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...f life as something to be stolen, life as a work of art instead of life as violence. Our dream is that not only the West but the whole planet Earth... ...go back and re-ignite itself once it burns out. But entropy can do nothing against the invention of being able to light a fire and spread it from on... ... presence are a tragedy, an accident to be abhorred, an enemy to be fought against, a wrong that must be expiated through continual penitence. The... ... penetrates her child’s life so she can possess it, and make it her shield against death. The child’s life is then structured, on one hand, aroun... ...s then structured, on one hand, around its hatred for the mother’s phallic violence, and on the other it is based on the assimilation of the same pha... ... my first imprinting came from that: the fear of death, physical and moral violence, horror, terror, a continuous feeling of guilt, life to be hated... ...of soul, but no one is born with a pre-made soul. Throughout the history of peoples and nations, many different types of souls have been chosen and t... ... steps. The first one has to do with going from childhood to adulthood. In indigenous tribes this passage comes about through initiation rites that ...

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... it alls, the handsome, the happy - in short: his opposites. He feels discriminated against and dealt a poor hand in the great poker game called lif... ...her. Greenleaf Jr. maintains a poor record of keeping promises and a rich record of violence, as we discover towards the end of this suspenseful, ta... ...ction when a group of stray survivors of a maritime accident were imprisoned in it against their expressed will. In the absence of choice, no utopi... ...full of repressed memories) unavailable to us? Don't we develop defence mechanisms against repressed memories and fantasies, against unconscious co... ...on and reforestation should be rationalized as should be land use; drought-related indigenous agricultural and water management knowledge and crop ... ...tion of World War II, the United States has acted as a rapacious conqueror of other peoples' lands under the flimsiest of pretexts. Its expansion wa... ...l experiences of “discovery” and “inspiration”. The subject is bound to react with violence and aggression to the dimly perceived invasion and mind... ...lity Disorder, the Verbal and Emotional Abuse, and the Spousal (Domestic) Abuse and Violence topics on Suite 101 and Bellaonline. Columnist and com...

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...n kept secret for two millennia. Now that the wisdom of Kabbalah, among other indigenous wisdoms, is emerging full scale, I believe no other person ... ...ss of the wisdom that our forefathers possessed, and which we have forgotten. Indigenous wisdoms are appearing today precisely because our customary... ... each day from diarrhea caused by polluted water. In many parts of the world, violence and terrorism have become the favored means to resolve confli... ...ues and modes of thinking. Such modes are the ancient, albeit very pertinent, indigenous wis- doms. To them, planetary consciousness is not merely an... ...t first and foremost taught it to others. He realized that the only guarantee against mis- ery and fear was for people to fully understand Nature’s ... ...ons that tore from Mesopotamia evolved into a civilization of many different peoples. Of the two primary groups, one became what we refer to as “We...

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...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages ...

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.... Modern research finds ever more problems in Western countries, sickness, violence, repression of women, paedophilia... Statistics show that Western ... ... art, cinema, the whole of Western consciousness industry live off sex and violence, compete in their depiction of evil and degeneration. Western cult... ... consciousness industry are marketed to all nations in the world, the same violence and immorality, the same circus amusements, the same global imitat... ...ploughing, I'm sure they will disappear. In the past, we used to only grow indigenous varieties, but today people buy improved seed varieties with a y... ... your lifetime? Will buffalo disappear altogether? What about seed grain? indigenous varieties are cheaper. In the old days, we just used to use catt... ...o, Tip Chang ('The Elephant Boy'), the people of Lampang began an uprising against the Burmese in 1732, and were involved in re-establishing the Lanna... ...reas covered by irrigation networks. Twenty years ago, most villagers were against the ploughing machine and swore that the buffalo would never disapp... ...ry education: in the Second World War, the Finns managed to hold their own against the Soviet Union and to retain their independence. In Thailand, nat... ... and their number grows from one set of figures to the next. The country's indigenous researchers have now tried to curb the writing and found that if...

