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... ISBN: 1-931233-72-1 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS... ... 1-931233-72-1 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS ... ... education, and more arrogant with the advance of science, especially the United States, followed by a group of European countries, and then the worl... ...sion, anti-human-rights in human rights’ propaganda, non-democracy in the democratic system, and inequality in an equal society. If we Chinese can o... ...ognition. So men of insight in Taiwan and the U.S. have to admit that the United States would be ruined from television. Is it better in our mainland... ...ance for the life span.) Social Paradox: In a democracy should the non-democratic ideas be allowed? a) If non-democratic ideas are allowed, then ... ...-democratic ideas are allowed, then it is no longer a democracy. (The non-democratic ideas may overturn the society.) b) If other ideas are not all... ...er will vanish if the ruler stands against the people. On the contrary, a party can become strong from weakness if it really reflects the interest o... ...ng a telephone. A person will only need to beam the number of the desired party from their own built-in phone, with its antennae located in the eyeb...

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...t Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstruct... ...d him in Soul. Sang Huin was always traveling--especially when he was in the States. He was discontent and was seeing himself falling further and furt... ...ng Ki gave Sang Huin his beeper number. Sang Huin invited him to a Christmas party held for students at a language institute but stayed contained to h... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...lessly, she fell into hysterical laughter at the sketch of an old woman in a party hat, who smiles on sweetly as her grandson, abandoning all of the p... ...be God's appointed bully of world events and His proponent of capitalism and democratic tyranny was the American myth. She often asked herself how she... ...ople have scheduled a meeting with your uncle so they'll be at your birthday party. To wine and dine them, as our family should, is very little to do ... ...d grammar!," she bantered. He smiled morosely. "The article said that in the Democratic Republic of Congo a door of a cargo plane fell open. The arti... ...t contracts would have taken place in the 19th century when the deceased was united in the ultimate act of consummation: the decay into that plot of l...

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...ll be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of r... ... cannot do while over here and over there men hold themselves bound by old party formulae, by loyal- ties and institutions, that are becoming, that ha... ...d devel- opment. Any collective human enterprise, institution, move- ment, party or state, is to be judged as a whole and completely, as it conduces m... ... its work, so also are the loyalties of nationality, and all our local and party adhesions. Much that passes for patriotism is no more than a general-... ...at any rate, London and the Gold Coast and, I suspect, some regions in the United States of America, receive to consume. But it will be urged that the... ...eover, and of the children of a growing element in the life of the eastern United States, the home functions are delegated in a very large de- gree to... ... mankind in the world? How does it compare with the American conception of democratic equality, and how do both stand with regard to the essential tru... ...ater mass of our English-speaking people is living under the profession of democratic Republi- canism, there is no party, no sect, no periodical, no t... ...e country was drifting 149 H G Wells slowly towards the constitution of a democratic republic. In those days it was that there came into being a theo...

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...r here, even here, upon neutral ground, where we have no more knowledge of party difficulties, or public ani mosities between side and side, or betwe... ...still would be to exchange congratulations with you, as the members of one united fam ily, on the thriving vigour of this strongest child of a strong... ...terary and Social 37 The good work, however, in spite of all political and party differences, has been well begun; we are all interested in it; it is ... ...o plain prose some words of Hamlet—not with reference to any government or party (for party being, for the most part, an irrational sort of thing, has... ...d with all conditions of men, and all periods of time. The scholar and the statesman, men of peace and men of war, have agreed in all ages to delight ... ...mbers themselves. I am truly sensible, gentlemen, that my friends who have united in this address are partial in their kindness, and regard what I hav... ...morrow—from that venality which, by a fine moral retribution, has degraded statesmen even to a greater extent than authors, because the statesman ente... ...have had experience in that way, but at home, and within the limits of the United Kingdom. I dare say most of us have Speeches: Literary and Social 5... ...y for merit everywhere: accepting it equally whether it be aristocratic or democratic, only asking whether it be honest or true, is, I take it, the tr...

