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...t isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are never fair.’ Our American bodies are well fed, some of our minds are well read, we hold the ... ...ople in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking and coo... ... global IT network for decades and are rated at least as effective as the American and European hardware and software developers. The per capita inc... ...r computers or software. Indian lawyers, who are schooled in English and American common law, are used to do a large amount of English and American... ...bservation that societies die from within should be taken to heart by you Americans, and many of your Western partners. If you expect to survive, yo... ...e—needy, honest, truly democratic, peaceful, eager to work—and only a few philanthropists to help. ―It is the old idea that it is better to te... ...help to solve the problems. She could try to minimize the effects as most philanthropists do. She could spend her money on trying to find cures for A... ...id sterilization and free contraceptives. They have been able to get some philanthropists and one European government to help to finance their planne... ...of the costs of the sterilizations and the incentives are paid by foreign philanthropists who have given millions for sterilization—their contributio...

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...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...he worst outcomes of the power drive is using violence to achieve our ends. Either it is the Crips fighting the Bloods, Cain killing Abel, the Americ... ... warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japanese as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into Americ... ...g at the world. As I‘m sure you know Chuck, the idea comes from the Greek word ‗philia,‘ which originally meant friendship or brotherly love. Philan... ...ly be more easily persuaded if there is money or education and retirement benefits for them. So you would need a great infusion of money from philan...

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...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...Neanderthals In Europe, and the Clovis Culture exterminating the earlier North American humans, and taking over the continent. The same basic histor... ... underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that ... ...h profile charities like the symphony, or museums, or cancer research… so the philanthropists can garner the maximum publicity out of their meager ch...

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... in any way concerned in public life to feel that the highest ambition any American can possibly have will be gratified just in proportion as he raise... ...ong men of great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American ... ...ncoln: V ol One the leader, Lincoln, at least should remain a real, living American. No matter how clearly, how directly, Lincoln has shown himself in... ...the military hero born and reared in a log cabin is a famil- iar figure in American history; but we may search in vain among our celebrities for one w... ...t issue face to face in a series of public meetings, the eyes of the whole American people were turned eagerly to that one point: and the spectacle re... ... 1863, will doubtless secure for him a foremost place in history among the philanthropists and benefac- tors of the race, as it rescued, from hopeless...

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...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...reat original — the Tyre of this Carthage; — the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aborig... .... There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, the same as in South American ponchos. But could it be possible that any sober har pooneer woul... ...elagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men of war now peacefully ride in once savage harbor... ...fresh leading wind, was herself in hot chase; how very kind of these tawny philanthropists to assist in speeding her on to her own chosen pursuit, — m...

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...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...ng on the island more than two years, he finally escaped in the boat of an American whaler, which landed him at Valparaiso. From this period he had co... ...ts bowsprit; which, from its posi- tion, looked nearly upright. She was an American whaler, a very old craft. Having sprung a leak at sea, she had mad... ...nd cap- tain, we were objects of even more than ordinary interest to these philanthropists; and they always cordially applauded our conduct. Besides, ...

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...e necessity of appeasing and contenting one’s own spirit. Y.M. The world’s philanthropists— O.M. I honor them, I uncover my head to them—from habit an... ...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...good deal like everybody in general. By and by a hearty and healthy German American got in and opened up a frank and interesting and sympathetic conve... ...erhaps we shall get along better, and I shall stop calling Waggner, on the American What Is Man and Other Essays 140 plan, and thereafter call him Wa...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... indeed, I am afraid you would never come down among us again.” This young American girl was an example of the freedom of life which it is possible fo... ...t English accent on her tongue, but much that is not English breeding, nor American. Nowhere else but in Rome, and as an artist, could she hold a plac... ...ate to beggary. But, in spite of their favorable prayers, by which Italian philanthropists set great store, a cloud seemed to hang over these once Arc...

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...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ..., elaborate neatness, the trite moralities and ready-made aphorisms of the philanthropists and publicists, repeated from page to page with wearying in... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers... ... hearers, he unburdened himself. “If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. Derrick,” he continued, “it would be the indifference of... ...hips—has been an ambition of mine,—for this purpose, Mr. Derrick, to carry American wheat. For years, I have studied this question of Ameri- can wheat...

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... to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists YEARS AGO, a grave American savan, being in London, ob- served at an evening party there, a ce... ...sustained throughout an almost entire sitting; that they may not, like the American savan, be thereupon be- trayed into any surprise incompatible with... ... what I say. I speak from fifteen years’ experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that Ch... ...or him who would fain revel in tobacco, but cannot, it is a thing at which philanthropists must weep, to see such an one, again and again, madly retur... ... century will be almost as popu- lar as, I am sincerely sorry to say, some philanthropists of the present time would seem not to be, as witness my ecc... ...,” again meditatively stirring in the shaving-cup,” I sadly fear, lest you philanthropists know better what goodness is, than what men are.” Then, eyi...

