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...NSED PRINTING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND This is true liberty, when free born men, Having to advise the public, may speak free, Which he who can, ... ...covenant of his fidelity; and that his loyalest affection and his hope waits on your proceedings. His highest praising is not flattery, and his plaine... ...reopagitica Milton 6 after to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do ... ...th; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed me n. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as ... ...se condition than a peccant soul, should be to stand before a jury ere it be born to the world, and undergo yet in darkness the judgment of Radamanth ... ...nders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study, and love learn ing for itself, not for lucre or any other... ...y deceased author, though never so famous in his life time and even to this day, come to their hands for li cence to be printed, or reprinted, if th... ...lks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop trading all day without his religion. Another sort there be who, when they hear that ... ... let him be girt 74 With all the griesly legions that troop Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras, or all the monstrous forms ‘Twixt Af...

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...orks; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the other hand a large proportion of the contents have been specially translated for this edition, in which category are the historical works which occupy this volume and a portion of the next....

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... some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the other hand a large proportion of the contents have been specially tr... ...w- ers, Denmark and Sweden, into the political system of Europe; and while on the one hand the Protestant League was strengthened by their adhesion, i... ... the one hand the Protestant League was strengthened by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- able to their interests. States which hitherto ... ...ommunion with Rome, because at that time no other existed, — to the first- born, as it were, because he was as yet the only son. Was then a right of p... ..., but still there was far from being a perfect equality of voices. To this day no Protestant prince has been raised to the imperial throne. Whatever m... ...xtend their influ- ence and their power. The Elector Gebhard, of Cologne, (born Truchsess* of Waldburg,) con- ceived for the young Countess Agnes, of ... ...im by what he seemed at present. The moment of a new accession is always a day of hope; and the first Diet of a king in elec- tive monarchies is usual... ...eir leader in the dangerous career of glory and liberty. To him, as to its born champion, an oppressed religion looks for shelter and support against ... ...had threatened them with violence. Ferdinand had also insulted the Swedish flag, and intercepted the king’s despatches to Transylvania. He also threw ...

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...in the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...sity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university . ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER TY TY TY TY TY By JOHN STUAR... ...easure of the governed, and whose supremacy men did not venture, perhaps did On Liberty — Mill 3 not desire, to contest, whatever precautions might ... ...hough the law of England, on the subject of the press, is as servile to this day as it was in the time of the T udors, there is little danger of its b... ...ay rely on having attained such approach to truth, as is possible in our own day. This is the amount of certainty at tainable by a fallible being, an... ...ties and public opinion of his time, there took place a memorable collision. Born in an age and country abounding in individual greatness, this man ha... ...g, honestly found him guilty, and condemned the man who probably of all then born had deserved best of man kind, to be put to death as a criminal. To... ...those who now shudder at his conduct, if they had lived in his time and been born Jews, would have acted precisely as he did. Ortho dox Christians wh... ...When either of these results has become apparent, controversy on the subject flags, and gradually dies away . The doctrine has taken its place, if not...

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...n that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not written. I was born in London, on the 20th of May, 1806, and was 4 Autobiography the elde... ...g in mind that for him these pages were not written. I was born in London, on the 20th of May, 1806, and was 4 Autobiography the eldest son of James ... ...John Stuart Mill negligently; never undertook any task, literary or other, on which he did not conscientiously bestow all the labour nec essary for p... ...our nec essary for performing it adequately. But he, with these bur dens on him, planned, commenced, and completed, the History of India ; and this ... ...e added, that during the whole period, a considerable part of almost every day was employed in the instruction of his children: in the case of one of ... ... I was a more frequent visitor (from about 1817 or 1818) to Mr. Hume, who, born in the same part of Scotland as my father, and having been, I rather t... ...ntly in so insignificant and hopeless a minority everywhere in Europe, had borne all before them in France thirty years earlier, and had been the cree... ...pted by the supposed necessity of apologiz ing to foreigners for the most flagrant of all possible viola tions of the free principles of their Const... ...from the ballot I dissented entirely; and I could not consent to hoist the flag of manhood suffrage, even on the assurance that the exclusion of women...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly...

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...’s Conversion Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw ACT I On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a sea- port on the west c... ... two, is the sole product of his pet flower-bed. He is sitting to his work on a Moorish stool. In the middle of the garden there is a pleasant seat in... ...r. RANKIN. Well, sit ye doon. DRINKWATER. Aw thenk yr honor. (He sits down on the seat under the tree and composes himself for conversation.) Hever ea... ...ife more genially and easily in his character of tourist, which is further borne out by his white hat and summery racecourse attire. The lady is betwe... ...sland to take up the case against him. RANKIN. Is such a thing possible to-day in the British Empire? SIR HOWARD (calmly). Oh, quite. Quite. LADY CICE... ...odding affably to Marzo). Howdyedo? I love Italy. What part of it were you born in? DRINKWATER. Worn’t bawn in Hitly at all, lidy. Bawn in Ettn Gawdn ... ... up as long as you please. The customary charge is half a dollar a man per day and his food. I charge double. SIR HOWARD. I suppose you answer for you... ...R HOWARD. I have already met the only member of your escort who might have borne a grudge against me, Cap- tain; and he was acquitted. BRASSBOUND. You... ... ez is chawce of henny flegstown agin thet wall. They deposit Marzo on the flags against the wall close to the little door. He groans. Johnson phlegma...

