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..., and some few souls as noble, will grasp the whole of the thought underlying The Firm of Nucingen, appended to Cesar Birotteau. Is there not a whole social lesson in the contrast between the two stories?...

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...ng The Firm of Nucingen, appended to Cesar Birotteau. Is there not a whole social lesson in the contrast between the two stories? De Balzac. YOU KNOW ... ...ented de Marsay’s direct heir; he will make his way politically as well as socially,” commented Blondet. “But how did he make his money?” asked Coutur... ...In January 1823, after Godefroid de Beaudenord had set foot in the various social circles which it pleased him to en- ter, and knew his way about in t... ...rare; and in our time as many barriers have been raised against passion in social life as barricades in the streets. In truth, my brothers, the ‘im- p... ... less volup- tuously than a young lady ought to do. There was a pro- found philosophy in Marcel’s remark that every age and con- dition had its dance;... ...a box. And so with visions of gaieties, dances, music, pretty dresses, and social success, the Baroness was lulled to sleep and pleasant dreams in the...

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...er beautiful voice and the perfection of her singing could always gain the social success so gratifying to a young woman; but what was social success ... ...readful to see in its undisguised loathing she indicated her husband. “The social code demands that I shall make his existence happy,” she continued. ... ...all the springs in those different phases of being which we distinguish as social, moral, and physical, her energies were so far exhausted and relaxed... ...ur sorrows?” “No, monsieur,” she said; “I cannot rise to such heights, our social laws lie too heavily upon me, and rend my heart with a too poignant ... ... laid down no law to make us miserable; but mankind, unit- ing together in social life, have perverted God’s work. Civili- zation deals harder measure... ...g to dream dreams, when the sound of a kiss disturbed the solitude and put philosophy to flight. Down the sidewalk, along the steep bank, above the ri...

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... that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they... ... but his brother was not alone. With him there was a well known professor of philosophy, who had come from Harkov expressly to clear up a difference t... ...his acquaintances, for whom getting married was one of the numerous facts of social life. For Levin it was the chief affair of life, on which its whol... ...She knew, too, that he was really interested in books dealing with politics, philosophy, and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his nature; but... ... art, but made it his duty to read everything. She knew that in politics, in philosophy, in theology, Alexey Alexandrovitch often had doubts, and made... ...gether in the most various and capricious manner, and belonging to different social strata. Anna found it difficult now to recall the feeling of almost... ...fell into discussion upon physics, the theory of agriculture, and especially philosophy; philosophy was Agafea Mihalovna’s favorite subject. Spring wa... ...fe unalterably and inevitably followed along the old accustomed lines of his social and regimental ties and interests. The interests of his regiment t... ...never leaving her couch. And some people said that Madame Stahl had made her social position as a philanthropic, highly religious woman; other people ...

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...beian woman. In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point. The tragedy is enact... ...cks up under the tree in Decem- ber. A man at the very lowest point of the social scale was easier and more agreeable for the fallen gentleman to en- ... ...tion made him sensible of the withered leaf. So this oddly composed little social party used to assemble under the ruinous arbor. Hepzibah—stately as ... ...together in his culture and want of culture,—in his crude, wild, and misty philosophy, and the practical experience that counter- acted some of its te... ... tur tur tur ture e e e e THE SUDDEN DEATH of so prominent a member of the social world as the Honorable Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon created a sen- sation ...

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...fortune and separation alone could give! In short, the poor Nicklebys were social and happy; while the rich Nickleby was alone and miserable. CHAPTER ... ...cs, hooping-cough, fevers, agers, and lumbagers,’ said Mr Squeers, ‘is all philosophy together; that’s what it is. The heavenly bodies is philosophy ,... ... what it is. The heavenly bodies is philosophy , and the earthly bodies is philosophy. If there’s a screw loose in a heavenly body, that’ s philosophy... ...hat’ s philosophy; and if there’ s screw loose in a earthly body , that’ s philosophy too; or it may be that sometimes there’ s a little metaphysics i... ... that sometimes there’ s a little metaphysics in it, but that’s not often. Philosophy’s the chap for me. If a parent asks a question in the classical,...

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...TER XXIX CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXIX Heart affluence in household talk, From social fountains never dry. —Tennyson. “WHAT A BORE!” “What’s the matter no... ...o?” said Ethel. “So you call fame a low motive? I see where your brother’s philosophy comes from.” “I do not call it a low motive—” Her pause was expr... ...age ways.” “Pray don’t say that—” “I think,” said Ethel, breaking in, “the philosophy is this: I believe that it is a trying life. I know teaching tak...

