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...d his enemies. He should have felt and acted with responsibility towards his fellow human beings, even towards those who wronged him greatly. But ... ...ucers exploit Truman's life shamelessly and remorselessly in the ugliest display of human vices possible. The Director indulges in his control-mania... ...zing movie, "The Matrix", a breed of AI computers takes over the world. It harvests human embryos in laboratories called "fields". It then feeds th... ...species" derives its energy needs from the electricity produced by the billions of human bodies thus preserved. A sophisticated, all-pervasive, com... ... "The Matrix" generates a "world" inhabited by the consciousness of the unfortunate human batteries. Ensconced in their shells, they see themselves ... ...s change drastically in time (consider a baby compared to an adult). Almost all the cells in a human body are replaced every few years. Changing one... ... (figments) to eliminate them. Cobb even compares these apparitions to white blood cells! So, which is it in a dream state: defences down or defenc...

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...m and the work that he begins that will shed a light in the darkness that humanity has lost itself in. Yes, my name is Trinity and I have seen many t... ...p so I didn't understand how he could remain so steadfast in his love for humanity when quite a few of its members were openly mocking him, having a... ...e World ________________________________________ Neo's Open Letter to the Human Race: Love. This is where this Book begins. The "teachings" within th... ...of society’s expectations… and like all systems, it is self- perpetuating. Human nature, from its earliest origins, teaches you that to belong is to ... ...eeper than blood, than bone, than the pulse that drives the cortex of the human brain… and fear of change may well be the most terrible of all of th... ...ly reminded that my own body is simply a string of muscle fibers and brain cells and nerves, imbued with whatever it is that makes me alive. Who’s to...

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...ER II: THE PROBLEM OF GOOD AND EVIL AND THE DEFINITION OF HUMAN BEINGS AS PERSONS .................................................... ....................................................... 54 CHAPTER VIII: HUMAN BEINGS ARE FREE TO LOVE AND FREE TO HATE .............................. ... CHAPTER I THE EMERGENCE OF THE PERSON We have already stated that humans are beings that create themselves. Today we want to look at the mo... ...mselves. Today we want to look at the most recent phase of this process of humans that create themselves. In this most recent phase, we say that hum... ... we mean by the concept of Person. It is important that we establish that humanity evolves by steps. The evolution of this most recent accomplishme... ... organizing principle that coordinates the development and function of the cells and organs, of everything that is necessary for the life of the body...

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...I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right impl... ...forcefully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies ref... ...e a calculus of hierarchically weighted rights. (See "Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life" by Baruch A. Brody). One form of calculus is the uti... ...ed to cancer, a thief, or an invader: after all, they are both growths, clusters of cells. The difference, of course, is that no one contracts cance... ...e Mother is a morally significant person and that she is a rights-holder. All born humans are and, more so, all adults above a certain age. But wha... ...ss, values, and meaning. The questions whether the fetus is a Being or a growth of cells, conscious in any manner, or utterly unconscious, able to ... ...quires in order to materialize his potential. It sounds very much like many other human contracts. And this contract continue well after pregnancy... ...rted to a painting through the intermediacy and agency of the Painter. A cluster of cells a human makes only through the agency of Nature. Surely, t... ...is only when it crosses a certain quantitative threshold (number of differentiated cells) – that he begins to demonstrate mental states. The source...

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...is is a spiritual book that tells the real Truth of God. And the true Path to God. A pragmatic Path we could walk easily, smoothly, within a normal human lifetime. For others of us, it is a book that reveals what the future holds. For each human and all humanity, for each soul and every society. The developments that would make us materially and morally satisfied...

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...h to God. A pragmatic Path we could walk easily, smoothly, within a normal human lifetime. For others of us, it is a book that reveals what the future... ...or others of us, it is a book that reveals what the future holds. For each human and all humanity, for each soul and every society. The developments t... ...visionary – to name only a few that tried to see what the future holds for humankind. Utopists, ideologists, scientists, schizophrenics attempted to t... ...II. Which produced the United Nations... But why do all good intentions of humans always fail ? ... Or do they ? ... Time and time again we ask oursel... ...hat is this understanding that we need, to know the future ? The future of humanity. But the future of each individual, too... And the future of God’s... ..., according to genetic program, NS must have certain number of nervous cells (neurons) which must link with each other in a definite way in order ... ...And the cell roamed and roamed the limitless oceans of life; and met other cells. And the cells joined together in the quest of their Beloved; and for...

