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...t Potts plays an enormous part in ourselves and in the world, and that the social problem is not a problem of story-book heroes of the older pattern, ... ... Schopenhauer, or even knew whether he was a philosopher or a chemist, the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties brought me into contact, both li... ...ontact, both literary and personal, with Mr Ernest Belfort Bax, an English Socialist and philosophic essayist, whose handling of modern feminism would... ...hould prevent every right- minded man from at once doing on principle. The Socialists were naturally shocked, being for the most part morbidly moral p... ... of society to the conflict of races, his theory made some sensation among Socialists—that is, among the only people who were seri- ously thinking abo... ...igno- rance, drink, war, pestilence, nor any other of the scapegoats which reformers sacrifice, but simply poverty. Once take your eyes from the ends ... ...rried unanimously at enthusiastic public meetings on the motion of eminent reformers, break no bones. It has been said that the French Revolution was ...

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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... ...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... ...s range and hospitality. Yet, compared with the cheap professions of most reformers, and the still cheaper wisdom an eloquence of politicians in gene... ...eak ab solutely, and as a private man—from which what new and singular of social duties might be inferred? “The manner,” says he, “in which the gove...

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... Ruler of the universe, had achieved the most transcendent act of power that social man in his mortal condition can per form—even that of dissolving... ...r our posterity. They form the connecting links between the selfish and the social pas sions. By the fundamental principle of Christianity, the happ... ...or himself alone. No, he was made for his country, by the obligations of the social compact; he was made for his species, by the Christian duties of u... ...t is, perhaps, the only instance in human history of that positive, original social compact, which specula tive philosophers have imagined as the on... ...grity were alike the virtues of all, there would, apparently, be more of the social spirit, in making all property a common stock, and giving to each... ...eign of Mary, upon all who favored the Reformation, many of the most zealous reformers had been compelled to fly their country. While residing on the ...

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...scover How Not To Do It. Since Dickens’s day the exposures effected by the Socialists have so shat- tered the self-satisfaction of modern commercial c... ...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... ...ung man marked out for office both by his parentage and his unquestionable social position as one of the gov- erning class. Also, and this was much le... ...ts protection, but also that enormous weight of public opinion enforced by social ostracism which is stronger than all the statutes. A censor pretendi... ...and for the denial to the theatre of the liberties secured, at far greater social risk, to the press and the platform. There is no question here of gi... ...y objected to on the ground that they are not usually discussed in general social conversation or in the presence of children; but it would presumably... ...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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...ted. The Radicals who used to advocate, as an indispensable preliminary to social reform, the strangling of the last king with the entrails of the las... ...ed enough to cling desperately to your eighteenpence as denoting a certain social superiority to the sixpenny doctor, you will be miserably poor all y... ... and priests may forbid knowledge to those who accept their authority; and social taboo may be made effective by acts of legal perse- cution under cov... ...e, liberty, and happiness (as the American Constitution puts it), from all social conditions. No man is allowed to put his mother into the stove becau... ... 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... ...er common instance, com- parisons which are really comparisons between two social classes with different standards of nutrition and education are palm...

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............................................................. 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS .................................................................... ............................................................. 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS .................................................................... ...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... ...d perfect persons. We want men and women who shall reno- vate life and our social state, but we see that most na- tures are insolvent, cannot satisfy ... ...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 ... ... his skin,” is sound philosophy. All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst ... ... given no opinion on the times, on the church, on slavery, on marriage, on socialism, on se- 84 Essays cret societies, on the college, on parties and... ... being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social in- stincts. For though the celestial rapture falling out of heaven ... ... Nature so poor but she gives me this joy several times, and thus we weave social threads of our own, a new web of relations; and, as many thoughts in...

