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Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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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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...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...

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

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... .......................................... 16 CHAPTER II: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III:... ...upon medical men as people privileged, and naturally commissioned, to make war upon pain and sickness, I never had a misgiving about the result. I gri... ... Taylor Coleridge, “the golden, beaming sun looks like a dull orange, or a red billiard ball.”—Introd. to Biog. Lit., p. clxii. And, upon this 33 Aut... ...ts! Perhaps the Pre-Adamites would con- stitute one wing in such a ghostly army. My brother, dying in his sixteenth year, was far enough from seeing o... ... and a neighborhood which had become the very centre of the final military operations, those which succeeded to the main rebellion; and which, to the ... ...ion of politico-religious fanati- cism, by comparison with vulgar martinet strategics and the pedantry of technical warfare. What a picture must Ennis...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the ...

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Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

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...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey 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... ...manism .................... 285 Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and the World ................................................................ 299 ... ...otions are aroused in him that animate the others. A tribe, let us say, is war- like. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which ... ...stimate the loss which re- sults from the deflection of attention from the strategic point to a comparatively unproductive point. It fails most just w... ...ute of speaking much of develop- ment, process, progress. But all of these operations are conceived to be merely transitional; they lack meaning on th... ...of the requisite means is to be disciplined, whether we are thinking of an army or a mind. Discipline is posi- tive. To cow the spirit, to subdue incl... ...ce. In other words, what he learns are connections. Even such qualities as red color, sound of a high pitch, have to be discriminated and identified o...

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two cons...

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...ouis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsy... ...n Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication 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... ...rkable than the mere bulk or merit of his work approves him. It was in the world, in the commerce of friendship, by his brave attitude towards life, b... ...ntly.’ The son, still more gallantly continuing the tradition, entered the army, loaded himself with debt, was forced to sell out, took refuge in the ... ...ll out, took refuge in the Marines, and was lost on the Dogger Bank in the war-ship Minotaur. If he did not marry below him, like his father, his sist... ...hold, where the fumes were already heavy, and Jenkin was on deck directing operations, when he found his orders were no longer answered from be- low: ... ...ught to be long dead. Y ears later, when his sister was living in Genoa, a red-bearded man of great strength and stature, tanned by years in India, an... ...e insurgents, the name of England was in evil odour; and it was thus – for strategic reasons, so to speak – that Fleeming found himself on the way to ...