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...urgical" precision. The legal (and moral) imperative to spare the lives of innocent civilians was well observed, they bragged. "Collateral damage" w... ...r pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-off between civilian and combatant casualties. This dilemma is both ethical... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...s and supersedes (subordinates) his moral obligation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The lar... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...s of craftsmen (Proudhon), a federation of voluntary associations (Bakunin), trade unions (anarcho- syndicalists), ideal communism (Kropotkin). Wha... ... person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. (... ...se, it rings of a dictatorship, a negation of individualism, a restriction of civil liberties, an infringement on human rights, anti-liberalism at i...

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...nheriting inferior endowments from nature and un practiced in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficie... ...ds can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government i... ...s deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it ... ...to the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF ... ...man Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportuni ties for deliberating in perfect tranquil... ...be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extra neous should infect the purity of... ...y terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who go... ...e first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS ... ...rts may be directed hon estly to the public good, that peace be cultivated, civil and religious liberty unassailed, law and order preserved, equality...

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... of mankind, his contem poraries of the human race, in all their stages of civili zation; and, last of all, the Constitution of the United States, ... ...estined and prophetic history of the one confederated people 3 of the North American Union. They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and disti... ...nd prophetic history of the one confederated people 3 of the North American Union. They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and distinct Engli... ...te and distinct English colonies, along the margin of the shore of the North American Continent; contiguously situated, but chartered by adventurers o... ...ferocious and bloody seven years’ war between the two most powerful and most civilized nations of Europe contending for the possession of this contine... ...e English colonies on this continent. This was the first signal of the North American Union. The struggle was for chartered rights—for English lib Or... ...olonies that John Hampden was a rebel and Algernon Sidney a traitor. English liberties had failed them. From the omnipo tence of Parliament the colon... ...s of allegiance, the assumption of sover eign power, and the institution of civil government, are all acts of transcendent authority, which the peopl... ...rained them to absolute sepa ration irreconcilable. Viewing their religious liberties here, as held only by sufferance, yet bound to them by Orations...

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...g diseases, to perish with hunger, or to be devoured by wild beasts. Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of p... ...Observe the accommodation of the most common artificer or daylabourer in a civilized and thriving country, and you will per- ceive that the number of ... ...ssistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very fa... ...xceeds that of many an African king, the absolute masters of the lives and liberties of ten thousand na- ked savages. 18 The Wealth of Nations CHAPTE... ...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...butcher’s meat was as cheap or cheaper than even bread made of oatmeal The Union opened the market of England to the Highland cattle. Their ordinary p... ...he value of the two metals is nearly equal. In the Scotch coin, before the union with England, the gold preponderated very little, though it did somew...

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...the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Pluta... ...ame power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses. Civil and natural history, the history of art and of lit- erature, must be ... ...n, because of the perils of the state from nomadism. And in these late and civil countries of England and America these propen- sities still fight out... ... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...to give account of his faith and expound to another the theory of his self-union and free- dom. This requires rare gifts. Yet without this self-knowl-... ...ys. It makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate. The union which is thus effected and which adds a new value to every atom in na... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ... the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much ginger- bread, or take liberties with private letters, or do some precious atrocity. It is bad eno...

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...STANDER. You take us for dirt under your feet, don’t you? Catch you taking liberties with a gentleman! THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER. Yes: tell HIM where he... ...ching would be impossible unless pupils were sacred. I’ve taught scores of American millionairesses how to speak English: the best look- ing women in ... ...s. HIGGINS. You 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 ... ...he lid on me right enough. Just give him the chance he wanted to show that Americans is not like us: that they recognize and respect merit in every cl... ...e knowledge you gave me. You said I had a finer ear than you. And I can be civil and kind to people, which is more than you can. Aha! That’s done you,... ...too little; and when the bar- gain is unreasonable beyond all bearing, the union becomes impossible: it ends in the weaker party be- ing either discar...

