...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...vitality and significance to everything about him. A part of education and culture is the exten- sion of one’s narrow range of living to include wider... ...by the news-papers.’ Sir Adam mentioned the orators, poets, and artists of Greece. Johnson. ‘Sir, I am talking of the mass of the people. We see even ... ...e; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. Greece ap- pears to me to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance.’ ...

...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...ourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but... ...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ...) split geographically along a line that runs roughly from Scandinavia to Greece and almost touches the Black Sea. The eastward migration from t... ... just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ...nters and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...t a kindred nation plead- ing for the scattered people of its own race and culture, or any nation presenting a case on behalf of some otherwise unrepr... ...hose creations of the futurist imagination, the impe- rialism of Italy and Greece, which make such threatening 29 H.G. Wells gestures at the world of... ... the unfortunate Greek republicans, with her eyes on the Greek islands and Greece in Asia. Is it not time that these base imputations were repudiated ... ... reader here of the horrible vacillations and inconsistencies of policy in Greece that have prolonged the war and cost us wealth and lives beyond meas...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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 ... ...avage race has produced architects who could approach the air in genius or culture. No civilized race has produced architects who could plan a house b... ...as to private particu lars. “Where do you live when you are at home?” “In Greece.” “Greece! Well, now, that is just astonishing! Born there?” “No.” “... ...when the right words are conspicuous that they thunder: The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome! When I got back from Howells old to ... ...f an asp which she dissolved in a wine cup. The only form of government in Greece was a limited monkey. The Persian war lasted about 500 years. Greece... ... had been stocked, but not their understandings. It was a case of brickbat culture, pure and simple. There are several curious “compositions” in the l... ...s are very well, but books do not cover the whole domain of esthetic human culture. Pride of profes sion is one of the boniest bones in existence, if...

............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...southern influences. If we look to Europe, we see that this has been so in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands; in England and Scotland;... ...haps in af- fection; but he cannot separate himself from England in mental culture. It may be suggested that an Englishman has the same advantages as ...

............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................

... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...ELIMINARY 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne a... ...mpressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this, not Ph... ...rtheless,” continues he, “I too acknowledge the all but omnipotence of early culture and nurture: hereby we have either a doddered dwarf bush, or a hi... ... both slopes of the Altaic chain, in the central Platform of Asia; in Spain, Greece, Turkey, Crim Tartary, the Curragh of Kildare? One man, in one yea...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ts coming 13 John Dewey within urgent daily interests. But in an advanced culture much which has to be learned is stored in symbols. It is far from t... ...hat native differences are not sufficient to account for the difference in culture. In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a ... ...ife, then the appliances become the positive resources of civilization. If Greece, with a scant tithe of our material resources, achieved a worthy and... ...ieved a worthy and noble intel- lectual and artistic career, it is because Greece operated for social ends such resources as it had. But whatever the ... ...ve- ment, it was henceforth impossible to conceive of insti- tutions or of culture as artificial. It destroyed completely— in idea, not in fact —the p... ... social. It originated, so far as con- scious formulation is concerned, in Greece, and was based upon the fact that the truly human life was lived onl...

...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells 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... ... that that is the work for which he is fitted by his inferior capacity and culture, that these others are a special and select sort, very specially tr... ...mity to consuming markets, it may present the con- centration of intensive culture. There may be an adjacent Wild supplying wood, and perhaps controll... ...pose of improving style, “as the exact and beautiful languages of Rome and Greece.” Is it not time at least that this last, this favourite but thread-... ...ation more marked than in military and naval affairs. In the great days of Greece and Rome war was a special calling, requiring a special type of man.... ...s- tined to develop into a great distinctive nation with a char- acter and culture of its own. Humanly speaking, the United States of America (and the...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...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... ...o Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke’s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular his tory, except school abridgme... ...o be my strongest predilection, and most of all ancient history. Mitford’s Greece I read con tinually; my father had put me on my guard against the T... ...paedia of the thoughts of the ancients on the whole field of education and culture; and I have retained through life many valuable ideas which I can d... ... author to whom my father thought himself more indebted for his own mental culture, than Plato, or whom he more frequently recommended to young studen... ... all the time he could spare be ing already taken up with his History of Greece . The article he wrote was on his own subject, and was a very comple... ... there was at that time an intermission of its natural ali ment, poetical culture, while there was a superabundance of the discipline antagonistic to...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 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 Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for an... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...ions of history with which we are earliest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England. But in old times this contest was between subj... ...ers. The rulers were conceived (except in some of the popular governments of Greece) as in a nec essarily antagonistic position to the people whom th... ...of denying it to the rest of the world: thus giving to the elite more mental culture, though not more mental freedom, than it allows to the mass. By t... ...aining the kind of mental superiority which its purposes require; for though culture without freedom never made a large and liberal mind, it can make ... ... all that is designated by the terms civilization, in struction, education, culture, but is itself a neces sary part and condition of all those thin...

...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately...

