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...uide to making sense of the surrounding world while achieving inner peace. Each of the six chapters in this book focuses on a different aspect of the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, shedding new light on a teaching that has too often been shrouded in mystery and misconceptions. A subtle, yet profound idea weaves the book’s chapters into a coherent and concrete whole.The first ...

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...ral technologies. In this positive outlook, funds will be redirected from the military and defense establishments to serve the needs of the people. ... ...kind has begun to seek new avenues and modes of thinking. Such modes are the ancient, albeit very pertinent, indigenous wis- doms. To them, planetar... ...y through this book, as it provides much more than general knowledge about an ancient wisdom. It also provides a key to ensure the well-being of hum... ...chers, and that the knowledge they passed on to us became the basis for both ancient and modern sciences. The term, “Kabbalist,” comes from the Hebr... ...first to translate the word, Kabbalah, un- known to his contemporaries, to the Greek word philoso- phy… Kabbalah does not let us live our lives in the... ...h come from Hebrew, some from Aramaic, and some from other languages, such as Greek. But here’s the good news: beginners, and even intermediate stud... ...ist and scientist, designed to introduce readers to the special language and terminology of the Kabbalah. Here, Rav Laitman reveals authentic Kabba...

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...lay, in a department store, and it pulls on something very deep, and very ancient, within me. Not for the sake of the Matrix: not entirely. For the s... ...hen those who reach for it need it. Building the Bridge. Neo: derived from Greek that connotes a "new" or recent form of something, or a revival in a... ...ade use of this. Domestic technology. Entertainment. Service professions. Military applications. And so on and so on and so on. Part of what I find t... ...s involves not being "threatened" by the established "rallying points" of terminology that people like yinepusayi and zeal_for_life(and allegradestin...

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...An Interview with the Future is intended for every person who wants to learn about Kabbalah. It is clear and concise in presenting authentic Kabbalah terminology and practice that will lead one to the purpose of life....

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...ve to ‘clean your head’ first, and understand that Kabbalah is not about ancient mysticism; it is the most modernistic science and the one that is ... ...s of waiting for peace; it will not come. On the contrary, conflicts and military clashes everywhere will escalate. But we can transfer this war fr... ...guage used in Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). The book also contains words in Greek and Latin that were prevalent at the time. However, that does not di... ...e Kabbalist opened it and was astonished to see that the wrapping was an ancient manuscript. The Kabbalist began to study it and saw that it lead t... ... Interview With The Future wrap his spices with. Thus the pieces of the ancient book of Zohar were put together again. The Kabbalist Moshe De Leo...

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...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ...t: is also in a state of weightlessness. Apollo is the Sun God of the Ancient Greeks. The Apollo rocket is the son of the Sun God. Once the sperm ... ...died a horrible, humiliating death. That was the level to which the mightiest military culture was brought to: because of their insane, inhuman prac... ...led cultures the nomads conquered. For thousands of years: the most powerful military weapon had been the horse-archer. Up until the 14 th Centur... ...ern Empire to ever exist… and then… out last, take over that Empire. Not as a military power, but as a spiritual power. And spread its religious do...

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...lical quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CON... ...53 onwards. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION vi close friend through my studies of Greek. Might Jung, with his statements about the hopelessness of ever achie... ...e scanty, understanding of the nature of human life. Translations from the Greek and Hebrew are my own, except in a few instances specifically noted i... ...so wield considerable political clout. At the time of writing these words, military conflicts based on religious differences plague Lebanon and former... ...under King Akhenaton. 11 It was later blended with religious elements from ancient Palestine of about the same era, as well as with organized Arab rel... ...Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten, Thames and Hudson, London, 1968; Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1948; A.H. Gardiner... ...irect progenitor of modern day Judaism. 13. For the overall development of ancient Hebrew religion see Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress P... ...ts success in penetrat- ing into the highest circles of government and the military. This in turn was probably one of the reasons that an almost endle... ... (from the settlers’ perspective) “pretended” to have title. The settlers’ military force, however, 145. Locke, Second Treatise, ch. V, sections 27 an...

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...ated enemy. Precision bombing is expensive, in terms of lives - of fighter pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-of... ... of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Amalekites, m... ...Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ...like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fo... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) (b) Is the government the optimal... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) b. Is the government the optimal mo... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...euthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is deat...