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...tate Oppression— which includes, but is not limited to, authoritarianism, police brutality, economic embargo, criminalization of activists, electoral violence, repressive laws that aim to curb fundamental rights, and the non-implementation of laws that safeguard Dalit rights. The Dalits were considered untouchable for thousands of years by the Hindu society until the Const...

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... police brutality, economic embargo, criminalization of activists, electoral violence, repressive laws that aim to curb fundamental rights, and the... ...masamy (1879-1973). He was a social revolutionary who vociferously campaigned against untouchability and called for the annihilation of the caste sy... ... true (percent of people voting for him), 35% false (percent of people voting against him), and 40% or 41% indeterminate (percent of people not comi... ...me (1879-1973). 2 A relentless crusader for social justice, Periyar fought against the caste system for more than half a century. He rendered tho... ...ism. He even adds that the social and spiritual practices followed by the indigenous people were distinctly different 44 compared to the pract... ...le entry and temple property, it often results in the eruption of large-scale violence and bloodshed. R 5 : No freedom of choice Although the... ...he major political parties 76 end up holding public office. Also, electoral violence against Dalit candidates is rampant and widespread. Those wh... ...equal and there is no difference between anyone.” [Kudiarasu, 30-9-1928] Indigenous gods In South India, 90% of the people do not know about S... ...son why the Aryans—who migrated to our country in ancient times—degraded the indigenous native tribal people as Asuras, Rakshashas, Mlechas, Pancha...

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...of their homeland. Edward K. Thompson, managing editor of "Life" (1949-1961) warned against this propensity to feign omniscience and omnipotence: "... ...ously and nonchalantly flouting them far and wide. Hence the fervid demonstrations against its military presence in places as disparate as South Ko... ...nferior. The white man's burden must not be encumbered by the vagaries of primitive indigenous jurisprudence. Hence America's fierce resistance to a... ... with scant regard for human rights, in cahoots with venal and sometimes homicidal indigenous politicians. And it drains the developing world of it... ...lty to their abuser, the King of Britain. The inhabitants of the colonies defended against their perceived helplessness and very real inferiority w... ...and overt, a trampling, "no holds barred" ambitiousness, competitiveness, frontier violence-based morality, and proud simple-mindedness - and an om... ...rists in combat? Modern nation-states enshrined the self-appropriated monopoly on violence in their constitutions and ordinances (and in internati... ...ions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but it was the failure that dissuaded them a... ...ppy, bible-thumping, and dangerously violent nation, the United States of America. Violence breeds counter- violence and profound contempt. You foun...

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...er." http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to be just causes are ... ...anization will tend to emulate the very characteristics of its enemy it fulminates against the most. Thus, all such groups are rebarbatively author... ...egious manner. This is usually done either by collaborating with the derided enemy against another, competing set of freedom fighters - or by invit... ...freedom fighters are assimilated and digested by the very establishment they fought against or as the founders of new, privileged nomenklaturas. It ... ...ppointed liberators, their shifting friendships and enmities and their pasilaly of violence. In this series of articles, I will attempt to study f... ... to punish some flagrant act of defiance ... The village may have ... resented the violence of the tax-collector ... [or] harboured an armed band o... ...roops to the escalating conflict - as mass expulsions cum sporadic massacres of the indigenous population by the Serbs were taking place - was consi... ...central administration shared the loot with its local representatives and with the indigenous elites - the church and the feudal landed gentry. It ... ...ions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but it was the failure that dissuaded them a...

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...ma Lyons, who discusses the highly sophisticated culture of the Aboriginal peoples for whom the continent of Australia is not merely their home, but a... ...g in the literature to discover, for example, discussions debating whether indigenous groups such as the traditional clans of Aborigines in Australia ... ...ved impossible to implement, because by that standard neither Buddhism nor indigenous Aboriginal tradition would qualify. Aboriginal tradition has pre... ... fish on Fridays and the use of head coverings in church. When it comes to indigenous populations, it becomes virtually or totally impossible to disti... ...man who has either not yet found or has already lost himself… The struggle against religion is therefore indirectly the struggle against the world who... ...ering is the expression of real suffering and at the same time the protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the... ...elief in India, and that Gautama’s teachings can best be seen as a protest against these early Hindu traditions. It is therefore desirable that we fir... ...he social values enjoined by the Buddha; that is, avoidance of any kind of violence including violence towards animals (an avoidance that necessarily ... ...o settle the dispute by a mountain moving contest. The contest erupts into violence and the Evil Twin crashes against a mountainside so hard that his ...