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill 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 for Bedouins or Malays. The state of different communities, in point of culture and development, ranges downwards to a condition very little above ... ...ustrious class who are neither slaves nor slave owners (as was the case in Greece), they need, probably, no more to insure their improvement than to m... ... Oriental people, in that condition it continues to stagnate; but if, like Greece or Rome, it had realized any thing higher, through the energy, patri... ...ven of speculative, and much more of practical, talent. The intel lectual culture compatible with the other type is of that feeble and vague descript... ...n. The proofs of this are apparent in every page of our great historian of Greece; but we need scarcely look further than to the high quality of the a...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

...Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pen... ...ity. 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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...s called Bendis in Thrace, Bubastis in Egypt, Dian in Rome, and Artemis in Greece. There was a Grand Turk from Stamboul. He could not help thinking th... ..., might possibly, while retaining the necessary idea of art or interest or culture, so imbue his designs at once with extent and novelty of Beauty, as... ...ess, vastness, definitiveness, and magnificence, shall inspire the idea of culture, or care, or superintendence, on the part of intelligences superior... ...tion in the perversion of our taste, or rather in the blind neglect of its culture in the schools. For, in truth, it was at this crisis that taste alo... ... indefinite, and was the shadow nei- ther of man nor of God—neither God of Greece, nor God of Chaldaea, nor any Egyptian God. And the shadow rested up...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four.

.......................................................................................................................................... 23 THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER ...................................................................... 31 HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE .....................................................................................

...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 ... ... P UBLICATION The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford 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... ... knows no master.” The Finnish deities, like the ancient gods of Italy and Greece, are generally represented in pairs, and all the gods are probably w... ...e wicked hostess of the dismal Sariola, he, like Atlas in the mythology of Greece, relinquishes the support of the heavens, thunders along the borders... ... Finnish Styx, like Charon, the son of Erebus and Nox, in the mythology of Greece. The second daughter of T uoni is Lowyatar, black and blind, and is ... ...ee, dear mother, For thy tender care and guidance, For my birth and for my culture, Nurtured by thy purest life blood! Gratitude to thee, dear brother...

...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be calle...

...INBOW ............................................................................................................................. 87 RUNE IX ORIGIN OF IRON.................................................................................................................................................... 92 RUNE X ILMARINEN FORGES THE SAMPO ...................................

... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... journal of his youthful Continental travels. “Look here—here is all about Greece. Rhamnus, the ruins of Rhamnus—you are a great Grecian, now. I don’t... ...ing for Parnassus, the double- peaked Parnassus.’ All this volume is about Greece, you know,” Mr. Brooke wound up, rubbing his thumb transversely alon... ...’t often run in the female-line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece, you know—it comes out in the sons. Clever sons, clever moth- ers. I... ...again, without any special object, save the vague purpose of what he calls culture, preparation 73 George Eliot for he knows not what. He declines to... ...f medial evidence— any glimmering of these can only come from a scientific culture of which country practitioners have usually no more notion than the... ...aving off because they were “no good,” and observing that, after all, self-culture was the principal point; while in politics he would have been sympa...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rs-off” and “breakers-up,” who had first wanted to effect a diver- sion in Greece and then in Warsaw but never wished to go where he was sent: Chichag... ...f Russia, or the balance of power in Europe, or a certain kind of European culture called “progress” appear to me to be good or bad, I must admit that... ...glance from under his brows. “Prince Theodore and all those. T o encourage culture and philanthropy is all very well of course. The aim is excellent b... ... states to the writers of general histories and the new his- tories of the culture of that period. The strangeness and absurdity of these replies aris...

.... Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... The liter- ary compositions to which he had ever listened were the half- cultured, yet often wildly powerful rhapsodies of early Ara- bian minstrels... ...ime, study, and meditation, and pre- sumes a far greater degree of general culture than any ortho- dox Muslim will be disposed to admit. In close conn... ...the Koran the principle of Evil. See Sura [xci.] ii. 32, n. 15 The sea of Greece and the sea of Persia. But as no literal interpretation of the passa... ...uir thinks that it may refer to Suheib, son of Sinan, “the first fruits of Greece,” as Muhammad styled him, who, while yet a boy, had been carried off...

...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new ph...

...1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped 3 73 The Enfolded 4 93 The Brightness 5 94 The Opening 6 113 The Daybreak 7 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 The Unity...

...obal Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Contents Preface . . . ... ...EIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. H... ...ion. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; an... ...hose habits and opinions are threaded through and through with Mediterranean culture and the civic discipline of Rome. One can imagine the first French... ...s which humanise and unite society. And he chose “taste”—taste in speech, in culture, in manners,— as the fusing principle of his new Academy. The tra... ... more capable o than the English of appreciating the great plastic creators, Greece, Italy and France. This gift of the critical sense in those arts w... ... taste in tabloids, she will never come into her real inheritance of English culture. A gentleman travelling in the Middle West met a charming girl wh... ... an importance in France which was matched only in the most glorious days of Greece. The dramatic sense of the French, their faculty of per ceiving a... ... France and almost swept her away: almost, but not quite. Soon, Phœnicia and Greece were to reach her from the south, soon after that Rome was to stam...

...Excerpt: PREFACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excu...

...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 2...