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...second man residing in the Celt put that fellow by and at once assumed the social character on his being requested to follow his card into Mr. Adister... ...he had not been out over the country for nothing. Fortunately for his good social principles, the butler at Earlsfont was a wary supervisor of his man... ...ons running through him were not of a solidity to support any structure of philosophy. He reverted, though rather in name than in spirit, to the abstr... ...before the fig- leaf?—and you might have that for scroll and figure on the social banner of the hypocritical Saxon, who’s a gormandising animal behind... ... views, and as she held it a weakness to have to confess that Irishmen are socially more fascinating than the good En- glish, she was on her guard aga... ...g beneath the table, which some of our good English are guilty of at their social festivities, or of towering aloof a Matterhorn above it, in the styl... ...revolutionising, wagering on tentative politics; your Germans ploughing in philosophy, thumbing classics, composing music of a novel order: both are m...

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Excerpt: Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens.

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...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ............................. 195 v Charles Dickens 6 Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens SPEECH: EDINBURGH, JUNE 25, 1841. At a public din... ...n, and that I had never known them apart from you. Speeches: Literary and Social 7 It is a difficult thing for a man to speak of himself or of his wo... ...d of Burns without having directly in his mind, as Speeches: Literary and Social 9 inseparable from the subject and foremost in the picture, that old... ...s had, and always shall have, an invincible re pugnance to that mole eyed philosophy which loves the dark ness, and winks and scowls in the light. I... ...titu tions such as this, whose interests we are met to promote; but their philosophy was always to be summed up in the unmeaning application of one s... ...g, history, reasoning, riding, fencing, Low Dutch, High Dutch, and natural philosophy. In short, the modern pre cept of education very often is, ‘T a...

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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... ...litical world as aspects of one universal evolving scheme, and placing all social and political activities in a defined relation to that; and to this ... ...iology, a little of physical science, and a little in a practi- cal way of social stratification, who has concerned himself with education and aspired... ...tion of the more thoughtful people of the world the supreme achievement of philosophy. The acme of old-world wisdom, the ultimate mystery of Oriental ... ... the rich and splendid language in which and with which our literature and philosophy grow. That, however, is by the way. Our point at present is that... ...The answer to which one conceives, would be near the last con- clusions of Philosophy. So much seethes about the plain discussion of the ques- tion of... ... the Schooling stage. It may be very conveniently spoken of as the Natural Philosophy, course. Its backbone will be an interlocking arrangement of Mat...

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...t he was under a cloud of embarrassment. He certainly lost at one time his social posi- tion in the town of Stratford; but there is a strong presump- ... ...s been contested, and as it goes a great way towards determining the exact social position of the poet’s parents, let us be ex- cused for sifting it a... ...or a dozen years succeeding to his marriage, raised her husband to so much social consideration in Stratford. In 1550 John Shakspeare is supposed to h... ...reams of intellectual life, we feel that the little accidents of birth and social condition are so unspeakably below the grandeur of the theme, are so... ... pro- found ejaculation, gathering into one pathetic abstraction the total philosophy of life: “We are such stuff As dreams are made of; and our littl... ...haps before either convents or Mahommed existed. Thus barred from all open social intercourse, women could not develop or express any character by wor... ...o; he is monochromatic. So, and for reasons resting upon the same ultimate philosophy, were the mighty architects of 55 Thomas de Quincey the Greek t... ...n Man was but one link in a general course which he had projected of moral philosophy, here and there pursuing his themes into the fields of metaphysi... ...powers from angry themes, and converging them upon others of more catholic philosophy. To the last he continued to conceal vipers beneath his flowers;...

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...k’s strains, Health, that breathes divinest treasures, Laughing Hours, and Social Pleasures Wait my friend in Cambria’s plains. Affection there wi... ...ting that his Heart forsook Soft Concord of auspicious Look, And Love, and social Poverty; The Family of tender Fears, The Sigh, that saddens and ... ... wings must Imitation fly. With other aim has Fielding here display’d Each social duty and each social care; With just yet vivid colouring portray’... ...the unregenerate mind; Bubbles that glitter as they rise and break On vain Philosophy’s aye-babbling spring. For never guiltless may I speak of him... ...mild laws of Love unutterable, Mistrust and Enmity have burst the bands Of social peace: and listening Treachery lurks With pious fraud to snare a ... ...press, or the yew more dark, Seated at ease, on some smooth mossy rock; In social silence now, and now to unlock The treasur’d heart; arm linked in... ...oft alone, Piercing the long-neglected holy cave, The haunt obscure of old Philosophy, He bade with lifted torch its starry walls Sparkle, as erst... ...een, Whom as a faery child my childhood woo’d Even in my dawn of thought — Philosophy; Though then unconscious of herself, pardie, She bore no oth...