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...ated enemy. Precision bombing is expensive, in terms of lives - of fighter pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-of... ... of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Amalekites, m... ...Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ...like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fo... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) (b) Is the government the optimal... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) b. Is the government the optimal mo... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...euthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is deat...

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...ion for their efforts and the hazards they assume? Exclusive ownership is the most ancient type of such remuneration. First movers, entrepreneurs, ... ... justice" deals with the just allocation of scarce resources. Yet, even the basic terminology is somewhat fuzzy. What constitutes a resource? what... ...r aspire to become one), or because they are under the economic (or geopolitical or military) umbrella of a regional power or a superpower. Another ... ...g with them rising output, low unemployment and full use of industrial capacity as military demands add to normal economic activity." According to ... ...tion Desert Storm, the previous skirmish in Iraq. In the wake of September 11, US military spending is already up one tenth and poised to continue... ... Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ...esting to note, as I said in my previous letter, that "Cybernetics" (derived from a greek word: kybernetes: "pilots", steersmen), which can be fair... ...ribed with ones and zeroes, etc.) – it is really a software application, in today's terminology. It carries out instructions, reads and writes, coun... ...an? Are we transforming ourselves into information (the modern version of what the ancients called the soul, the spirit)? Is the age of information...

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...ur map and compass for guidance (back then, a gPS was still a top- secret military device). w e had two things going for us: we had a vague idea of ... ... think about it, it is very easy to sym- pathize with Nimrod, the ruler of ancient Babel. In all likelihood, he wished for nothing more than to prot... ...find a sustainable order in life, we have tried living in clans, slavery, greek democracy, feudalism, capitalism, communism, modern democracy, fasc... ...rds might eat them.” --Dr. Martin Henry Fischer Thousands of years ago, in ancient China, medicine was practiced quite opposite to the way it is pra... ...t acutely. heaLing the heaL thC are sY stem Clearly, we cannot emulate the ancient Chinese healthcare system. w e have grown too entangled in our eg... ...PhD, designed this book to introduce readers to the special language and terminology of the authentic wisdom of Kabbalah. Here, Rav Laitman reveals...

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...d to Socrates, the philosopher Athanase Joja notes in the ″History of the ancient thought″: <The rational is moral, since by its essence it is an or... ...life and hence a finality for this great divine work. In the ″History of Ancient Thought″, Athanase Joja states that <.… the theory of reminiscence... ...e assertion on the the rematerialization phenomenon is encountered at the ancient philosopher, Thales of Miletus. He ″saw″ the material and the spir... ...nterested to foster the war-like illusions (Star Wars program) of certain military circles. How could one recognise the existence of the extraterrest... ...fic nomenclature must be revised in order to be consistent with the usual terminology. The Möbius strip, that sort of curved geometrical surface wit... ...ciating a mathematical connotation (of limitation- boundedness), to this terminology of Hasdeu, the unboundedness theory integrates itself into the... ...erent mythology about gods and demi-gods was developed, that the presumed Greek conceits seem to contain an important amount of objectivism. The ... ...he reader: 2. Nietzsche and morals 93 In his work ″The Origin of Greek Tragedy″ Nietzsche avows the historical links of his philosophy: the... ...as its content, and an extension of the myth. According to Nietzsche, the Greek culture, as a reflection of reality, has a dark, tragical, troubled ...

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...ities and riches of e-publishing. Government use of e-books (e.g., by the military) may have the same beneficial effect. As standards converge (A... ...rg and http://www.Turnitin.com Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally mea... ...ttp://www.Turnitin.com Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to k... ...th Godin invented the concept of an "ideavirus" and an attendant marketing terminology. In a nutshell, he says, to use his own summation: "Marke... ...n - a rigidly formal affair. Even the latest "innovations" are nothing but ancient wine in sparkling new bottles. Consider the scrolling protocol. ... .... Special emulators of older hardware and software must be used to decode ancient data files. And, to ameliorate the impact of inevitable natural di... ... Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have texts in Old French, Polish, Russian, Romanian, and... ...op service. Macedonia just handed a second mobile operator license to the Greek OTE. "By the end of 2005, the total number of mobile subscribers in ... ... It is quite curios that recursive learning, originally created for the military- industrial complex (for the purposes of rocket navigation) was fo...