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...n Europe from the Liberal explosion of 1848 to the con- fused attempt at a socialist, military, and municipal adminis- tration in Paris in 1871 (that ... ...nd in starvation, crushing taxation, suppression of all freedom to try new social experiments and reform ob- solete institutions, in snobbery, jobbery... ...ed too far; and everybody who rebels against it must be a rascal. Even the Social-Democrats in Germany differ from the rest only in carrying academic ... ...ic orthodoxy beyond human endur- ance—beyond even German endurance. I am a Socialist and a Democrat myself, the hero of a hundred platforms, one of th... ...f, the hero of a hundred platforms, one of the leaders of the most notable Socialist organizations in England. I am as conspicuous in English Socialis... ...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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...nesses were glad of Pierre’s return because no one else drew them into the social life of the household as he did. He alone could play on the clavicho... ...terest the old lady and that she could understand. He told her of external social events and of the people who had formed the circle of her contempora... ...sters as being such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and poets). Secondly, it is assumed that the goal ... ...ith other influences was the cause of an event; but how a book, Le Contrat social, had the effect of making Frenchmen begin to drown one another canno... ...ined: kings, minis- 80 War and Peace – Epilogues ters, generals, authors, reformers, popes, and journalists, to the extent to which in their opinion ... ... impulses has remained unknown. Still less does the history of authors and reformers explain to us the life of the peoples. The history of culture exp... ... commit murder, and so on? With the present complex forms of political and social life in Europe can any event that is not prescribed, decreed, or or-...

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...y’s view 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 en... ...mbines in a curious way a firm belief in the omnipotence and wisdom of his social superiors with a rooted distrust of their inten tions regarding him... ...r, there can be no question but that in Russia it held and holds true. The social condition of Russia is like a tideless sea, whose sullen quiescence ... ...hts on the land question. He began by reading the American propagandist’s “Social Problems,” which arrested his attention by its main principles and b... ...ation and rejuvenation of human nature, going far towards the levelling of social inequalities. But to in oculate the landed proprietors of Russia as... ...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...

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...on of the domi- nant race, and so done as not to run across race lines and social lines that are the strongest forces in the commu- nity. It had to be... ...y years in the discussion of the Negro problem. Two or three de- cades ago social philosophers and statisticians and well- meaning philanthropists wer... ... again to read in the whole list (most of them by tiresome and unbalanced “reformers”) are “Uncle Remus” and “Up from Slavery”; for these are the grea... ... Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Repub- lic, it was no easy matter for the country to rel... ...as hard for me at this time to understand how a woman of her education and social standing could take such delight in performing such service, in orde... ... shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all thi...

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... to complain that this is a cold world; and to cold, no less physical than social, we refer di rectly a great part of our ails. The summer, in some c... ...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... ...one not interested in the success or failure of the present economical and social arrangements. I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for... ... ping at some brilliant station house in town or city, Walden 108 where a social crowd is gathered, the next in the Dis mal Swamp, scaring the owl a... ...f new eternity; and between us we man age to pass a cheerful evening with social mirth and Walden 126 pleasant views of things, even without apples ... .... 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... ...m the other side of the town, and the catching of the dinner was as much a social exercise as the eating of it. Hermit. I wonder what the world is d...

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...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 ... ...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... ... More arts than those wherein you clerks proceed.” As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past change in the p... ...be a brother of mankind as well as a child of God. Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals. Many expressions in the New T estament come natural... ... pottery and the monuments of inhabitants. However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not 206 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers diverge... ...a thorough practical acquaintance. I stand in the friendliest relation, on social and spiritual grounds, to one who does not perceive what practical s... ... charac ter into the stream, and swims in such a day. He dearly loves the social slush. There is no reserve of soberness in him. I love to see the he... ...all the verse. Notwithstanding the broad humanity of Chaucer, and the many social and domestic comforts which we meet with in his verse, we have to na...

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...fraction of it to the Nottingham and Derby Railway. So far so good, but in social matters their aunt had accomplished noth- ing. Sooner or later the g... ... one sound man of business did more good to the world than a dozen of your social reformers, she had swallowed the curious assertion without a gasp, a... ...und man of business did more good to the world than a dozen of your social reformers, she had swallowed the curious assertion without a gasp, and had ... ...couldn’t invoke railways and mo- tor-cars to part them.” “That’s more like Socialism,” said Mrs. Munt sus- piciously. “Call it what you like. I call i... ...lever talk alarmed her, and with- ered her delicate imaginings; it was the social coun- terpart of a motor-car, all jerks, and she was a wisp of hay, ... ...portion of the quivering jelly? He was not a fool—she had heard him expose Socialism—but true insight began just where his intelligence ended, and one...