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...mprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement CIS Commonwealth of Independent States CRAs Credit Rating Agencies ECA Europe and Central Asia ECB European... ...ose Vehicle SWFs Sovereign Wealth Funds TNCs Transnational Corporations UK United Kingdom UN United Nations UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade ... ...nited Nations UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development US United States of America WOS Wholly Owned Subsidiary WTO World Trade Organi... ...ficulties stemming from such defaults would have been contained within the United States and limited to the mortgage lender. But the problem got magni... ...id-2008, with the squeeze in liquidity and grow- ing concerns over counter-party risk and payment defaults. Banks were not willing to increase credit ... ... election campaign in Germany, Franz Muntefering, then Chair of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), described private equity firms as “locusts.” He sub... ...ampaign in Germany, Franz Muntefering, then Chair of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), described private equity firms as “locusts.” He subsequently p... ... This trend is most evident in several African economies such as Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Mali, and Nigeria where profit remitta... ...ross the border with impunity – belongs to this community. From Poverty to Democratic Power Financial stability calls for a grater role of the state a...

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...d order, in other words, brainwashing. Webster's New World Dictionary , in fact , states that the word is "now often used disparagingly to connote d... ... mandated by government edict. But the marketing process offers a more orderly and democratic alternative toward social change than that which comes... ...ory when restrictions on the spread of ideas have been so relaxed, at least in the United States. Government, church and family are as liberal as th... ...ntries are not precisely ideas or issues but rather organizations, for example, the United Way, or tactics, such as VD hot line. These departures fro... ...ict consistency serve to 111ake the list more consonant with custom and usage. The United Way is better known than the concept of volunteerism or no... ...y recruiting and the value of education. The furtherance of a political campaign (party or candidate) is an idea to be adopted and hence belongs in ... ...ace. Goods and services are bought and sold through a bargaining process with each party trying to obtain what it perceives are the best terms avail... ...ciety was confronted with the reality of the idea and people soon caught on to its democratic implications. 37 Because politics is a disciplin... ...ociation espousing fluoridation and the national headquarters of a major political party in its campaign to stimulate voter registration. After 75 ye...

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...save only that of slavery. So far as I can perceive, by such union neither party need yield any- thing on the point in difference between them. If the... ... LINCOLN. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The Pres... ... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President of the United States, in his mes- sage of May 11, 1846, has declared that “the Mex... ...the Mexican Gov- ernment not only refused to receive him [the envoy of the United States], or to listen to his propositions, but, after a long-continu... ...ced by the President. I admit that such a vote should not be given in mere party wantonness, and that the one given is justly censurable if it have no... ...point arising in the case which he dared not admit and yet could not deny. Party bias may help to make it appear so, but with all the allowance I can ... ...at may properly be called an internal im- provement veto message. The late Democratic conven- tion, which sat at Baltimore, and which nominated Gen- e... ...eral Cass for the Presidency, adopted a set of resolutions, now called the Democratic platform, among which is one in these words: “That the Constitut... ...nation, holds this language: “I have carefully read the resolutions of the Democratic national convention, laying down the platform of our po- litical...

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............................................................. 100 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ...k domino, like a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical wind... ...n! Finally he descends; welcomed by the universe. Duchess Polignac, with a party, is in the Bois de Boulogne, waiting; though it is drizzly winter; th... ... a good word from Philosophedom and your Voltaires and D’Alemberts? With a party ready-made for him in the No- tables?—Lomenie de Brienne, Archbishop ... ...Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall n... ...ntation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...igneurs d’Artois, Conti, Conde (named Court Triumvirate), they of the anti-democratic Memoire au Roi, has not their foreboding proved true? They may w... ...certain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is. Nevertheless, Mayors ... ...he Versailles Municipality (an old Monarchic one, not yet refounded into a Democratic) instantly second the proposal? Nay the very Versailles National...

