... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United S... ... United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me t... ...lated deaths. It is still engaged in atavistic debates about abortion, the role of religion, and whether to teach the theory of evolution. Accordin... ...s", both political and cultural. Read about American eschatology HERE. Americans' religion is a manifestation of their "Chosen People Syndrome". T... ...y spread inexorably throughout the fertile Anatolia, confronting in the process the Byzantines and the Mongols. They were no match to the brute effi... ...the Marble (Marmara) Sea. His desperate struggles against the corrupt and decadent Byzantines, made him the Robin Hood, the folk hero of the millio...

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...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...d Spirituality Pg 1476 The Reason Behind Culture Pg 1477 The Reason Behind Religion and Mysticism Pg 1479 Conclusion Pg 1483 The Alternative ... ...il Pg 1766 How the Undead Fool the Living Pg 1767 The Undead and the Jewish Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mys... ..., being absent from their own families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting their own colonies, and leaving them to fend for the... ...erally; all the war-like Zulus and Bantus, the Masai and Swahili’s that ruled empires in Africa before the White Man came were nomadic herders. Fo... ... myth comes from a supposed Bishop called Nicholas: in the 4 th century AD in Byzantine THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six B: Civilization The Eff...

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... BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... uncertain, restless, and advancing as the frontiers of her all-conquering empire. It is false to say, that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman g... ...g, (o basileus,) *“Nameless city.”—The true name of Rome it was a point of religion to conceal; and, in fact, it was never revealed. 6 The Cæsars wer... ...ulations of summer lakes, the sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne? The Byzantine court, which, merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that... ...llied in spirit to the barbaresque in taste. In reality, some parts of the Byzantine court ritual were arranged in the same spirit as that of China or... ... and unseen Father of the spiritual body. Nay, considering that even false religions, as those of Pagan my- thology, have probably never been utterly ...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the col...

...: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life b... ...ank as the limitations of his character permit; it is his metaphysics, his religion, his moral stan- dards, his uncertainties and the expedients with ... ...ication, if he does achieve it, and imposes an order upon his life, is his religion. I find in the scheme of conversion and salvation as it is present... ... nearly every person living within the confines of what was then the Roman Empire who left living offspring must have been ancestral to every person l... ...s main body is concerned still is, the pontifex maximus of the Roman world empire, an official who was performing sacrifices centuries before Christ w... ...and authoritative forms of Catho- lic teaching which have erected that new Byzantine-looking cathedral in Westminster, or Whitfield’s Tabernacle in th...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong....

...Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e inherited assurances of his na- tive rectory, and held by Church, Crown, Empire, decorum, respectability, solvency—and compulsory Greek at the Littl... ...fight,” said the big employer, carrying on before the bishop could reply. “Religion had better get out of the streets until this thing is over. The me... ...on. Their discussions im- plied at once the extreme need that was felt for religion by all sorts of representative people, and the universal convic- t... ...propositions…. Prayers and litanies com- 52 The Soul of a Bishop posed in Byzantine and mediaeval times…. the want of ac- tuality, the curious sillin... ...ry country of the world will look straight up to the rule of Right and the empire of Heaven.” (“And God will be King of the World,” said the Angel. “I...

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...lutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pe... ...oracles, and was thought particularly skillful and clever in all points of religion and divination. He alleged, that it was unlawful to make a lame ma... ...his to recover the one poor town of Messene, after he had lost so great an empire both by sea and land, as the Spartans were possessed of, when he beg... ...m of Dandamis and Calanus. While Philip went on his expedition against the Byzantines, he left Alexander, then sixteen years old, his lieutenant in Ma... ... were extremely indignant, and repented hav- ing ever sent any help to the Byzantines, Phocion rose and 311 Plutarch’s Lives told them they ought not... ...ased. Of these observances, some small traces, it is still made a point of religion not to omit, on the appointed days; but the greatest part of the c...

...HOCION ..................................................................................................................................... 300 CATO THE YOUNGER ............................................................................................................... 330 AGIS ...............................................................................................

...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...s. One does not talk to soldiers at the front in this war of Glory or the “Empire on which the sun never sets” or “the meteor flag of England” or of K... ... place by the side of those who fight for a liberal civilisation against a Byzantine imperialism. 43 H G Wells As I came out of the brightly lit Gall... ... be undesirable; the production may exceed the industrial resources of any empire to pro- duce; but there is no inherent impossibility in such things.... ...e or probability to support them. It is, we are assured, turning people to religion, making them moral and thoughtful. It is also, we are assured with... ...voted brains, how they are get- ting new views about the duties of labour, religion, morality, monarchy , and any other notions that the gentleman at ...

