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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

...uities. He had been born in Colombia. His father was a doctor, and his mother a Bostonian socialite. At the age of seven, his parents, afraid of the ... ...was to be the best hostess in Washington. We hardly saw each other, except when we hosted parties together. We entertained everyone from Head’s of S... ...that’s crap, you were my best partner. But enough, after five years, I know this is not a social call.” “Well, in a way it is,” he said. “What’s ... ... a very active Bishop…a respected person on the political scene in Washington. You attend parties. You hear things. General Radcliff introduced you ... ...d him and asked if he agreed with providing funds to religious groups that worked for the social needs of their community. “We are all God’s childr... ...illed in the assassination attempt.” “So, why was it not on the front pages of your free democratic press,” Kang asked slamming his fist on the tab... ...nvolved in prostitution, and may be incarcerated. We need his help in identifying certain parties.” “Hold on,” he said sighed impatiently. After a m...

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

...lving numerous but a fi- nite number of units, has also to be abandoned in social sci- ence. We cannot put Humanity into a museum or dry it for examin... ... We have to realize that these things are as foolish and ill-bred and anti-social as shout- ing in conversation or making puns; and we have to work ou... ...curiosity come those desires and motives that one shares perhaps with some social beasts, but far more so as a conscious thing with men alone. These d... ...r conversion we did this darkly and with our hate spreading to persons and parties from the things for which they stood. But the believer will hate lo... ...radiction that in Great Britain and Western Europe gener- ally, just those parties that stand most distinctly for personal devotion to the State in ec... ...l devotion to the State in economic matters, the Socialist and Socialistic parties, are most opposed to the idea of military 99 H. G . Wells service,... ...mon Man has worked and is working infinite mischief. In politics the crude democratic faith leads directly to the submission of every question, howeve... ... These two ideas, firstly the pupil-teacher parental idea and secondly the democratic idea (that is to say the idea of an equal ultimate significance)...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly ter... ...s kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish. Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had an... ... them—and duelled them dead without wink- ing; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table—all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes—looki... ...shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dig- nity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Hi... ...ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Y ... ...ce of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Thou... ...e interruptions now and then, a conversation was sustained between the two parties; but at intervals not without still another interruption of a very ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

......................................................................... 69 SOCIAL CLASS ................................................................. ...ent and loved children on the globe. They have done this through a strong social value system that praises intelligence and rewards education. This ... ...r worst leader, was also a minority president. Guess it just shows that a democratic system is a hit or miss system for choosing a leader. I wonder i... ...ndant problems are a major drag on modern societies and their economic and social systems.” 10 —“No question about that. We discussed som... ...l system men generally get the voting rights long before women do. In the democratic U.S. only 10% of the senators are women. Contrast that with the ... ...improve the status of women in the Middle East. Women are driving forward democratic freedoms as they fight for their individual rights in societies ... ...als. And if they must wear monkey suits to their jobs they dress down for parties. I‟ve noticed in Norway they tend to do the opposite. They often w... ... But they don the coat and tie for evening get-togethers, even for casual parties. “I have a mental picture of a friend of mine who lived at ...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

...sed! It is my cousin, Mohammed!’ Dark f gures advanced on them and the two parties embraced warmly, kissing each other on the cheeks and play-f ghtin... ...ds like “school trip” or “free lunch”?’ Theo asked. ‘Oh, Palabras are very social creatures,’ Bozo laughed. ‘They’re always trying out new combinatio... ...ti also sensed the distance between them now that she was home again. The democratic air of the circus had passed and, as she began to resus- citate ... ...cratic air of the circus had passed and, as she began to resus- citate her social circle, Buntee became something of an embarrassment to her. He didn... ...n in locating the boy. We have also received generous offers from various social and business organisations – notably the Tigers Club – and are able ...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ification by meanings and applications, new or old, under the galvanism of democratic forces. The disturbers of 8 Theological Essays and Other Papers... ...pedient; but if it required a new law to make it illegal, how could those, parties be held in the wrong previously to the new act of legislation? On t... ... the parish, as a party whose reasonable wishes ought, for the sake of all parties, to meet with attention? Or did he do so, in humble submission to t... ...econciled the rights of patrons for the first time with those of all other parties interested. Nobody has more than a condi- tional power. Everybody h... ..., if defeated as a clerical power, should settle into a tenure exquisitely democratic? W as that trivial? Doubtless, the Scot- tish ecclesiastical rev... ...astoral. And at this moment, so fearfully increased is the overbearance of democratic impulses in Scot- land, that perhaps in no European nation—hardl... ...vil which acts through opinion, it acts by a machinery, viz. the press and social centralization in great cities, which in these days is perfect. Righ... ...an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the Free Church lies in pleading a spiritual ... ...middle ages. It would be absurd, however, seriously to pur- sue these anti-social chimeras through their consequences. Stern remedies would summarily ...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