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...lace in your good thoughts, I had almost said friendship. This, my lord, your words and actions so constantly show on all occa- sions, even to others ... ... everybody knows: but it would be want of good manners not to acknowledge what so many are witnesses of, and every day tell me I am indebted to your l... ...ld write of the Understanding with- out having any, if I were not extremely sensible of them, and did not lay hold on this opportunity to testify to t... ...d it, because it is unknown. Thus he who has raised himself above the alms-basket, and, not content to live lazily on scraps of begged opinions, sets ... ...Understanding this—that there are certain propositions which, though the soul from the beginning, or when a man is born, does not know, yet “by assist... ... before. For, first, it is evident that they have learned the terms, and their signification; neither of which was born with them. But this is not all... ...his is not all the ac- quired knowledge in the case: the ideas themselves, about which the proposition is, are not born with them, no more than their ... ...modesty relate. A remark- able passage to this purpose, out of the voyage of Baumgarten, which is a book not every day to be met with, I shall set dow... ...ntal ideas which are annexed to them, and make them offensive; and who is there that hath not observed some man to flag at the appearance, or in the c...

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... a century ago, an Irish novelist, Charles Lever, wrote a story entitled A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance. It was published by Charles Dickens in Househ... ...as 4 Preface to Major Barbara a child; and it made an enduring impression on me. The hero was a very romantic hero, trying to live bravely, chival- r... ...ook, in spite of its first failure, is not dead: I saw its title the other day in the cata- logue of Tauchnitz. Now why is it that when I also deal in... ... nothing but the names and some of the illustrations. But the story of the day’s ride and life’s romance of Potts (claiming alliance with Pozzo di Bor... ...have had a village idiot exhibited to me as some thing irresistibly funny. On the stage the madman was once a regular comic figure; that was how Hamle... ... or address or knowledge to carry things off better than he did; to impose on the people who saw through him; to fascinate Katinka (who cut Potts so r... ...tained per saltum. Nor has it been borrowed from Nietzsche or from any man born beyond the Channel. The late Samuel Butler, in his own department the ... ...mong whom the depressing noise called “sacred music” is a standing joke; a flag with Blood and Fire on it is unfurled, not in murderous rancor, but be... ... to Major Barbara ability. It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good. Guarantee a man’s good- ness...

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... existence of any one individual. Reproduction of other forms of life goes on in continuous sequence. And though, as the geological record shows, not ... ... the Life of Lincoln we do not expect to find within its covers a treatise on physiology. We look for an account of social antecedents; a description ... ...uent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, with- out language, beliefs, ideas, or social stan... ...ri- ence of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on. The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the... ...and, there 7 John Dewey is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group —its future sole representatives— and the maturit... ...ate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required. Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of ... ...ing the young into the practices and beliefs of the group. Even in present-day societies, it furnishes the basic nurture of even the most insistently ... ...nt. For neutrals, it is indirect and de- pendent upon imagination. But the flagrant partisanship of human nature is evidence of the intensity of the t... ...btedly there are junctures where mo- mentary interest ceases and attention flags, and where reinforcement is needed. But what carries a person over th...

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...st-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 practical purposes, in defence and propagation of, slavery. We had, indeed, been w...

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...n 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 i... ...erican 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 practical purpos... ...ve own ers, who have broken their connection with the American Federation on the sole ground, ostentatiously proclaimed, that they thought an attempt... ...t for the evil’s sake, but because some body had offered an insult to her flag? Or even if unforgotten, who would then have felt that such a grievanc... ... over others; which has no moral repugnance to the thought of human beings born to the penal servitude for life, to which for the term of a few years ... ...ration from Virginia brought the matter to a close. Yet the tariff of that day was rigidly protective. Compared with that, the one in force at the tim... ...now, as we may know if we please, that this amounts to the same thing. The day when slavery can no longer extend itself, is the day of its doom. The s...

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...Excerpt: A jungle path. A lion?s roar, a melancholy suffering roar, comes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the jungle on three legs, holding up his right forepaw, in which a huge thorn sticks. He sits down and contemplates it. He licks it. He shakes it. He tries to extract it by scraping it along the ground, and hurts himself worse. He roars...

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...mes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the jungle on three legs, holding up his right forepaw, in which a huge thorn sticks. ... ...opping every two miles and say- ing you won’t go another step? We must get on to the next village before night. There are wild beasts in this wood: li... ...ou don’t care how tired I am, or what becomes of me (she throws the bundle on the ground): always thinking of yourself. Self! self! self! always your-... ...common people. My father owned his own public-house; and sorrowful was the day for me when you first came drinking in our bar. 6 Androcles and the Li... ... the march cannot be permitted here. You will instruct them to shave every day, not every week. Y ou will impress on them particularly that there must... ...he Captain) That’s what we have to put up with from these Christians every day, sir. They’re always laughing and 11 GB Shaw joking something scandalo... ...rry me. LAVINIA. Handsome Captain: would you marry me if I hauled down the flag in the day of battle and burnt the incense? Sons take after their moth... ...scovered, amid the thunder of the captains and the shouting, that he was a born fighter. Great numbers of our clergy have found themselves of late in ... ... no longer see a man hanged, we assemble outside the jail to see the black flag run up. That is our duller method of enjoying our- selves in the old R...

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... A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the ... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill , the Pennsylvania State ... ........................................................214 4 Considerations on Representative Government Considerations on Representative Government By... ...still when they think fit to adopt it. On the other hand, it is also to be borne in mind that political machinery does not act of itself. As it is fir... .... But what he obeys is only a direct command. It is the characteristic of born slaves to be incapable of conforming their conduct to a rule or law. T... ... there is some hardship in the case, but it is a hardship that ought to be borne. If society has neglected to discharge two solemn obligations, the mo... ...her countries, on condi tions of property, the contradiction is even more flagrant. There something more than ordinarily irrational in the fact that ... ...honest appointment, but even of abstinence from such as are manifestly and flagrantly profligate. It is also absolutely necessary that the examination... ...osed of various nationalities has no other patriotism than devotion to the flag. Such armies have been the executioners of liberty through the whole d...