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...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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... no impression of incompleteness, of maimed or stinted nature. And yet, in social intercourse, these familiar friends of his habitually and instinctiv... ...ts forbid!” answered the guide. “But it is well known that he watches near parties that come into the catacomb, especially if they be heretics, hoping... ..., in spite of all these professional grudges, art- ists are conscious of a social warmth from each other’s pres- ence and contiguity. They shiver at t... ...y of the Palace of the Caesars on the other, there arose singing voices of parties that were stroll- ing through the moonlight. Thus, the air was full... ...emperor is enough to create an eva- nescent sentiment of loyalty even in a democratic bosom, so august does he look, so fit to rule, so worthy of man’...

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...s man going. He may live on for many generations inside the shelter of the social establishment which he has erected for himself, as pear-trees and cu... ...y as well live. And so he applied himself to his own tiny sec- tion of the social work, and to doing the best for his family, and to leaving the rest ... ...essful barrister, also littérateur of high repute, a rich man, and a great social suc- cess. At the centre he felt himself neuter, nothing. Isabel kne... ...k began. Nothing more was said for the time being. As the week went on all parties became more comfortable. Joe remained silent, averted, neutral, a l... ...ere,’ said Matilda. ‘Is it any different in Canada?’ asked Emmie. ‘Oh, yes—democratic,’ replied Matilda, ‘He thinks they’re all on a level over there....

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... 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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...unfortunate and misunderstood Ralston. Once he had been put forward as the Democratic candidate for governor, but failed of elec- tion. After this Mag... ...ared in the doorway, singly or in couples, or in families, or in garrulous parties of five and six. Now it was Phelps and his mother from Los Muertos,... ... Derrick for the second, and James Darrell for the third. Nominated in the Democratic State convention in the fall of the preceding year, Lyman, backe... ...s, Young, Poushkin, Henry George, Schopenhauer. He attacked the subject of Social Inequal- ity with unbounded enthusiasm. He devoured, rather than rea... ...eth- ics. The widow of India, in the costume of her caste, de- scribed the social life of her people at home. The bearded poet, perspiring in furs and... ...but the manufacturer’s wife turned the meet- ings of these committees into social affairs—luncheons, teas, where one discussed the ways and means of a... ...ted this by an- other offer of an equal amount. The country was thick with parties of horsemen, armed with rifles and revolvers, recruited from Visali... ...Ask Magnus Derrick what he thinks about that. Ask him how much he paid the Democratic bosses at Sacramento to swing the convention.” He went out, slam...

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...id so. He cordially despised any brother rector who thought harm of dinner-parties, or dreaded the dangers of a moderate claret-jug; consequently dinn... ...ties, or dreaded the dangers of a moderate claret-jug; consequently dinner-parties and claret-jugs were common in the diocese. He liked to give laws a... ... to come to us, that is, in the way of calling. And at your English dinner-parties all is so dull and so stately. Do you know, my lord, that in coming... ...g opinion. In truth they were both right. Mr Arabin was a diffident man in social intercourse with those whom he did not intimately know; when placed ... ...arn people that they were not to sit long. In his eyes there was something democratic and parvenu in a round table. He imagined that dissenters and ca... ...d remain so as to preoccupy Mr Slope’s place in the carriage, and act as a social policeman to effect the exclusion of that disagreeable gentleman. Bu...

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...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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...ark Beyond the path with grain on either hand, Help to the steering of our social Ark Over the barbarous waters unto land. For us the double conscienc... ...een blood run dry And blood running flame may our offspring run! May brain democratic be king of the host! Less then shall the volumes of History tell... ...r history’s maps, T o see across Britain’s old shaggy unshorn, Through the Parties in strife internecine, foot The ruler’s close-reckoned direct to th... ... stationed wheel; Nor History written in blood or in foam, For vendetta of Parties in cursing accursed. The God in the conscience of multitudes feel, ... ...ready blade, Whose argument the cannonade. He loathed his land’s divergent parties, loth T o grant them speech, they were such idle troops; The friabl...

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...- the Senator loved to party with prostitutes and drugs. He was told that these parties were arranged by what Rankin had called his 'grateful consti... .... "It's the only way open to them. Market reforms, Foreign Aid WIth, so called, Democratic conditions attached are too long a process. They want a s... ...sion is that Pierce may be selling bomb-grade plu­ tonium to potentially hostile parties, or is about to." "We've had no information to that effect",... ...full. His staff had quietly put the word out to the media, and other interested parties. "As you can see, I've invited C-SPAN to televise these proc... ...arks and yield to your side of the aisle." "1 thank the Senator," O'Brien, the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts said. "I, for one, am looking ... ...dically, scientifically, and technically. The President, myself, and a staff of social, environ­ mental, and engineering scientists have been meeting...