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...k domino, like a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical wind... ...n! Finally he descends; welcomed by the universe. Duchess Polignac, with a party, is in the Bois de Boulogne, waiting; though it is drizzly winter; th... ... a good word from Philosophedom and your Voltaires and D’Alemberts? With a party ready-made for him in the No- tables?—Lomenie de Brienne, Archbishop ... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...certain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is. Nevertheless, Mayors ... ...he Versailles Municipality (an old Monarchic one, not yet refounded into a Democratic) instantly second the proposal? Nay the very Versailles National... ...written order from our Versailles Municipality,—which is a Monarchic not a Democratic one. However, Versailles Patroles drove them in again; as the vi... ...elf aiding from within: the railing gives way; Majesty and Legislative are united in place, unknown Destiny hovering over both. Rattle, and again ratt...

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...generally with his regiment, and when visiting them was a good deal at the United Service Club. He had lately married an heiress in a small way, retir... ...edingly amused by the people, who insisted on addressing the senior of the party as “Miss,” and thought them a young girl and her brothers under the c... ... replied Jock. “She told me.” Jessie, decidedly the most like Venus of the party, being a very pretty girl, with an oval face and brown eyes, had re- ... ... wistful look in her eyes. At the end of that time, or more, Janet met the party at the garden gate. “You are to go down to my uncle’s, children,” she... ...ile,” said Janet, again ab- sorbing herself in her paper, while the public united in guess- ing the acrostic; and the only objection was raised by the... ...lucky, since they ascribe her greater religiousness to what it suits their democratic notions to scorn. Not that there is much to com- plain of in Bob... ...ke her to London to see Janet in her lodgings before the departure for the States. He was at her service, and as they did not mean to sleep in town, t... ...icked and un- feeling to have been dancing, and cried so bitterly that the united efforts of her aunt and brother could not persuade her that what was... ...gnum Bonum wedding-dress that would figure in the papers, and, even in the States, be fabulously splendid. It must come from Paris, and it must be wai...

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... — or, rather, I do not doubt at all — whether any public func tionary of the United States, either in the civil or military line, has ever had such ... ...rather, I do not doubt at all — whether any public func tionary of the United States, either in the civil or military line, has ever had such a patri... ...s, but, I am bold to say, of the respectable body of tide waiters all over the United States — was a certain permanent Inspector. He might truly be te... ... I am bold to say, of the respectable body of tide waiters all over the United States — was a certain permanent Inspector. He might truly be termed a ... ...ough, I trust, an honest one — is of such a sort that he does not share in the united effort of mankind. An effect — which I believe to be observable,... ... metaphors, it is my sincere belief, that the active members of the victorious party were sufficiently excited to have chopped off all our heads, and h... ...it of malice and revenge has never distin guished the many triumphs of my own party as it n ow did that of the Whigs. The Democrats take the offices, ... ...t this season of peril and adversity, to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilec tions lay; nor was it without something like regret ... ...hances, I saw my own prospect of retaining office to be better than those of my democratic brethren. But who can see an inch into futurity beyond his n...

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... naturalist, says of the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, that while his own party, who were well clothed and sitting close to a fire, were far from to... ...ized country, where —— — people are judged of by their clothes.” Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its... ...t with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves... ...tch, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly, that “those in New Netherland, and especially i... ...e same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is van... ... preferred that society should run “amok” against me, it being the desperate party. However, I was released the next day, obtained my mended shoe, and... ...eg, leaving the foe to select among his own members; and so there were three united for life, as if a new kind of attraction had been invented which p... ... that his industry would not be worth much thereafter. I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest o... ... is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises ...

