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... A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ... University is an equal opportunity university. 3 J S Mill UTILITARIANISM BY JOHN STUART MILL Reprinted from FRASER’S MAGAZINE Seventh Edition Londo... ...re is absolutely no reason in the nature of things why an amount of mental culture sufficient to give an intel ligent interest in these objects of co... ... associations which are wholly of artificial cre ation, when intellectual culture goes on, yield by degrees to the dissolving force of analysis: and ... ...and those of his fellow creatures. If differences of opinion and of mental culture make it impossible for him to share many of their actual feelings p... ...st. The things well known to excite the senti ments associated with those names, are of a very multifari ous character. I shall pass them rapidly in...

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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...c Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State Univer... ...onic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, Electronic C... ... so far in all my life. You shall see men you never heard of before, whose names you don’t know, going away down through the meadows with long ducking... ...t were islands in the spring, row ing with our backs down stream, we gave names to them. The one on which we had camped we called Fox Island, and one... ...he woods, Billerica, settled not long ago, and the children still bear the names of the first settlers in this late “howling wilderness”; yet to all i... ...ion of the worthies of the world, betrays the narrowness of his Euro pean culture and the exclusiveness of his reading. None of her children has done... ...Rice of those parts could even comprehend, and long anticipated this man’s culture,—a glance of his pure genius, which did not much enlighten him, but... ...n 211 HenryDavidThoreau to what interests himself. Men and women of equal culture, thrown together, are sure to be of a certain value to one an othe...

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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...Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Fac... ...sity is an equal opportunity University. 1854 WALDEN Or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau ECONOMY W HEN I WROTE the following pages, or rat... ...ives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the names of. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be... ..., I am deterred, for, so to speak, the country is not yet adapted to human culture, and we are still forced to cut our spiritual bread far thinner tha... ...ada, from time to time in the right proportions they may have changed the names a little since I saw the papers nand serve up a bull fight when other... ...s of intellect and genius, and is sensible only of the imperfection of his culture and the vanity and insufficiency of all his riches, and further pro... ...e by the pains which be takes to secure for his children that intellectual culture whose want he so keenly feels; and thus it is that he becomes the f... ...e acquainted with wiser men than this our Concord soil has produced, whose names are hardly known here. Or shall I hear the name of Plato and never re...

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Excerpt: Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw.

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...PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA FIRST AID TO CRITICS BY BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Prefac... ...lassics Series Publication Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...c transmission, in any way. Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...ular, such as Charles O’Malley and Harry Lorrequer, I know nothing but the names and some of the illustrations. But the story of the day’s ride and li... ...f the nation is not for better morals, cheaper bread, temperance, liberty, culture, redemption of fallen sisters and erring brothers, nor the grace, l...

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...Cashel Byron’s Profession By George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ... circumstances, she enjoyed a reputation for vast learn- ing and exquisite culture. It was said in Wiltstoken that she knew forty-eight living languag... ...nionship of my fellows was a necessity to me, I volun- tarily set aside my culture, relaxed my principles, and ac- quired common tastes, in order to f... ...luences of art as you do because he knows and adopts the classification of names and schools with which you are fa- miliar; or that because he agrees ... ... seems.” “Why?” “Because you are so learned, and he so ignorant. He has no culture save that of the turf. But perhaps you have more sympathy with his ... ...ned upon him curtly, and said, “Don’t you make so free with other people’s names, or perhaps you may get into trouble yourself.” The little man retrea... ...t them have such fine feelings that they can afford to call prize-fighters names? Look at the men that get killed or lamed every year at steeple-chasi...

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Excerpt: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster.

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...er A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Room with a View by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 EM Forster A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Chapter I: The Bertolini THE S IGNORA had no business to d... ...in. A few minutes ago she had been all high spirits, talking as a woman of culture, and half persuading herself that she was full of original- ity. No... ...“You and I, dear boy, will lie at peace in the earth that bore us, and our names will disappear as surely as our work survives.” 24 A Room with a Vie... ...gdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and in- tellect and culture have alike rejected. The common- place person begins to play, and s... ...a great artist. She doubted that Mr. Eager was as full of spirituality and culture as she had been led to suppose. They were tried by some new test, a... ...Board. Perhaps there is no difference, or per- haps those aren’t the right names. I only go into the country to see my friends and to enjoy the scener... ...n the National Gallery, when he winced because my father mispronounced the names of great painters. Then he brings us here, and we find it is to play ...

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...ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett PART FOUR A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBL... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Four by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Four by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University... ...sted her. “No; how so?” she replied. “He’s seen a great deal, anyway; he’s cultured?” “It’s an utterly different culture—their culture. He’s cultivate... ...rm and led him away to Karenin. “Let me introduce you.” He mentioned their names. “Very glad to meet you again,” said Alexey Alexandrovitch coldly, sh... ...novitch put in with a subtle smile. “It is the accepted view now that real culture must be purely classical; but we see most intense disputes on each ... ...Stepan Arkadyevitch. “I am not expressing my own opinion of either form of culture,” Sergey Ivanovitch said, holding out his glass with a smile of con...

