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...re's most always a way around killing. Once I realized this, I began to reform my whole view on everything. I knew there was a problem, and I knew...

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... is a literary demiurge who does not want “ the death of the sinner”, but his reform through non-literature, that is, in “the sense of non-sense”. T...

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...we, thus, really are choosing ourselves. APPENDIX - A Comment on Campaign Finance Reform The Athenian model of representative participatory democ... ...hese activities would be a disservice to democracy and to voters. Campaign finance reform in its current (myriad) forms, is, thus, largely anti-dem... ...ndidates, are likely to be severely disadvantaged by any form of campaign finance reform. The solution is to reduce the size of the constituencies... ...ic. This apparent schism is, indeed, merely an apparition. The differences between reformed left and new right in both parts of the continent have ... ...and disenchantment. Many among the young are too identified with the pratfalls of "reform". Age and experience reassert themselves through the ball... ...s when economic agents do not bear the marginal costs of their actions. Regulatory reforms can alter marginal costs but they accomplish this task t... ...s in accounting policies and tax laws, hyperinflation, institutional and structural reform and other market-deflecting events and processes. They f... ...malfeasance. This is why economic activity drops sharply whenever institutions are reformed. II. Trust in other players Market players assume that... ...come self-aware and exclusionary only during the Middle Ages or, at the latest, the Reformation. Max Weber (1864-1920) attributed its success to its...

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...d loose. 262 QUANTUM U A FOR T REFORM T CHAOS A R B O ORDER S L DISCORD B E ...

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...y for the sake of peace. This basis of action was itself a death-blow to all reform in social or political life. It was a selfish, negative way of se...

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...nui by which their exist- ence is rendered an intolerable burthen. English reformers exclaim against sinecures,—but the true 160 Volume 3 pension lis... ...f the world, and his real char- acter as a man, who, for a vain attempt to reform the world, paid the forfeit of his life to that overbearing tyranny ... ...whose pres- ence is essential to their being. Christianity was intended to reform the world: had an all- wise Being planned it, nothing is more improb... ... The system of a simple diet promises no Utopian advantages. It is no mere reform of legislation, whilst the furious passions and 197 Shelley evil pr... ...s of temper, that alone might offer a cer- tain pledge of the future moral reformation of society. On a natural system of diet, old age would be our l... ...s. Again, the spirit of the nation that should take the lead in this great reform would insensibly become agricultural; commerce, with all its vice, s... ...for the aristocracy, the army, and the manu- facturers. The advantage of a reform in diet is obviously greater than that of any other. It strikes at t... ...bit resolutely and at once. Dr. T rotter asserts that no drunkard was ever reformed by gradually relinquishing his dram. (See T rotter on the Nervous ... ... the sun shines—a fine day for a walk, Then to politics turn, of Burdett’s reformation, One declares it would hurt, t’other better the nation, _10 ...

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...d. v. 13. To clear th’ incumber’d laws.] The code of laws was abridged and reformed by Justinian. v. 15. Christ’s nature merely human.] Justinian i... ...int Buonaventura, general of the Franciscan order, in which he effected some reformation, and one of the most profound divines of his age. “He refus... ...n.] The commentators in general suppose that our Poet here augurs that great reform, which he vainly hoped would follow on the arrival of the Emperor ...

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...phical principles, that were, in their majority, established or at least, reformulated by the brilliant Leibniz. Since he did not resort to an expli... ...ason of some laws, of that ″neutral equilibrium″ that supposes a possible reformulation and necessarily, an extension of the respective theory in as... ...g the thesis on time irreversibility, the one that lends itself mostly to reformulation, and that might lead to a contrary conclusion, seems to be e... ...h too restrictive ″preliminary conditions″. In 1916 he was ″compelled″ to reformulate his hypotheses within the framework of the ″generalized relati... ...g that of light, it is predictable that the theory of relativity might be reformulated and completed with that part that could be called the ″theory... ... already ″covered″ by the Einsteinian theory. The extension and possible reformulation of the theory of relativity could supply substantiating elem... ...o those with patristic origins which are under the influence of religious reforms (Lutheranism, Calvinism) proclaim themselves to be the result of t...

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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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...a veritable Renaissance man: a professional baseball player, a luminary in the field of aviation, an outspoken advocate of vegetarianism and economic reform, and the founder of a pseudo-scientific crackpot philosophy called Lawsonomy. Born Again, his only novel, is a bizarre, delirious, and delightfully silly utopian science-fiction novel that lays the groundwork for the p...

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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...