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...examples 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 l... ...een cherished in thankfulness for a country drama. There would have been a party against her, cold people, critical of her pretensions to rise from an... ...d sphere to be mistress of Patterne Hall, but there would also have been a party against Sir Willoughby, composed of the two or three revolutionists, ... ... Egoist letters to his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United States of America. He would give them a sketch of “our democratic co... ... letters to his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United States of America. He would give them a sketch of “our democratic cousins”,... ...ities of the United States of America. He would give them a sketch of “our democratic cousins”, he said. Such cousins! They might all have been in the... ...n popular among them. I could not sing their national song—if a congery of states be a nation—and I must confess I listened with frigid politeness to ... ...ave him?” “As much as Mont Blanc knows that he is going to be climbed by a party below. He sees a speck or two in the valley.” “He has not spoken of i... ...illoughby Patterne, though ready in the pursuit of duty and policy (an oft-united couple) to cast Miss Dale away, had to consider that he was not simp...

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...essed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Con... ... 1 Each person has a different breaking point. For one of my students it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” ... ... society from scratch. Perhaps you fought a revolution, or perhaps you led a party of adventurers into some empty land, conveniently free of indigenou... ...ract from our totals the works that are clearly in the public domain. In the United States, that is generally work produced before 1923. That material... ...bates of the nineteenth century. (Though we might hope it would also be more democratic.) And yet...there is much that is missing from the skepticism ... ...owing me for several weeks into a surreal world of secondhand threats, third-party leaks, and a hilarious back-and-forth in the letters page). 10 Thin... ...spondence, attacks on the hypocrisy of the music companies and defenses of a democratic commu- nications structure imperceptibly gave way to discussio... ...stances. The Constitution, after all, is a framework for building a just and democratic society. It is not a suicide pact. 9 Judge Kaplan is right in ... ...Certainly if, as the Bridgeport court assumed, the recording industry is the party responsible for fine-tuning copy- right law, we are hardly likely to...

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... to know about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over ... ...w about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over the fro... ...e me what I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knee... ...at I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knees. “I a... ...he Vatican, he had one last meeting with the Pope. He was told to meet with a United States Senator by the name of Alexander Artemis and to give him ... ...raduation,” Alex began, “Alicia and some of her classmates had arranged for a party that night – you know – the kind of party when you’re not sure i... ...hat I’ve pieced together from police reports, other teenagers who attended the party, and from their parents.” Alex paused and shifted behind the c... ...id just as a horn honked from outside. “It’s David. It’s going to be a great party,” she giggled. “Promise, I won’t be too late,” she said half-ski... ...heart pounded with excitement. Thousands of Americans would die. Their sacred democratic shrines would be blown to rubble. Millions would be panicke...

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...hen the Russians released him back to Germany in 1947, he could not work in his own bakery because of his membership in Hitler's National Socialistic Democratic Party, the Waffen SS, and the Sturm Abteilung. Of great significance in Walter's life was his unawareness of Friedrich not being his biological father. Walter did not think differently until much later, when he tu...

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...ndrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king bri...

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...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...ain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered over... ... and summon them for service when needed. After he conquered all the city-states in Mesopotamia, the king initiated a series of reforms to pave the ... ...icles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships... ...ge of literature and learning in an England that was gradually becoming a united kingdom. It was to England‘s scholars that Charlemagne—the illit... ...ential of competing religions and—more than five hundred years before the United States adopted its Bill of Rights—decreed complete and total religi... ...ed mists of free speech and free thought that swirled into rain clouds of democratic ideals. They would water the seeds of the American Revoluti... ...ts of free speech and free thought that later swirled into rain clouds of democratic ideals. By fostering major growth in literacy and education a... ... mention Barack Obama‘s election in 2008 and the boost it gave to the Tea Party in 2010. By the beginning of 2011, social bonds forged in Cybersp...

