...sity s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor The Republic by Plato is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Republic by Plato , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, ... ...e of them. Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State University Cover design by Jim Manis, Statue of Plato. The Pennsylvania State University is an equa... ...n merits but because he was an Athenian: ‘If you had been a native of my country or I of yours, neither of us would have been famous. ’ And to tho... ... salt, and olives, and cheese, and they will boil roots and herbs such as country people prepare; for a dessert we shall give them figs, and peas, an... ...psodists, players, danc ers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of articles, in cluding women’s dresses. And we shall want more servants. Wil... ...ll have much greater need of physicians than before? Much greater. And the country which was enough to support the origi nal inhabitants will be too ... ...n to perceive a track, and I believe that the quarry will not escape. Good news, he said. Truly, I said, we are stupid fellows. Why so? Why, my good s...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Democracy and Education by John Dewey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ................................... 353 5 John Dewey Democracy and Education by John Dewey Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life 1. Renewal of L... ...ub, is another. Passing beyond these more inti- mate groups, there is in a country like our own a variety of races, religious affiliations, economic d... ...line of state institutions and laws. In this spirit, Germany was the first country to undertake a public, universal, and com- pulsory system of educat... ...dvance here and retreat there, lies in what it portends. To think upon the news as it comes to us is to attempt to see what is indicated as probable o... ...cracy, with the exten- sion of science and of general education (in books, news- papers, travel, and general intercourse as well as in schools), there... ... literary training which indirectly fits for authorship, whether of books, newspaper editorials, or magazine articles, is es- pecially subject to this... ...y fits for authorship, whether of books, newspaper editorials, or magazine articles, is es- pecially subject to this superstition: many a teacher and ...

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The V... ...UBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...in any way. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ... hope it may continue to do so. As the years go by, I hope that many of my countrymen may be asked to lecture in the Scottish universities, changing p... ...rience objective interests still remain accessible. He can fol- low public news, and sympathize with other people’s affairs. He can cultivate cheerful... ...thirst, and my state of mind was equally healthy. I had had at Forlaz good news from home; I was subject to no anxiety, either near or re- mote, for w... ...-bearing expectations, such, for example, as ideas associated with certain articles of food, the dread of the east wind, the terrors of hot weather, t... ... that one evening when I was a youth, my fa- ther read aloud from a Boston newspaper that part of Lord Gifford’s will which founded these four lec- tu... ...er much those with whom we deal may wish to be paid only by the week.” The articles needed of which Muller speaks were the food, fuel, etc., of his or...

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