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...ave been most interested in comparing the culture of Lampang villages with ancient Finnish tradition and changes that have taken place in Finland. It ... ... swidden cultivation and created stable, permanent rice villages. From the ancient centre of the province, habitation spread out towards the mountain... ... have round turrets like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues from Antiquity. The era of mixed-style buildings ... ...ore. In Thailand, too, villagers have wanted to be self-sufficient. In the terminology of national economy, the village has produced and consumed toge... ... REFERENCES With reference to ancient Finnish folk culture, my only source is Finnische Volksüberlieferun... ... operates in delocal and postlocal organizations, through history in e.g. military, religious, political or today in scientific-technological and ec... ...d a house for his family within his in-laws’ compound. In anthropological terminology, this type of residence is uxorilocal (matrilocal). According t... ...and the so-called Miracle of the Winter War had its roots in nationalistic military education: in the Second World War, the Finns managed to hold thei... ...ils. Education of young people has been patriotic, particularly during the military regime, and the tradition continues. Soldiers march, schoolchildre...

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...s Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased empero... ...icious just as his country dictated. Right after getting his letter from the military, Sung Ki laid out Sang Huin's blanket in a different room. He ta... ...was what Sung Ki needed so why shouldn't he talk about it? Superiors in the military often beat a man if they felt that he didn't have a girlfriend e... ...y had also done English exercises together on the roof where he had been the military sergeant giving peremptory whims and they had to jump, run, go t... ...lves on his lap while above the couch was a television showing a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melo... ... might have seemed original long after the Great Hymn of Aten was written in Ancient Egypt. In constructing another paragraph she began to ask herself... ... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ... conceptualize her as "the dinosaur" or "Reclasaur," demeaning second grader terminology, there was a subtle smile on her countenance (feigned or not)... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I...

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...d with another child, typically from a relative. This can be thought of as a military school program, to strengthen and discipline both children int... ...ck, stream the walls, along with a myriad of bamboo wall scrolls written in ancient calligraphy typical inside an Asian house. Of course, a calendar ... ...an women in other Asian cultures, especially in the old days. In fact, many ancient civilizations in Asia have words based on hierarchy: lower caste... ... ” No, no. What is your nationality? the old lady repeats, mistaken with her terminology. “ ” I feel bad for correcting her, but she needs to learn n... ...least, I look at a full-length mirror and picture myself with the body of a Greek god. Actually, this isn't usually what I do, but I might as well s... ...but still became the Republican frontrunner for President? He was born on a military base but even the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE declares that that's ...

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...orically, the adjective “plastic” has meant “moldable” or “sculptable,” from Greek; Notes to Pages 61–72 267 about a century ago it came to refer to ... ...ry application of force . . . from French plastique or Latin plasticus, from Greek plastikos, from plassein ‘to mould’); see also Lawrence Lessig, Soc... ..., T C  C (2005). 22. For a discussion of the terminology used to describe intellectual property rights, see Pe- Notes ... ...ing along a specific theme.” The Barnstar of High Culture, Epic Barnstar, and Ancient Ruin History Barn- star are examples of barnstars awarded “in rec... ...P A  1974, at 9–28, 97–150, available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/LH_ Notes to Pages 197–202 311 privacy_act-1974.html (repor...

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...ished some atrocious monuments of the Assyrian cruelty in the treatment of military captives. In one of the plates of Chap xx., at page 456, is exhibi... ...ivil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a... ...revolting. Left, therefore, to itself, my belief is, that the story of the Military Nun would have prevailed finally against the de- murs of the scept... ...titled “ Autobiographic Sketches,” or “Selections Grave and Gay,” from the military experiences of a Nun, or possibly “The Confessions of a Biscayan F... ...lating general expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebull... ... saw young Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who ha... ...nd when she was *Falsely, because poxphuxeos rarely, perhaps, means in the Greek use what we mean properly by purple, and could not mean it in the Pin... ...t the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is al... ...uth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially dis- tinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. ...

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...l, after the fashion of Peacock’s (and Mr. Mallock’s) develop- ment of the ancient dialogue; but this encumbered me with unnecessary characters and th... ...proprietary eye of the man who knows his constellations down to the little Greek letters. I imagine his exclamation. He would at first doubt his eyes.... ... he deadens rather than stimulates.** An infinitude of nonsense about the Greek mind would never have been writ- ten if the distinctive intellectual ... ... its politico- social instability, had been borne in mind. The food of the Greek imagination was the very antithesis of our own nour- ishment. We are ... ...ping about nation- ality, and so the ugly fortifications, the barracks and military defilements of the earthly vale of Urseren will be wanting. Instea... ...the gorge, and old memories turn us off the road down the steep ruin of an ancient mule track towards it. It is our first reminder that Utopia too mus... ...in its ascent. In the Modern Utopia he will have set himself to change the ancient law. No longer will it be that failures must suffer and perish lest... ...ning, he had to hold the qualifica- tion for a doctor, for a lawyer, for a military officer, or an engineer, or teacher, or have painted acceptable pi... ... do those exercises now, and until about fifty years ago they went out for military training, a fortnight in every year, marching long distances, slee...