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...lation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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...l pamphlet, “The Discovery of the Future,”** presents a general theory of social development and of social and po- litical conduct. It is an attempt ... ...pment and of social and po- litical conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point... ...al questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as aspects of one universal evolving scheme, and... ...thlessly and entirely. And these repudiations extend also to the political parties that struggle to realize themselves within the forms of our establi... ...action-fighting may be turned for a time to- wards his remoter ends. These parties derive from that past when the new view of life had yet to establis... ... aim at all—as we of the new generation mea- sure comprehensiveness. These parties, and the phrases of party exposition—in America just as in England—... ... mankind in the world? How does it compare with the American conception of democratic equality, and how do both stand with regard to the essential tru... ...ater mass of our English-speaking people is living under the profession of democratic Republi- canism, there is no party, no sect, no periodical, no t... ...e country was drifting 149 H G Wells slowly towards the constitution of a democratic republic. In those days it was that there came into being a theo...

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... society. But that makes it all the more essential that public opinion and social environment should not be left to grow up at haphazard as they ordin... ...e state, are necessary because men’s community is imperfect, because man’s social nature expresses itself in conflicting ways, in the clash of interes... ...sses itself in conflicting ways, in the clash of interests, the rivalry of parties, and the struggle of classes, instead of in the united seeking afte... ...n their relative importance in the good life, but upon the strength of the parties which they represent. The mixed constitution is practicable in a st... ... as the birds. The gift of speech also evidently proves that man is a more social animal than the bees, or any of the herding cattle: for nature, as w... ...n some instances it is sufficiently clear, that it is advantageous to both parties for this man to be a slave, and that to be a master, and that it is... ...t, the sen- ate the oligarchical; and, that in the ephori may be found the democratical, as these are taken from the people. But some say, that in the... ...r, and that it is their common meal and daily course of life, in which the democratical form is represented. It is also said in this trea- tise of [12... ...stom be- ing broken through by the Leucadians, made their govern- ment too democratic; for by that means it was no longer necessary to be possessed of...

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...s of beeches, and fre- quent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made ... ... a year after Mr Gresham’s last con- test for the county, it seemed to all parties to be a pleas- ant and rational arrangement that the hounds should ... ...t Scatcherd, who had hitherto been silent enough about his sister in those social hours which he passed with his gentleman friend, boasted of the enga... ...ncreased distances. Now there was something low, mean, unprofessional, and democratic in this; so, at least, said the children of AEsculapius gathered... ...a stone. Dr Thorne’s pretensions, mixed with his subversive pro- fessional democratic tendencies, his seven-and-sixpenny visits, added to his utter di... ...d achieved a sort of popularity there and elsewhere by the violence of his democratic opposition to the aristocracy. According to this man’s political... ...s be here, backwards and forwards; and perhaps it will be bet- ter for all parties—safer, that is, doctor—if Miss Thorne were to discontinue her visit... ...made greatly uneasy by reflecting how very high the bill would be. The two parties had outdone each other in the loudness of their assertions, that ea... ... had in effect banished herself from the most intimate of the Greshamsbury social circles. She magnified in her own mind the importance of the confere...

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...ity, I mean interest: “Does anybody know 25 Joseph Conrad besides the two parties concerned?” he asked, with some- thing as it were renewed (or was i... ...tial contempt for all mankind. There is nothing in that against the purest democratic principles; but that you, Rita, should elect to throw so much of... ...nfortunate position of an exile has its advantages. At a certain height of social position (wealth has got nothing to do with it, we have been ruined ... ...great political (and domestic) influence at Court. The card was, under its social form, a mere command to present myself before the grandee. No Royali... ...is complexion was uniformly pale, his mouth was red, but not engaging. His social status was not very defi- nite. He was wearing a dark blue overcoat ...