... it freshly for a trifle; and the hoar-headed nineteenth-century billow of democratic ire craved the word to be set swelling. ‘Am I the fellow you mea... ...mercenaries! And that lands me in Red Republicanism, a hop and a skip from Socialism! said Mr. Radnor, and chuckled ironi- cally at the natural decliv... ...their poultry, cows, cream. And a certain influence one has in the country socially. I make my stand on a home— not empty punctilio.’ 22 One of Our C... ...could, considering their immense extension; and except for the sen- sitive social name, he was of single-minded purpose. 37 George Meredith T urning ... ...g; or when he was not too distinctly seen by her to be shooting at all the parties of her beloved England, beneath the wicked semblance of shielding e... ... 61 George Meredith The young gentleman introduced to the Radnor Concert- parties by Lady Grace Halley as the Hon. Dudley Sowerby, had to bear the si... ...view of safety from intrusion, I can admit-speaking humbly. But one of the parties—I had a wish to gratify him—is a lover of old English times and hab... ... ‘Court! my girl? But the arduous duties are over for the season. We are a democratic people retaining the seductions of monarchy, as a friend says; a... ...iors; and, over this country at least, require the refresh- ment, that the democratic sprouts in them may be recon- ciled with aristocracy. Do not lis...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... scarce have pretended to found the best of his appeal for her on her high social position.) It is an example exactly of the deep difficulty braved—th... ...o, they’ll be firm,” the old man rejoined; “they’ll not be affected by the social and political changes I just referred to.” “You mean they won’t be a... ...rope. There was nothing flighty about Mrs. Touchett, but she recognised no social superiors, and, judging the great ones of the earth in a way that sp... ...quite realise. You and I, you know, we know what it is to have lived under democratic institutions: I always thought them very comfortable, but I was ... ...Turner and Assyrian bulls were a poor substi- tute for the literary dinner-parties at which she had hoped to meet the genius and renown of Great Brita... ... Gardencourt; the days grew shorter and there was an end to the pretty tea-parties on the lawn. But our young woman had long indoor conversations with... ...nd Isabel’s answering quite another. He knew she had lis- tened to several parties, as his father would have said, but had made them listen in return;...

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Doctor Grimshawe's Secret a Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...tle too sedulously pol ished, and of course too conscious of it,—a deadly social crime, certainly. CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVI... ...nces, now that he was in peace; or to think of the turmoil of mod ern and democratic politics, here in this quietude of gone by ages and customs. The... ...hat if he were restrained from taking it, it would probably only be by the democratic pride that made him feel that he could not, retaining all his ma... ... American politician, accustomed to the fierce conflicts of our embittered parties; where life was made so enticing, so refined, and yet with a sort o... ...l better, of enjoying its great, deep solitude when the workmen were away. Parties of visitors, curious tourists, sometimes peeped in, took a cur sor... ...d was an American, and have been trying to adapt his manners to those of a democratic freedom. “Mr. Redclyffe, I believe,” said he. Redclyffe bowed, w...