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...what they like with it as far as it will let them. It has no rights and no liberties: in short, its condition is that which adults recognize as the mo... ...d go. All the ways dis- covered so far lead to the horrors of our existing civiliza- tions, described quite justifiably by Ruskin as heaps of ago- niz... ... to earn, can still interfere to a disas- trous extent with the rights and liberties of one child. But by the time a fourth child has arrived, they ar... ...hat all enjoyment consists in undetected sinning; and in certain phases of civilization people of this kind are apt to get the upper hand of more amia... ...: they win everything on condition that they are afraid to enjoy it. Their civilizations rest on intimidation, which is so necessary to them that when... ...rs to squander and ruin great estates, nor tolerate a hundred other absurd liberties that we allow today because we are too lazy to find out the prope... ...he most obvious measure of justice be demanded by the secretary of a Trade Union in terms which omit all expressions of subservience, and it is with t... ...ry art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized En-...

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... author of the Discourse Con- cerning the Nature of Man has given me a late instance, to mention no other. For the civility of his expressions, and th... ...wing,” that I have reason to think he brought in my name on this occasion only out of the pleasure he has to speak civilly of me; which I must gratefu... ...hem. 7. Men’s actions convince us that the rule of virtue is not their internal principle. For, if we will not in civility allow too much sincerity t... ...inks, I would they would also tell us, what those ideas are that are in the soul of a child, before or just at the union with the body, before it hath... ...t it does. 20. Sticking on and under-propping. Whatever a learned 159 John Locke man may do here, an intelligent American, who inquired into the nat... ...in confu- sion. 6. Another reason for the necessity of names to num- bers. This I think to be the reason why some Americans I have spoken with, (who ... ...nd, and suitable to the power that makes it: which is the force of the Commonwealth, engaged to protect the lives, liberties, and possessions of those... ...ing doctors, it was to the unscholastic statesman that the governments of the world owed their peace, defence, and liberties; and from the illiterate ... ...n lost among us, we should in a few ages be unavoidably reduced to the wants and igno- rance of the ancient savage Americans, whose natural endowments...

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...ly. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the no ... ...es; lying, flattering, voting, con tracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilat ing into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generos ity... ...e to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross neces saries of life and... ...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both o... ...nt on the honey with which it was smeared. I felt proud to know that the liberties of Massachu setts and of our fatherland were in such safe keepin... ...or, according to natu ralists, prolific hybrids have been produced by the union of the marten and domestic cat. This would have been the right kind o...

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...ations, his nationality. Such a key is peculiarly necessary to English or American students of Tolstoy, because of the marked contrast existing be t... ...f the marked contrast existing be tween the Russian and the Englishman or American in these respects, a contrast by which Tolstoy himself was forcibl... ...ppeals have been met by the rulers of Russia is only too well known to the civilised world, but the obduracy of Pharoah has called forth the plagues o... ... to concentrate his thoughts on the land question. He began by reading the American propagandist’s “Social Problems,” which arrested his attention by ... ... land. The single tax thus created would ultimately overthrow the present “civilisation” which is chiefly built up on wage slavery. Tolstoy gave his w... ...did striving to free truth from falsehood, to simplify the complexities of civilisation and demonstrate their futility. Realists as gifted have come a... ...her of his children. He was a dear comrade to her, and their chief bond of union was a feeling of revolt they had in common, as well as the hatred the... ...ound a place for her in the town; how the merchant’s son had tried to take liberties with her, and how she had rebuffed him. She liked to talk, and Al... ...r, and cannot understand the blindness of the gov ernment in allowing the union of Russian men to exist. Here is a kind, gentle mother of a little gi...