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...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...t demonstrated, from its odor. 43 Thomas de Quincey Schreiber approved of religion; but nothing of a sectarian cast could she have tolerated; nor had... ...ny ways give to herself, must feel that she has her own separate domain of empire unaffected by the most sov- ereign beauty upon earth. Every man that... ...its promises, she sought re- lief and support to her wounded feelings from religion. But the change brought with it a difficult trial to myself. She r... ...r: GREECE, in the largest extent of that term, having once belonged to the Byzantine empire, is included, by the mis- conception of hasty readers, in ... ...lves not less of the decrepitude which had by that time begun to palsy the Byzantine sceptre, than of the martial and religious fanaticism which disti...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in havin...

...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

...lutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pe... ...r had they adjudged them also sacred, they could not, with- out offense to religion, have given free ingress and egress for the necessaries of human l... ...en as we did; and, having built a city to be the greatest in the world for empire and glory, should again return to heaven. But farewell; and tell the... ...clare war against them, that they might be massa- cred without a breach of religion. It is confessed, on all hands, that the Spartans dealt with them ... ...me. When the treaty was sworn to on both sides Alcibiades went against the Byzantines, who had revolted from the Athenians, and drew a line of circumv... ...iolence, coming on with much fury, and with great shouts and outcries. The Byzantines, thus surprised and astonished, while they all hurried to the de...

...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...t splashes of lead by means of a brass can- non in the garden. I find this empire of the floor much more vivid and de- tailed in my memory now than ma... ...ote chance of his being in hell, he was so mani- festly not evil, and this religion would not permit him a re- mote chance of being out yet. When I wa... ...se pilgrims we got to a comparative treat- 60 The New Machiavelli ment of religions, and from that, by a sudden plunge, to entirely sceptical and dis... ... shows a nice disposition not to take on the job! How the Devil is a great Empire to be run with men like him?” “All his little jokes and things,” sai... ...aotic forces. “There is no clear right in the world any more. The world is Byzantine. The justest man to-day must practise a tainted goodness.” These ...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought...

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at t...

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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commenta...

...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...hic Sketches of holding) certain fixed principles in politics, or possibly religion. These distinguishing features, which become badges of enmity and ... ... but assuredly we cannot be taxed with that neglect. No part of our Indian empire, or of its adjacencies, but has occupied the researches of our Orien... ...o these ally themselves with religious feeling! and all three—love, grief, religion—are haunters of solitary places. Love, grief, and the mystery of d... ...thought, there can be none under such a ritual, which tends violently to a Byzantine, or even to a Chinese result of freezing, as it were, all natural... ...nal cultivators of the Roman language—and which, at another period, in the Byzantine court, operated to preserve the purity of the mother idiom within...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................

...rnhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Make... ...ever forgot their epaulets or their quarters of nobility. This mixture of religion and worldly pride seems in- congruous at first; but have we not at... ...alace. This place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a ... ... that warned me of the fact) that we are looking on at the last days of an empire; and heard many stories of weakness, disorder, and oppression. I eve... ...d and chirped a good deal, and, I dare say, told us the whole state of the empire. He was the only Mussulman with whom I at- tained any degree of inti... ...f Jehoshaphat, and performing with ex- ceeding rigour the offices of their religion. At morning and evening you were sure to see the chiefs of the fam...

...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of pre...

...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ev- astation to which that edifice, already sadly shattered by the wars of religion and successive profanations, finally succumbed in 1797. In 1815 th... ...e Chateau de Blois declines. Its interesting period is that of the wars of religion. It was the chief residence of Henry III., and the scene of the pr... ... seemed to fill itself with the shadow of the Roman name, as if the mighty empire were still as erect as the supports of the aqueduct; and it was open... ...d with quaint figures, which have not lost a nose or a finger. An angular, Byzantine-looking Christ sits in a diamond-shaped frame at the summit of th... ...s situation. It was not only a city, but a state; not only a state, but an empire; and on the crest of its little mountain called itself sovereign of ...

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...sics Series Publication Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...lso. He rose and went to the drawing-room. It was a large, vacant-seeming, Empire sort of drawing-room, with yellow silk chairs along the walls and ye... ...nel. The Colonel tip-toed beau- tifully across the wide blank space of the Empire room, and seated himself on a chair, rather in the distance, with hi... ...reason the women were kept away from the men. For this reason our Catholic religion tried to keep the young girls in convents, and innocent, before ma... ...bases for his opinion. “Yes—interesting. Very interesting. Rather like the Byzantines—lingering on into far other ages. Anna Comnena always charmed me... ...” “What,” said Aaron rather sarcastically—”those who are looking for a new religion?” “Religion—and love—and all that. It’s a disease now.” “Oh, I don...

