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...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...nteen. He tells us that he was not a studious boy, but was fond of reading history; and that if he had been given rein to read all he desired of it, h... ...hem. However, I had an innate inclination for reading, especially works of history; and thus was inspired with ambition to emulate the examples presen... ...house would be aggrandised at its expense. As to the first obstacle, these politicians were of opinion that the renunciations made by Maria Theresa he... ... the village, and see with his own eyes the 252 Saint-Simon defeat of the Electoral army, and the preparations that were made on the other side to co... ...moreover, were piqued into resistance, by an appeal to their honour by the electoral minister, who in- sisted on the menaces of Puysieux, our represen... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h...

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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...TUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ... of the primitive condition of humanity; and only the few who have studied history accurately, or have much fre quented the parts of the world occupi... ... faculties of any person in those ages, ex cept a philosopher or a saint. History gives a cruel experience of human nature, in showing how exactly th... ...of thou sands of unfit persons is no gain; for if the constitution of the electoral body disposes them to choose unfit persons, there are always plen... ...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ...y successfully, and one of them, Margaret of Austria, as one of the ablest politicians of the age. So much for one side of the ques tion. Now as to t...

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...HE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ................................................................................................................... 60 CHAPTER IV WORK AND PAY .......................................................................

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...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...for these conclusions will appear as we proceed. Before embarking upon the history of recent movements In favor of radical reconstruction, it will be ... ...istianity. Marx studied jurisprudence, philosophy, politi- cal economy and history at various German universities. In philosophy he imbibed the doctri... ... development as showing the vanity of political triumphs. Very many French politicians who have risen to power have begun their political career as So... ...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...mentary majority. But Syndicalists have too little faith in the honesty of politicians to place any reliance on such a 50 Proposed Roads to Freedom m... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...s time goes on they remember only dimly the passions and promises of their electoral campaign; they come to feel it an essential part of statesmanship...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...f more, if not of profounder, study than at any former pe riod of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education ... ... and was 4 Autobiography the eldest son of James Mill, the author of the History of British India . My father, the son of a petty tradesman and (I b... ...s difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my ... ...n of centralization. The powerful philosophic analysis which he applied to American and to French experience, led him to attach the utmost importance ... ...ish precedent for such a proceeding: and the profound ignorance of English politicians and the En glish public concerning all social phenomena not ge... ...has found favour with nobody; all who desire any sort of inequality in the electoral vote, desiring it in favour of property and not of intelligence o... ...ical shape. I was convinced that no numerous or influential portion of any electoral body, really wished to be represented by a person of my opinions;...

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...sorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

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...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..., is out of fashion; and we are in that other phase, famil- iarized by the history of the French Revolution, in which the primary assumption is that t... ... the story of the Committee in greater detail, partly as a contribution to history; partly be- cause, like most true stories, it is more amusing than ... ...ts on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- ests; but this unfort... ...ich so many conflicting interests were involved, and which had probably no electoral value whatever. Many simple simple souls believed that it was be-... ... other hand, it is some- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a ce... ...ven make Europe a cockpit and Asia a shambles: no matter: if preachers and politicians, statesmen and soldiers, may do these things—if it is right tha... ...ough to hang you, anyway. [Going over to him threateningly]. Youre no true American man, to insult a 86 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet woman like th...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will 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 p...

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....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

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...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...d uct, and the science of government as a branch (so to speak) of natural history. According to them, forms of government are not a matter of choice.... ...tual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized gov... ...greater political phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, i... ...e more and more difficult to check, until it reached a state often seen in history, and in which many large portions of mankind even now grovel; when ... ...xpressed a willingness to be chosen. This would so far give reality to the electoral rights of the otherwise virtually disfranchised minority. But it ... ...cures a representation, in proportion to numbers, of every division of the electoral body: not two great parties alone, with perhaps a few large secti... ...ns at all in the repre sentative body. It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly c...

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...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship whi...

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ... skill enough to lead in this matter. I do not see how one can go into the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French ... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...e, and for the sake of securer food man teth- ered himself to a place. The history of man’s progress from savagery to civilisation is essentially a st... ...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ...roy the machinery of the party system that sustains him, and to adopt some electoral method that will no longer put the independent representative man... ...ates appointed by the two great party organisations in the State. It is an electoral system that forbids absolutely any vote split- ting or any indica...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ... much more spacious, it is not only that it has opened out from the little history of a few thou- sand years to a stupendous vista of ages, but, in ad... ...e assisting until the Sinbad of Charity broke down. And quite early in the history of Charities it was found that a very grave impediment to their ben... ... of candidates, is the unforeseen and unavoidable mechanical defect of all electoral methods with large electorates. Educa- tion has nothing to do wit... ...erning bodies with power to “co-opt.” Of course they “co-opt” their fellow politicians, rejected candi- dates, and so on. Among other expedients that ... ...ut that this method is so universally recognized as superior to the common electoral method that any one who should propose to-day to take the fate of...

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...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quot...

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...EN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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