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... beneath his learned eye. ‘This is the first class in English spelling and philosophy, Nickleby,’ said Squeers, beckoning Nicholas to stand beside 95... ... So saying, he dismissed the first class to their experiments in practical philosophy, and eyed Nicholas with a look, half cunning and half doubtful, ... ...stake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence; with which axiom of philosophy, indeed, she was in the constant habit of consol- ing the boys w... ...ing for her bread, until she found herself exposed to insolence and pride. Philosophy would have taught her that the degradation was on the side of th... ...les, re- lapsing into the old man. ‘ And the highest and most estimable of social ties,’ said the collector. ‘Noose! As if one was caught, trapped int... ...unteering more than one song of no inconsiderable length, and regaling the social circle between-whiles with recollections of divers splendid women wh... ...fortune and separation alone could give! In short, the poor Nicklebys were social and happy; while the rich Nickleby was alone and miserable. 452 THE... ...cs, hooping-cough, fevers, agers, and lumbagers,’ said Mr Squeers, ‘is all philosophy together; that’ s what it is. The heavenly bodies is philosophy ...

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... beneath his learned eye. ‘This is the first class in English spelling and philosophy, Nickleby,’ said Squeers, beckoning Nicholas to stand beside 95... ... So saying, he dismissed the first class to their experiments in practical philosophy, and eyed Nicholas with a look, half cunning and half doubtful, ... ...stake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence; with which axiom of philosophy, indeed, she was in the constant habit of consol- ing the boys w... ...ing for her bread, until she found herself exposed to insolence and pride. Philosophy would have taught her that the degradation was on the side of th... ...les, re- lapsing into the old man. ‘ And the highest and most estimable of social ties,’ said the collector. ‘Noose! As if one was caught, trapped int... ...unteering more than one song of no inconsiderable length, and regaling the social circle between-whiles with recollections of divers splendid women wh...

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...oratory was the best mounted in Italy. Bancalari, the professor of natural philosophy, was famous in his day; by what seems even an odd coincidence, h... ...a chapter: here is a world of interests and activi- ties, human, artistic, social, scientific, at each of which he sprang with impetuous pleasure, on ...

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...tion were worked out in the trifle that came first to hand?” “Experimental philosophy,” said Rachel, in rather a con- sidering tone, as if the notion,... ... not go on the platform, but sat in the carriage reading the report of the Social Science Congress, until the travellers began to emerge, and Captain ... ... were a discreet youth; but to be connected with such a union of learning, social science, and homeaopathy, soared beyond my utmost ambition. I suppos... ...n which she recognised some distinguished names of per- sons interested in Social Science. She would not wound his feelings by too close an inquiry, b... ...the nuts that nobody else would crack. The whole affair was one of the few social gatherings that she really tolerated and enjoyed, and her mother gaz... ...- zation between Rachel and a plainly dressed lady, who knew all about the social science heroines of whom Rachel had longed to hear. After a time, ho...

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...gle treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the ?philosophy of human affairs;? but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author?s whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which i...

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...d the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the “philosophy of human affairs;” but more frequently Political or Social Scien... ... place the “philosophy of human affairs;” but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author’s whol... ...distinction is not that the one treats of Moral and the other of Political Philosophy, nor again that the one deals with the moral activity of the ind... ...lated indi- vidual, but has always thought of him, or we might say, in his social and political context, with a given nature due to race and heredity ... ...d to the questions which centre round the enquiry; by what organisation of social or political forces, by what laws or institutions can we best secure... ... 6 The Ethics of Aristotle the view of it as containing Aristotle’s Moral Philosophy. Nor is it important merely as summing up the moral judgments an... ...uct and speaking of it. Thus it still remains one of the classics of Moral Philosophy, nor is its value likely soon to be exhausted. As was pointed ou... ...and, in general, friends and countrymen; for man is by nature adapted to a social existence. But of these, of course, some limit must be fixed: for if... ...moral states which have Anger for their object-matter. VI Next, as regards social intercourse and interchange of words and acts, some men are thought ...

