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...nderground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...at stone wall? Why, of course, the laws of nature, the deductions of natural science, mathematics. As soon as they prove to you, for instance, that yo... ...n in barbarous ages, he is still far from having learnt to act as reason and science would dictate. But yet you are fully convinced that he will be su... ... learn when he gets rid of certain old bad habits, and when common sense and science have completely re educated human nature and turned it in a norm...

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...Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet made mostly of Carbonic-Oxide (CO) could possibly collide with the Earth. It is concerned with the philosophy and...

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...Excerpt: On the thirteenth of January of this present year, 1865, at halfpast twelve in the day, Elena Ivanovna, the wife of my cultured friend Ivan Matveitch, who is a colleague in the same department, and may be said to be a distant relation of mine,...

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... Crocodile” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Docu ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...scientific study of nature on the spot, in the living sub ject. The natural sciences are all the fashion nowadays, botany …. He could live there and ... ...r mation of the crocodile is quite in keeping with the teachings of natural science. If, for instance, one had to construct a new croco dile, the qu... ..., get in and keep him company, and spend your life discuss ing some tedious science … .” “You are wrong to laugh at this suggestion” — I checked ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its p...

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...S ERIES P UBLICATION Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the ques tion concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the sa... ...es similar discordance, exist respecting the first prin ciples of all the sciences, not excepting that which is deemed the most certain of them, math... ...t all, the trust 4 Utilitarianism worthiness of the conclusions of those sciences. An apparent anomaly, the explanation of which is, that the detail... ...t anomaly, the explanation of which is, that the detailed doc trines of a science are not usually deduced from, nor depend for their evidence upon, w... ...f the matters in dispute—those believers in it who have any pretensions to philosophy, have been obliged to abandon the idea that it discerns what is ... ...tings of persons of the greatest pretensions both to high principle and to philosophy. We not uncommonly hear the doctrine of utility inveighed agains...

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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...TUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...nk these shadows the proper objects of the highest, the most transcendant, philosophy. Hardly anything can be of greater value to a man of theory and ... ...ut in working them up by processes of thought into comprehensive truths of science and laws of conduct, than to carry on his speculations in the compa... ...nsider, can collect additional evidence; he is not obliged to complete his philosophy at once, lest the opportunity should go by. The power of drawing... ...e best conclusion possible from insufficient data is not indeed useless in philosophy; the construction of a provisional hypothesis consistent with al... ...reater habitual and daily emotional life: but have they been less great in science, in public business, in legal and judicial eminence, or in war? The... ...t the merely physical one of bodily strength. No production in philosophy, science, or art, entitled to the first rank, has been the work of a woman. ...

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...Chapters XVI to XX by Baruch Spinoza, trans. R.H.M. Elwes is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... THE RIGHTS OF THE SOVEREIGN POWER. Hitherto our care has been to separate philosophy from theol- ogy, and to show the freedom of thought which such s... ...lying the dogmas of reli- gion to such an extent and so blending them with philosophy that their chief interpreter was bound to be a skilled philoso- ... ...efuse to allow religious dogmas to be unduly multiplied or confounded with philosophy. 54 A Theologico-Political Treatise – Part Four CHAPTER XX – TH... ...not to men- tion that such freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts: for no man follows such pursuits to advantage...

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...nly just preparing to leave Moscow. Sergey Ivanovitch?s life had not been uneventful during this time. A year ago he had finished his book, the fruit of six years? labor, ?Sketch of a Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia.?...

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...INTRODUCTION It is a genuine pleasure and challenge for me to try to express the full extent of my emotions and reasons for writing this book on the STORY OF THE ATOM AND THE SCIENCES, with special reference to the CHEMICAL SCIENCES. In one sentence, I can distill the essence of the purpose for this study by simply...

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...TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 THE STORY OF THE ATOM AND CHEMISTRY 7 THE CAVE MAN 7 ABSTRACT ON THE CONCEPT OF PERSPECTIVE AND SENSE OF DUTY 8 THE MIGRATORY AND THE SEDENTARY MAN 9 ABSTRACT ON THE ATOM AND ITS ENERGY 11 ...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. The garden of IVANOFF?S country place. On the left is a terrace and the facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad semicircular lawn, from which paths lead to right and left into a garden. On the right are sev...

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...CHARACTERS NICHOLAS IVANOFF, perpetual member of the Council of Peasant Affairs ANNA, his wife. Nee Sarah Abramson MATTHEW SHABELSKI, a count, uncle of Ivanoff PAUL LEBEDIEFF, President of the Board of the Zemstvo ZINAIDA, his wife SASHA, their daughter, twenty years old...

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...TABLE OF CONTENTS: CHAPTER VI ? Of Miracles. Confused ideas of the vulgar on the subject. A miracle in the sense of a contravention of natural laws an absurdity. In the sense of an event, whose cause is unknown, less edifying than ...

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...ly amounts to this, which also I believe--?That government is best which governs not at all?; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually....

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...Introduction: The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the ?philosophy of human affairs;? but more fre...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...LISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EATER TER TER TER TER, ET ,... ...urable existence. Yet, if once that equilibrium is disturbed, where is the science oftentimes deep enough to rectify the unfathomable watch-work? Even... ... beholds, not in the object beheld. Let a planet be wheeling with heavenly science, upon arches of divine geometry: suddenly, to us, it shall appear u... ...fficient upon such ground, but that which the Scriptures in their profound philosophy entitle the ‘un- derstanding heart.’ And perhaps few readers wil... ... gion, the more you leave behind the frauds, forgeries, and treacheries of philosophy; so much the more clearly you de- scry the odious truth—that man... ... code of in- ternational law. This cannot be consummated until Chris- tian philosophy shall have traversed the earth, and reorga- nized the structure ... ...nity is possible for those who are not behind their age in scholarship and science; this is a solemn fact, which may be ignored by the partisans of sh...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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