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...r own ethics. There are few universal ethical or legal standards. Treason against one‘s country is one. Murder of a person in your own society is al... ...‘s name in vain? Would it be moral for the police to ‗bear false witness‘ against a serial killer who would murder again if released? Which commandme... ...ope Benedict XVI. He has come down hard on moral relativism, particularly against self-centered values and the hedonism that often propels them. He ... ...ms and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pain or an orgasmic-like... ...ms and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pain or an orgasmic-lik... ... mud.‘ And again on this ‗Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their k... ...which might be the root word for Satan, it seems more likely that they are indigenous to the monotheistic religions of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Chris... ...der.‖ 145 —―It‘s either a selfish way to try to increase the indigenous population or it is a generous way to keep up the human traditi... ... itself, was, as Justice Cardozo put it, ‗framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several 238 states must sink or swim together, and that...

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..."what ifs". This is a problem because many current investments, such as the fight against global warming, are likely to yield results only decades... ...y – It must be self-consistent. Its sub-"units" cannot contradict one another or go against the grain of the main "theory". It must also be consiste... ... rather than scarce. The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins discovered that primitive peoples he has studied had no concept of "scarcity" - only of "s... ...y. Consider money. Abundant money - an intangible commodity - leads to depreciation against other currencies and inflation at home. This is why cent... ...s such as GDP per capita or average wages. Why didn't drug prices adjust to reflect indigenous purchasing power? According to the Paris-based In... ... to finance the insatiable consumption of its denizens and to prop up a variety of indigenous asset bubbles. Still, as any first year student of or... ... hubris. This is not conducive to happy co-existence between foreign do-gooders and indigenous governments. Sometimes NGO's seem to be an ingenious ... ...asymmetries of power between the state and its subjects. Laws are the enshrining of violence applied for the "common good" (whatever that is - it is... ...lity Disorder, the Verbal and Emotional Abuse, and the Spousal (Domestic) Abuse and Violence topics on Suite 101 and Bellaonline. Columnist and com...

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...ntracting towards each other an infinite number of times, until they collided against each other with such force, they had nowhere else to go but ou... ...ure of an exploded Universe… the structure of an exploded half-globe, pressed against another half- globe… with an empty interior, and a faint perime... .... The Universe is basically an intelligent, non- violent organism. It avoids violence; it avoids hitting itself by deflecting away from the dangers... ... hitting itself by deflecting away from the dangers of impact. It avoids the violence of hitting something as much as possible by going around it. ... ... Aroundness and Deflection are Universal basic Tendencies of intelligent non-violence that all the Energy in the Universe and all the Space in the ... ...ch other. All of them fit together. All of these models can be crosschecked against each other. All of them fit for a simple reason; they are des... ...d secret plots and murders committed in that first attempt. It shows how the indigenous natives the Algonquians did not want them there. How the I... ...gold and food. They did not even try to find food, or grow it. it shows the Indigenous Indians refusing to give them food. THE PATH OF SPLITNES... ...erhanded form of mass genocide ever committed by one race of invaders against indigenous peoples. Humans are connected to the Earth in many ways. ...

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...es obligations or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain righ... ... to mature and be born. Furthermore, the born child has all the rights a child has against his parents: food, shelter, emotional nourishment, educa... ...amework of a social contract. But does A's right not to be killed include the right against third parties that they refrain from enforcing the right... ...d for this explicit purpose of gross and unjust exploitation. The state perpetrates violence and is the cause rather than the cure of most social il... ... in the need to confront evil? Some anarchists believe in changing society through violence. Are these anarcho-terrorists criminals or freedom figh... ...pisode. The angry person may be reacting to stress, agitation, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to nationa... ... to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers amon... ...ions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but it was the failure that dissuaded them a... ...ks, and investors. Six years later, President Vladimir Putin dismantled Yukos, the indigenous oil giant and confiscated its assets, in stark contra...

