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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...are saying each to one another, “Pray come to me and see for yourself that I am very much the human stuff that you are. Come and see that I am doing m... ...uch the human stuff that you are. Come and see that I am doing my best—and I think that is not so very bad a best….” And with that is something else s... ...d say that this war is Queer. It is not like any- thing in a really waking world, but like something in a dream. It hasn’t exactly that clearness of l... ...it has the quality of wholesome instinct struggling under a nightmare. The world is not really awake. This vague appeal for explanations to all sorts ... ... war has depended largely upon two factors. One of these is invention. New weapons and new methods have become available, and have modified tactics, s... ... Without these provisions it would be merely preventing the use of certain weapons; it would be doing nothing to pre- vent countries strangling or suf...

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...s Series Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... open, grassy road, holding a shadow and a mystery under its pointed hood. I was startled into consciousness one evening, going alone over a marshy pl... ...n the feet of the Christ a handful of withered poppies. It was the poppies I saw, then the Christ. It was an old shrine, the wood-sculpture of a Bavar... ...ards the culmination and the southern slope, the influence of the educated world is felt once more. Bavaria is remote in spirit, as yet unattached. It... ...the New Testament it is a Dove. And there are, standing over the Christian world, the Churches of the Dove and the Churches of the Eagle. There are, m... ... spiritual love. In marriage, husband and wife wage the subtle, satisfying war of sex upon each other. It gives a profound satisfaction, a profound in... ...d or by a child—she dare not go alone, afraid of the strange, terrible sex-war between her and the drunken man—is seen leading home the wine- drunken,... ...lack and abandoned. Some strange will holds the women taut. They seem like weapons, danger- ous. There is nothing charming nor winning about them; at ...

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... Wilson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...s Series Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...ident of the United States. *Harper & Brothers’ note. 4 Why We Are at War I A WORLD LEAGUE FOR PEACE Message to the Senate January 22, 1917 GENTLEMEN... ...t of the United States. *Harper & Brothers’ note. 4 Why We Are at War I A WORLD LEAGUE FOR PEACE Message to the Senate January 22, 1917 GENTLEMEN OF ... ...ate January 22, 1917 GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE: On the 18th of December last I addressed an identic note to the Governments of the nations now at war, r... ...e discussion of the international concert which must there- after hold the world at peace. In every discussion of the peace that must end this war it ... ...t aside under the plea of retaliation and necessity, and because it had no weapons which it could use at sea except these, 24 Why We Are at War which... ... enemy shall not have in his possession at any time or place any firearms, weapons, or implement of war, or component parts thereof; ammunition, Maxim...

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...ir by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...ague to Enforce Peace. K. 4 The War in the Air THE WAR IN THE AIR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF P... ..., rather. It’s been the salvation of them gas compa- nies.” “Larst Satiday I got three barrer-loads of gravel off my petaters,” said Mr. T om Smallway... ...ng-point. Each power sought to keep its preparations se- cret, to hold new weapons in reserve, to anticipate and learn the preparations of its rivals.... ...iated her international outlook pro- foundly. With the coming of these new weapons her collec- tive intelligence thrilled with the sense that now her ...

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...ree by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...es. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending... ... must confess he has always been inclined to be rather a slow prophet. The war aeroplane in the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in An... ...r example, beat the forecast in Anticipations by about twenty years or so. I sup- pose a desire not to shock the sceptical reader’s sense of use and w... ...the particular case of The World Set Free there 4 The World Set Free was, I think, another motive in holding the Great War back, and that was to allo... ...rrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by the heat of burning and the rough implement of stone.... ...stematic dis- covery in which we live. They did not very greatly alter the weapons and tactics of warfare, the methods of agriculture, seamanship, the...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ...) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK I INTRODUCTION Among the notable books of later times-we may say, with- out... ...r the student of history or psychology, but for the intelligent man of the world. Its startling frankness gives it a peculiar interest wanting in most... ...which o’er them shed tears feelingly and fast. “His life was one long war with self-sought foes, Or friends by him self-banished; for his mi... ... notions and ways of promulgating them, and accordingly took up his wonted weapons—sarcasm and ridicule—against poor Jean-Jacques. The quarrels of the... ...against you: so do you come to me. My states offer you a peaceful retreat. I wish you well, and will treat you well, if you will let me. But, if you p... ...eir felicity, it was the foundation of all my misfortunes. I came into the world with so few signs of life, that they entertained but little hope of p... ...is, my conduct was pre- determined, I was resolved not to return. Madam de War- rens, seeing her endeavors would be fruitless, became less explicit, a...

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...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after ...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. Rome. A street. [Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons.] First Citizen: Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. All: Speak, speak. First Citizen: You are all resolved ra...

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...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that ev...

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...er seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen, and at present it is, I think, evident that Washington can never be great in its ship- ping. Stat... ...n in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third ... ...n the borders of the nation to which it belongs, instead of at its center. I fear, therefore, that we must acknowledge that the site chosen for his co... ... in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13. It was then finished according to the original plan, with a... ...ide which is on your right as you leave the Capitol. Of the other side the world knows nothing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be ... ...ing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be any town in the world at all equal in importance to Washington which is in such respects so... ...and we were shown over two of them. They certainly seemed to be formidable weapons for river warfare, and to have been “got up quite irrespec- tive of... ...an time. But as regards 158 North America V ol. 2 790 of these now famous weapons, it must be explained they had been sold by the government as perfe...

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...Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and a...

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...Table of Contents: Book First 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 8 -- Chapter 3, 12 -- Chapter 4, 20 -- Chapter 5, 26 -- Chapter 6, 30 -- Chapter 7, 38 -- Chapter 8, 45 -- Chapter 9, 51 -- Chapter 10, 55 -- Chapter 11, 62 -- Chapter 1...

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...ou, because she doesn’t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn’t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chance... ...erself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of th... ..., is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, a... ...is nothing wonderful in my being glad to see you,’ Mrs. Luna rejoined, ‘when I tell you that I have been three long weeks in this unprevaricating city... ..., only exposed him the more. ‘If you thought I lived in New York, why in the world didn’t you come and see me?’ the lady inquired. ‘Well, you see, I d... ...the whole she preferred these two classes of the human race. Since the Civil War much of her occupation was gone; for before that her best hours had b... ...d? It is well known that the Empress of France was at the bottom of the last war in that country. And as for our four fearful years of slaughter, of c... ...rawing to a close, her earnest, unremitting work was over, her old fashioned weapons were broken and dull. Olive would have liked to hang them up as v... ... time 292 The Bostonians she declined to run); but now she had taken up her weapons, she had told Olive she was exposed, she had asked her to be her ...