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...condary Beauty”. Primary beauty is the type of beauty created by nature, and it is subject to time and death. “Secondary Beauty” is beauty created by human beings, a type of beauty that goes beyond the type created by nature and that,...

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... one Universe to Another This book deals with the main themes regarding human existence and its content is the result of both an existential and ... ...l concept of time. One opposes the other and both are terrible prisons for humanity; one creates absolute thinking and the other creates nihilism an... .......................................... 127 8 CHAPTER IX: Thinking of Human Beings as Persons and as Artists of their own Lives and of the Life ... ...wers, fruit and seeds and produces oxygen that keeps the ecosystem alive), human beings can also, if they wish, transform, synthesize, create, conden... ...h, transform, synthesize, create, condense and transmit energy. In fact, human beings transform biochemical energy and mechanical energy into rela... ...rson of the cosmos be one? As a living being, I am made up of billions of cells and billions upon billions of atoms. Every cell and every atom each... ... How can I possibly think that my conscious I does not communicate with my cells and atoms and vice-versa? I can, of course, separate myself from ... ...nd I can oppose them with my madness, or I can transcend myself and ask my cells and atoms to follow me in my process of transcendence and in my wor... ...rson of the cosmos be one? As a living being, I am made up of billions of cells and billions upon billions of atoms. Every cell and every atom each...

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... INTRODUCTION xii lose sight of the real power-the inner power of every human being. I wrote this book to share with you some of the ingredients ... ...ed my belief in myself, in God and love. Witnessing the birth of another human being is an awesome experience. You can't help feeling better about ... ...ed psychologist, said, "The greatest dis, covery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives simply by altering their attitude." Th... ...'s examine a few of the marvelous components that make you a very unique human being. Consider your eyes. The millions of receptors in your eyes en... ...inuously overtaxed. No one has been able to create a machine to equal the human heart and I venture to say no one ever will. Sitting on top of your... ...rain. It weighs only three pounds, yet it contains thirteen billion nerve cells-the most complex filing system known to man. Implanted within your ... ...the most complex filing system known to man. Implanted within your brain cells are billions upon billions of protein molecules recording your every...

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...ection with the main work as may give them claim to be likened to the little cells, oratories, and sepulchral recesses, ordinarily included in those e... ... peace (if such bold word accord 2 The Prelude of 1850 With any promises of human life), 25 Long months of ease and undisturbed delight Are mine in p... ...awn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high obje... ...h the works Which it beholds.—Such, verily, is the first Poetic spirit of our human life, By uniform control of after years, In most, abated or suppres... ...id I lift our cottage latch Far earlier, ere one smoke wreath had risen From human dwelling, or the vernal thrush 345 Was audible; and sate among the ... ... all that seemeth still; O’er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought And human knowledge, to the human eye 410 Invisible, yet liveth to the heart;... ...Bucer, Erasmus, or Melancthon, read 480 Before the doors or windows of their cells By moonshine through mere lack of taper light. But peace to vain re...

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...0 Not swifter a swift thought of woe or weal Darts through the tumult of a human breast Which thronging cares annoy—not swifter wheel The flashes of i... ... leaped And the divine child saw delightedly.— Mercury first found out for human weal _140 Tinder-box, matches, fire-iro... ... various lot _725 T o the unnumbered tribes of human-kind. Let good to these, and ill to those be wrought As I dispense—bu... ...re awaken, That by her own enchantments overtaken, She might, no more from human union free, Burn for a nursling of mortality. ... ...ts Of Aetna and its crags, spotted with fire. T urn then to converse under human laws, Receive us shipwrecked suppliants, and provide Food, clothes, a... ...nce? FL FL FL FL FLOR OR OR OR ORO: O: O: O: O: From what rocks And desert cells? Enter Moscon and Clarin. MOSCON: MOSCON: MOSCON: MOSCON: MOSCON: Run... ... AL: AL: AL: Mine eyelids are heavy; my soul seeks repose, It longs in thy cells to embosom its woes, It longs in thy cells to deposit its load, ... ...r to the depth beneath, Take her swift, before ’tis light, Take her to the cells of death! _180 Thou that heardst...

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...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale of love based on falling in love or,...