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...es obligations or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain righ... ... to mature and be born. Furthermore, the born child has all the rights a child has against his parents: food, shelter, emotional nourishment, educa... ...amework of a social contract. But does A's right not to be killed include the right against third parties that they refrain from enforcing the right... ...d for this explicit purpose of gross and unjust exploitation. The state perpetrates violence and is the cause rather than the cure of most social il... ... in the need to confront evil? Some anarchists believe in changing society through violence. Are these anarcho-terrorists criminals or freedom figh... ...pisode. The angry person may be reacting to stress, agitation, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to nationa... ... to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers amon... ...ions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but it was the failure that dissuaded them a... ...ks, and investors. Six years later, President Vladimir Putin dismantled Yukos, the indigenous oil giant and confiscated its assets, in stark contra...

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...ps you led a party of adventurers into some empty land, conveniently free of indigenous peoples. Now your task is to make the society work. You have a... ...a party of adventurers into some empty land, conveniently free of indigenous peoples. Now your task is to make the society work. You have a preference... ...ow do you decide what to fund and when to fund it, what desires to trade off against each other? The society you have founded normally relies on marke... ...s a shame, because it leaves the impression that Jefferson was unequivocally against intellectual property rights. But that would be a considerable ov... ..., that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers I have quoted were not against intellectual property. All of them— Jefferson, Madison, Smith, an... ...nclosure disrupts the life of the poor farmer. Disruption leads to crime and violence. Writing 400 years later, Karl Polanyi echoes More precisely. He... ...he social order, breaking down ancient law and custom, sometimes by means of violence, often by pressure and intimidation. They were liter- ally robbi... ...In analyzing the DMCA, where do we turn for analogies? To physical property, violence, and theft. The cases analyzing the DMCA are full of analogies t... ...abandoned the attempt in the face of furious protest from representatives of indigenous peoples.” T om Wilkie, “Whose Gene Is It Anyway?” Inde- penden...

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... and inducements. Reviewers will be granted "credit points" to be applied against the (paid) publication of their own papers, for instance. Sci... ...? What about "fair use" of text and works of art? In the USA, the backlash against digital content piracy and plagiarism has reached preposterous leg... ...ion - what to make of it? Moreover, the public and legislative backlash against the gathering of surfer's data by Internet ad agencies and other w... ...rogramming. Hollywood is often chastised for its indulgence in gratuitous violence and sex. A. No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligen... ... it's no wonder that issues related to privacy, security and more weigh on peoples' minds. As in the past, some people will choose to wall thems... ... its expansion to Siberia (Karsnoyarski Krai) to compete head on with two indigenous incumbents, EniseiTelecom and SibChallenge. Vimpelcom's competi... ...s of power between the state and its subjects. Laws are the enshrining of violence applied for the "common good" (whatever that is - it is a shiftin... ...der, the Verbal and Emotional Abuse, and the Spousal (Domestic) Abuse and Violence topics on Suite 101 and Bellaonline. Columnist and commentator i...

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...ed heads; who had no quarrel with the rulers of the nation, and was secure against want by his inherited estates; was moved by the agitations that com... ..., and literature to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judg- ment of the wise... ...rried away portions of the rocks themselves; and these, dashed and bruised against the neighboring cliffs, were left scattered like wrecks at their fe... ...hough the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Eu... ...rried away portions of the rocks themselves; and these, dashed and bruised against the neighboring cliffs, were left scattered like wrecks at their fe... ...hough the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Eu... ...ceedings, and usurp the censorship of the laws, would in some mea- sure do violence to the passive nature of his authority. The Americans have retaine... ...hings to pass under the color of justice and the sanction of the law which violence alone could im- pose upon them. Chapter VII: Political Jurisdictio... ...e government of the Union wishes to transport the broken rem- nants of the indigenous population of the South to the por- tion of this country which i...