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... was a man that knew something of you, Sir, I believe, and he wished to be civil, and kept saying, “Oh! I dare say it will turn out nothing at all, ma... ... She was gentle, if people would let her be so. But woe to those that took liberties with her! A female servant of the convent, in some authority, one... ...after so long a voyage, she only, out of the total crew, was thrown on the American shore, with one hundred and five pounds in her purse of clear gain... ...foot of Kate’s little account. But unhappily for Kate’s début on this vast American stage, the case was otherwise. Mr. Urquiza had the misfortune (equ... ...criptural pathos in what followed, as if it were some scene of domestic re-union, opening itself from patriarchal ages. The young officer was the elde... ...errors. We all com- mit many; both you and I, reader. No, stop; that’s not civil. You, reader, I know, are a saint; I am not, though very near it. I d... ...al scepticism being to scoff at all hid- den depths of truth. Else you are civil enough to Kate; and your ‘homage’ (such as it may happen to be) is al... ... like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny gauze, somet... ...ss one of those vulgar fussy Comets, disposed to be rude and take improper liberties. These Comets, by the way, are public nuisances, very much like t...

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...that the distinguished position of his son- in-law would not allow of such liberties. The cousin all the same did not give in to these reasons readily... ...shut the door and took off his cap in his usual way. “It isn’t with saying civil things that he’ll wear out his tongue,” said the chemist, as soon as ... ...lishing itself, and, as it were, a contin- ued sentiment of a more complex union. When from afar he saw her languid walk, and her figure without stays... ...reen bandbox on the table, and began by com- plaining to madame, with many civilities, that he should have remained till that day without gaining her ... ...ordinary pitch. He declaimed— “This is no longer the time, gentlemen, when civil discord ensanguined our public places, when the landlord, the busi- n... ...d now she was asking for a ring—a real wedding-ring, in sign of an eternal union. She often spoke to him of the evening chimes, of the voices of natur... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ...

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...easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep an... ...- sia also, but through the calamities which overtook Russia— the Tartars, civil war, the interruption of relations with the East after the destructio... ... civic and political rights of its members.’ Secondly , that ‘criminal and civil jurisdiction ought not to belong to the Church, and is inconsistent w... ...is was bound to happen. But Rome as a State retained too much of the pagan civilisation and cul- ture, as, for example, in the very objects and fundam... ...e, for they felt more acutely than other people the craving for world-wide union. The great conquerors, Timours and Ghenghis-Khans, whirled like hurri... ...orgive me for sometimes calling you Alyosha; an old woman like me may take liberties,” she smiled coquettishly; “but that will do later, too. The impo... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO... ...work on the land here, too, somewhere in the wilds, and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own soil. That’s my plan, and...

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...y disagrees with my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of... ... informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment, or civil rights, or the way the economy works. I will try my best to be fair... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...ues, the boundaries of the market, the saving of lives, the loss of familiar liberties. Once again, opposi- tion to enclosure is portrayed as economic... ...to focus on, and I do not mean to trivialize them. I worked with a couple of civil liberties groups in opposing the hapless Communications Decency Act... ...us on, and I do not mean to trivialize them. I worked with a couple of civil liberties groups in opposing the hapless Communications Decency Act, The ... ... is important. And yes, I must disagree with some of my friends in the civil liberties world and say that the government’s interest is unrelated to th...

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...ENT SECOND ESSAY : AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT by John Locke Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: ... ...ent, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Govern ment by John Locke, trans. William Popple is a publication o... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Exten... ...annot be a clearer demonstration of any thing than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land and poor in all the comforts of... ... Essay – Locke the first commoners of the world look after—as it doth the Americans now—are generally things of short dura tion, such as if they ar... ... or an authority to make laws and dispose as they please of their lives or liberties. It is one thing to owe honour, respect, gratitude, and assis ta... ... restraint; and they could nowhere find a greater security to their peace, liberties, and fortunes than in the rule of a father. 76. Thus the natura... ...ers. These men having, as I say, forfeited their lives and, with it, their liberties, and lost their estates, and being in the state of slavery, not c... ...em. They are of no more account by her standard than the Wampompeke of the Americans to an European prince, or the silver money of Europe would have b...