...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now ...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE BLUE BALL ..............................................................................................4 CHAPTER II: ROYAL OAK.................................................................................................

...rtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Jame... ...g of the Debats,” said Bixiou in his neighbor’s ears. “And where would the empire of the Caesars have been but for these queens?” Blondet went on; “La... ...g your face to him to follow him without his knowing it— such love as that religion would have forgiven; it is no of- fence to laws human or divine, a... ...will be trained in the practice of Christian exercises, you will be taught religion. You may come out an accomplished 33 Balzac young lady, chaste, p... ...d of light or air, have been hewn out of that beautiful structure in which Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque—the three phases of ancient art—were harm... ...the like. The first two archways on that side of the yard, facing the fine Byzantine corridor—the only vestige now of Saint-Louis’ elegant palace—form...

...on Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsyl... ... Em- peror Julian when he sent for a barber, and there came a count of the empire. ‘She must have wanted to look at you,’ proceeded Arthur, ‘or she wo... ...lf pine. Though most conscientious, she had not yet grown up to understand religion as a present comfort. To her it was a guide and an obligation, and... ...retto. She went along with them in the researches for Greek in- scription, Byzantine carving, or Frank fortress; she shared the exultation of decipher... ...ot know how to apply the same principle to enable her to endure. She knows religion as a guide, not as a comfort. She had not grown up to it, poor thi... ...more articles to benighted editors on their last legs. I can finish off my Byzantine his- tory, and coin it into bezants.’ ‘ And these were your hard-...

...Excerpt: The sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled o...

...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A... ...e Dove by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ground, and there were reasons of state—rea- sons operating at the seat of empire in Fleet Street—why the nail should be struck on the head. Densher m... ... coldly expressed, through the instinctive avoidance of cheap raptures—the religion of foreign things. When it was revealed to her how many more forei... ... if she inclined to an indulgence verily Byzan- tine. If one could only be Byzantine!—wasn’t that what she insidiously led one on to sigh? Milly tried... ...tried to oblige her—for it really placed Susan herself so handsomely to be Byzantine now. The great ladies of that race—it would be somewhere in Gibbo...

Excerpt: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.

...The scientific and historical miracles of Quran Maybe you have heard that the miracle of the last prophet (Muhammad) is a book named “Quran”. Have you ever had this question that how a book can be a miracle? The Quran has m...

...BOOK ONE- Allah's Scientific Miracles in the Qur'an THE FORMATION OF THE UNIVERSE THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE THE END OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE BIG CRUNCH CREATION FROM HOT SMOKE THE SEPARATION OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SU...

...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...n with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not to propound any metaphysical problem; I wish o... ...answer, upon this one point—how much is understood by that obscure term,* ‘religion,’ when used by a Christian? Only I am punc- tilious upon one deman... ...rom a high doctrinal religion, let us seek an illustration from our Indian empire. The Christian missionaries from home, when first opening their view... ...est to the commencement of what Mr. Finlay, in a peculiar sense, calls the Byzantine empire. These incidents have nowhere been systematically or conti... ...s of power from all further concurrence or coalition with the views of the Byzantine Caesar. Constantinople was from that date thrown back more upon i...

....................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FOR ETERNITY ................................ 90 JUDAS ISCARIOT.............................................................................................................. 103 ON HUME?S AR...

... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnish... .... Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ... way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ...r own risk. her own risk. her own risk. her own risk. her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ort of a Papist or an Unitarian; another, every one who believes in revealed religion; a few extend their charity a little further, but stop at the be... ...ce from the reigning opinion in self regarding, than even in social matters; religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the f... ...ht have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constant... ...was persisted in, it was successful. In Spain, Italy, Flanders, the Austrian empire, Protestantism was rooted out; and, most likely, would have been s... ...nd there would be no reason why civiliza tion should not die out, as in the Byzantine Em pire. Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are al ways ...

...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be ...

...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ..., lie folded already in the first man. Ep- och after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, de- mocracy, are merely the application of his manifold s... ...must sit solidly at home, and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the gov... ...he mechanic arts and the migration of colo- nies,) it gives the history of religion, with some close- ness to the faith of later ages. Prometheus is t... ...of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. The other terro... ... dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble. I know that this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque ...