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...reation of secondary beauty, which is the result of a fusion of cosmic and human forces. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been... .................................... 163 CHAPTER XXXI: GREED AS THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY’S SUFFERING ........................................... 168 CHAP... ...l divinities. Rather, they are only symbolic representations of cosmic and human spiritual forces, and the meaning of a human life lies in the abilit... ...y that can help illuminate Homer’s thought: a. This fusion of cosmic and human forces can create a truly immortal beauty, a beauty so great that t... ...ion of the gods. b. The meaning of life - the life of the cosmos and of human beings - is found in the creation of this supreme type of beauty, a... ...dimension to ever-higher ones. Just as the I Person is present in all the cells of the body, the Cosmic SELF is present in the Personal SELF of eve... ...ody is and myself along with it. It does not make sense to imagine that my cells, and I am a cell of the Universe, can imagine their own wellbeing b... ...come from an I that does not know how to pray or whom to pray to. The cells of my body pray, when they are sick, and they cause me pain so I wil... ... take action in that direction. 156 Now why would what works between my cells and my I not work between my I and my SELF , where my SELF trans...

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...in themselves or in their environment. We call these vectors "Negentropic Agents". Human Beings are Negentropic Agents gone awry. Now, through its ... ...aining the number of other Entropic Agents on Earth or by reducing the numbers of humans. To achieve the latter (which is the path of least resi... ...e path of least resistance and a typical self-regulatory mechanism), Nature causes humans to begin to internalize and assimilate the Entropy that t... ...rs, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, thus, in the number of human Entropic Agents). The Assimilative Mechanism Diseases, ol... ...mena yield negative demographic effects directly related to the entropic actions of humans. Examples: excessive use of antibiotics leads to drug- re... ...Thus, teleological explanations could well be applied to organisms (collections of cells), communities, nations and other ensembles. To justify a ...

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...So far Siraj et al [89] have used FCMs whose structure has been defined by human experts. Experiments are now ongoing that investigate the operationa... ...(cell) that is positively or negatively activated and can be influenced by cells in its neighborhood. The natural behavior for that cell would be to ... ... 63 A FCM using the above kind of table can be easily designed by the human domain experts and can be used to have a graphical model of the doma... ...e a graphical model of the domain. Sometimes it is not possible to have a human expert to model the domain because the number and complexity of the ... ...ure detection, decision making and planning (tasks usually performed by a human supervisor of the controlled process). In the upper level a superv... ...of our notion of intimate technology, that is, technologies which address human needs and desires as opposed to technologies which meet exclusively ...

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...Contents AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ......................................................................... 6 EPISTLE TO THE READER .......................................................................................................

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... by John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (... ...erial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (... ...ate University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ........... .................................................................................... 520 Chapter III Of the Extent of Human Knowledge ...................... .............................................................................................................. 717 6 Human Understanding AN ESSAY CONCER... ...eir own accord, and offer themselves to the understanding; and very often are roused and tumbled out of their dark cells into open daylight, by 136 H...

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...s research grants and Bost Fellowships. My work on synthetic biology and the human genome was supported in part by a CEER grant from the National Huma... ... asked; “you’ve seen much worse than this.” And he had. There are patents on human genes, on auctions, on algorithms. 2 The U.S. Olympic Committee has... ...ntific re- search on the gene without the patent holder’s consent? Forbidding human reproduction? Can religions secure copyrights over their scriptures... ...or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Can they use those copyrights to discipline heretics or crit... ...hem, like the design of our telecommunications networks, or the patenting of human genes, or the relationship between copyright and free speech, are n... ...a Supreme Court case deciding that Mr. Moore had no property interest in the cells derived from his spleen. 14 The court tells us that giving private ... ... the shape of a large aluminum Lego piece—explored a way to use engi- neered cells to intercept the body’s excessive response to infection, which can ... ...y, creating simple systems from interchangeable parts that operate in living cells. Biology, once thought too complicated to be engineered like a cloc... ...creations are engineered from snippets of DNA, the molecules that run living cells. 10 Other iGEM entries have included E. coli bacteria that had been...

