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...ghtest pages of modern history. Great Catherine, it is said, was the Catherine whose diplomacy, whose campaigns and conquests, whose plans of Liberal reform, whose correspondence with Grimm and Voltaire enabled her to cut such a magnificent figure in the eighteenth century....

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...g recklessly]. This isn’t severity: it’s tomfoolery. And if you think it’s reforming my character or teaching me anything, you’re mistaken. It may be ...

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...ture of schools. I mention it only because it would be folly to call for a reform of our schools without taking account of the corrupt resis- tance wh... ...chools without taking account of the corrupt resis- tance which awaits the reformer. A word must also be said about the opposition to reform of the ve... ...ive schoolmas- ter. He, poor wretch, has no other means of livelihood; and reform would leave him as a workman is now left when he is superseded by a ... ...AS BETWEEN ADULTS, we find a general quarrelsomeness which makes political reform as impossible to most Englishmen as to hogs. Certain sections of the... ... introduced by benevolent and intelligent despots and aristocrats. We Must Reform Society before We Can Reform Ourselves WHEN WE COME to the positive ... ... It is so fantastic, so mad, so appar- ently impossible, that no scheme of reform need ever hence- 74 A Treatise on Parents and Children forth be dis... ...ll on the Atlas shoulders of the fatherland and moth- erland. Pending such reforms and emancipations, a shatter- ing break-up of the parental home mus... ... let them. Always the Ma- chine. In short, they dont know how. They try to reform Society as an old lady might try to restore a broken down locomotive...

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...ich has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wis dom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been ... ...sts who find an interest in keeping things in their present state, who dread reformation, and ex ert all their faculties to maintain the ascendancy o... ...who has time renders a ser vice to public morals and public tranquillity in reform ing these abuses by the salutary coercions of the law; but the ex... ...of Executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform, which will require particularly the correction of those abuses th... ...eration to the lights that flow from the mind that founded and the mind that reformed our system. The same diffidence induces me to hope for instructi... ...rs. Beyond that it wields a few general enumerated powers. It does not force reform on the States. It leaves individuals, over whom it casts its prote... ...S OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 110 a safer or surer instrument of reform in government than enlightened reason? Does he expect to find amon... ...buses that have grown up in the civil service of the country. To secure this reformation rules regulating methods of appointment and promotions were e... ...ent and promotions were established and have been tried. My efforts for such reformation shall be con tinued to the best of my judgment. The spirit o...

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...]. Has he gone mad? You never told me. BROADBENT. He has joined the Tariff Reform League. He would never have done that if his mind had not been weake... ... Dhats right. Dhats right, sir. BROADBENT [perfunctorily]. And, of course, Reform. All three speak at once, conventionally. CORNELIUS. Of course. FATH... ...EMPSEY. Of course. DORAN. Of course. MATTHEW [still suspicious]. Hwat does Reform mane, sir? Does it mane altherin annythin dhats as it is now? BROADB... ... now? BROADBENT [impressively]. It means, Mr Haffigan, main- taining those reforms which have already been conferred on humanity by the Liberal Party,... ...devel- opments to the free activity of a free people on the basis of those reforms. 59 GB Shaw DORAN. Dhat’s right. No more meddlin. We’re all right ...

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...e Radicals who used to advocate, as an indispensable preliminary to social reform, the strangling of the last king with the entrails of the last pries... ...gal penalties, can have no interest in the matter except the interest of a reformer in abolishing a corrupt and mischie- vous superstition, becomes in... ...undamentally, a fool. T ake another celebrated experiment: one in sanitary reform. In the days of Nero Rome was in the same predicament as London to-d... ... of thinking that I have often said, when consulted by despairing sanitary reformers, that what London needs to make her healthy is an earthquake. Why... ...rm. But he cannot make him change his daily habits without knowing it. THE REFORMS ALSO COME FROM THE LAITY IN THE MAIN, then, the doctor learns that ...

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...ing taxation, suppression of all freedom to try new social experiments and reform ob- solete institutions, in snobbery, jobbery, idolatry, and an omni... ..., and law by appeals to morality or constitutional agita- tion for Liberal reforms, made common cause with the starv- ing wage-working class, and reso... ...part in the political struggles of his day than Bishop took in the English Reform agitation of 1832, or Sterndale Bennett in the Chartist or Free T ra... ... hoping that each will establish some permanently practical and beneficial reform or moral habit that will survive the correction of its excesses by t... ...ity of his prodigious artistic power by the first fierce attack of the New Reformation, gave no quarter to the antagonist of his hero. His Wotan, whom... ...mself in the character of the most pugnacious, aggressive, and sanguine of reformers, he rested himself as a Pessimist and Ninanist. In The Ring the q...