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...r. [Long the oracle of the country gentle- men of the high Tory party. The ancient News-Letter was written in manuscript and copied by clerks, who add... ...ans Lache. ‘May our name rather perish,’ exclaimed Sir Everard, ‘than that ancient and loyal symbol should be blended with the dishonoured insignia of... ...to live at Waverley-Honour in the style of an old English gentleman, of an ancient descent and opulent fortune. His sister, Miss Rachel Waverley, pres... ... Mordaunts, Granvilles, and Stanleys, whose names were to be found in that military record; and, calling up all his feel- ings of family grandeur and ... ...h! I’ll tell you, though, doctor, you must knock out some of the Latin and Greek; heavy, doctor, damn’d heavy—(beg your pardon) and if you throw in a ... ...so respectable a person, composed a society more sedate and orderly than a military mess always exhibits; and that W averley escaped some temptations ... ...e temptations to which he might otherwise have been exposed. Meanwhile his military education proceeded. Already a good 44 Waverley horseman, he was ... ... &c. ‘Change we our shields, and for ourselves assume the trappings of the Greeks.’ Neb, nose. Nebulones nequissimi, worthless scamps. Nec naturaliter... ...rdship keep.’ Oyer and terminer, to hear and determine (legal, from Norman terminology). Paitrick, partridge. Palinode, recantation. Panged, crammed. ...

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...iard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s re... ...refused to consider the pork and gave its whole blaz ing interest to that ancient incident. O.M. What was the incident? Y.M. An armed desperado slapp... ...e up of the facts of life, not creations. It took centuries to develop the Greek drama. It borrowed from preceding ages; it lent to the ages that came... ...and will fiercely fight for them. As instances, you have all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the German... ...oc cupied. It is many and many a year since I have seen the like. In that ancient day Mrs. Clemens and I used to slip softly into the nursery at midn... ...order. The mass of heads in the square were covered by gilt helmets and by military caps roofed with a mirror like gaze, and the movements of the wear... ...m down—and of course, also, he was made to feel unwelcome, for this is the ancient law with man and the other animals. Hardy was thirty years old, and... ...e shape of the hu man profile. By four the back of the head was good, the military cap was pretty good, the nose was bold and strong, the upper lip s... ...the curtain to rise. This company of buglers, in uni form, march out with military step and send out over the landscape a few bars of the theme of th...

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...rnings I went with the rest of my family to church: it was a church on the ancient model of England, having aisles, galleries, 12 organ, all things a... ...in this instance greatly aided to my own feelings by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of... ...ne that the hand of man has cre- ated, is represented, on the authority of ancient traditions, to have uttered at sunrise, or soon after as the sun’s ... ...amount duty to himself, which was three- fold. First, it seems that I owed military allegiant to him, as my commander-in-chief, whenever we “took the ... ... own individual house. From this day, therefore, I obeyed all my brother’s military commands with the utmost docility; and happy it made me that every... ... the warrior, consequently not with me. Many other hideous features in the military character will be found in books innumerable—levelled at those who... ...ork. It was a long passage, containing some very useful illustrations of a Greek idiom; useful I call them, because four years after- wards, when I ha... ...four years after- wards, when I had made great advances in my knowledge of Greek, they so appeared to me. 16 But then, being scarcely seven years old... ... knew even then by name the Aoristus Primus, as a respectable tense in the Greek language. It (or shall we say he?) was known to the whole Christian w...