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...urse in peace and war with the world of mankind, his contem poraries of the human race, in all their stages of civili zation; and, last of all, the... ...fferent minds and of adverse passions; one, ascending for the foundation of human government to the laws of nature and of God, written upon the heart... ... God, written upon the heart of man; the other, resting upon the ba sis of human institutions, and prescriptive law, and co lonial charter. The cor... ...Adams 7 America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature.” At his residence at Mount Vernon, in March, 1785, the firs... ...g of the Pilgrims.” Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those ... ... great and mighty nation, the finger of scorn would have pointed them to the cells of Bedlam as an abode more suitable for hatching vain empires than ...

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...d further the liberties of the Church! Accordingly, having taken a survey of human necessities in every direction, with a view to bestow our charity u... ...ere is in books, how easy, how secret! How safely we lay bare the poverty of human ignorance to books without feel ing any shame! They are masters wh... ...l; ye are the tree of life and the fourfold river of Paradise, by which the human mind is nourished, and the thirsty intellect is watered and refresh... ...by this bold deed, except that the vessels of wisdom, holy books, exceed all human estimation; and, as Gregory says of the kingdom of Heaven: They are... ...mes of the clergy, which are ours by hereditary right, who were used to have cells of quietness in the inner chamber, but, alas! in these unhappy time... ... tower of Babel, if but one kind of speech had been transmitted by the whole human race. We will add the last clause of our long lament, though far to... ...paring their meat in the summer, and ingenious bees continually fabricating cells of honey. They are successors of Bezaleel in devising all man ner ...

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... to the road; others rushed in to take their place, so that two streams of human beings flowed in and out, com- pressed within the limits of the gatew... ...tion, it became evident that the whole mass was a veri- table honeycomb of cells, and that below those already seen were many others. Vitellius, Phine... ...nterpreter, and Sisenna, chief of the publicans, walked among these gloomy cells, attended by three eunuchs bearing torches. In the deep shadows hideo... ...threshold of a kind of grotto, somewhat larger than the other subterranean cells. An arched window at the back of this chamber gave di- rectly upon a ... ...ern beheld a vague and terrifying shape in its depths. This proved to be a human being, lying on the ground. His long locks hung over a camel’ s-hair ... ...-like laugh. Noth- ing could be more absurd, said he, than the idea that a human body could have eternal life; and he declaimed, for the ben- efit of ...

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...n, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought Into his mind the t... ... fear’st Fail to make blest thy state, T remblest, and wilt not dare to trust the joys there are. I say, Fear not! life s... ...ht and day; Lorn autumns and triumphant springs; And life, and others’ joy and pain, And love, if love, of happier men. Of happier men—for they, at le... ...ic strife. When Goethe’s death was told, we said: Sunk, then, is Europe’s sagest head. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. ... ...live— But, ah! its heart, its heart was stone, And so it could not thrive! “On that hard Pagan world disgust And secret loathing fell. Deep wearines... ... with bare And white uplifted faces stand, Passing the Host from hand to hand; Each takes, and then his visage wan Is buried in his co...

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...self No easy road to husbandry assigned, THE GEORGICS 6 And first was he by human skill to rouse The slumbering glebe, whetting the minds of men With... ... the mud and chant their dirge of old. Oft, too, the ant from out her inmost cells, Fretting the narrow path, her eggs conveys; Or the huge bow sucks ... ...he swarms fly aimlessly abroad, Disport themselves in heaven and spurn their cells, Leaving the hive unwarmed, from such vain play Must you refrain th... ... hope, and others press and pack The thrice repured honey, and stretch their cells T o bursting with the clear strained nectar sweet. Some, too, the w... ...ier all T o mend the fallen fortunes of their race Will nerve them, fill the cells up, tier on tier, And weave their granaries from the rifled flowers... ...rs. Now, seeing that life doth even to bee folk bring THE GEORGICS 58 Our human chances, if in dire disease Their bodies’ strength should languish ... ...with the sick change hue; grim leanness mars Their visage; then from out the cells they bear Forms reft of light, and lead the mournful pomp; Or foot ... ... found a path for flight, Baffled at length, to his own shape returned, With human lips he spake, “Who bade thee, then, So reckless in youth’s hardiho... ...ongs can the very moon draw down from heaven Circe with singing changed from human form The comrades of Ulysses, and by song THE ECLOGUES 97 Is the c...