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... on to observe that these self actualized people have a deep feeling of kinship with others, especially other self actualized people. They are democr... ...us eye problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United... ...ions are based on the traditions of our family or our culture. But because it is common, is it right? ―If I say ‗My family has voted Democr... ... ―I cringed when I saw the African dictators, like Mugabe and Taylor, ruining their countries. And the fact that they supposedly came to power democr... ...t seem to have these problems.‖ —―We guard against them. We have seen what has often happened in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the United... ...xtroversion or being outer directed as being motivational forces. The meditating Zen monk shows much more of the inner directedness, while the party ... ... Or they may go into business or politics where their egocentric, greedy impulsiveness may often make them successful.‖ —―Many states in the United... ...hort term goals should probably include: completing college and law school, participating in college activities, and working with a political party.... ...y wander down the crater of Vesuvius when the magma is rising and the eruption column of smoke blocks out the sun. It makes no sense to host a party ...

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............ 58 Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive ........................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education ......................................................... 85 Chapter Eight: Aims in Education .............................................................................................. 1...

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....................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education............................................ ...truly as a church, a labor union, a business partnership, or a politi- cal party. Each of them is a mode of associated or com- munity life, quite as m... ..., trans- portation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with differ... ...wledge re- sults if the mind discriminates and combines things as they are united and divided in nature itself. But the im- portant thing for educatio... ...x- ternal formation, and as recapitulation of the past. Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education For the most part, save incidentally, we... ... some into masters, educate others into slaves. And the experience of each party loses in meaning, when the free interchange of varying modes of life-... ... and emotional significance of this physical annihilation of space. 2. The Democratic Ideal. The two elements in our crite- rion both point to democra... ...g into a common or conjoint experi- ence, all has been done which a second party can do to instigate learning. The rest lies with the one directly con... ... pioneer movement westward, of immigration, etc., should be a study of the United States as it is to-day: of the country we now live in. Studying it i...

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...sarily with those who are in pos session of the government. A much weaker party in all other elements of power may greatly preponderate when the pow ... ...stood by “consenting unto his death,” would any one have supposed that the party of that stoned man were then and there the strongest power in society... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...almost sure to be overthrown as soon as the head of the government, or any party leader who can muster force for a coup de main , is willing to run s... ...e Athenian Con stitution had many such provisions, and so has that of the United States. But while it is essential to representative government that ... ...y as, without interfer ing materially with the characteristic benefits of democratic government, to do away with these two great evils, or at least t... ...y human contrivance. The common mode of attempting this is by limiting the democratic character of the representation through a more or less restricte... ...ons and injured or menaced interests to lean upon. The great difficulty of democratic government has hitherto seemed to be, how to provide in a democr...

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...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... ...national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and above creed and sect has, we are told, taken hold of his imaginat... ...nce then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has bee... ...23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material leader- ship of the ... ...r—the sacred principle of Free Trade has always impressed me as a piece of party claptrap; but I have never been able to understand how an attempt to ... ... is an impos- sible social fragmentation. The transport service is to be a democratic republic, the mines are to be a democratic re- public, every gre... ...e mines are to be a democratic re- public, every great industry is to be a democratic republic 67 H. G . Wells within the State; our community is to ... ...d, a community of independent families protected by law and an intelligent democratic statecraft from the economic aggressions of large accumulations ...

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...mporary rulers became the prominent object of the exertions of the popu lar party, wherever any such party existed; and su perseded, to a considerab... ...tbreak against monarchi cal and aristocratic despotism. In time, however, a democratic republic came to occupy a large portion of the earth’s surface... ...wer are regularly accountable to the community , that is, to the stron gest party therein. This view of things, recommend ing itself equally to the ... ... the heat of the conflict was over, without giving a complete victory to any party , and each church or sect was reduced to limit its hopes to retaini... ...njury. For the same reason, we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its no... ...oned. There is confessedly a strong tendency in the mod ern world towards a democratic constitution of so ciety, accompanied or not by popular polit... ...ely realized—where both society and the government are most demo cratic—the United States—the feeling of the ma jority , to whom any appearance of a... ...ey describe is not only a conceivable and possible, but a probable result of democratic feel ing, combined with the notion that the public has a righ... ...nting intemperance the people of one English colony , and of nearly half the United States, have been interdicted by law from making any use whatever ...