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...nis; art work: V esuvius from Castellammare di Stabia, 1978. Photo furnished by Leo C. Curran, copyright 1997 . lccurran@acsu.buffalo.edu http://wings... ........................................................102 29 BC THE GEORGICS by Virgil GEORGIC I What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Mae... ...rious! ye that lead the gliding year Along the sky, Liber and Ceres mild, If by your bounty holpen earth once changed Chaonian acorn for the plump whe... ...n first the streams were ware Of hollowed alder hulls: the sailor then Their names and numbers gave to star and star, Pleiads and Hyads, and Lycaon’s ... ...tilth to each belongs According to their kinds, ye husbandmen, And tame with culture the wild fruits, lest earth Lie idle. O blithe to make all Ismaru... ...umastus, with plump clusters swollen. But lo! how many kinds, and what their names, There is no telling, nor doth it boot to tell; Who lists to know i... ...ith these The V olscian javelin armed, the Decii too, The Marii and Camilli, names of might, The Scipios, stubborn warriors, ay, and thee, Great Caesa...

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Excerpt: The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov.

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...THE WIFE and other stories by ANTON TCHEKHOV Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT A Penn State Electronic C... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. ... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ...not? The District Zemstvo refuses to assist them, on the ground that their names have been taken off the register of this district, and that they are ... ...se who have faith, because faith is an expression of ignorance and lack of culture, and at the same time you hate those who have no faith for having n... ...e turn to the past, the long list of his famous friends winds up with such names as Pirogov, Kavelin, and the poet Nekrasov, all of whom be- stowed up... ... the addition “honoured and distin- guished.” It is one of those fortunate names to abuse which or to take which in vain, in public or in print, is co... ... modern man at the sight of suffering is, to my mind, far greater proof of culture and moral elevation than hatred and aversion. W oman is as tearful ... ...the yard, looking majestically at the heavens. “One can see he is a man of culture!” he said, twisting his head round. “I hope we shall get on togethe...

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...rd A Penn State Electronic Clas- sics Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford PART I I THIS IS THE SADDEST STORY I have ever heard. We... ...epsie graduate. I guess Flo- 11 Ford Madox Ford rence wanted to raise the culture of the Stuyvesant crowd and did it as she might have gone in slummi... ...akes me think of that fellow Peire Vidal. Because, of course, his story is culture and I had to head her towards culture and at the same time it’s so ... ...together. It really worried poor Florence that she couldn’t, in matters of culture, ever get the better of Leonora. I don’t know what Leonora knew or ... ...cer, and Zwingli, and Ludwig the Courageous ….” I may have got some of the names wrong, but I know that Luther and Bucer were there. And her animation... ...ave a taste for good cookery and a watering tooth at the mere sound of the names of certain comestibles. If Florence had discovered this secret of min... ...or by moral force, has per- suaded Miss Florence that no memorial to their names shall be 127 Ford Madox Ford erected in the city of Waterbury, Conn....

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...Hermann and Dorothea By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translated by Ellen Frothingham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication H... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Ellen Frothingham is a publi- cation ... ...the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Ellen Frothingham, the Pennsylvania S... ...glorious title was now, more than ever, deserving? 61 Goethe Were not the names of those men who first delivered the message, Names to compare with t... ...the ways of his father described, the excellent burgher. Thou art a man of culture, I know, before whom I am standing; Dealest with every one wisely, ...

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...sity s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor The Republic by Plato is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Republic by Plato , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, ... ...e of them. Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State University Cover design by Jim Manis, Statue of Plato. The Pennsylvania State University is an equa... ...ion of justice is not dismissed, but reappears under the same or different names throughout the work, both as the inner law of the individual soul, an... ... the money of the citizens has made slaves of them, then, instead of these names of reproach, he is termed happy and blessed, not only by the citizen... .... Undoubtedly. Also we shall have to reject all the terrible and appalling names describe the world below —Cocytus and Styx, ghosts under the earth, a... ...e in him, having no taste of any sort of learning or enquiry or thought or culture, grow feeble and dull and blind, his mind never waking up or receiv... ...e ing self taught, they cannot be expected to show any grati tude for a culture which they have never received. But we have brought you into the wo... ... have more of self assertion and be less culti vated, and yet a friend of culture; and he should be a good listener, but no speaker. Such a person is...