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...as in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering....

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...er in Rome. He had trav- elled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but h... ... be alone together. It was impossible that they should adjourn just yet to social solitude; the two ladies were under Gordon’s protection. Mrs. Vivian... ...er of abstracting your mind,” Bernard said to her, observing it. “Studying philosophy at the Baden Kursaal strikes me as a real in- tellectual feat.” ... ...rikes me as a real in- tellectual feat.” “Don’t you think we need a little philosophy here?” “By all means—what we bring with us. But I should n’t att... ...er, had perforce believed herself forsaken, and had been obliged to summon philosophy to her aid. It was very possible that her philosophic studies ha... ...o temporary exile. He accordingly betook himself to Lon- don, where he had social resources which would, per- haps, make exile endurable. He found him... ...arming figure of the mistress of his affections attempting to heal a great social breach with her light and delicate hands, divided his attention pret... ... Bernard forebore to interrupt him; we know that he was not at this moment socially inclined, and he judged that the Captain was as little so, inasmuc...

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................................................. 39 Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. ...................................................................... ... (man-eating!) under their feet; your Henri Fourths, with their prophesied social millen- nium, ‘when every peasant should have his fowl in the pot;’ ... ...so to speak, and a plethoric lazy habit of body, that Churches, Kingships, Social Institutions, oftenest die. Sad, when such Institution plethorically... ... all ages, come in for his share. (August, 1784.) Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. In such succession of singular prismatic tints, flush after flush s... ...ecursors of Despair, this perpetual theorising about Man, the Mind of Man, Philosophy of Government, Progress of the Species and such-like; the main t... ...ngs: and now has not Jean Jacques promulgated his new Evangel of a Contrat Social; explaining the whole mystery of Government, and how it is contracte... ... For six weeks their history is of the kind named barren; which indeed, as Philosophy knows, is often the fruitfulest of all. These were their still c... ... a woman run screaming; had not a Pa- triot, with some tincture of Natural Philosophy, instantly struck the wind out of him (butt of musket on pit of ... ...elf. With what phases, to what extent, with what results it will burn off, Philosophy and Perspicacity conjecture in vain. ‘Man,’ as has been written,...

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................................................. 46 Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. ...................................................................... ... (man-eating!) under their feet; your Henri Fourths, with their prophesied social millennium, ‘when every peas- ant should have his fowl in the pot;’ ... ...so to speak, and a plethoric lazy habit of body, that Churches, Kingships, Social Institutions, oftenest die. Sad, when such Institution plethorically... ... all ages, come in for his share. (August, 1784.) Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. In such succession of singular prismatic tints, flush after flush s... ...ursors of De- spair, this perpetual theorising about Man, the Mind of Man, Philosophy of Government, Progress of the Species and such-like; the main t... ...ngs: and now has not Jean Jacques promulgated his new Evangel of a Contrat Social; explaining the whole mystery of Government, and how it is contracte... ...elf. With what phases, to what extent, with what results it will burn off, Philosophy and Perspicacity conjecture in vain. ‘Man, ’ as has been written...

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...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convi...

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...NLY IS OF ANY IMPORTANCE COMEDY is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilize... ...s and types under the broad Alpine survey of the spirit born of our united social intelli- gence, which is the Comic Spirit? Wise men say the latter. ... ...ly. They dare not be chuckling while Egoism is valiant, while sober, while socially valuable, nationally serviceable. They wait. Aforetime a grand old... ...opu- lar accomplishments. Had the standard of the public taste been set in philosophy, and the national enthusiasm centred in philosophers, he would a... ...rehend, modify our class demar- cations without risk of disintegrating the social structure.” “Perhaps. I proposed nothing.” “My love, I would entreat... ...nct of peril. He had neither arts nor graces; nothing of his cousin’s easy social front-face. She had once witnessed the military precision of his dan... ..., justly relieving a father. With demagogues abroad and daughters at home, philosophy is needed for us to keep erect. Let the girl be Cicero’s T ullia... ...d the second time it will be entirely his own fault. Inspire him with some philosophy.” “I have none.” “I if I thought so, I would say you have better... ....” “I if I thought so, I would say you have better. There are two kinds of philosophy, mine and yours. Mine comes of coldness, yours of devotion.” “He...