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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...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. In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Well... ...n them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Thre... ...ve the British arrived at common views with France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa about the administration of Cen- tral Africa? Suppose Germany ... ...t happen again on a larger scale between white Eu- rope and middle Africa. Slavery in Africa, open or disguised, whether enforced by the lash or broug... ...he New Statesman. Then a kind of illustrative gesture would be made to the South American republics, although the in- ternal disturbances of the South... ...every side. Consider, moreover, that there are long sweeps of coast north, south, and west of the Rock, from which torpe- does could be discharged at ... ...was a plutocracy. Now the modern intelligence, being under a sort of magic slavery to the ancient Greeks, has to adapt all these terms to the problems...

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...out warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he mig...

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............................................................................................................................................. 113 A DEAL IN COTTON .................................................................................................................................................... 114 THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD ..............................................

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...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. Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... Charing Cross. They were to go to Rockett’s—the farm of one Cloke, in the southern counties—where, she assured them, they would meet the genuine Engl... ...sked. “To the estate. I’ll show you the back parts if ye like. You’re from America, ain’t ye? I’ve had a son there once myself.” They followed him dow... ...ou came. We thank you kindly,” the man added. “Are you the son that was in America?” she asked. “Yes, ma’am. On my uncle’s farm, in Connecticut. He wa... ...ran and returned swiftly. “Our land marches with Pardons for a mile on the south,” she explained, waving the full cup, “but one has quite enough to do... ...reached across triple lawns, let them out before tea-time into the unkempt south side of their land. “I want your hand, please,” said Sophie as soon a... ...nder the sun we talked about! He was awfully open-minded. He be- lieved in slavery, of course, but he quite saw that it would have to die out. That’s ...

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...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am, Your obliged friend and servant....

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............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKE... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Mak... ...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... ...nor an angel to turn the edge of Campion’s axe. The rack tore the limbs of Southwell the Jesuit and Sympson the Protestant alike. For faith, everywher... ...y to one, and end our days in peace there away from you.” “And is there no slavery in a convent?” says Esmond. “At least if women are slaves there, no... ...e went on, not re- garding this speech. “Y ou are sent to bid me back into slavery again, and inform me that my lord’s favor is graciously re- stored ... ...h his former bookish life and quietude,—a bitter feeling of revolt at that slavery in which he had chosen to confine himself 176 Henry Esmond for the... ...who was not a viscount’s widow, as it turned out, but a brewer’s relict at Southampton, with a couple of thousand pounds to her fortune: for honest To... ...of the Spanish ships that came from Vigo last year: my mother bought it at Southampton, as the ship was lying there—the ‘Rose,’ Cap- tain Hawkins.” “W...

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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...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. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ffeln! Not that! Never! … I don’t know whether I dare boast like a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace ... ... of confessing his innermost beliefs—which should console him for the hard slavery of the pen. III LIBERTY OF IMAGINATION should be the most precious ... ...ect who look at life from under a parasol. Naturally, being a man from the South, he had a rather outspoken belief in himself, but his small dis- tinc... ...o more unworthy supports: to the moral corrup- tion and mental darkness of slavery, to the mere brute force of numbers. This very ignominy of infatuat... ...ng else in the world, has moulded her institutions, and with the poison of slavery drugged the national temperament into the apathy of a hopeless fata... ... and of a preponderating voice in the settlement of every question in that south-east of Europe which merges into Asia. No principle be- ing involved ...

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... produced four fascinating dramatic studies of Heartbreak House, of which three, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and The Seagull, had been performed in England. Tolstoy, in his Fruits of Enlightenment, had shown us through it in his most ferociously contemptuous manner....

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn St... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publica... ...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... ...in places remote from the battlefields, notably on the west coast of North America and in India. But the moral pestilence, which was unquestionably a ... ...any suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the war fever went b... ...l sense and reason. In European Courts there was vindictive illegality: in American Courts there was raving lunacy. It is not for me to chronicle the ... ...lystoned like a deck. The garden to which the glass doors lead dips to the south before the landscape rises again to the hills. Emerging from the holl... ...s to bed at once, Hector. [She goes into the garden]. HECTOR. Is there any slavery on earth viler than this sla- very of men to women? RANDALL [rising...

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...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 Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...understand—Tolstoy’s too... a si- multaneous expedition.... But what’s the southern army to do? Prussia is neutral... I know that. What about Aus- tri... ...ther may fight together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New Y ork in America, to fetch the Frenchman, Moreau,” he said, alluding to the invita- ... ... sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, gazed at his del... ...for him to leave Petersburg. Pierre pro- posed going to his estates in the south and there attend- ing to the welfare of his serfs. He was joyfully pl... ...ok. She felt strange and awkward. “Oh yes, an artful tale! Follow her into slavery! Pull down your houses and go into bondage! I dare say! ‘I’ll give ...

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...eads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practi...

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...ILL A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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 Contest in America by John Stuart Mill , the Pennsylvania ... ... alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagation of, slavery. We had, indeed, been wronged. We had suffered an indignity, and so... ...ommanding positions of the world, a powerful republic, devoted not only to slavery, but to pro 4 The Contest inAmerica slavery propagandism—should h... ...ly proclaimed, that they thought an attempt would be made to restrain, not slavery itself, but their purpose of spreading slavery wher ever migration... ...d, regarding the contest in which the Northern States are engaged with the South. In considering this matter, we ought to dismiss from our minds, as f... ...ry at all. The North, it seems, have no more objection to slavery than the South have. Their leaders never say one word implying disapprobation of it.... ...t they have been contending for; to win back, if opportunity of fers, the South to the Union by surrendering the whole point. If this be the true sta...

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...r congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign part...

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...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...glish itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the... ...frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ... ... the whole wider ex- tremes of temperament and sensibility. The boy of the South seems more wholesome, but less thoughtful; he gives him- self to game... ...d a different social constitution from his fellow-countrymen either of the south or north. Even the English, it is recorded, did not loathe the Highla... ...as mankind, and is indeed the life of man: the unsparing war, the grinding slavery of competi- tion; the toil of seventy years, dear-bought bread, pre... ...ce. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the re- nunciation of his nature. Once...