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............................................................. 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS .................................................................... ............................................................. 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS .................................................................... ...n the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion a... ...st the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers, and in the search after truth finds, like them, new perils to vi... ... girdle of a superstition. A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation. How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of t... ...f the Temple, the Advent of Christ, Dark Ages, the Revival of Letters, the Reformation, the discovery of new lands, the open- ing of new sciences and ... ..., the porter? Broader and deeper we must write our annals,—from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,—if w... ...the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quak- erism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolitio... ...tronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms. In like manner the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in multitude. Not so, O ...

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...morandum, which is worth preserving as a relic of an ancient custom. After reforming the spelling and grammar, it runs as follows: “Men that travelled... ...wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the stree... ...philosopher. Who does not see that heresies have some time prevailed, that reforms have already taken place? All this worldly wisdom might be re gard... ...of the day, we are all, more or less, Asiatics, and give over all work and reform. While lying thus on our oars by the side of the stream, in the heat... ...ees. It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I. Think you that ... ...buy old land and bring it to, still everywhere the relentless opponents of reform bear a strange resemblance to ourselves; or, perchance, they are a f... ...sorrows germinate in us as the growth of the particular life we lead.” The reform which you talk about can be undertaken any morning before unbarring ... ...hem. Why do you not try it? Don’t let me hinder you. There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. Wol... ...I ask of such, What then? The derveeshes in the deserts of Bokhara and the reformers in Marlboro’ Chapel sing the same song. “There’s a good time comi...

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...il, without intending it, as God. A very few—as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men—serve the state with their conscience... ... and her soul trail in the dirt.” Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South... ... conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform. Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard... ...It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and pro vide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise mi nority? Why does it cry and r... ...rever. But we love better to talk about it: that we say is our mission. Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man. If... ...hich is not never for a long time appearing to be to him, unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him. I know that most men think differen... .... His words are wisdom to those legislators who con template no essential reform in the existing govern ment; but for thinkers, and those who legisl... ...s range and hospitality. Yet, compared with the cheap professions of most reformers, and the still cheaper wisdom an eloquence of politicians in gene...

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...re or less far-reaching, will follow. On the other hand, when an attempted reform involves the suppression or thor- ough-going remodelling of an insti... ... considerable body of sentiment in the class going to sup- port efforts of reform and amelioration, And much of this philanthropic and reformatory eff... ...orollary is somewhat wide. It applies especially to such movements for the reform or rehabilita- tion of the religious life as are of an austere, piet... ... Such, for instance, are the agitation for temperance and simi- lar social reforms, for prison reform, for the spread of educa- tion, for the suppress... ...which it proceeds is in no sense self-regarding or invidious. The economic reform wrought is largely of the nature of a permutation in the methods of ...

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...w of life gradually shifted from that of an aristocrat to that of a social reformer, her own remained unaltered; with the result that at the end of so... ...II. The emancipation of the serfs was only one among a number of projected reforms which engaged men’s minds. The national conscience awoke and echoed... ...mer Maude in his “Life of Tolstoy.”) As frequently happens in the lives of reformers, Tolstoy found himself more often in affinity with strang ers th... ...was dragging her, and her infatuation for Mahin, combined with a desire to reform him. This second desire now became the stronger. She had already hea...

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...tribution of landed 58 Anna Karenina – Part Five property and misdirected reforms, but that what had contributed of late years to this result was the... ...er since he had been left without a wife, he had in these very projects of reform been serving the Lord more zealously than before. The unmistakable i...

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...that we know so much of them as we do. The same is true of the more modern reformers and benefactors of their race. None can be an impartial or wise o... ...ew, but only a little better than the common dil ettantism. A sentimental reformer in architecture, he began at the cornice, not at the foundation. I... ...his bowels even for that is the seat of sympathy he forthwith sets about reforming the world. Being a microcosm himself, he discovers and it is a ... ... shall know, a worse man than myself. I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he b... ...nst the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it, that is a penalty which reformed tobacco chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have... ... bors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. Why is it that men give so poor an... ...t tended to at the same time! I heard that a distinguished wise man and reformer asked him if he did not want the world to be changed; but he answe... ...deed it does to a considerable extent. I loved to sound him on the various reforms of the day, and he never failed to look at them in the most simple ... .... A man sits as many risks as he runs. Finally, there were the self styled reformers, the greatest bores of all, who thought that I was forever singin...