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...I do not know whether they make less fuss than ordinary people when either party claims the benefit of the treaty; but the existence of the treaty she... ... and nobody likes to give. What is driving our minis- ters of religion and statesmen to blurt it out at last is the plain fact that marriage is now be... ...und and every year. How they settled even such minor questions as to which party should decide whether and how much the window should be open and how ... ...the relations of pris- oners in the same gaol or guests at the same garden party. Taking these two cases of the single room and the unearned income as... ...here is some question of sexual morals to be dealt with. The business of a democratic statesman is not, as some of us seem to think, to convince the v... ...he pendulum” at the next election. Therein lies the peril and the glory of democratic statesmanship. A states- man who confines himself to popular leg... ...ds if the price is refused, and even to feel relieved at their escape. Our democratic and matrimonial institutions may have their merits: at all event... ...f ascertaining that every possible effort has been made to keep the couple united against their wills, such privacy will only be tolerated when we at ... ...time that they have long since lost interest in one another, and have been united only by a common interest in their children. We may expect, then, th...

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... 5 to. For not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind. How often have we seen some such advent... ...ed of, might endanger the circulation of any Journal extant? If, indeed, all party divisions in the State could have been abolished, Whig, Tory, and R... ...fer of Heuschrecke’s. Form rose out of void solution and discontinuity; like united itself with like in definite arrangement: and soon ei ther in actu... ...cademical beer. 12 SARTOR RESARTUS day, he would probably be hanged for his democratic sentiments. Wo steckt doch der Schalk? added they, looking rou... ... tattered papers, and miscellaneous shreds of all conceivable sub stances, “united in a common element of dust.” Books lay on tables, and below table... ...ired Armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Printing. The first ground ha... ...able that, by the “good Gretchen Futteral,” or some other perhaps interested party, he has himself been deceived? Should these sheets, translated or n... ...is dusty Town home, is ushered into the Garden house, where sit the choicest party of dames and cavaliers: if not engaged in Æsthetic Tea, yet in trus... ...mstances, might be, followed Teufelsdr¨ ockh, through the various successive states and stages of Growth, Entanglement, Unbelief, and almost Reprobati...

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...vice in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connec tion with the relation... ...tal Congress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French socie... ...gress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French society; and... ...reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and, from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother’... ...o disuse thirty years ago; it is very properly rejected entirely in the United States.”—W. T. F. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 44 them,... ...at we plant our chief habits and prejudices; it is in youth that we take our party as to profession, pursuits and matrimony. In youth, there fore, th... ... life ought to begin well from youth, and more especially before we take our party as to our principal objects. But your biography will not merely tea... ...yet men primarily considered that their own and their country’s interest was united, and did not act from a principle of benevolence. “That fewer stil... ...much prerogative in it, and in England it was judg’d to have too much of the democratic. The Board of Trade therefore did not approve of it, nor recom...

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...2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation?...

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... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...MS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and... ... of Effort in the Congress 419 13.5 Organizing America’s Defenses in the United States 423 Appendix A: Common Abbreviations 429 Appendix B:Table o... ...t consulted his senior advisers about his remarks. No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacke... ...ed by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab Socialism or the Ba’ath Party of Syria and Iraq) that called for a single, secular Arab state. Howe... ...d Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, head of the Hizbul- Ittihad El-Islami (Islamic Union Party). Sayyaf became KSM’s mentor and pro- vided KSM with military trainin... ...Muslim states.A cen- tral government has been established in Kabul, with a democratic constitution, new currency, and a new army. Most Afghans enjoy g... ... communities.Y et even if his efforts are successful and elections bring a democratic government to Afghanistan, the United States faces some difficul... ...om ‘Muslimun/Muslims.’...Islamism is defined as ‘an Islamic militant, anti-democratic movement, bearing a holistic vision of Islam whose final aim is ...