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...tion. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

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...wn- right abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they... ...wedding ring. They cite the example of George Eliot, who formed an illicit union with Lewes. They quote a saying attributed to Nietzsche, that a marri... ...So- cialist asks him what particular variety of marriage he means: English civil marriage, sacramental marriage, indissoluble Roman Catholic marriage,... ...man, Turkish, or South Dakotan marriage. In Sweden, one of the most highly civilized countries in the world, a marriage is dissolved if both parties w... ...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ...o a private and socially inoperative eccen- tricity by the introduction of civil marriage and divorce. Theo- retically, our civilly married couples ar... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...ell as to the mere fact of breathing, is making short work of many ancient liberties, and exposing the pursuit of happiness as perhaps the most misera...

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...ion for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people o...

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...f despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the great- est number have begun their career by pa... ...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ...is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have been plunged into a civil war. But notwithstanding the concurring testimony of experi- * Ibid. ... ...repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. T o be more safe, they at length become willing... ...ws are not accustomed to relaxations, in favor of military exigencies; the civil state remains in full vigor, neither cor- rupted, nor confounded with... ...rse of time, in the predicament of the continental powers of Eu- rope —our liberties would be a prey to the means of defend- ing ourselves against the... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...only substitute for those military establishments which have subverted the liberties of the Old World, and as the proper antidote for the diseases of ...

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...he subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly infl...

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...ortunately opposed to the mis named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be... ...ost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself un... ... First, by obtaining a recognition of certain immu nities, called political liberties or rights, which it was to be regarded as a breach of duty in t... ... and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil pen alties, its own ideas and practices as rules of con duct on t... ...sed to be of full age, and not forced or deceived. No society in which these liberties are not, on the whole, respected, is free, whatever may be its ... ...to separate the cognate liberty of speaking and of writing. Al though these liberties, to some considerable amount, form part of the political morali... ... two requisites, “freedom, and a variety of situa tions;” and that from the union of these arise “indi vidual vigor and manifold diversity,” which c... ... some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil business; let them be left without a... ...nd of civil business; let them be left without a govern ment, every body of Americans is able to improvise one, and to carry on that or any other pub...

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...tual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized gov... ...ibe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized government. The same might have been said, though somewhat less a... ...or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet even of a great man, or trust him with powers which e... ...res of them. A rude people, though in some degree alive to the benefits of civilized soci ety, may be unable to practice the forbearances which it de... ... the laws the avenging of their real or supposed wrongs. In such a case, a civilized government, to be really advantageous 9 J S Mill to them, will r... ...ns at all in the repre sentative body. It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly c... ...ne suggested itself to the en lightened and disinterested founders of the American Re public, the federal and state assemblies would have contained ... ...r. Though it is impos sible to exaggerate the importance of these various liberties, both as securities for freedom and as means of general culti va... ...mitted to the government of the place, though they ought to be allowed all liberties and privileges compat ible with that restriction, including the ...

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... could have been abolished, Whig, Tory, and Radical, embracing in discrepant union; and all the Journals of the Nation could have been jumbled into on... ...y well be; as gener ous illusions of friendship; as fair mementos of bygone unions, of those nights and suppers of the gods, when, lapped in the symp... ...ous man is Decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. “Reader, the heaven inspired melodious Singer; lofti... ...as acquired somewhat of a sign post character,—I shall here say nothing: the civil and pacific classes, less touched upon, are wonderful enough for us.... ...ith them, the whole fabric of Government, Legislation, Property, Police, and Civilized Society, are dissolved, in wails and howls.” Lives the man that... ...ossible? Was not every soul, or rather every body, of these Guardians of our Liberties, naked, or nearly so, last night; “a forked Radish with a head ... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,...