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...l affections and in the necessity of some degree of truth and justice in a social state; they have been deepened and enlarged by the efforts of great ... ...al fact that men desire it. The obligation to promote it is based upon the social nature of man; this sense of duty is shared by all of us in some deg... ...of their philosophy on politics—especially on foreign politics, on law, on social life, has been upon the whole beneficial. Nevertheless, they will ne... ... Let us pause awhile to reflect on a sentence which is full of meaning to reformers of religion or to the original thinker of all ages: ‘Shall we th...

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...ctive in this judgment and discretion. He is less accus- tomed, indeed, to social intercourse, than the mechanic who lives in a town. His voice and la... ... admitted to all the privileges of Roman citizens. Upon being refused, the social war broke out. During the course of that war, Rome granted those pri... ...e lat- ter, narrowness, meanness, and a selfish disposition, averse to all social pleasure and enjoyment. The unproductive class, that of merchants, a... ...f the Greek language has never yet made any part of that course. The first reformers found the Greek text of the New T estament, and even the Hebrew t... ...e the mind, to soften the temper, and to dispose it for performing all the social and moral duties of public and private life. In ancient Rome, the ex... ...eems, in this manner, to be acquired at the ex- pense of his intellectual, social, and martial virtues. But in every improved and civilized society, t...

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...tion of the petunia farmer. Pause for a moment and think of what a brilliant social innovation this is— at least potentially. Focus not on the incenti... ...ates a cybernetic and responsive innova- tion marketplace. The allocation of social resources to particular types of in- novation is driven by guesses... ...But we do not condemn the scientist who notes that they are both “mammals”—a socially constructed category—so long as he has a reason for focusing on ... ...s to write? The answer to all of these questions is “not exactly.” Like most social institutions, intellectual property has an altogether messier and ... ...son argues that “stable own- ership” of even tangible property is “a gift of social law.” Intellectual property, then, has still less of a claim to so... ...e hotly debated corollaries to the enlargement of the franchise. The radical reformers looked with hostility on anything that seemed likely to raise t... ...systems. “Now we must educate our masters” was the slogan of the educational reformers after the enlargement of the fran- chise in Britain in the nine...

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...er One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Three: Education as Direction ........................................................................................ ...

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............................................... 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................. ................................... 105 Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims.........................................116 Chapt... ........................................ 270 Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism .................... 285 Chapter Tw... ...find within its covers a treatise on physiology. We look for an account of social antecedents; a description of early surroundings, of the conditions ... ...and practices. The conti- nuity of any experience, through renewing of the social group, is a literal fact. Education, in its broadest sense, is the m... ...ocial efficiency, which often op- poses social to natural. (1) Educational reformers disgusted with the conven- tionality and artificiality of the sch... ...erent connection with one another. Before the time of Rousseau educational reformers had been inclined to urge the importance of education by ascribin... ...experiments. They are intermediate in learning, not final. All educational reformers, as we have had occasion to remark, are given to attacking the pa... ... as wholly individual. Thus upon the educational side, we find educational reformers, like Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, henceforth vehemently denouncing a...

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... 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 legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the...

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... opposed to the mis named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimat... ... mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formi dable than many kinds of political oppression,... ...limit—how to make the fitting adjustment between individual independence and social control—is a subject on which nearly every On Liberty — Mill 7 ... ...s their reason—at other times their prejudices or superstitions: often their social affections, not seldom their antisocial ones, their envy or jealou... ... to undertake the business; while others prefer to bear almost any amount of social evil, rather than add one to the departments of human interests am... ...of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism. And some of those mod ern reformers who have placed themselves in stron gest opposition to the rel... ..., spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and pe... ...e and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind. Few pe...

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..... 15 Chapter III That the ideally best Form of Government is Representative Government .................................... 34 Chapter IV Under what Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable ................................... 51 Chapter V Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies.......................................................................