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...er in front, they descended the stone stairs, past the still fouler, noisy cells of the men’s ward, where they were followed by eyes looking out of ev... ...y Carolina Albertovna Kitaeva. From that day a life of chronic sin against human and divine laws commenced for Katusha Maslova, a life which is led by... ...ho, according to his ideas he could not marry, were not women for him, but human beings. But on Ascension Day that summer, a neighbour of his aunts’, ... ...losophers and poets. What he now considered neces- sary and important were human institutions and inter- course with his comrades. Then women seemed m... ...ete idleness, i.e., absence of all useful work; frees them of their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional ones to the honour o... ...out for inspection,” cried a jailer. Some more prisoners came out of other cells and stood in two rows along the corridor; each woman had to place her... ... middle of a column of over a hundred women, who had come out of different cells. All were dressed in white skirts, white jackets, and wore white kerc... ...’s whistle sounded in the corri- dors of the prison, the iron doors of the cells rattled, bare feet pattered, heels clattered, and the prisoners who a... ...rd, so she asked me; and though it is against the rules, still feelings of humanity—” The jailer spoke in an unnatural manner. Nekhludoff was surprise...

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...re; a man of ardent temperament and robust physique, keenly susceptible to human passions and desires, who battled with himself from early man 5 The... ...inherently ethical, and reveals strong sympathy with sinning and suffering humanity, but it is masked by a manner that is sometimes uncouth and freque... ... toyed with by philosophers, which must remain a closed book to struggling humanity. Yet Tolstoy found true idealism in the toiling peas ant who beli... ... lies in the above mentioned “What then must we do?” Certain it is that no human document ever revealed the soul of its author with greater sincerity.... ...ater sincerity. Not for its practical suggestions, but for its impassioned humanity, its infectious altruism, “What then must we do?” takes its rank a... ...ent to his wife, …” And so on. One day the magistrate, visiting the prison cells, asked Stepan whether there was anything he had to complain of, or wh...

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...rinciples of search, which are based upon the one set of notions regarding human ingenuity, to which the Prefect, in the long routine of his duty, has... ... the king. *The bees — ever since bees were — have been constructing their cells with just such sides, in just such number, and at just such inclinati... ...t had knocked off the roof, and in the interior of which we distinctly saw human beings, who, be- yond doubt, were in a state of frightful despair at ... ...s account of the _Mare Tenebrarum_. A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the right and left, as far as the eye co... ...hat men call mind. And the power of self-movement (equivalent in effect to human volition) is, in the unparticled matter, the result of its unity and ... ... the simple reason that no similar sounds have ever jarred upon the ear of humanity. There were two particu- lars, nevertheless, which I thought then,... ...en in immediate demand. Moreover, my dungeon, as well as all the condemned cells at Toledo, had stone floors, and light was not altogether excluded. A...

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...ent direction through the camp. But the purple curtains were raised, and a human head, im- passible and bloated, was seen resting on a large pillow; t... ...ared in the midst of them, and advancing with the slowness of a phantom, a human being, bent, lean, entirely naked, and covered down to his flanks wit... ... the torches which crackled in the dark- ness, were pawing the ground; the human spectre struggled and howled: “They have killed them!” At these words... ...two long galleries which ran parallel to each other. There were small open cells along their sides, and tabourines and cymbals hung against their ceda... ...ns from top to bottom. Women were sleep- ing stretched on mats outside the cells. Their bodies were greasy with unguents, and exhaled an odour of spic... ...onfusion. There were serpents with feet, and bulls with wings, fishes with human heads were devouring fruit, flowers were blooming in the jaws of croc... ...at- eral porticoes, in which were the dwellings of the priests. Behind the cells there must be a shorter way out. They has- tened along. Spendius squa... ...e Negroes had planted tall sticks here and there bearing frightful faces,— human masks made with birds’ feathers, and jackals’ or ser- pents’ heads,—w... ...ng coals, pouring oil into jars, and opening and shutting the little ovoid cells which were hollowed out all round in the wall, and were so numerous t...

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...es merely, and in others still are entirely unknown. The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both... ...the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what ... ...s, has been from the first, or from long use has become, so impor tant to human life that few, if any, whether from sav ageness, or poverty, or phil... ...nd benefactors of their race. None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call vol untary p... ...mth of the affections. We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hol low in a rock for sh... ... assume the appearance of honeycomb, whatever may be its position, the air cells are at right angles with what was the water surface. Where there is a...