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Night and Day

By: Virginia Woolf

... enough to show that Mrs. Hilbery was so rich in the gifts which make tea- parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely neede... ...thinking of that. I was thinking how you live alone in this room, and have parties.” Mary reflected for a second. “It means, chiefly, a power of being... ... at lunch-time, or squeezed in a visit to a picture gallery, balancing his social work with an ardent culture of which he was secretly proud, as Mary ... ...bing into their gigs, or setting off home down the road together in little parties. Many salu- tations were addressed to Mary, who shouted back, with ... ...tway was one of the people for whom the great make-believe game of English social life has been invented; she spent most of her time in pretending to ... ...at she was a dignified, im- portant, much-occupied person, of considerable social standing and sufficient wealth. In view of the actual state of thing... ...ed of a very few pages, entitled, in a forcible hand, “Some Aspects of the Democratic State.” The aspects dwindled out in a cries- cross of blotted li... ...d her green-shaded lamp to another table, and covered “Some Aspects of the Democratic State” with a sheet of blotting-paper. “Why can’t they leave me ...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...arage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted always of the curate, Josiah Graves with his sister, Dr. ... ...ws Homeward Fly , or Trot, Trot, My Pony . But the Careys did not give tea-parties often; the preparations upset them, and when their guests were gone... ...ering a royal procession. It is because of them that man has been called a social animal. Philip passed from the innocence of childhood to bitter cons... ...sed, and as Tar, otherwise Mr. T urner, said, it was undig- nified for all parties. He gave no warning, but after morning prayers would say to one of ... ...n’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.” He leaned back cautiously, fo... ...lighted with his joke. 653 W. Somerset Maugham “You must wear them at the social evening, Clarence.” “He’ll catch the belle of Lynn’s, if he’s not ca... ...the belle of Lynn’s, if he’s not careful.” Philip had already heard of the social evenings, for the money stopped from the wages to pay for them was o...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...G ELDERLY ........................................................ 33 U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY ............................................................. ...China but in the late 90s it had been granted a freedom to experiment with social and political policies and with technology. Its progress has been ... ...ghts‟, that are generally based on individual selfishness rather than the social good, are at least in part responsible for the over two million pri... ...arm that real farming is decreasing. ―The realities of politics in a democratic-republic is that to get the necessary votes for a measure you ... ...entific method that it applied to directing our society. While we have some democratic tendencies, enough to keep the people happy by thinking that t... ...n China to emulate their Western cousins—peroxided California blonds, rave parties, gratuitous uncaring and unprotected sex, and the selfishness tha... ...ring for others, because we are all in this together. This is what allows a democratic society to evolve toward the ‗good.‘ Without this altruistic e... ... The Republicans think they know. The Democrats think they know. The Green parties think they know. The kings think they know. The revolutionaries t...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...the impoverished. 9 “There are a couple of problems however. In a democratic world would the people of Connecticut vote for reducing their... ...ing parenting. “And what about health care. Socialized medicine sounded like a good idea. The British National Heal... ...dea. This is especially true in countries that call themselves religious or democratic because either God told us to have a bunch or babies or becau... ...uman lives can be happier and more productive. Ashley Montague, my favorite social thinker, and Sigmund Freud, not one of my 25 favorites, agree ... ...e time the population reached 150 all the good places to live and the major social roles were taken. Shortly after this population mark had been rea... ...hest attainable potentials. And what’s more—Article 4 mandates that ‘States Parties shall undertake all appropriate legislative, administrative, and ... ... He wanted all the power of a Medieval religious king. While he was elected democratically, democracy was not one of his goals for his country. Chet...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

........................................................................ 124 SOCIAL CONCERNS—DO UNTO OTHERS ............................................... ........................................................................ 243 SOCIAL QUESTIONS ............................................................. ...h is wrong in the other‘s eyes. My habits are right, my beliefs regarding socialism or free enterprise, appropriate dress, how to raise children, or... ...Hindu society we believe in the Upanishads and the Gita. If it is a truly democratic country we believe in certain humanistic principles. If it is a... ...o to college is it to gain knowledge and experiences now, like sports and parties, or is it to gain the tools you need for your future occupation or... ... have input from pressure groups, often with great financial sources. Our democratically elected representatives are nearly always beholden to someb... ...that older version of English.‖ --―Let‘s get back on track men. Democratic politicians call for ―moral values‘. But the political course t... ...evasion in a corruption probe that has linked him with lawmakers from both parties ―We can certainly argue that these individuals who proclaim ... ...civil rights violations by China have the right to violence against third parties who were not involved with China? ―It‘s true that China in...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...den difficulties, and most flexibly adapting himself to all variet- ies of social life. Williams was a man of middle stature (five feet seven and a-ha... ...g it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreeable as a need- less proclamation of ind... ...ly have been noticed; but now, when the first question and the last in all social meetings turned upon the Marrs, and their unknown murderer, it was a... ...een heard from the lips of Mrs. Williamson, is due to the positions of the parties as I have sketched them. Coming behind Mrs. Williamson, unseen ther... ...them desperate: their own little property had been swallowed up in a large social catastrophe, and so- ciety at large they looked upon as accountable ... ...nal a of ‘sopha,’ i.e., Wronguh), has been found a wrong-headed man by all parties, and in a venial degree is, perhaps, a stu- pid man; but he moves a... ...ptation and strife thrown by the goddess of faction between two infuriated parties. ‘Cato,’ coming from a man without Parliamentary connections, would... ...l more extravagantly exalted them. On this account it is just to look upon democratic or popu- lar politics as identical in the 17th century with patr...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...hlegels in one, whereas I mean to remain a humble Doctor of the Faculty of Social Medicine, a veterinary sur- geon for incurable maladies. Were it onl... ... to the father; she saw him sinking by degrees, day after day, down to the social mire, and even dismissed some day from his appoint- ment. The idea o... ... surface, the eccentricities which each of us displays to his neighbors in social life. This woman, who, if closely studied, would have shown the most... ...vangelical phrases in the service of the Devil. Passion is martyrdom. Both parties aspire to the Ideal, to the Infinite; love is to make them so much ... ...paign was not carried out without little dinners at the Rocher de Cancale, parties to the play, and gifts in the form of lace, scarves, gowns, and jew... ...r Marshal. Lisbeth, quite as Republican as he could be, pleased him by her democratic opinions, and she flattered him with amazing dexterity; for the ...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