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...andfather says,” said Rose Garfield, “that we shall never be able to stand against old England, because the men are a weaker race than he remembers in... ...hey say, made the leaves wither on a tree with the fierceness of his blast against a sin. Some say, to be sure, it was an early frost that helped him.... ...o him), he saw the officer give a great start, drop his fusil, and stagger against a tree, with his hand to his breast. He endeavored to support himse... ...s could not get beyond the earthiness; his feeling was as if, by an act of violence, he had forever cut off a happy human existence. And such was his ... ...ranged purposely for this end; a differ ence had come between two kindred peoples; a war had bro ken out; a young officer, with the traditions of an... ...h right there as if she had grown up out of the soil like one of the wild, indigenous flowers which she had been gazing at and handling. However that ... ...against disease, and undecayable by age, he was capable of being killed by violence, though the hardness of his skull broke to fragments the stone tom... ...ew variations, it is true; but even here there was a close analogy, plants indigenous to America be ing substituted for cognate productions, the grow... ...ined them again. “Do you tell me,” said he, “that the plant has been found indigenous in this country, and in your part of it? And in what locality?” ...

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...d; the drunken, the incompetent, the weak, the prodigal, all who had been unable to prevail against circumstances in the one land, were now fleeing pi... ...e water with a roar, and shook the ship from end to end; the bows battled with loud reports against the billows: and as I stood in the lee-scuppers an... ...the continued passionate production of corn and steam-engines he resented like a conspiracy against the people. Thus, when I put in the plea for liter... ... ing, and looked like assault and battery, every inch of him. But we had a better card than violence. ‘You will have to make it your business,’ said I... ...o end, and from top to bottom, and in clamour and civil discord remodel it with the hand of violence. THE STOWAWAYS ON THE SUNDAY, among a party of me... ...ld shepherd’s festival; and one could not help pictur- ing to oneself what havoc among good peoples purses, and tribulation for benignant constables, ... ...topics; but it was his specially to have a generous taste in eating. This was what was most indigenous in the man; it was here he was an artist; and I... ...very pleasant in that succession of saunterers and brisk and business-like passers-by, that peoples our ways and helps to build up what Walt Whitman c...

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... on the fore- hatch. But what struck me perhaps most of all was a word I heard on the verandah of the Tribunal at Noumea. A case had just been heard—a... ...come the rule, it might prove the first stage of transition from T to K, which is the disease of Polynesian languages. The ten- dency of the Marquesan... ...l; or at least that he should not sell to any friend. On another occasion I gave my boat’s crew a luncheon of chocolate and biscuits. I had sinned, I ... ...th other groups. Samoa is, for the moment, the main and the most instruc- tive exception to the rule. The people are the most chaste and one of the mo... ...ex, while the drums were going twenty strong and the priests carried up the blood-stained baskets of long-pig. And now 56 In The South Seas behold he... ...ople plays the part of the Contagious Diseases Act; in-comers to fresh islands anxiously inquire if all be well; and syphilis, when contracted, is suc... ...y and heavy, a convert, a reader 156 In The South Seas of the Bible, perhaps a penitent, conscious at least of accu- mulated hatreds, and his memory ... ... left in peace and a good deal in solitude. But the tranquillity was only local; Din and Perandi still flowed in other quarters: and we had one more s...

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...scious of the narrow range, as yet, of his ex perience. He was on his guard against generalisations which might be hasty; but he had arrived at two o... ...ed his own life, even if it had not been taken. She could not defend herself against a rich admiration—a kind of tenderness of envy— of any one who ha... ...m. As she stood there drawing on her gloves—her visitor had fortified himself against Mrs. Farrinder by another glass of wine—she declared to him that ... ...ving earlier knowledge of the Tarrants, had undertaken to show him something indigenous and curious, possibly even fascinating. Mr. Gracie was short, ... ...ut social and economical questions, forms of government and the happiness of peoples. The convictions he had arrived at were not such as mix gracefull... ...e me he wouldn’t be here now!’ Miss Chancellor flashed this out with a sudden violence, a spasm which threw Verena off and made her rise to her feet. F... ...and it’s for that we honour you, Miss Birdseye!’ Verena cried, with a sudden violence of emotion. ‘If you were to live for a thousand years, you would... ...ess of her melancholy, she was dumb and cold with despair. She had spent the violence of her terror, the eagerness of her grief, and now she was too w...