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...ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett PART SEVEN A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUB... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Seven by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Seven by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University... ...esting,” said Metrov. “What I began precisely was to write a book on agri- culture; but studying the chief instrument of agricul- ture, the laborer,” ... ...t till then, began to talk. The colonel too talked of the opera, and about culture. At last, after speaking of the proposed folle journee at Turin’s, ... ...ion, Levin was all the time admiring her—her beauty, her intelligence, her culture, and at the same time her directness and genuine depth of feeling. ... ...imneys. Trying not to get flurried or out of temper, Levin men- tioned the names of the doctor and midwife, and ex- plaining what the opium was needed... ...did you do? Who was there?” she said, after a pause. Vronsky mentioned the names of the guests. “The din- ner was first rate, and the boat race, and i...

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...ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett PART TWO A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLI... ...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University... ...nsky, looking at her with his laughing eyes. “I’m not going to mention any names.” “But I shall guess, so much the better.” “Well, listen: two festive... ...ngs.” “Oh, do show me! I’ve been learning about them at those—what’s their names?...the bankers...they’ve some splendid engravings. They showed them t... ...and the soil, and consequently deducing all the principles of scien- tific culture, not simply from the data of soil and cli- mate, but from the data ... ...ll there is in his soul,” she thought; “as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, reli- gion, they are only so many tools for getting on.” From his ... ...m Alexey Alexandrovitch had a high opinion, noted for his intelligence and culture. Alexey Alexandrovitch entered into conversation with him. There wa... ...ly it’s melancholy, very melancholy here. Who’s that?” Kitty mentioned the names of all the people they met, with some of whom she was acquainted and ...

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... that it was out of the question for the wedding to take place before Lent, just five weeks off, since not half the trousseau could possibly be ready by that time. But she could not but agree with Levin that to fix it for after Lent would be putting it off too late, as an old aunt of Prince Shtcherbatsky?s was seriously ill and might die, and then the mourning would delay ...

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...ernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Shaw PYGMALION By George Bernard Shaw 1912 PREFACE TO PYGMALION A Professor of Phonetics A... ...u see, we’re all savages, more or less. We’re supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and s... ...and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names? [To Miss Hill] What do you know of poetry? [To Mrs. Hill] What do yo... ... think of myself crawling under your feet and being trampled on and called names, when all the time I had only to lift up my finger to be as good as y... ...whilst many old maids and bachelors are above the aver- age in quality and culture, we cannot help suspect- ing that the disentanglement of sex from t... ... keep it. True, Eliza had not to begin at the very beginning: she knew the names and prices of the cheaper flowers; and her elation was un- bounded wh...

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... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University... ...ransmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Edit... ... On the’ other pole attentive, where I saw Four stars ne’er seen before save by the ken Of our first parents. Heaven of their rays Seem’d joyous. O th... ...d. His visage and the other’s speech did raise Desire in me to know the names of both, whereof with meek entreaty I inquir’d. The shade, who... ... such a growth has sprung Of rank and venom’d roots, as long would mock Slow culture’s toil. Where is good Lizio? where Manardi, Traversalo, and Carpi... ...der not, Tuscan, if thou see me weep, When I recall to mind those once lov’d names, Guido of Prata, and of Azzo him That dwelt with you; Tignoso and h... ...e more of kindly strength is in the soil, So much doth evil seed and lack of culture The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 88 Mar it the more, and ... ...pire.” v. 107. Capulets and Montagues.] Our ears are so familiarized to the names of these rival families in the language of Shakespeare, that I have...

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...THE FORGED COUPON And Other Stories BY LEO TOLSTOY A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The Forged Cou... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The Forged Coupon and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude is a publi cation of the... ...lec tronic transmission, in any way. The Forged Coupon and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude , the Penn sylvania State U... ... been raised to the height of demi gods by worshipping millions, there are names which leap inevitably to the mind – such names as Savonarola, Luther,... ...rilliant company of young writers came to the surface, counting among them names of European celebrity, such as Dostoevsky, Nekrassov, and Saltykov. U... ... have asked how it all happened; whereas he just called me Leo Tolstoy 38 names. He never thinks of anything but himself. When it is he who has not g... ...ey had also in com mon the sense that they both excelled their enemies in culture, in brains, as well as in morals. Katia Turchaninova was a gifted g...

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...he hall, the nearer to the doctor?s study. In the lefthand wall, opposite the door leading to the hall, is a door leading to the other rooms occupied by the family. In the middle of the same wall stands the stove, and, further forward, a couch with a looking-glass hanging over it and an oval table in front of it. On the table, a lighted lamp, with a lampshade. At the back ...

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...An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen Translated by Farquharson Sharp A play in five acts A Penn State Electronic Classics S... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, trans. Farquharson Sharp is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, trans. Farquharson Sharp, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... and corruption and every kind of intellectual depravity are the result of culture, just as all the filth that is draining into our Baths is the resul... ...ting them straightway upon the paths of depravity! Happily the theory that culture demoralises is only an old falsehood that our forefathers believed ... ...ecause they didn’t dare to risk sign- 84 An Enemy of the People ing their names, Katherine! Petra. And two of them were to the effect that a man, who...