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...ke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ditor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... whereof they are proud. What do they call it, that which maketh them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguisheth them from the goatherds. They di... ...s ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and troub... ...heth it in dreams—the superhero.— Thus spake Zarathustra. XXXVI. THE LAND OF CULTURE TOO FAR DID I fly into the future: a horror seized upon me. And w... ... a broad and rapid sketch of Nietzsche as a writer on Morals, Evolution, and Sociology, so that the reader may be prepared to pick out for himself, so... ...mself and reach Superman (see espe- cially the Prologue). (D.) Nietzsche and Sociology NIETZSCHE AS A SOCIOLOGIST aims at an aristocratic arrange- men...

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...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its mani...

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...CATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nt. Often the fact is pointed out that great progress has been made in the culture of plants and the breeding of animals. This is true. No intelligent... ...crubs and taking a chance on results. The effect of selective breeding and culture is beyond dispute, and to many it seems obvious that all that is ne... ...they live. Few of them have much knowledge of biology, of psy- chology, of sociology, or even of history. One curse of our political life comes from t...