...rgin throng. And here, assembled cross legg’d round their trays, Small social parties just begun to dine; Pilaus and meats of all sorts met th... ...rong. And here, assembled cross legg’d round their trays, Small social parties just begun to dine; Pilaus and meats of all sorts met the gaze,... ...he nightingale; they were Unfit to mix in these thick solitudes Call’d social, haunts of Hate, and Vice, and Care: How lonely every freeborn c... ... Kindness, destroys what little we had got: To feel for none is the true social art Of the world’s stoics— men without a heart. ’ Just now a b... ...ein whether Gulbeyaz show’d them both commiseration, Or got rid of the parties altogether, Like other angry ladies of her nation, Are thi... ...m you as me. The consequence is, being of no party, I shall offend all parties: never mind! My words, at least, are more sincere and hearty ... ...the other way, And wax an ultra royalist in loyalty, Because I hate even democratic royalty. I think I should have made a decent spouse, If ...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...ial points or their personal attach ments; if a love of virtuous men of all parties and de nominations; if a love of science and letters and a wish ... ... then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and e... ...udg ment will correct false reasoning and opinions on a full hearing of all parties; and no other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable ... ... these conflicts the United States received great injury from several of the parties. It was their interest to stand aloof from the contest, to demand... ...ent under which we live—a Government adequate to every purpose for which the social compact is formed; a Government elec tive in all its branches, un... ...le Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social inter course, and the ties of personal friendship formed be twee... ... other sovereignties, even by those which have been consid ered most purely democratic, we shall find a most es sential difference. All others lay c... ...ion for the adoption of a provision so appar ently repugnant to the leading democratic principle that the majority should govern, we must reject the ... ...ster of the Roman people and the senate under the pretense of supporting the democratic claims of the former against the aristocracy of the lat ter; ...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...as yet been carried. My wish is to describe, as well as I can, the present social and political state of the country. This I should have attempted, wi... ... woman’s keen eye, and described with a woman’s light but graphic pen, the social defects and 5 Trollope absurdities which our near relatives had ado... ...ure and operation of those political arrangements which had pro- duced the social absurdities which she saw, or to explain that though such absurditie... ... necessarily to be done from with- out. But it is ten times better for all parties that it should be done from within; and as the cocks are now clippi... ...t in the fact of England’s neutrality—in the fact of her regarding the two parties as belligerents—but in the open declaration made to the world by a ... ...d us than have remained neutral in such a conflict and have re- garded the parties as belligerents. The only question is whether she would have done s... ...ich it may have been guilty will be condoned by the world. The Southern or Democratic party of the United States had, as all men know, been in power f... ...d assisted at its birth. In Massachusetts itself, also, there was a strong Democratic party, of which Massachusetts now seems to be somewhat ashamed. ... ...the abso- lute absence of true liberty which such a passion through- out a democratic country must engender. But he who has observed all this must ack...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

