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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics S... ...Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christia... ...................................................................... 30 THE GREAT CHANGE ................................................................. ...igh as we accord to John the Baptist. But this British bulldog contempt is founded on a complete mis- conception of his reasons for submitting volunta... ...t does not profess to be the evidence of an eyewitness. It is a chronicle, founded, like other chronicles, on such evi- dence and records as the chron... ... man Catholic priest, the Buddhist lama, and the fakirs of all the eastern denominations accept the saying. It is also ac- cepted by the physically en... ...ples of Christ,” the rest being members of the Church of England and other denominations whose discipleship is less emphati- cally affirmed. In short,...

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...ture and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, t...

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.... Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ... way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ...vernment became subject to the observations and criticisms which wait upon a great existing fact. It was now perceived that such phrases as “self gove... ...have made themselves felt in the estab lishment of moralities with quite as great force. The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful p... ...is time and been born Jews, would have acted precisely as he did. Ortho dox Christians who are tempted to think that those who stoned to death the fi... ...at all, from the most characteristic teachings of Christ. This man, a better Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word, than almost any of t... ...same foundation. On Liberty — Mill 64 It meant toleration of all sects and denominations of Christians who believed in the one mediation. I desire ... ...to society , the part which chiefly interests society. Though society is not founded on a contract, and though no good purpose is answered by inventin... ...ery few English public men who hold that a politician’s opinions ought to be founded on prin ciples. Lord Stanley’s share in this correspondence is c...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...eek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Liberal Christianity shows it— Optimism as encouraged by Popular Science— The “Mind... ...rieties of Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effects of mystic state... ...human composition, if only it be a true record of the inner experiences of great- souled persons wrestling with the crises of their fate, then the ver... ...han is furnished by the person of George Fox. The Quaker religion which he founded is some- thing which it is impossible to overpraise. In a day of sh... ...ye over hedge and ditch till I came within a mile of Lichfield where, in a great field, shep- herds were keeping their sheep. Then was I com- manded b... ...ings and pantings, our questions and beliefs. They are equally organically founded, be they religious or of non-religious content. To plead the organi... ...nd their value has long been matter of debate even within the revivalistic denominations.[138] They undoubt- edly have no essential spiritual signific...

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ...cording, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it,... ...ld beasts. Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produ... ...were received by tale, as at present, without the trouble of weighing. The denominations of those coins seem originally to have ex- pressed the weight... ...to make the profits of this stock. All taxes, and all the revenue which is founded upon them, all salaries, pensions, and annuities of every kind, are... ...owever, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, con- founded with profit. A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own ... ...ople into those trades than could otherwise pretend to follow them. In all Christian countries, I believe, the education of the greater part of church... ...capable of defending them- selves. The pious purpose of converting them to Christianity sanc- tified the injustice of the project. But the hope of fin...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ... letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell’s day than now. I have kept in mind an old ha... ...dshire, on the 18th of September, N. S., 1709; and his initiation into the Christian Church was not delayed; for his baptism is re- corded, in the reg... ...bject of his thoughts; though, with the just sentiments of a conscientious Christian, he lamented that his practice of its duties fell far short of wh... ...iament, under the name of ‘The Senate of Lilliput,’ sometimes with feigned denominations of the several speakers, sometimes with denomi- nations forme... ...avowed principles, and become the tool of a government which he held to be founded in usurpation. I have taken care to have it in my power to refute t... ...h has the additional value of obviating an objection to our holy religion, founded upon the discordant tenets of Christians themselves: ‘For my part, ... ...tween ours and it. Johnson. ‘True, 230 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Sir; all denominations of Christians have really little difference in point of doctr...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua ... ...d sense, a kind of assurance so authoritative, that he takes rank with the greatest; and his peers are not many. You may like him or not, may attack h... ...s; I have seen many such. They are all of the seventeenth century, and the greater num- ber are conceived in this jovial and popular style. As a matte... ...e carried to the font, and there baptized, according to the manner of good Christians. Immediately thereafter were appointed for him seventeen thousan... ..., and you shall find that the town of Alba (the first pattern of Rome) was founded and so named by reason of a white sow that was seen there. You shal... ...world; and wherefore some have bigger noses than others. By the faith of a Christian, said Eudemon, I do wonderfully dote and enter in a great ecstasy... ...ce, and beforehand foreseen it to the full, by sure predictions altogether founded on the oracles of somnial divi- nation. T o this there is no want o... ..., which were tedious to enumerate. Some others, again, have obtained their denominations by way of antiphrasis, or contrariety; as Absinth, because it...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pe... ...ne, Whose voice seem’d faint through long disuse of speech. When him in that great desert I espied, “Have mercy on me!” cried I out aloud, “Spirit! or... ...mmortal tribes had entrance, and was there Sensible present. Yet if heaven’s great Lord, Almighty foe to ill, such favour shew’d, In contemplation of ... ...vine Comedy of Dante Hell 77 Not with the Saracens or Jews (his foes All Christians were, nor against Acre one Had fought, nor traffic’d in the So... ...It seems to have been a common opinion among the Jews, as well as among many Christians, that the general judgment will be held in the valley of Josap... ...o quit the city of Troy and seek his fortune in Italy, where his descendants founded the Roman empire.” v. 91. Caieta.] Virgil, Aeneid. l. vii. 1. v... ...ether the soul be one individual substance) but only receiving these several denominations rom the several respects arising from the several actions e... ...e might have escaped. v. 75. Antenor’s land.] The city of Padua, said to be founded by Antenor. v. 87. Of Montefeltro I.] Buonconte (son of Guido da...

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...ill probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however....

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...Excerpt: Now, what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own childr...

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...rrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disapp...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens, the Pennsy... ...e to ‘Marshalsea Place:’ the houses in which I recognised, not only as the great block of the former prison, but as preserving the rooms that arose in... ...burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or s... ... all we jail-birds are to breakfast together in something approaching to a Christian style again, before we take wing for our different destinations. ... ...curious sense of a general superiority to Daniel Doyce, which seemed to be founded, not so much on anything in Doyce’s personal char- acter as on the ... ...e was so confident in her exposition of the case, and it was so undeniably founded on correct premises in so far as the relative positions of Little D... ... are not filial, sir, if you discard that duty, you are at least—hum—not a Christian? Are you—ha—an Atheist? And is it Christian, let me ask you, to s... ...epsake just as it is and called Little Dorrit though why that strangest of denominations at any time I never did myself and now I never shall!’ Thus F...

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...rrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disapp...

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... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...om fear that I might not hear when I was called; and when I went on deck, so great were my ideas of the importance of my trust, that I walked regula... ...we passed at sea was the Sabbath. As we were just from port, and there was a great deal to be done on board, we were kept at work all day, and at nigh... ... knife stuck in them. ‘‘This is the seventh city that ever I was in, and no Christian one neither,’’ said Bill Brown. - 30 - Two Years Before the Mas... ...ough we had got into - 36 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana a Christian (which in the sailor’s vocabulary means civilized) country. T... ...which he had no previous acquaintance, yet he had the chain of reasoning, founded upon principles of political economy, perfect in his memory; an... ...measure and gloomy character of which, as well as the incident that it was founded upon, made it well suited to a lonely watch at sea. Then his line... ... This is as much the practice with what at home are called the strictest denominations as with any - 203 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry...