The fall of each man acted as an increasing stimu lus. Th... ...toy does full justice to the cour age and patriotism of all grades in the Russian army, but it is constantly evident that his sympathies are most hea... ... by the en ergy with which they are charactered, apparent waste of mental forces bent on solving the insoluble, inher ited tastes and prejudices, al... ...e?” No answer. Peter Nikolaevich stepped into the stable. It was dark; the ground was soft under his feet, and the air smelt of dung; on the right sid... ... his charac ter. Once during the night he stole horses from the pas ture ground in the village Kolotovka. He generally pre Leo Tolstoy 62 ferred t...

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...sting in its way, of course, as a variety. The worst of it is it’s awfully Russian. There are no French women there. Of course, they could get them fa... ...nastery he met this elder. I must digress to explain what an “elder” is in Russian monas- teries, and I am sorry that I do not feel very competent to ... ... an elder are not the ordinary “obedience” which has always existed in our Russian monasteries. The obligation involves confession to the elder by all... ...sha. The two monks rose and greeted him with a very deep bow, touching the ground with their fingers; then kissed his hand. Blessing them, the elder r... ...ll my life taking offence, to please myself, taking of- fence on aesthetic grounds, for it is not so much pleasant as distinguished sometimes to be in... ...“What vision?” “That bowing to your brother, Dmitri. And didn’t he tap the ground with his forehead, too!” “Y ou speak of Father Zossima?” “Yes, of Fa... ...r ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their hap- piness those forces are miracle, mystery and authority. Thou hast rejected all three and...

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...ologetically and provisionally, as doing the best it can on very uncertain ground. Should Children Earn their Living? NOW COMES THE QUESTION how far c... ...n- dency to keep repeating the already learnt lesson rather than break new ground. At school I began with a fairly complete knowledge of Latin grammar... ...e for keeping the child slaving for ten hours at physical exercises on the ground that it is not yet as dex- terous as Cinquevalli and as strong as Sa... ...ernor will teach his prisoners how to mutiny and escape. Self-preservation forces him to break the spirit that revolts against him, and to inculcate s... ...or the parent is reduced to a cipher, as the case may be. When the opposed forces are neither of them strong enough to annihilate the other, there is ... ...gns of Napoleon, with their at- mosphere of glory, illustrate this. In the Russian campaign Napoleon’s marshals achieved miracles of bluff, especially... ...who, with a handful of men, monstrously outnumbered, re- peatedly kept the Russian troops paralyzed with terror by pure bounce. Napoleon himself, much... ... life. We are bluffed by hardy simple- tons and headstrong bounders as the Russians were bluffed by Ney; and our Wellingtons are threadbound by slave-...