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... the state of the country in regard to the distribution of the elements of social power. Whatever is the strongest power in society will obtain the go... ...sence of the whole, the seat of the supreme power, is determined for it by social circumstances. That there is a portion of truth in this doctrine I a... ...on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social 14 Considerations on Representative Government forces. One person w... ...rations on Representative Government forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety nine who have only interests. They who can suc... ...d in creating a general persuasion that a certain form of gov ernment, or social fact of any kind, deserves to be preferred, have made nearly the mos... ...of Pombal, of D’Aranda; when the very Bourbons of Naples were liberals and reformers, and all the active minds among the noblesse of France were fille... ...nt master. It is not much to be wondered at if impatient or disap pointed reformers, groaning under the impediments opposed to the most salutary publ... ... power over the country, are disposed to offer it the boon. T o individual reformers the question is almost irrelevant, since, if no other objection c... ...industrious classes; the king and the people; the ortho dox and religious reformers. When the victory on either side was so complete as to put an end...

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... into vari “The Communist Manifesto” 3 ous orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In an cient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, sl... .... Constant revolutionising of production, unin terrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlast ing uncertainty and agitation distinguish t... ...had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on w... ...burst asunder. Into their place stepped free competition, accompa nied by a social and political constitution adapted to it, and by the economical an... ...by that of women. Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class. All are instruments of labour, mor... ...r the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole and corner reformers of every imaginable kind. This form of Socialism has, moreover,... ...ng working class parties, such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian Reformers in America. The Communists fight for the attainment of the im ...

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........................................................................... 4 SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM.......................................... ....................................................... 11 CHAPTER I MARX AND SOCIALIST DOCTRINE ........................................................... ........................................ 92 CHAPTER VII SCIENCE AND ART UNDER SOCIALISM .................................................................... ...t is this desire which has been the primary force mov- ing the pioneers of Socialism and Anarchism, as it moved the inventors of ideal commonwealths i... ...al commonwealths in the past. In this there is nothing new. What is new in Socialism and Anarchism, is that close relation of the ideal to the present... ...for the “in- tellectuals” to co-operate prac-tically with the more extreme reformers, however they may sympathize with their main purposes and even wi... ...ses and even with nine-tenths of their program. Another reason why radical reformers are misjudged by or- dinary men is that they view existing societ... ...se whom they regard as enemies or outcasts or a danger to society. Radical reformers are apt to concentrate their attention upon the behavior of socie... ...consider liberty must always prove a failure; and Syndicalists, like other reformers, must ulti- mately rely upon persuasion for success. But it would...

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...com monly taught to schoolboys; a waste which has led so many educational reformers to entertain the ill judged proposal of discarding these language... ...e is feeble and precarious, but the opinion of its necessity for moral and social purposes almost universal; and when those who reject revelation, ver... ...ound in a young man formed by a particular mode of thought or a particular social circle. His younger brother, Charles Austin, of whom at this time an... ...l of my companions formed a class. For several years from this period, our social studies assumed a shape which contributed very much to my mental pro... ...practice of analysis as an essential condition both of in dividual and of social improvement But 1 thought that it had consequences which required to... ...ife, must be a flaw in life itself; that the question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and eve... ...ec tion, but would be made richer by every improvement in the physical or social condition of mankind. From them I seemed to learn what would be the ... ... and for a short time carried on, by a set of friends, all lawyers and law reformers, with several of whom I was acquainted. The paper in question is ... ...e opposed to centralization, the greater danger was there lest philosophic reformers should fall into the contrary error, and overlook the mischiefs o...

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...discus- sion kept free, cannot pretend to relish these joyless attempts at social sanitation? Is it not because at bottom they are ut- terly sexless? ... ...lling in love with her, or marrying her, is brought into conflict with the social convention which discounte- nances the woman. Now the conflicts of i... ...ically to sing “Protegga il giusto cielo”: they grasp formidable legal and social weapons, and retaliate. Political parties are wrecked and public car... ...e of the play. Over this essence I have no control. You propound a certain social sub- stance, sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; an... ... every woman to be married at all costs, must, without a highly scientific social organization, produce a ruinous development of pov- erty, celibacy, ... ...and and directed it to moral ends. I have become a reformer, and, like all reformers, an icono- clast. I no longer break cucumber frames and burn gors... ...on of any character. But if you are naturally vulgar and credulous, as all reformers are, it will thrust you first into religion, where you will sprin...

