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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...ummation of these things in parental nurture and education. Love, Home and Children, these are the heart-words of life. Not only is the general out- l... ... feed, to clothe, to educate those cardinal consequences of his being, his children; he builds for them, he plants for them, he plans for them, his so... ...al interests, whatever his immediate motives, tend finally to secure their welfare. Even more obviously is this the case with his wife. Even in rest a... ...s is the form the kinking has taken. The believer, sedulous for his soul’s welfare, may say that Life is to him an arena of spiritual conflict, but th... ...etely and criticise and improve that outfit from an attentive study of the welfare of plants and with an entire disregard of his remoter motives, so w... ...Zollvereins, and the Rights of the Parent to blockade the education of his children, but one hears nothing of the greater end. At the best all the obj... ...nds or falls by its contribution to that result, by the improvement of the children born, or by the improve- ment in the quality of births attained un... ...if we could prevent or discourage the inferior sorts of people from having children, and if we could stimulate and encourage the superior sorts to inc... ...ther has an in- stinctive knowledge of whatever is necessary for a child’s welfare, and the child, until it reaches the knuckle-rapping age at least, ...

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

...id not visit America again till 1899, when he came with his wife and three children for a limited time. It is hardly fair to Mr. Kipling to call “Amer... ...elf up in a hopeless maze of small wooden houses, dust, street refuse, and children who played with empty kerosene tins, that I discovered the differe... ...aid he. “Because they would die,” I said. It was exactly like talking to a child—a very rude little child. He would begin almost every sentence with, ... ... him with a queer, crooked gift of expression and a fierce anxiety for the welfare of his two little sons—tanned and reserved children, who attended s... ... fierce anxiety for the welfare of his two little sons—tanned and reserved children, who attended school daily and spoke good English in a strange ton... ...g). My newly washed handkerchief covered them all, and we two marvelled as children marvel. “This evening we shall do the Grand Canyon of the Yellowst...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...9 7 THE GOVERNOR’S HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 8 THE ELF CHILD AND THE MINISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 9 THE LEECH . . .... ... 18 A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 19 THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 20 THE MIN... ...ertwined themselves with mine Planted deep, in the town’s earliest infancy and childhood, by these two earnest and energetic men, the race has ever si... ...e planted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn out soil. My children have had other birth places, and, so far as their fortunes may... ...lips. Externally, the jollity of aged men has much in common with the mirth of children; the intellect, any more than a deep sense of humour, has litt... ...rs of even slighter public interest, and of far less intrinsic weight than the welfare of Hester and her child, were strangely mixed up with the delib... ... mother! Were it not, thinkest thou, for thy little one’s temporal and eternal welfare that she be taken out of thy charge, and clad soberly, and disc... ...ained. It was held to be the best possible mea sure for the young clergyman’s welfare; unless, indeed, as often urged by such as felt authorised to d... ...turning over many precious materials, in the shape of high aspirations for the welfare of his race, warm love of souls, pure sentiments, natural piety...

...RKET-PLACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59 -- 7 THE GOVERNOR?S HALL, 66 -- 8 THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER, 72 -- 9 THE LEECH, 79 -- 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT, 87 -- 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART, 95 -- 12 THE MINISTER?S VIGIL, 100 -- 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER, 108 -- 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN, 114 -- 15 H...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a child of three years old, in her husband’s hands. Immediately Fyodor Pavlov... ...de- part in peace,” but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion... ...LY IMAGINE what a father such a man could be and how he would bring up his children. His behaviour as a father was exactly what might be expected. He ... ...s a father was exactly what might be expected. He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because ... ... one even to change the baby’s little shirt. It happened moreover that the child’s relations on his mother’s side forgot him too at first. His grandfa... ...ind. My son, Alexey, is here, being saved. I am his father; I care for his welfare, and it is my duty to care. While I’ve been playing the fool, I hav...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a child of three years old, in her husband’s hands. Immediately Fyodor Pavlov... ...de- part in peace,” but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion... ...LY IMAGINE what a father such a man could be and how he would bring up his children. His behaviour as a father was exactly what might be expected. He ... ...s a father was exactly what might be expected. He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because ... ... one even to change the baby’s little shirt. It happened moreover that the child’s relations on his mother’s side forgot him too at first. His grandfa... ...ind. My son, Alexey, is here, being saved. I am his father; I care for his welfare, and it is my duty to care. While I’ve been playing the fool, I hav... ...llovitch unexpectedly re- vealed that at least some feeling for the public welfare and “the eternal question” lay concealed in him. Where his speech r...