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...ITCHENER. Have no next election. Bring in a Bill at once repealing all the reform Acts and vesting the Govern- ment in a properly trained magistracy r... ...y after you publish your scheme for invading Germany and repealing all the reform Acts. The Orderly comes in. MITCHENER. What do you want? THE ORDERLY...

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...tly, the first part of the process described by Dickens: that in which the reformers were snubbed 5 Shaw by front bench demonstrations that the admin... ...rt of How Not To Do Them: that is to say, the art of contriving methods of reform which will leave mat- ters exactly as they are. The report of the Jo... ...evidence. There- fore the Committee was unanimous as to the neces- sity of reforming the censorship; only, unfortunately, the majority attached to thi... ...orderly kind, demanded, not the aboli- tion of the institution, but such a reform as might make it consistent with their dignity and unobstructive to ... ... disorder is stopped, disorderly persons will either cease to come or else reform their manners. It is, however, quite arguable that the indiscriminat... ...ontrol can be a charter of the liberties of the stage as well as an Act to reform administration. The power to refuse to grant or renew a licence to a... ...t- ting from the prejudices of a County Council or City Corporation. Moral Reform Societies, “Purity” Soci- eties, Vigilance Societies, exist in Engla... ...ril by selling drink if I thought it did no good, as them silly temperance reformers make out, flying in the face of the natural tastes implanted in u...

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...ractical sense. I have no sympa- thy with vagabonds and talkers who try to reform society by taking men away from their regular productive work and ma... ...y- ing off of divine wrath by actual money payments to priests, or, in the reformed churches which discountenance this, by subscriptions to charities ... ...a great many so poor that they can barely live, a move- ment for religious reform will arise among the poor, and will be essentially a movement for ch... ...ngs and confessions and vigils. But Luther delivered us from all that. His reformation was a triumph of imagina- 19 Preface to Androcles and the Lion... ...verage stockbroker constitutes in itself a prima facie case for any social reform. THE REDUCTION TO MODERN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY All the same, we m... ...darker after his death until the darkness, after a brief false dawn in the Reformation and the Renascence, culminated in the commercial night of the n... ...deter- mined not to have their property meddled with by Jesus or any other reformer. 55 Preface to Androcles and the Lion MODERN COMMUNISM Now let us... ...ok for any consis- tency in such institutions; and it is only by continual reform and readjustment, and by a considerable elasticity in their en- forc... ...iest, we are again confronted with the absurdity that the best priest is a reformed rake. Thus does marriage, itself intolerable, thrust us upon intol...

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...ter DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD 10 ous for a private individual to think of reforming a state by fundamentally changing it throughout, and overturning ... ... it up amended; and the same I thought was true of any similar project for reforming the body of the sciences, or the order of teaching them establish... ... without remedy, nor once to be compared with such as attend the slightest reformation in public affairs. Large bodies, if once overthrown, are with ... ...o take part in the management of public affairs, are yet always projecting reforms; and if I thought that this tract contained aught which might justi... ...permit its publication. I have never contemplated anything higher than the reformation of my own opinions, and basing them on a foundation wholly my o... ... every one is so full of his own wisdom, that there might be found as many reformers as heads, if any were allowed to take upon themselves the task of...

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...the prophets, who were in a private station of life, rather irritated than reformed mankind by their freedom of warning, rebuke, and censure; whereas ... ...with Divine efficacy, being merely private citizens, rather irritated than reformed the people by their free- dom of warning, reproof, and denunciatio... ...eeks to regulate everything by law, is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it b... ...g to settle its controversies are much more calculated to irritate than to reform, and that they give rise to extreme licence: fur- ther, it was seen ...

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...icult as the task will be to me, I shall devote part of my energies to her reforma- tion and salvation.” Though Alexey Alexandrovitch was perfectly aw... ...could not exert any moral influence over his wife, that such an attempt at reformation could lead to noth- 58 Anna Karenina – Part Three ing but fals... ...part- ment, and was a glaring example of fruitless expendi- ture and paper reforms. Alexey Alexandrovitch was aware of the truth of this. The irrigati... ...” he said, evidently wishing to show he was not without culture. “Take the reforms of Peter, of Catherine, of Alexander. Take European history. And pr...

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...d in their kindness made her as one of their own. At that time, the ‘moral reform’ movement was awak- ening the attention of the benevolent in that ci... ...atourette and Miss Grear, became deeply interested in making an attempt to reform their fallen sisters, even the most degraded of them; and in this en... ...s trade. He afterwards removed to Albany, and became a hearer at the Dutch Reformed Church, then under Dr. Ludlow’s charge. He was fre- quently much e... ...ner Truth with an evil design! If the world would but sedulously set about reforming itself on this one point, who can calculate the change it would p...