...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

.................................................................................................................................................... 127 THE OVER-SOUL .................................................................................................................................................. 137 IX. THE OVER-SOUL .............................................

...THE KORAN Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the Rev. ... .... G. Margoliouth, M.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Noble Qur'an The Koran trans. Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev.... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Koran trans. Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Ma... ... The Backbiter 14 107 Religion 15 102 Desire 16 ... ... tual and more equivocal r\oc\le of warrior, politician, and founder of an empire. G. Margoliouth. 11 The Koran SELECT BIBLIOGRAP SELECT BIBLIOGRAP S... ...her writers), by J. Murdock (Sacred Books of the East), 2nd ed., 1902; The Religion of the Koran, selections with an introduction by A. N. Wollaston (... ...were thus forwarded to several of the chief mili- tary stations in the new empire, and all previously existing copies were committed to the flames. Za... ...racci, Prideaux, and others, in recent days, one of whom has found, in the Byzantine “Maometis,” the number of the Beast (Rev. xii)! It is nearer to t...

...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful e...

...1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped 3 73 The Enfolded 4 93 The Brightness 5 94 The Opening 6 113 The Daybreak 7 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 The Unity...

...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...ious man: yet, undoubtedly, I had all the foundations within me upon which religion might hereafter have grown. My heart overflowed with thankfulness ... ...e sun and the moon rise and set as usual upon the mightiest revolutions of empire and of worldly fortune that this planet ever beholds; and it is some... ...in some quarters of this great metropolis, and in other cities of the same empire, by means of a very malignant typhus. This fever is supposed to be t... ...o be noble in many things, without having many points of contact with true religion. If you deny that 109 Thomas de Quincey you it is that calumniate... ...ussian Emperor, either it is built upon some confusion between him and the Byzantine Caesars, as though the former, being of the same religion with th...

...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

... Manfred, A Dramatic Poem by Lord Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Manfred, A Dramatic Poem by Lord Byron , the Pennsylvania St... ... Prophet answered to the Hag Of Endor; and the Spartan Monarch drew From the Byzantine maid’s unsleeping spirit An answer and his destiny – he slew Th... ...roat with his officious robe; The dying Roman thrust him back and said Some empire still in his expiring glance – ‘It is too late – is this fidelity?... ...ful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o’er With silent worship of the great of old,...

...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. Manfred, the lamp must be replenish?d, but even then It will not burn so long as I must watch. My slumbers -- if I slumber -- are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vi...

...es by Joseph Conrad A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes is a publication of the Pennsy... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, the Pennsylvania ... ... press to that dummy?” “Because it sat for days and days in the robes of a Byzantine Empress to a painter… I wonder where he discovered these priceles... ...suffer a model inside his house. That’s why the ‘Girl in the Hat’ and the ‘Byzantine Empress’ have that family air, though neither of them is really a... ...e law. And Mrs. Blunt really had a position once—in the days of the Second Empire—and so…” I listened open-mouthed to these things into which my W est... ...into that part of it where art and letters reign undisputed like a sort of religion of beauty to which I have been faithful through all the vicissitud... ...with her. The “charming, brave Monsieur” was now fighting for the King and religion against the impious Lib- erals. He went away the very morning afte...

...Excerpt: The pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscript which was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems to have been the writer?s childhood?s friend. They had parted as children, or very littl...

...ication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania... ...e takes to be embodied in economic systems. Political constitutions, laws, religions, philosophies—all these he regards as, in their broad outlines, e... ...rs and carpenters for their skill with clay and wood. Those who govern the empire make the same mistake. Now I regard government of the empire from qu... ...d. And then, with their gushing over music and fussing over ceremony , the empire became divided against itself.[“Musings of a Chinese Mystic.” Select... ...ill there still be a sufficient spur to progress to prevent a condition of Byzantine immobility? In considering this question we are, in a certain sen...

...ER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ...............................................................

...THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...RK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...k that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “So it has,” said Hitchcock, chuckling. “I overheard ... ... among the coal, and the snatch of a song, something like this: “Oh, the Empire State must learn to wait, And the Cannon-ball go hang! When the ... ...Phee liked that pamphlet enormously, for it was com- posed in the Bouverie-Byzantine style, with baroque and ro- coco embellishments; and afterwards h... ...and his small-boned hands were moving restlessly. “Suppose you flagged the Empire State Express, or the West- ern Cyclone?” “Suppose I did. I know Oti...

...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, disco...

...Contents THE BRIDGE-BUILDERS ............................................................................................................. 4 A WALKING DELEGATE..............................................................................