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The Ethics of Aristotle

By: J. A. Smith

.... In fact it is what we all, wise and simple, agree in naming “Happiness” (Welfare or Well-being) In what then does happiness consist? Aristotle summa... ...uld serve as a guide to a father 19 The Ethics of Aristotle educating his children as well as to the legislator legislating for the state. Finding in... ...r a single individual living a solitary life, but for his parents also and children and wife, and, in general, friends and countrymen; for man is by n... ...all capable of Happiness who is very ugly, or is ill-born, or solitary and childless; and still less perhaps sup- posing him to have very bad children... ..., for none of them can partake in such working: and for this same reason a child is not happy either, because by reason of his tender age he cannot ye... ...f these. So then, whether we are accustomed this way or that straight from childhood, makes not a small but an impor- tant difference, or rather I wou... ... subjects; it being assumed that he is a good king and takes care of their welfare as a shepherd tends his flock; whence Homer (to quote him again) ca...

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Notes from the Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...h necessity, he would begin doing good? Oh, the babe! Oh, the pure, innocent child! Why, in the first place, when in all these thousands of years has ... ...process of making it, and that the chief thing is to save the well conducted child from despising engineering, and so giving way to the fatal idleness... ...t only the normal and the positive—in other words, only what is conducive to welfare—is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards ad... ... simply to avoid their company and to cut off all connection with my hateful childhood. Curses on that school and all those terrible years of penal se... ...ity, to the bad examples with which they had always been surrounded in their childhood and boyhood. They were monstrously depraved. Of course a great ... ...s silent. “See, Liza, I will tell you about myself. If I had had a home from childhood, I shouldn’t be what I am now. I often think that. However bad ...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... and had been liable to the taint of sorrow for the death of their earthly children, (as the Homeric Jupiter for Sarpedon, Thetis for Achilles, Callio... ...created him, and that in a sense more than figura- tive, he himself is the child of God. There stand the two relations, as declared in Paganism and in... ...ers too hot to hold them, and would disappear as rapidly as sugar-candy in children’s mouths. Others, however, inclined rather to the Ancient Mariner’... ... had equally thrown the public power into a settlement fatal to the public welfare. Not any decay of pub- lic virtue, but increase of poverty amongst ... ...But, in the Christian Scriptures, the rules a case of injury to a colonial child, whom the general mother was bound to protect and avenge; but as an a... ...orresponding struggles. Protestantism it is that has created him into this child and heir of liberty; Prot- estantism it is that has invested him with... ...on in the ecliptic. But God, for a purpose commensurate with man’s eternal welfare, is by these critics supposed incapable of the same petty abstinenc... ...tand between the king and his alienated people. It was good for the common welfare that Lord Strafford should die. Charles was unconvinced. He was sur...

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Utilitarianism

By: John Stuart Mill

...m fear; from all the forms of religious feeling; from the recollections of childhood and of all our past life; from self esteem, desire of the esteem... ...each individual a stronger personal interest in practically consulting the welfare of others; it also leads him to identify his feelings more and more... ...onfirmed, acts without any thought of either pleasure or pain. Will is the child of desire, and passes out of the dominion of its parent only to come ...

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The Subjection of Women

By: John Stuart Mill

...t protect the woman against its abuses. In no other case (except that of a child) is the person who has been proved judicially to have suffered an inj... ...e allowed to have—those to the men with whom they are connected, or to the children who constitute an additional and indefeasible tie between them and... ...t protect the woman against its abuses. In no other case (except that of a child) is the person who has been proved judicially to have suffered an inj... ...e allowed to have—those to the men with whom they are connected, or to the children who constitute an additional and indefeasible tie be tween them a... ...nally withheld, much is not shown. In the analogous relation of parent and child, the correspond ing phenomenon must have been in the observation of ... ... the wife’s direct influence, and by the concern he feels for their future welfare. This may be so, and no doubt often is so, with those who are more ...

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The Insulted and Injured

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...able, when a certain amount of punch would be consumed. The dogs and small children of the household would sometimes come out to see the cus- tomers t... ...ome out to see the cus- tomers too, and the latter used to fondle both the children 7 Dostoevsky and the dogs. They all knew one another and all had ... ...be assumed that my parents were good people, but I was left an orphan as a child, and I was brought up in the house of Nikolay Sergeyitch Ichmenyev, a... ...andowner of the neighbourhood, who took me in out of pity. He had only one child, a daughter Natasha, a child three years younger than I. We grew up t... ...s younger than I. We grew up together like brother and sister. Oh, my dear childhood! How stupid to grieve and regret it at five-and-twenty, and to re... ...d say if any one of your friends, anxious to secure your genuine permanent welfare, not a mere ephemeral hap- piness, were to offer you a girl, Young ...

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Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay : An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government

By: John Locke

... fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly. That i... ...strate over a subject may be distinguished from that of a father over his children, a master over his servant, a husband over his wife, and a lord o... ... that God, as King David says (Psalm 115. 16), “has given the earth to the children of men,” given it to mankind in common. But, this being supposed, ... ...to any one’s appropriating to himself any part of what is given in common. Children or servants could not cut the meat which their father or master ha... ...the hands of Nature where it was com mon, and belonged equally to all her children, and hath thereby appropriated it to himself. 29. Thus this law ... ... men, why should it be otherwise in that of the greatest moment, where the welfare of millions is concerned and also where the evil, if not prevented,...

...foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly, that if he had, his heirs yet had no right to it. Thirdly, that if his heirs had, there being no law of Nature nor positive law of God that determines which is...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

...y to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that... ...eir opinions, and allow doctrines which they honestly think dangerous to the welfare of mankind, either in this life or in another, to be scat tered ... ...rs, society has jurisdic tion over it, and the question whether the general welfare will or will not be promoted by interfering with it, becomes open... ...estly unfit for it? If protection against themselves is confess edly due to children and persons under age, is not society equally bound to afford it... ...g all the early portion of their existence: it has had the whole pe riod of childhood and nonage in which to try whether it could make them capable o... ...s any On Liberty — Mill 97 considerable number of its members grow up mere children, incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distan... ...h may prompt him to incur the risk: in this case, therefore, (unless he is a child, or de lirious, or in some state of excitement or absorp tion inc...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...APHY by JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND EARL CHILDHOOD AND EARL CHILDHOOD AND EARL CHILDHOOD AND EARL... ...HILDHOOD AND EARL CHILDHOOD AND EARL CHILDHOOD AND EARL CHILDHOOD AND EARL CHILDHOOD AND EARL Y EDUCA Y EDUCA Y EDUCA Y EDUCA Y EDUCA TION TION TION T... ...nsiderable part of almost every day was employed in the instruction of his children: in the case of one of whom, myself, he exerted an amount of labou... ...The only thing besides Greek, that I learnt as a lesson in this part of my childhood, was arithmetic: this also my fa ther taught me: it was the task... ...sican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my father) on the wrong side, because it... ...or much and various instruction, and for an almost parental interest in my welfare. When I first joined them, in May, 1820, they occupied the Château ...

...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 une...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

... which a form of gov ernment or set of political institutions affects the welfare of the community—its operation as an agency of national edu cation... ... terror of all who possess any thing desirable, be it a palace, a handsome child, or even good health and spirits: the supposed effect of his mere loo... ... its being under the influence of interests not identical with the general welfare of the community. The former of these evils, deficiency in high men... ...be vain to attempt to persuade a man who beats his wife and ill treats his children that he would be happier if he lived in love and kindness with the... ...of giving the suffrage to a man who could not read, than of giving it to a child who could not speak; and it would not be society that would ex clude... ... the hair. All human beings have the same interest in good government; the welfare of all is alike affected by it, and they have equal need of a voice... ...esponsible for it; or on an appeal to sympa thy, founded on having twelve children, and having been a rate payer in the parish for thirty years. If, ... ...s for which they have to legislate, instead of being familiar to them from childhood, are all strange to them. For most of their detailed knowledge th...

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