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...E’S AR ON HUME’S AR ON HUME’S ARGUMENT A GUMENT A GUMENT A GUMENT A GUMENT AGAINST MIRA GAINST MIRA GAINST MIRA GAINST MIRA GAINST MIRACLES CLES CLES ... ... the Christian faith, have arraigned it as a curse to man, and have fought against it even upon Christian impulses, (impulses of benignity that could ... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ...her than terrific facts; and thus it was, that in terror, blind terror, as against power in the hands of divine wickedness, arose the ancient religion... ...Hindoos could not understand: their retaliation was simply to the personal violence they had suffered. Such is the inertia of a mere cultus. And, in t... ...that ruined them, rarely is it found that any of them perished by external violence. Even the dreadful fury of the early Mahometan Sultans in India, b... ...ontrive crafty ways* of destroying Jesus, they not daring to do it by open violence. Of which meet- ing, when Judas Iscariot had notice (for those ass... ... Christians being exterminated, and the Moslem invaders being robbed of an indigenous working population, naturally inquires what it was that led to s...

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...ns outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action....

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...oes the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may main- tain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor ... ...ms. As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. Continuity of life me... ...just as mea- ger and barren surroundings starve out the desire for beauty. Against such odds, conscious teaching can hardly do more than convey second... ...themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences. In similar fashion, peoples still existing, but remote in space, Brit- ish, Germans, Italians, ... ...nt to account for the difference in culture. In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions. ... ...the operation of factors which have tended to elimi- nate distance between peoples and classes previously hemmed off from one another. Even the allege... ...evelopment of Subject Matter in the Learner. It is possible, without doing violence to the facts, to mark off three fairly typical stages in the growt... ...n that has nothing to do with the experi- enced facts of life, it is found indigenous in experience:— the factor by which past experiences are purifie...

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...OEDIPUS Well argued; but no living man can hope To force the gods to speak against their will. CHORUS May I then say what seems next best to me? OEDIP... ...thinks thy art. Oedipus the Kin Sophocles 16 TEIRESIAS Thou, goading me against my will to speak. OEDIPUS What speech? repeat it and resolve my dou... ... Sophocles 21 CREON Friends, countrymen, I learn King Oedipus Hath laid against me a most grievous charge, And come to you protesting. If he deems ... ... Thebes to seek me; for if ye my friends, Championed by those dread Powers indigenous, Espouse my cause; then for the State ye gain A great deliverer,... ...an soil, to prosecute The justest claim imaginable, I Would never wrest by violence my own Without sanction of your State or King; I should behave as ... ...desire, With thee and with this land! for fear of heaven I found above all peoples most with you, And righteousness and lips that cannot lie. I speak ...

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...hand. Honorific epithets, in vogue among barbarian tribes as well as among peoples of a more advance culture, commonly bear the stamp of this unsophis... ...ion of kings and gods, very commonly im- pute a propensity for overbearing violence and an irresistible devastating force to the person who is to be p... ...redatory efficiency are deeply ingrained in the habits of thought of those peoples who have passed under the discipline of a protracted predatory cul-... ... the indignity of the slightest manual labour is familiar to all civilized peoples, as well as to peoples of a less advanced pecuniary culture. In per... ...- servances of etiquette that few of us, if any, can dissociate an offence against etiquette from a sense of the substantial un- worthiness of the off... ...ination to action in the way of forcible aggression or repression directed against 65 Veblen hostile groups or against the subject classes within the... ...ood repute to be gained through its conspicuous consumption. Most offenses against property, especially offenses of an appreciable magnitude, come und... ... for moving with ease over the firm and open country to which the horse is indigenous. It is 98 The Theory of the Leisure Class not only with respect... ...the quasi-peaceable regime of sta- tus. Simple aggression and unrestrained violence in great measure gave place to shrewd practice and chicanery, as t...