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...ctable man it can have only one meaning. The pious citizen, suspecting the Socialist (for example) of unmentionable things, and asking 5 Getting Marr... ...nogamy, chastity, temperance, respectability, morality, Christianity, anti-socialism, and a dozen other things that have no necessary connection with ... ...t ashamed to ac- knowledge and defend, and upon which, therefore, marriage reformers will be obliged to proceed. We may, I think, dismiss from the fie... ...s are reinforced by human sacrifices, it has been reduced to a private and socially inoperative eccen- tricity by the introduction of civil marriage a... ... all their numerical weight and apparently in- vincible prejudices, accept social changes to-day as tamely as their forefathers accepted the Reformati... ...ng and maintaining its religious and moral institutions by their powers of social persecution, they were a black-coated army of calamity. They were in... ...ORCE All this has an important bearing on the question of divorce. Divorce reformers are so much preoccupied with the injustice of forbidding a woman ...

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...ros and cons of the saintly char- acter— Saints versus “strong” men— Their social function must be considered— Abstractly the saint is the highest typ... ...re for my safety. I could give hundreds of in- stances, in school matters, social problems, financial difficulties, etc. That he is mine and I am his ... ... for a moment the habits of life into which we are born. There are certain social conventions or customs and alleged requirements, there is a theologi... ...ve up [139] Memoirs, p. 34. 247 William James my pet ambition, wealth and social position. My former habits of life hindered my growth somewhat, but ... ...ships, to re- nounce long-rooted privileges and possessions, to break with social ties. Rather do we take a stern joy in the astringency and desolatio... ...ness; and the whole historic array of martyrs, missionaries, and religious reformers is there to prove the tranquil- mindedness, under naturally agita... ...ther human phenomena, are subject to the law of the golden mean. Political reformers accomplish their successive tasks in the history of nations by be...

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...owed with animation and impulsiveness. T o be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she beca... ... to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate conversation—“I... ...mbled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. Prince V asili’s daughter, the beauti... ...you come to this other table?” repeated Anna Pavlovna. “Rousseau’s Contrat social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant smile. “I am not speaking of regi... ...stess. In the first moment of Pierre’s outburst Anna Pavlovna, despite her social experience, was horror- struck. But when she saw that Pierre’s sacri... ...sters as being such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and po- ets). Secondly, it is assumed that the goa... ... number of monu- ments have remained: kings, ministers, generals, authors, reformers, popes, and journalists, to the extent to which in their opinion ... ...mpulses has re- mained unknown. Still less does the history of authors and reformers ex- plain to us the life of the peoples. The history of culture e...

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...nce at the head of the league which the Roman Catholics formed against the Reformers. The principles which had actuated the long and active reigns of ... ...ondemn the Roman Catholics, if they laughed at the audacity with which the Reformers had presumed to an- nounce the only true belief? — if from Protes... ... than even the sword. In this long and general confusion, all the bonds of social life were broken up; — re- spect for the rights of their fellow men,...

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... the sword, would chastise such atrocious breaches of moral obligation and social justice. The probability of incompatible alliances between the dif- ... ...ederal head, 90 The Federalist Papers as resulting from the nature of the social compact between the States, it must be by inference and construction... ... in- forms us, likewise, of the difficulties with which these cel- ebrated reformers had to contend, as well as the expedients which they were obliged... ..., are contrary to the first prin- 201 The Federalist Papers ciples of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former...

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...mon in these days. KNOX. – Knox, the second in order of interest among the reformers, lies dead and buried in the works of the learned and unreadable ... ... full of pathos, full of truth, full of a high eloquence. Superstition and social exigency having been thus dealt with in the first two members of the... ...d, and free from bashfulness or affectation. If he made a slip, he had the social courage to pass on and refrain from explanation. He was not embar- r... ...tances. It was, in short, an admirable ap- pearance on the stage of life – socially successful, intimately self-respecting, and like a gentleman from ... ...roic flights, it was a direct and vivid medium for all that had to do with social life. Hence, whenever Scotch poets left their laborious imitations o... ...would not consent, in his own words, to “feebly fabulate and paddle in the social slush.” It seemed to him, I think, that society is precisely the rev... ...s own house. And there, as well to keep up com- munication with his fellow-reformers as to pursue his work of education, he received boys to teach. It... ... his wits for help, to whom his doctor recommends Lutheran specifics.* The Reformers themselves had set their affections in a dif- ferent world, and p... ...istian. The great thing, and the one thing, was to push the Gospel and the Reformers’ own interpretation of it. Whatever helped was good; whatever hin...