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...the wheel has come full circle” we do not begin again with a new period of human life; but we have passed from the best to the worst, and there we end... ...ncy, too, is the growth of time; and some of the greatest creations of the human mind have been wanting in unity. Tried by this test, several of the P... ...and the State is the visible embodiment of justice under the conditions of human society. The one is the soul and the other is the body, and the Greek... ...imagines himself to have found the true argument “in the representation of human life in a State perfected by justice and governed according to the id... ...ection, which is the idea of good—like the sun in the visible world;—about human perfection, which is justice—about education be ginning in youth and... ...and if they have anyhow found a way in, then he should have them and their cells cut out as speedily as possible. Yes, by all means, he said. Then, in...

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..., of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of personal... ... mass of laborious trifling and cold-blooded exaggerations but a satire on human life of the highest genius? Still there are points common to the two.... ...ou would have found within it a heavenly and inestimable drug, a more than human understanding, an admirable virtue, matchless learning, invincible co... ...ason then should white import joy. Nor is this signification instituted by human imposition, but by the universal consent of the world received, which... ...is behaviour, that he had the resemblance of a little angel more than of a human creature. Then he said to Grangousier, Do you see this young boy? He ... ...s carried the standards, banners, ensigns, guidons, and colours into their cells and chambers to make garters of them. But when those that had been sh... ... and tortures as are due to and inflicted on those that inhabit the horrid cells of the infernal regions; and withal incline, instigate, and persuade ...

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...rom the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. I do not pretend to be an o...

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLI... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ransmission, in any way. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...s of Religious Experience The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James To E.P.G. In Filial Gratitude and Love CONTEN... ...of life— Asceticism— Obedience— Poverty—The sentiments of democracy and of humanity— General effects of higher excitements. LECTURES XIV AND XV THE VA... ... purely nec- essary, and nothing more. It is not allowed among us that our cells should be ornamented with pictures or aught else, neither armchairs, ... ... various good reasons why the company forbids secular persons to enter our cells, the principal one is that thus we may the easier be kept in poverty.... ...tter offers a so much richer pasturage and shade to the fancy, has so many cells with so many different kinds of honey, is so indulgent in its multifo...

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......... 270 Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism .................... 285 Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and th... ...newal applies. With the renewal of physical existence goes, in the case of human beings, the recreation of beliefs, ide- als, hopes, happiness, misery... ...zed group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to them- selves without ... ...e the rudimentary abilities necessary for physical existence. The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of man... ... to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity! 2. Education and Communication. So obvious, indeed, is the necess... ...s of what has preceded. When the bees gather pollen and make wax and build cells, each step prepares the way for the next. When cells are built, the q...

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...s, Plotinus, Proclus, Hierocles, Maximus Tyrius, and Syrianus. There was a human-perfectibility man. He quoted Turgot, Price, Priestly, Condorcet, De ... ...ection of the Baron. The eyes, before invisible, now wore an energetic and human expres- sion, while they gleamed with a fiery and unusual red; and th... ...and shrunk away from the rapid and searching expression of his earnest and human-looking eye. Among all the retinue of the Baron, however, none were f... ...he excitement wrought in the feel- ings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of in... ...been given a fair trial, if ever in any. W e did every thing that rational human- ity could suggest. I am sorry that you could not have paid us a visi... ...the keepers found them- selves pinioned hand and foot, and thrown into the cells, where they were attended, as if they were the lunatics, by the lunat... ...actly either—for the madmen had been free, but the keepers were shut up in cells forthwith, and treated, I am sorry to say, in a very cavalier manner.... ...st well tarred, then —carefully feathered, and then shut up in underground cells. They had been so imprisoned for more than a month, during which peri...

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...plain, looking across it towards the Brooks Mountain Range. “There isn’t a human within fifty miles around, and the landscape is just so big and amazi... ...women and men were separated, so the women in our group went to the female cells and the males went to the male cells. When we got to the cell, there ... ...icult for me to accept how much love a child yearns for because of lack of human contact. The last day of my trip, I believe, was the hard- est. We vi...