... bigger than any other war, but it has struck deeper at the foundations of social and economic life. I doubt if we begin to realize how much of the ol... ...ting side by side with a dissentient and probably revolutionary Labour and Socialist convention—both gatherings with unsatisfac- tory credentials cont... ...nd urgent merely European necessities, a patch-up that has been made quasi-democratic in a series of after- thoughts, the American Constitution is a r... ...yed it has to be fought on purely party lines. He is the select man of the Democratic half, or of the Republican half of the nation. He is not the sel... ...andates in this matter. At present all the po- litical luncheon and dinner parties in London are busy with smirking discussions of “Who is to go?” The... ... conditions that are by the standards of the general league satisfactorily democratic. That seems to be only the com- mon sense of the matter. Every c... ...ter this essential fact, that the great educated world communities, with a social and industrial organization on a war-capable scale, are going to dom... ...hat is so or not, whether Germany is or is not to be one of the interested parties in the African solution, the fact remains that it is impossible to ... ...e of manipulation, that leads straight, not to the representation of small parties, but to a type of democratic government by selected best men. Befor...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...main thing to them. It can make this life comparatively comfortable to the parties concerned; the neglect of this training can make this life a const... ...t of this training can make this life a constant peril and distress to the parties con cerned. Y.M. Y ou have said that training is everything; that ... ...on the human race to reach up—up—up— and strike from its far summit in the social skies the world’ s accepted ideal of Glory and Might and Splendor an... ...hiavelli whom he depicts does not cease to be politically a republican and socially a just man because he holds up an atrocious des pot like Caesar B... ...o to speak. I don’t know what’s the reason, but these material tokens of a social decay afflict me terribly; a tipsy woman isn’t dreadfuler than a hag... ...and un expected way: Republican, a sinner mentioned in the Bible. Also in Democratic newspapers now and then. Here are two where the mistake has resu... ...mind the Baconian assumers have come out ahead of the Shakespearites. Both parties handle the same materials, but the Baconians seem to me to get much...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

................................................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL... ... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want to introduce you to Dr. Chuck Chan. He is a professor of social... ... our doctorates at the same time at your alma mater Commander. Of course I was in psychology and she was in philosophy but we knew each other social... ... on to observe that these self actualized people have a deep feeling of kinship with others, especially other self actualized people. They are democr... ...ions are based on the traditions of our family or our culture. But because it is common, is it right? ―If I say ‗My family has voted Democr... ... Charles Taylor of Liberia or Slobodan Milošević, the former president of Serbia. You see it in parents vying for the most expensive birthday partie... ... ―I cringed when I saw the African dictators, like Mugabe and Taylor, ruining their countries. And the fact that they supposedly came to power democr... ...who procrastinated. We put off studying for tests or writing research papers. Neither were as interesting as talking with friends or going to partie...

...SIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF A SOCIETY 104 TYPE OF GOVERNMENT108 USING GOD’S LAWS FOR SOCIETY 112 SOCIAL CONCERNS—DO UNTO OTHERS 114 ECONOMIC CONCERNS WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY 115 ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY117 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS 119 RETIREMENT PENSIONS 125 HEALTH CARE128 HEALTH CARE AND AGING ...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

........................................................................... 4 SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM.......................................... ....................................................... 11 CHAPTER I MARX AND SOCIALIST DOCTRINE ........................................................... ........................................ 92 CHAPTER VII SCIENCE AND ART UNDER SOCIALISM .................................................................... ...me combination of ideal and organization as we find in Socialist political parties. It is from this standpoint that our study of these movements will ... ...wnership of land and capital. Com- munal ownership may mean ownership by a democratic State, but cannot be held to include ownership by any State whic... ...c State, but cannot be held to include ownership by any State which is not democratic. Communal ownership may also be under- stood, as Anarchist Commu... ...of regulating the political affairs of the com- munity . But all alike are democratic in the sense that they aim at abolishing every kind of privilege... ...difficult to put trust in the State as a means to liberty, or in political parties as instruments suffi- ciently powerful to force the State into the ... ...roups of intellectuals, eager to possess the profits of public employment. Parties are con- stituted in order to acquire the conquest of these employ-...

...................................................................................................................................................... 4 SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM................................................................................................... 11 PART I HISTORICAL........................................................................