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...on, however, that it actually occurs only in the Slavonic version from the Greek, and not in the Russian translation made direct from the Hebrew. 10 ... ...*In this case the term General refers to a civil grade equiva- lent to the military rank of the same title. 31 Gogol trees with old, scarred trunks, ... ... bib with which the footman had encircled it. On hear- ing this distinctly Greek name (to which, for some un- known reason, Manilov always appended th... ...herish a prejudice against the ini- tial character of the word—namely, the Greek theta, or th. 93 Gogol “Do not insult me with the term Thetuk,” reto... ...be held lest he attempt deeds of over-presumptuous daring. Seized with the military spirit, however, the lieutenant’s head begins to whirl, and before... ...-gabled roof, for it was a mansion of the kind which Russia builds for her military settlers and for German colonists. A notice- able circumstance was... ...tiating upon the immensity of the same, and saying that even the Empire of Ancient Rome had been of considerably smaller dimensions. Meanwhile Sobakev... ... finely written manuscript, an overturned marble press (turning green), an ancient book in a leather cover with red edges, a lemon dried and shrunken ... ...m, as his estate, four waistcoats completely worn out, two 214 Dead Souls ancient frockcoats, and a small sum of money. Apparently he had been skille...

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... activity applies to getting through speech or reading the idea of, say, a Greek helmet, where no direct use of any kind enters in. What shared activi... ...stand are combined. Thus the words in which a child learns about, say, the Greek helmet originally got a meaning (or were understood) by use in an act... ...helmet has its use. For the time being, the one who understands the words “Greek helmet” becomes mentally a partner with those who used the helmet. He... ...ion of all its resources. To take an obvious illustration: The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the wa... ... of blood, and so on in endless variety. In many modern states and in some ancient, there is great diversity of populations, of varying languages, rel... ...nd the future state official and administrator and furnished the means for military, industrial, and political defense and expan- sion, it was impossi... ...ubordination of individuals to the superior interests of the state both in military defense and in struggles for international supremacy in commerce, ... ...and failures with nature than does political history—to say nothing of the military his- tory into which political history so easily runs when re- duc... ... assump- tion of “faculties” to be trained, and a dominant interest in the ancient languages; there is comparative disregard of the earth on which men...

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...without many words. We find, then, in Goethe, an Art- ist, in the high and ancient meaning of that term; in the mean- ing which it may have borne long... ... the high vocation of the poet; on this ground of universal hu- manity, of ancient and now almost forgotten nobleness, to take his stand, even in thes... ...ss, we can here say nothing. But in every department of Literature, of Art ancient and modern, in many provinces of Science, we shall often meet him; ... ...le which, in the hands of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the public... ...ttiest sight in the world; and I was on the point of sending all the other Greeks after him, when suddenly hissing waters spurted at me on all sides, ... ...hear the drums, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, and cornets played upon by the military, the city musicians, and whoever else might furnish his tones. The... ...d it be more cumbersome than to my father, who was obliged to take foreign military inhabitants into his scarcely finished house, to open for them his... ...r it was the king’s lieutenant who was quartered on us; and he, although a military person, had only to settle civil occurrences, disputes between sol... ...lly into a small academy, in which every thing necessary, and at last even Greek and Latin, were taught. The extensive connections of Frankfort caused...

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...omething in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten... ...e same character! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucy... ... sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art. And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the... ... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons ... ...s’s eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love i... ...al; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no of... ...s ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Hero- ism. Its rudest for... ...table exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated, a high-water mark in military history. Many have at- tempted it since, and not been equal to it.... ...ons whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants, a military corps, a college class, a fire- club, a professional association, ...

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...rding to which some employments are worthy and others unworthy. Under this ancient distinction the worthy employments are those 8 The Theory of the L... ...nce of social differentiation it has acquired the axiom- atic force due to ancient and unquestioned prescription. In order to gain and to hold the est... ... and the honourable in the manner of a man’s life retains very much of its ancient force even today. So much so that there are few of the better class... ... a satisfactory spiritual plane with “high thinking.” From the days of the Greek philosophers to the present, a degree of leisure and of exemption fro... ... discrediting — in a mild and uncertain way —those government employments, military and civil, which require the wearing of a livery or uniform. With ... ...ng the Japanese, Chinese, and other Ori- ental nations; likewise among the Greeks, Romans, and other Eastern peoples of antiquity so also, in later ti... ...d with the pecuniary employments. Such are politics and ecclesiastical and military employments. The pecuniary employments have also the sanction of r... ...ure class, and almost exclusively among that class. The exceptions are (1) military and naval officers who are ordinarily members of the leisure class... ...r and tempera- ment. In the German universities the place of athletics and Greek-letter fraternities, as a leisure-class scholarly occupa- tion, has i...