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...hich was ex- perimental in our plan of government was the question whether democratic rule could be so organized and conducted that it would not degen... ... of 6 Democracy in America the people, of all races and conditions, their social and reli- gious sentiments, their education and tastes; their indust... ...cibly than the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are... ...now search for a law that would negative this provision in its effect upon social equality, he would fail to find it. But he would find it in the unwr... ...He beheld, and deplored, the excesses that had attended the genesis of the democratic spirit in France, and while he loved liberty, he detested the cr... ... is apparent that the tendency of his mind was not wholly favorable to the democratic principle, yet those who dissent from his conclusions must comme... ... party; I have undertaken not to see differently, but to look further than parties, and whilst they are busied for the morrow I have turned my thought... ... been agitated for centuries by the struggles of faction, and in which all parties had been obliged in their turn to place themselves under the protec... ...y drawing up a social contract, which was acceded to by all the interested parties. See “Pitkin’s History,” pp. 42 and 47. 53 Tocqueville Charles I d...

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...ntly occupied by the affairs of the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of ... ...Minor, where no definite national boundaries, no religious, linguistic, or social homogeneities have ever established them- selves since the Roman leg... ...ay mean simply an ebb of vigour on both sides, unusual hardship, a general social and economic disorganisation and grading down. The fact that a great... ... oughness of mobilisation. There need be no doubt that she will completely socialise herself, completely reorganise her whole social and economic stru... ...tically to rule Great Britain, and who are powerful and influential in all democratic countries. In order to secure a certain independence and integri... ...ought and sold, in gross and detail, by financiers, advertisers, political parties, and the like. Ger- many came into the market rather noisily, and g... ...“go as you please,” or fail. And we find the affairs of nearly every great democratic State in the hands of a class of men not specially adapted to an... ...in relation to her general national life than 68 What Is Coming? the free democratic countries. She has to make a bureau- cracy that has not hitherto... ...fessor Michels has recently pointed out in his striking book on “Political Parties,” is the necessary reality of democratic government. By different m...

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...o are trying 13 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Three to divide the Democratic party for the purpose of electing a Republican Senator in my pla... ...ng—I take it upon myself to defy any man to show a printed resolution of a Democratic meeting, large or small— in favor of Judge Trumbull, or any of t... ...fair to us as the old one, and in which, in some instances, two men in the Democratic regions were al- lowed to go as far toward sending a member to t... ...as says, the honor is to be divided and due credit is to be given to other parties, why is just so much given as is con- sonant with the wishes, the i... ...s about my disposition to make negroes per- fectly equal with white men in social and political relations. He did not stop to show that I have said an... ..., after running through the history of the old Democratic and the old Whig parties, that Judge Trumbull and myself made an arrangement in 1854, by whi... ... denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine wo... ...s is the whole of it; and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fan- tas... ...so.] The Judge has gone over a long account of the old Whig and Democratic parties, and it connects itself with this charge against Trumbull and mysel...

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...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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...to utter any opinion what- ever on the religious position of the two great parties. It is suffi- cient for entire sympathy with the royal Swede, that ... ...ith gen- eral politics (meaning by general not personal politics) and with social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Pol... ...e original quarto edition, with all its virus as yet undiluted of raw anti-social Jacobinism. At Laxton it was that I first saw the entire aggregate l... ...r philosophic inference. One hundred years ago, such was the difficulty of social intercourse, sim- ply from the difficulty of locomotion (though even... ...n the kingdom. Many elegant and pretty women there naturally were in these parties; but undoubtedly our two Laxton bar- onesses shone advantageously a... ...ounds, paid down according to the rate agreed on by the lawyers of the two parties; or, strictly speaking, quarrelled on between the adverse factions;... ...e, the tribunitian office, namely, that it was a popular mode of leav- ing democratic organs untouched, whilst he neutralized their democratic functio...

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...l crime, it declares forfeiture extending be- yond the lives of the guilty parties; whereas the Constitution of the United States declares that “no at... ...be thus engaged; and I think a reasonable time should be provided for such parties to appear and have per- sonal hearings. Similar provisions are not ... ...cupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed the social condition, and affected very deeply the prosperity, of the nations w... ... from taking part in any con- troversy between foreign states, and between parties or fac- tions in such states. We have attempted no propagandism and... ...nredeemed promise of more than half a year’s standing. A. LINCOLN. FURTHER DEMOCRATIC PARTY CRITICISM TO M. BIRCHARD AND OTHERS. W ASHINGTON, D. C., J... ...M. BIRCHARD, DA VID A. HOUK, et al: GENTLEMEN:—The resolutions of the Ohio Democratic State convention, which you present me, together with your intro... ...being in position and argu- ment mainly the same as the resolutions of the Democratic meeting at Albany, New Y ork, I refer you to my response to the ...

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...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 ...