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... 1812 CHAPTER I ABSOLUTE CONTINUITY of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind. Laws of motion of any kind become compre- hensible to man only ... ...ted elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large propor- tion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of con- tinuous motion into d... ... (absolute continuity) and thereby corrects the inevitable error which the human mind cannot avoid when it deals with separate elements of motion inst... ...e laws of historical movement just the same thing happens. The movement of humanity, arising as it does from innumerable arbitrary human wills, is con... ... history. But to arrive at these laws, resulting from the sum of all those human wills, man’s mind postulates arbitrary and disconnected units. The fi... ...ly against the walls of the hive in their flight. Here and there among the cells con- taining dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can some- times be... ...here a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts be- yond their strength laboriously drag away a dead be... ...f corpses. The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells. In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bee...

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...r hast where stood Their great Commander; Godlike shapes and forms Excelling human, Princely Dignities, And Powers that earst in Heaven sat on Thrones... ...s durst affront his light. First MOLOCH, horrid King besmear’d with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears, Though for the noyse of Drums and Tim... ...r Priests, to seek Thir wandring Gods disguis’d in brutish forms Rather then human. Nor did ISRAEL scape Th’ infection when their borrow’d Gold compo... ... Milton 17 And hands innumerable scarce perform Nigh on the Plain in many cells prepar’d, That underneath had veins of liquid fire Sluc’d from the ... ...d as soon had form’d within the ground A various mould, and from the boyling cells By strange conveyance fill’d each hollow nook, As in an Organ from ... ... less then Gods. On th’ other side up rose BELIAL, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heav’n; he seemd For dignity compos’d an... ... or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever during dark Surrounds me,... ...The Femal Bee that feeds her Husband Drone Deliciously, and builds her waxen Cells With Honey stor’d: the rest are numberless, And thou thir Natures k...

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... first as last. You neednt be afraid of the aristocracy, dear: theyre only human creatures like ourselves after all; and youll hold your own with them... ...d swimming about there as fresh as paint some of the identical little live cells that Adam christened in the Garden of Eden. But if big things like us... ...d trousers: a man like any other man. And beneath that coat and trousers a human soul. Tarleton’s Underwear! [He goes out gravely into the vestibule].... ...to his family. Read any man’s letters to his children. Theyre not 35 Shaw human. Theyre not about himself or themselves. Theyre about hotels, scenery... ... Tarleton, believe me, our loss. TARLETON. Well, why not? Averages out the human race. Makes the nigger half an Englishman. Makes the English- man hal... ...ilities appropriate to the opposite sex. And yet, why opposite? We are all human: males and females of the same species. When the dress is the same th...

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..., was disclosed; farther, what seemed scarcely less interesting, a quite new human Individuality, an almost unexampled personal character, that, namel... ... are full of light and music and high swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of life beats tremulous and faint, 16 SARTOR RESARTUS a... ...ancient Caledonian, squatted himself in morasses, lurking for his bestial or human prey; without implements, without arms, save the ball of heavy Flin... ...ay, the whole country being under water? But, on the other hand, show us the human being, of any period or climate, without his Tools: those very Cale... ...erlasting Now? Think well, thou too wilt find that Space is but a mode of our human Sense, so likewise Time; there is no Space and no Time: WE are—we k... ...us little Figure, automatic, nay alive? “Strange enough how creatures of the human kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of ...

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...! Can heav’nly minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe? Against the Tiber’s mouth, but far away, An ancient town was sea... ... realms he fix’d his eyes The Aeneid Virgil 10 Whom, pond’ring thus on human miseries, When V enus saw, she with a lowly look, Not free from tears... ...l bound; whom, fraught with eastern spoils, Our heav’n, the just reward of human toils, Securely shall repay with rites divine; And incense shall asce... ... eager to discover more. It look’d a wild uncultivated shore; But, whether humankind, or beasts alone Possess’d the new found region, was unknown. Ben... ...d; Pygmalion then the T yrian scepter sway’d: One who condemn’d divine and human laws. Then strife ensued, and cursed gold the cause. The monarch, bli... ...ad their youth abroad, while some condense Their liquid store, and some in cells dispense; Some at the gate stand ready to receive The golden burthen,... ..., Fearful of winter, and of future wants, T’ invade the corn, and to their cells convey The plunder’d forage of their yellow prey. The sable troops, a...

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...mong other things) upon the idea that the principle source of error in all human investigations lay in the liability of the under- standing to under-r... ... I had never before been in a similar situation, and the tumultuous sea of human heads filled me, therefore, with a delicious novelty of emotion. I ga... ...le atmosphere teemed with desolation. Y et, as we proceeded, the sounds of human life revived by sure degrees, and at length large bands of the most a... ... populous town, the street of the D—— Hotel, it presented an appearance of human bustle and activity scarcely inferior to what I had seen on the eveni... ...aining a place in his contemplated publica- 74 EA Poe tion, enlighten the human race, and at the same time immortal- ize himself—ideas which, I shoul... ... while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells!...