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...— “Once-born” and “twice-born” charac- ters— Walt Whitman— Mixed nature of Greek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Libera... ...in success of every life—Pessimism of all pure naturalism— Hopelessness of Greek and Ro- 6 The V arieties of Religious Experience man view— Pathologi... ... as objective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only... ...f the subject, sadness and gladness have each been emphasized in turn. The ancient saying that the first maker of the Gods was fear receives volu- min... ...s freedom from all moral sophistry and strain, gives a pathetic dignity to ancient pagan feeling. And this quality Whitman’s outpourings have not got.... ..., it is true, to persons for whom the conception of salvation has lost its ancient theological meaning, but who labor nevertheless with the same etern... ... easily develop into a mon- ster of insensibility. But when we compare the military type of self-se- verity with that of the ascetic saint, we find a ... ...struction; and what- ever constructions wars result in are remote and non- military. Consequently the soldier cannot train him- self to be too feeling... ...verty is a wor- thy religious vocation may not be “the transforma- tion of military courage,” and the spiritual reform which our time stands most in n...

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... ciples which we must work out ought to be promptitude. We must act on the military principles of judgment, promp- 11 The Wife and other stories titu... ...ns. If any outsider could at such times overhear Nikolay’s free use of our terminology, he might perhaps imagine that he was a learned man disguised a... ...“Know thyself ” is excellent and useful advice; it is only a pity that the ancients never thought to indicate the means of following this precept. Whe... ...o look far; two months ago a man called Byelikov, a colleague of mine, the Greek master, died in our town. You have heard of him, no doubt. He was rem... ...sheltered himself from real life. “‘Oh, how sonorous, how beautiful is the Greek language!’ he would say , with a sugary expression; and as though to ... ...o find an explanation for his depression. ‘It’s beyond anything.’ “And the Greek master, this man in a case — would you believe it? — almost got marri... ...her and said with a honeyed smile: “‘The Little Russian reminds one of the ancient Greek in its softness and agreeable resonance.’ “That flattered her...

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...tly as they are now; it would restore love and private preference to their ancient authority and freedom, at the utmost it would offer some greatly qu... ... the more favoured classes at the same ages. Public school-boys, naval and military cadets, medical and university students, were taken to represent t... ...h and Latin, 84 Mankind in the Making French, German and Italian, perhaps Greek, who are in fact— beyond the limited range of food, clothing, shelter... ...hools deal- ing in a really intelligent and instructive way with Latin and Greek, so far as it is necessary to know these languages in order to use an... ...owns the ado- lescence of their boys as inevitably as the toga made men in ancient Rome. Their house is built, not for convenience pri- marily, but to... ...ith- out distinction, he regards these games as much more im- portant than military training and things of that sort, spends days watching his school ... ...- chial and national limitations to a wide commonweal of thought. Such was Greek at one time to the Roman, such was Latin to the Bohemian, the German,... ...nd by themselves and in contrast with anything one finds in the records of ancient and oriental schools, as a very inte- gral part of what is regarded... ...n- tervention. And it would be the cheapest and easiest way of raising the military efficiency of a country, and an excellent thing for the moral tone...

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...l—” “Oh! look at the Gorgon!” cried the mother, as the battered head of an ancient doll was displayed over his shoulder by Per- seus, decorated with t... ...ing with them to hear their prayers, Jock, on being called for, repeated a Greek declension with two mistakes in it, Bobus showed a long sum in decima... ...eat parallelism of the present tense of the verb “to be” in five languages—Greek, Latin, French, Ger- man, and English. “And Allen—reposing on your ho... ...d had just returned from Asia Minor, and had brought an exquisite bit of a Greek frieze, of which he had become the happy possessor, knowing that Mrs.... ...vie. “I think of your carpet,” said Mary, quaintly. “We always lay down an ancient floorcloth in the bay win- dow before the boys come home,” said Car... ...e if we poor moderns could deal out our measures with that straightforward military simplic- ity. I cannot help seeing in that unfortunate boy the vic... ...net was arrayed in a close-fitting pale blue dress, cut in semblance of an ancient kirtle, and with a huge chatelaine, from which massive chains dangl... ...be rushed for, while a servant took the tickets. However, a tall, elderly, military-looking gentleman with a great white moustache, was standing by th... ...dy only does me justice. I meant noth- ing violent. Zat is for you English military, whose veapon is zie horse-vhip.” “As you will soon feel,” said Jo...