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...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...hich was ex- perimental in our plan of government was the question whether democratic rule could be so organized and conducted that it would not degen... ...on, all of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever... ...oroughly desperate. Had De Tocqueville lived to examine the history of the United States from 1860 to 1870, his misgivings as to this power of self- p... ...ghts of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but it will, ul... ...He beheld, and deplored, the excesses that had attended the genesis of the democratic spirit in France, and while he loved liberty, he detested the cr... ... is apparent that the tendency of his mind was not wholly favorable to the democratic principle, yet those who dissent from his conclusions must comme... ...ture to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judg- ment of the wise is not subo... ...le in their minds from that of novelty. Not far from this class is another party, whose object is to materialize mankind, to hit upon what is expedien...

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...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...ght about, and that had so dwarfed the mass of English men in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years behind their fellows in every o... ...Hampton-Tuskegee idea that stands like the demon- stration of the value of democratic institutions them- selves—a demonstration made so clear in spite... ...n- nection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rath... ...The car was full of Southern white men, most of whom had their eyes on our party. When I found that supper had been ordered, I tried to contrive some ... ...d of people anxious to shake hands with me. The papers in all parts of the United States published the address in full, and for months afterward there... ...ays after its delivery I sent a copy of my address to the President of the United States, the Hon. Grover Cleveland. I received from him the following... ... to go with a part of a half-dozen persons on a trip through Holland. This party included Edward Marshall and some American artists who had come over ... ...h the kindness of Lady Aber- deen, my wife and I were enabled to go with a party of those who were attending the International Congress of Women, then...

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...ner yet no Vermont, in our business. There’s jest two kind o’ horse in the United States—them ez can an’ will do their work after bein’ properly broke... ... no Vermont, in our business. There’s jest two kind o’ horse in the United States—them ez can an’ will do their work after bein’ properly broke an’ ha... ...touched yet. After this little fracas is fixed up, you an’ me’ll make up a party an’ ‘tend to it. Marcus did not answer for a long time, then he said:... ...n unseemly sight, but the proprieties had been left ages ago, with the tea-party at Amritsar Station, fifteen hundred miles to the north. “They are co... ...r; seventy-five an hour! But he’ll talk to you in the round- house just as democratic as I would. And I—cuss my wheel- base!—I’d kick clean off the tr... ... par- ticulars from ours. And do you always stop trains in this way in the States, Mr. Sargent?” “I should if occasion ever arose; but I’ve never had ... ...d for a constable! lock him up! “ said that man, adjusting his collar; and unitedly they cast him into the lamp-room, and turned the key, while the dr... ...was great jealousy between the first and second de- tachments, but the men united in adoring Cottar, and their way of showing it was by sparing him al... ...led by petticoats in the court; and after one long afternoon at a gar- den-party, he explained to his major that this sort of thing was “ futile priff...

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...ainless private morals who votes for a thief for public office, on his own party’s ticket, and against an honest man on the other ticket. O.M. He has ... ...ent his spirit. He has no public morals; he has no private ones, where his party’s prosperity is at stake. He will always be true to his make and trai... ... by accident he get more light than he wants. In America if you know which party collar a voter wears, you know what his associations are, and how he... ... as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we sh... ...grew with a rush; it brought inspiration and cheer with it. Midnight saw a united community, full of zeal and pluck, and with a clearly defined and we... ...is secure. The commercial millionaire may become a beggar; the illustrious statesman can make a vital mistake and be dropped and forgotten; the illust... ...and un expected way: Republican, a sinner mentioned in the Bible. Also in Democratic newspapers now and then. Here are two where the mistake has resu... ... Spain. America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, b... ... with some other countrys, but it about as industrious. The capital of the United States is Long Island. The five seaports of the U.S. are Newfunlan a...