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...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ...rough the dust. But it as well repaid. I intro- duced myself as a Hawaiian-American, and soon found my- self in full tide of talk, or rather of monolo... ...ily wish you many years yet of health and vigour. Your books I have in the American edition. I have ‘T ypee, ‘Omoo,’ ‘Redburn,’ and that noble piece ‘... ... of missionary rhetoric been allowed to pass by unimproved!—But when these philanthropists send us such glowing accounts of one half of their labours,...

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...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ...edderburn. “Hill of all people. But I am always inclined to distrust these philanthropists-on-prin- ciple—” “Are you quite sure?” said Miss Haysman, w... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,...

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...ate to beggary. But, in spite of their favorable prayers, by which Italian philanthropists set great store, a cloud seemed to hang over these once Arc... ...r worth his pencil than the newly painted pine boxes, in which—if he be an American—his countrymen live and thrive. But there is reason to suspect tha... ...the V atican, with my palette and my brushes, and shall look for my little American artist that sees into the very heart of the grand pictures! And wh... ... overstepped the mark, it was sure to be no Roman, but an Englishman or an American; and even the rougher play of this Gothic race was still soft- ene...

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...arance of admiration, to talk of war with a soldier, wax enthusiastic with philanthropists over the good of the nation, and to give to each one his li... ... island, 128 The Duchesse de Langeais and the crew of the vessel were all American sailors, who spoke nothing but English. One of M. de Montriveau’s ...

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...therwise iden tical with it. She was dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken... ...ve statement is exaggerated, in the attempt to make it adequate. Professed philanthropists have gone far; but no originally good man, I presume, ever ... ... fall 133 Hawthorne in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air line which s...

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...d fain do the little in our power towards introducing him favorably to the American public. The ensuing tale is a translation of his “Beatrice; ou la ... ...y walk of life; princes, presidents, poets, generals, artists, actors, and philanthropists,—all making their own market at the fair, and deeming no pr... ... reader a few desirable particulars about Drowne himself. He was the first American who is known to have at tempted—in a very humble line, it is true...

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...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...army, so indispensable to a government, in spite of the public orations of philanthropists or narrow-minded moral- ists. But the absolute confidence p... ...maze of the Conciergerie into a perfectly wholesome room, whatever certain philanthropists may say to the contrary, but cut off from all possible comm... ...y to his con- science and the Law. At the present time, when philosophers, philanthropists, and politicians are constantly endeavoring to reduce every...

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...s, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, editors, philanthropists, merchants, and actresses; what clubs they belonged to, whe... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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... successful, no one will ask me who I am. I shall be Mr. Four Millions, an American citizen. I shall be fifty years old by then, and sound and hearty ... ...e police courts. That is doing the work of the police thoroughly, and true philanthropists will tell you that it is better to prevent crime than to pu...

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...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...d been an Eastern slave. With due deference to the makers of idylls and to philanthropists, the inhabitants of the provinces have very little idea of ...

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..., even in the nineteenth century, are apt to become people of impor- tance—philanthropists and educationalists if they are spinsters, and the wives of... ...took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a bla... ...ith relief, and she had merely to shake hands with Rodney and to greet the American lady who had come to be shown the relics, before the talk started ... ..., and the polite alacrity with which he was answering the questions of the American visitor. It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with ... ...kid gloves. “You are wonderfully like your grandfather, Miss Hilbery,” the American lady observed, gazing from Katharine to the portrait, “especially ... ...up sharply from his row of little pictures. Katharine was disposing of the American lady in far too arbitrary a fashion. Surely the victim herself mus...

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...t is consid ered likely to be a good work and who is much sought after by philanthropists, has, I believe, a very high opinion of Mrs. Jellyby.” Mr. ... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ...man race than she has herself! This, too, when Mr. Quale, one of the first philanthropists of our time, has mentioned to me that he was really dispose...

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...t is consid ered likely to be a good work and who is much sought after by philanthropists, has, I believe, a very high opinion of Mrs. Jellyby.” Mr. ... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ...man race than she has herself! This, too, when Mr. Quale, one of the first philanthropists of our time, has mentioned to me that he was really dispose...

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...ties learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...R X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .......................................................................................................... 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..........................................................................

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...ng-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then see... ...’s door. Nothing that I can say with reference to the social habits of the Americans can tell more against them than the story of that Frenchman’s fat... ...gs as we saw there would have given rise to some remark on the part of the philanthropists. I cannot myself say that I saw anybody killed, and therefo... ...taking very different ground from that on which stand those less extensive philanthropists who exert themselves for the benefit of distressed needlewo... ...so of want among men. Alas! do we not all feel that it must be so, let the philanthropists be ever so ener- getic? And if a woman be left destitute, w...

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...estined and prophetic history of the one confederated people 3 of the North American Union. They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and disti... ...te and distinct English colonies, along the margin of the shore of the North American Continent; contiguously situated, but chartered by adventurers o... ...e English colonies on this continent. This was the first signal of the North American Union. The struggle was for chartered rights—for English lib Or... ...al by jury and the Habeas Corpus, enacted admiralty courts in England to try Americans for of fences charged against them as committed in America; i... ...nce—a work in which the Orations of John Quincy Adams 9 people of the North American Union, acting under the deepest sense of responsibility to the S... ...hich they could apply be prohibited by the tenant of the woods? No, generous philanthropists! Heaven has not been thus inconsistent in the works of it...

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...youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the... ...hree de- cades ago social philosophers and statisticians and well- meaning philanthropists were still talking and writing about the deportation of the... ...he distinction of translation into more languages, I think, than any other American book; and I suppose that he has as large a per- sonal acquaintance... ...this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially,... ...e spoke the English language. As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared. The man who was t... ...ses of my race when I say that in no way have the value and manhood of the American Negro been more fittingly and generously recognized than by the ma... ...which has attracted the attention and won the support even of conservative philanthropists in all sections of the country. To speak of Tuskegee withou...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...e papers were first published in the British Fortnightly Review and in the American Cosmopolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most p... ...e whole matter in a simplified picture by imagining all our statesmen, our philanthropists and public men, our parties and institutions gathered into ... ...d, is the gist of this paper—that only a very small minority of English or American people have more than half mastered the splendid heritage of their...

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...ogue. Eventually, as we know, per- fectly respectable citizens and earnest philanthropists con- nived at the September massacres because hard experien... ...heir competitors can do to them. The history of the English factories, the American trusts, the exploitation of African gold, diamonds, ivory and rub-... ...om time to time by violent ex- plosions of revolution; so the attempt—will Americans please note—to found moral institutions on a basis of moral in- e... ...but unnatural Reigns of the Saints relieved by licentious Restorations; to Americans who have made divorce a public institution turning the face of Eu...

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...thing great by our habit of combining; and with this our moral and religious philanthropists are per fectly contented. But it was men of another stam... ...t must be by foreigners. They have succeeded beyond all hope in what English philanthropists are so industriously working at—in making a people all al... ...commenced, and is prosecuted with considerable zeal by many of the professed philanthropists, to agitate for a similar law in this country. The associ... ... some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil business; let them be left without a... ...nd of civil business; let them be left without a govern ment, every body of Americans is able to improvise one, and to carry on that or any other pub...

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...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...s. The last were not England’s best men and women; only, perhaps, her best philanthropists. I would not subtract anything from the praise that is du... ...unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both o... ...o thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares ( Lepus Americanus ) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winter... ...nd not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared Walden 2...

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...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ...his. The last were not England’s best men and women; only, perhaps, her best philanthropists. I would not subtract any thing from the praise that is d... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ...der to thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares (Lepus Americanus) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winte... ...h, and not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with t...

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...Have you ever been in love with disease and suffering, like our nurses and philanthropists? Such passions are not virtues, but the most unnatural of a... ...is children will be pounds heavier and bigger. That will be better than an American cloth mattress in a shelter, chopping firewood, eating bread and t...

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...ations, his nationality. Such a key is peculiarly necessary to English or American students of Tolstoy, because of the marked contrast existing be t... ...f the marked contrast existing be tween the Russian and the Englishman or American in these respects, a contrast by which Tolstoy himself was forcibl... ...orities set over him. What in such circumstances as these can a handful of philanthropists achieve, and what avails alms giving or the scattering of l... ... to concentrate his thoughts on the land question. He began by reading the American propagandist’s “Social Problems,” which arrested his attention by ... ...en who sought his society, appealing to him for guidance. One of these (an American, and her self a practical philanthropist), Miss Jane Addams, ex ...

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...e with Maule’s malediction in The story. Furthermore, there occurs in The “American Note-Books” (August 27, 1837), a reminiscence of The author’s fami... ...nt of lands in Waldo County, Maine, owned by the Pyncheon family. In the “ American Note-Books” there is an entry, dated August 12, 1837, which speaks... ...r- ments; reformers, temperance lecturers, and all manner of cross-looking philanthropists; community-men, and come- outers, as Hepzibah believed, who...

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...scends towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield be fore her breast, and... ...ke to be of quite as genuine a stamp as what actuates any or all the polemical philanthropists of the age. He had slain men with his own hand, for aug...

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...s characteristic. That pamphlet is translated into Russian by some Russian philanthropists of aristocratic rank 222 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV and evang... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO... ...work on the land here, too, somewhere in the wilds, and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own soil. That’s my plan, and...