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...conceived and brought forth an Ethiopian. I will not trouble you with more human testi- monies, but conclude with a stronger warrant. We read (Gen. xx... ...ned to that kingdom, in which men to each other were more like brutes than human creatures. There was a monster born at Nazara in the year 1530. It ha... ... men; when we are taught to believe that not any was ever begotten without human seed, except the Son of God. The devil then being a spirit and having... ...reation belongs to God only. Again, if the devil could assume to himself a human body and enliven the faculties of it, and cause it to generate, as so... ...orn. Yet, it is not denied, but the devils, trans- forming themselves into human shapes, may abuse both men and women, and, with wicked people, use ca... ...It is wrongly said, that in the cavity of the womb there are seven divided cells or receptacles for the male seed, but anatomists know that there are ... ...bsolutely long but somewhat round? A. To the end that the three creeks and cells of the brain might the better be distinguished; that is, the fancy in... ... the head or brain, and therefore it lifteth up itself, that the creeks or cells of the imagination may be opened, and that the spirits which help the... ...men conceive twins? A. Because there are 244 The Works of Aristotle seven cells or receptacles in the womb; wherefore they may naturally have so many...

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...olemn responsibilities, grave uncer- tainties, and mysterious destinies of human nature. And so, too often, did their poet. Pope’s special faculties a... ...litter all over with the polish of profound malig- nity . His knowledge of human nature, particularly of woman’s heart, is great, but seems more the r... ...uch of an unconscious outflow, and partakes too much of the genial and the human nature for him. His fancy is lively and copious, but its poetical pro... ... was to have consisted of the same number:— 1. Of the extent and limits of human reason. 2. Of those arts and sciences, and of the parts of them, whic... ... considered in all the circumstances, orders, professions, and stations of human life. The scheme of all this had been maturely digested, and communic... ... house, Doors, windows, chimneys, and the spacious rooms, Equal in size to cells of honeycombs: Hast thou for these now ventured from the shore, Thy b...

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...etersburg doctor, Lorrain. “Then it is certain?” said the prince. “Prince, humanum est errare,* but...” replied the doc- tor, swallowing his r’s, and ... ...gave him a searching glance. “Are you living with your mother?” *To err is human. 29 Tolstoy “I am living at Countess Rostova’s,” replied Boris, agai... ...expectancy at his door, which creaked slightly when opened. “The limits of human life... are fixed and may not be o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a... ... the hand. She had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. She gave her companion an angry glance. “There is still time, m... ...eded no one and nothing. He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and int... ...ly against the walls of the hive in their flight. Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be hea... ...here a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee ... ...f corpses. The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells. In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bee...

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...lstoy himself in 1858. More than twenty years later he gave up hunting, on humanitarian grounds .] WE WERE OUT on a bear hunting expedition. My comr... ...y. And the angel said: ‘I was alone in the field, naked. I had never known human needs, cold and hunger, till I became a man. I was famished, frozen, ... ... time search ing for Elisha both outside and in the Church itself. In the cells of the Church he saw many people of all kinds, eating, and drinking w... ...good in man. May the Lord bless him! We used to live like animals; he made human beings of us. After giving Efím food and drink, they showed him where... ...d Him self has built to unite all men in one faith and one religion? ‘All human temples are built on the model of this temple, which is God’s own wor...

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... began to be introduced to the world of knowledge over 65 years ago, the sciences became to me what water is to fish, air is to birds and earth is to humanity. The introduction to the mathematical, physical, chemical and biological sciences felt like reading a beautiful poem or listening to a romantic melody. In essence, it was truly a joyful experience, full of the enig...

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... 55 MARCELLO MALPIGHI (1628-1694) Italian Physiologist and Microscopist 55 One of founders of the science of microscopy. Unveiled the nature of human anatomy and physiology. MONDINO De LUZZI (1275-1326) Italian Anatomist 55 One of the greatest human anatomists of the Renaissance. ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564) Flemish-Italian Anatomist 55 Wrote his masterpiece o...