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... should ever distinguish him who aspires to the title of historian. By the united aid of medals, manuscripts, and inscriptions, I am enabled to say, p... ...urning. There was an air of oddity, in short, about the dress of the whole party, which, at first, caused me to recur to my original idea of the “soot... ... not understand him to the letter.” “And then,” said some other one of the party,—“then there was Bouffon Le Grand—another extraordinary personage in ... ... and yelling and cock-a- doodling, was offered to the encroachments of the party with- out, the ten windows were very speedily, and almost simulta- ne... ...dam Kirschenwasser. Thus re- venged himself the Angel of the Odd. [Mabbott states that Griswold “obviously had a revised form” for use in the 1856 vol... ...nturies ago, certainly—the North- ern and Southern Kanadaw continents were united; the Kanawdians, then, would have been driven, by necessity, to a gr... ...pound of misanthropy, sensibility, and en- thusiasm. To these qualities he united the warmest and truest heart which ever beat in a human bosom. I obs... ...y—re- joinder—confutation—and justification—followed in the col- umns of a Democratic Gazette. It was not until the opening of the vault to decide the... ... disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, and so full of demnition mischievous li...

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...have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Countr...

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... should arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many dif... ... in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigner... ...ohn Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amoun... ...is used over the most of the great Union as a term of reproach. The Yankee States, of which he is so staunch a subject, are but a drop in the bucket. ... ...mmon provocations. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impression of foreign tr... ...n geniality . Thus, 12 Robert Louis Stevenson at least, we have a healthy democratic atmosphere to breathe in while at work; even when there is no co... ...and strength among themselves effectually prevents the appear- ance of the democratic notion. Or we might more exactly compare their society to the cu... ... the city of my childhood with the sea. When, upon any Saturday, we made a party to behold the ships, we passed that corner; and since in those days I...

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...t up, not even against both parties equally, but almost solely against the party in the right, and the ungenerous refusal of all those just allowances... ...interpretation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de ny... ...their really noble enterprise. It is almost superfluous to re mark that a democratic Government always shows worst where other Governments generally ... ...his should be the accepted policy (supposing it to be nothing higher) of a Democratic Republic, shows even unlimited democracy to be a better thing th... ...s and in the plains of Kansas; on the slavery question exclusively was the party constituted which now rules the United States: on slavery Fremont was... ...slavery question exclusively was the party constituted which now rules the United States: on slavery Fremont was rejected, on slavery Lincoln was elec... ... it have been expected, or even perhaps desired, that they should? A great party does not change suddenly, and at once, all its principles and profess... ...the slave owners are fighting to enforce it. The present government of the United States is not an Abolitionist government. Abolitionists, in America,... ...o the new circumstances, and which would not infringe, but strengthen, its democratic principles. An article would have to be inserted prohibiting the...

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...irulent skirmish; and Burns found him- self identified with the opposition party, – a clique of roar- ing lawyers and half-heretical divines, with wit... ...emony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two people united for life. Mary came of a superstitious family, so that she perhaps i... ...period opens in the story of the poet’s random affections. He met at a tea party one Mrs. Agnes M’Lehose, a married woman of about his own age, who, w... ...es, comical and prosaic, written, you would say, in taverns while a supper party waited for its laureate’s word; but on the appearance of Burns, this ... ...ular and poetical presentment; and, in so doing, catch and stereotype some democratic ideal of humanity which should be equally natural to all grades ... ...Whitman’s intense Americanism, his unlimited belief in the future of These States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war... ...rose and Poetry . . . for the most cogent purposes of those great in- land states, and for T exas, and California, and Oregon;” – a statement which is... ...ons they held through the prison wall, and dear was the sympathy that soon united them. It fell first to the lot of Kusakabe to pass before the judges... .... More of her I do not find, save testimony to the profound affection that united her to the Reformer. So we find him writing to her from Geneva, in s...