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...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...ture members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap be- tween the original capacities of the immature and... ...e and thorough transmission 8 Democracy & Education takes place, the most civilized group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. In fact... ...re nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn. But as civilization advances, the gap between the ca- pacities of the young and th... ...nto their collective or conjoint activities, as truly as a church, a labor union, a business partnership, or a politi- cal party. Each of them is a mo... ...e members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the effi- cacy of the commo... ...bably a chief means in transforming temporary cohabitations into permanent unions. It certainly was a chief influence in forming hab- its of affection... ...ine. The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: “It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as ... ...nd fall of principalities and powers, but with the growth of the effective liberties, through command of nature, of the common man for whom pow- ers a...

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...nobleman in the days of the first Don Juan, are now triumphant everywhere. Civilized society is one huge bour- geoisie: no nobleman dares now shock hi... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ... the partition of the whole of Africa and perhaps the whole of Asia by the civilized Pow- ers. Can you believe that the people whose conceptions of so... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ... down my view of the existing relations of men to women in the most highly civilized soci- ety for what it is worth. It is a view like any other view ... .... Even our business arrangements are subject to the approval of your Trade Union. But don’t abuse your advantages. Let me remind you that Voltaire sai... ...stening: neither my genteel relatives nor the secretary of your confounded Union. As man to man, Enry, why do you think that my friend has no chance w... ...hiefly needs it—the working class. We do this at the risk of our lives and liberties, by the exercise of the virtues of courage, endur- ance, foresigh...

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...have had to apologize for, had refused to “recognize” some powerful T rade Union, just as a gondola might refuse to recognize a 20,000-ton liner. In s... ...k Hall unfortunately suffered from both. For half a century before the war civilization had been going to the devil very precipitately under the influ... ...ng outside their little circle of interest. But the ordinary war-conscious civilian went mad, the main symptom being a conviction that the whole order... ...ous voluntary organizations for doing what was plainly the business of the civil and military authorities, but actually handed out money to any thief ... ...l sense and reason. In European Courts there was vindictive illegality: in American Courts there was raving lunacy. It is not for me to chronicle the ... ...t is not for me to chronicle the extravagances of an Ally: let some candid American do that. I can only say that to us sitting in our gardens in Engla... ...or ourselves alive next morning, the newspaper ac- counts of the sentences American Courts were passing on young girls and old men alike for the expre... ...ng treated with a certain consideration. I will not allow Hushabye to take liberties with me. I will not stand your encouraging people as you do. HECT...

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... by no “rights,” except such simple ones as were made by might and custom. Civilization is a constant building-up of limitations around heredity; a pe... ...th, and it is equally impossible to feel and understand them. What we call civilization has moved so fast that the structure and instincts of man have... ...ife but is fun- damental to those human associations that are the basis of civilization. Except for this, animals would live a lonely life and probabl... ...ivil War. During the last war, these en- croachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immedia... ... and all public places, have never really been the law in any state in the Union. Their provisions have always been openly violated and no court would... ...pear. The machinery of justice would be all-sufficient to take care of the liberties of every man, to give him proper treatment in disease, to restore... ...rough the needs of the rulers in war they were given to the poor. When the American Revolution separated us from Great Britain, the spirit of democrac... ...ch and nerves, and Nature will have revenge. T o be sure, the professional American rhapso- dist points out that we are immune from natural law becaus... ... fight would not have been permitted in more than one or two states in the Union. Now state after state is passing laws to 127 permit prize fights to...

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...oreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the ty... ... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...oy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who support the litter, civilisation, in which we ourselves are so smoothly carried forward. People... ...t in masterly coincidence with the artis- tic effect. The deadly weight of civilisation to those who are below presses sensibly on our shoulders as we... ...ords and actions, and land him at last in an undesired and most unsuitable union for life. If he had been strong enough to refrain or bad enough to pe... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...em to be; what is once well done is done for ever.” Such was his theory of civil disobedience. 106 Robert Louis Stevenson And the upshot? A friend pa... ... some curious and im- portant points. We can only regret that he has taken liberties with the author and the public. It is no part of the duties of th...