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

... no means the outcome of malevolence, but depend on their education, their social status, even their professions. The good artist should expect no rec... ... firmer ground, being based on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the read- ing ... ...fore we behold him in the dock, a stranger to all historical, political or social considerations which can be brought to bear upon his case. He remain... ...ation, for the honour, for the fun of the thing. The virtuous, industrious democratic States of to-morrow may yet be reduced to fighting for a crust o... ... arouse her cupidity be- cause she had salt mines of her own. No doubt the democratic complexion of Polish institutions was very distasteful to the co... ... modified and confirmed by two other treaties, which guaranteed to all the parties in a just and eternal union all their rights, liberties, and respec... ...at different times, simply be- cause good care was taken by the interested parties to stop the mouth of the accused. But it has never carried much con... ... its problems by its distant friends, the West- ern Powers, which in their democratic development must recognise the moral and intellectual kinship of... ... out that this plan is the only one offering serious guarantees to all the parties occu- pying their respective positions within the scheme. If her ex...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...er to be seen be- yond the limits of his own domain, and, in this wide and social world, was utterly companionless—unless, indeed, that un- natural, i... ...e. I remember still more distinctly, that while he was pro- nounced by all parties at first sight “the most remarkable man in the world,” no person ma... ... you know that our immortal Wiggins is not so original in his views of the Social Condition and so forth, as his contemporaries are in- clined to supp... ...t. The passengers were, consequently, in high spirits and dis- posed to be social. I must except, however, Wyatt and his sisters, who behaved stiffly,... ...y—re- joinder—confutation—and justification—followed in the col- umns of a Democratic Gazette. It was not until the opening of the vault to decide the... ... controversy, that the appearance of Mr. Windenough and myself proved both parties to have been decidedly in the wrong. I cannot conclude these detail... ... As soon, therefore, as a building-project is fairly afoot by one of these parties, we merchants secure a nice corner of the lot in contemplation, or ... ... disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, and so full of demnition mischievous li...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...he thought the country ruined 8 Personal Memoirs beyond recovery when the Democratic party lost control in 1860. Her family, which was large, inherit... ... during the war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June, 1821, my father, Jesse ... ... for a western village. It is, and has been from its earliest existence, a democratic town. There was probably no time during the rebellion when, if t... ...vered by sheds to break the rays of the sun. The summer was whiled away in social enjoyments among the officers, in visiting those sta- tioned at, and... ...r was spent more agreeably than the summer had been. There were occasional parties given by the planters along the “coast”—as the bottom lands on the ... ...ce was settled satisfactorily, and “honorably,” in the esti- mation of the parties engaged. I do not believe I ever would have the courage to fight a ... ...by the skill of the engineers, converted into a defence for the assaulting parties while securing their positions for final attack. All the troops wit... ...d, otherwise, sensible persons appeared to believe that emancipation meant social equality. T reason to the Government was openly advocated and was no... ...children. The nation still lives, and the people are just as free to avoid social intimacy with the blacks as ever they were, or as they are with whit...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

.... It had been arranged, or possibly it was the custom of the day, that the parties should proceed separately to church. By some accident the bridegroo... ... his equals in age, partook of the enmity of their parents. His tender and social nature had already overflowed in attachments to everything about him... ...first provincial charter, un- der which our forefathers had enjoyed almost democratic privileges! He that was styled the arch-enemy of New En- gland, ... ...itutions and customs that were connected with it, had never yielded to the democratic her- esies of after times. The young queen of Britain has not a ... ...n of the manner in which the world kept itself cheerful and prosperous, by social pleasures and an intercourse of busi- ness, while he, in seclusion, ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... attack.The job of the NMCC in such an emergency is to gather the relevant parties and establish the chain of command between the National Command Aut... ...centric and violent ideas sprouting in the fertile ground of political and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to seize its hist... ...es (such as those promoted by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab Socialism or the Ba’ath Party of Syria and Iraq) that called for a single, ... ...ulers sought to buy off local Islamist movements by ceding control of many social and educational issues. Embold- ened rather than satisfied, the Isla... ...discos and beaches in Beirut, and in Greifswald was known to enjoy student parties and drinking beer.Although he continued to share an apartment in Gr... ...t has occurred with the full support of the Congress, both major political parties, the media, and the Amer- ican people. The nation has committed eno... ...Muslim states.A cen- tral government has been established in Kabul, with a democratic constitution, new currency, and a new army. Most Afghans enjoy g... ... communities.Y et even if his efforts are successful and elections bring a democratic government to Afghanistan, the United States faces some difficul... ...om ‘Muslimun/Muslims.’...Islamism is defined as ‘an Islamic militant, anti-democratic movement, bearing a holistic vision of Islam whose final aim is ...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... gen- erous ardour, the better part of the man too often withheld from the social commerce, and the contact of mind with mind evaded as with terror. A... ...n geniality . Thus, 12 Robert Louis Stevenson at least, we have a healthy democratic atmosphere to breathe in while at work; even when there is no co... ...shipped in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed a different social constitution from his fellow-countrymen either of the south or north... ...house where I spent my youth was not yet thought upon; but we made holiday parties among the cornfields on its site, and ate strawberries and cream ne... ...leasures bear discussion for their own sake, but only those which are most social or most radically human; and even these can only be discussed among ... ...and strength among themselves effectually prevents the appear- ance of the democratic notion. Or we might more exactly compare their society to the cu...

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