...gy of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth XII. Hostel: The American Hostel XIII. Inceptions and Its Errors XIV. Aliens „R ... ...d Mr. Ripley" is an Hitchcockian and blood- curdling study of the psychopath and his victims. At the centre of this masterpiece, set in the exquisite... ...s his clothes, cashes his checks and makes phone calls from his rooms. But he also murders - or tries to murder - those who suspect the truth. Thes... ... cultivates a False Self of a jazz giant in the making and the author of the Great American Novel but he is neither and he bitterly knows it. Even ... ...most heart rending smile when embarrassed or endangered. He is a caricature of the American dream: ambitious, driven, winsome, well versed in the m... ...ersonality Disorder). But perhaps the most intriguing portraits are those of the victims. Marge insists, in the face of the most callous and abus... ...r. When she confronts the beguiling monster, Ripley, she encounters the fate of all victims of psychopaths: disbelief, pity and ridicule. The truth ... ...ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack. This thriller offers additional... ... face this question: Dan has no recollection of being Dan. Dan does not remember murdering Jack. It seems as though Dan's very identity has been ...

...nally threatens to take one's life. IG. The Right to Terminate One's Life See "The Murder of Oneself". IH. The Right to Have One's Life Terminated... ...hly thought out arguments. The questions: "Is abortion immoral" and "Is abortion a murder" are often confused. The pregnancy (and the resulting fet... ...Still, not every immoral act involving the termination of life can be classified as murder. Phenomenology is deceiving: the acts look the same (cess... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...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... ... of King James I, survived for decades on the remains (and personal belongings) of victims of their murderous sprees. Real-life serial killers, lik... ...e right to will our delectable tissues to a discerning cannibal post-mortem (or to victims of famine in Africa)? When does our right to dispose of... ...nicious medical outcomes of cannibalism and to protect others who might become our victims. V. The Fear of Being Objectified Being treated as an o...

...ern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied b... ...isible signs of the unknown, and those who believe in its existence are the victims of a vain illusion." This statement of Aenesidemus is confirmed ... ... each other according to the teaching of their manner of life, and although murder is forbidden, the gladiators kill each other for the same reason....

...hown in military battle; much suffering must be faced and overcome, not as victims, but as artists capable of creating beauty that does not yet exis... ...e given to them, and 13 they must only decide whether to live as unhappy victims or as artists called to contribute to the life of the entire univ... ...t succeed in doing so, even though her plan to have Ulysses and Telemachus murdered was ingenious. I can answer this question in the following ma... ...mortal – secondary beauty – instead of using it to continue to feel we are victims. We must also consider that repression is never one hundred per ... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ... ...his life as a work of art. When two policemen come to arrest the young murderer, the monk tells them that it is not yet time. The young man must... ...a and Ulysses’ Penelope. One of them is consciously plotting her husband’s murder while the other is plotting using a wily ambivalence, typical of th...

...FREDERICK DOUGL FREDERICK DOUGL FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ASS, ASS, ASS, ASS, AN AMERICAN SL AN AMERICAN SL AN AMERICAN SL AN AMERICAN SL AN AMERICAN SLA A ... ...assics Series Publication Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...c transmission, in any way. Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...he enormous outrage which is inflicted by it, on the godlike nature of its victims, was rendered far more clear than ever. There stood one, in physica... ...or listen to any recital of the cruelties which are daily inflicted on its victims. They do not deny that the slaves are held as property; but that te... ...ey are untrue. In the course of his Narrative, he relates two instances of murderous cruelty,—in one of which a planter deliberately shot a slave belo... ...man-stealers in sympathy and purpose, or on the side of their down-trodden victims? If with the former, then are you the foe of God and man. If with t... ...him; and thus the guilty perpetrator of one of the bloodiest and most foul murders goes unwhipped of jus- tice, and uncensured by the community in whi... ...of Mr. Giles Hicks, living but a short distance from where I used to live, murdered my wife’s cousin, a young girl between fifteen and sixteen years o...

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..................................................................... 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE .................................................... ...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...nheim”; such marvel- lous studies in ratiocination as the “Gold-bug,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Purloined Letter” and “The Mys- tery of Ma... ...s Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and me... ...terdam, and some people went so far as to imagine that in this spot a foul murder had been committed, and that the sufferers were in all probability H... ... Tribunaux.” Dupin scrutinized every thing—not excepting the bodies of the victims. We then went into the other rooms, and into the yard; a gendarme a... ...of the room. It was open, and its contents lay beside it on the floor. The victims must have been sitting with their backs toward the window; and, fro...

...MO-CAMELEOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ..............................................................

..., or perhaps by a heated attempt to argue that we should all be robbed and murdered in our beds if such senseless villainies as sentences of imprisonm... ... do ten times less harm as a prosperous bur- glar, incendiary, ravisher or murderer, to the utmost limits of humanity’s comparatively negligible impul... ...” is a standing joke; a flag with Blood and Fire on it is unfurled, not in murderous rancor, but because fire is beautiful and blood a vital and splen... ...heir competitors can do to them. The history of the English factories, the American trusts, the exploitation of African gold, diamonds, ivory and rub-... ...om time to time by violent ex- plosions of revolution; so the attempt—will Americans please note—to found moral institutions on a basis of moral in- e... ...but unnatural Reigns of the Saints relieved by licentious Restorations; to Americans who have made divorce a public institution turning the face of Eu... ... with coals and blankets, bread and treacle, and soothing and cheering the victims with hopes of immense and inexpensive happiness in another world wh... ... active personal part in its proceedings on pain of becoming ourselves the victims of its violence. As I write these lines, a sensational example is g... ...herefore anti-Rus- sian in politics, does not say “Serve you right” to the victims, as it did, in effect, when Bobrikofl; and De Plehve, and Grand Duk...

...ar 1777 is the one in which the passions roused of the breaking off of the American colonies from England, more by their own weight than their own wil... ...s suppression of rebellion and maintenance of British dominion, and to the American as defence of liberty, resis- tance to tyranny, and selfsacrifice ... ...quire: suffice it to say, without prejudice, that they have convinced both Americans and English that the most high minded course for them to pursue i... ...nd almost falls into them. JUDITH (the words choking her). I ought to—it’s murder— RICHARD. No: only a kiss (softly to her) for his sake. JUDITH. I ca... ...oing to your death, Tony— your sure death, if God will let innocent men be murdered. They will not let you see him: they will arrest you the mo- ment ... .... (They all rise.) JUDITH (rushing to the table). Oh, you are not going to murder a man like that, without a proper trial—without thinking of what you... ...ght of ordering a soldier a thousand lashes, as it will be to those modern victims of the flagellation neurosis who are so anx- ious to revive that di...

...e criminal to delay any longer calling to your atten- tion a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many ... ...ment has persisted for many weeks—in spite of constant appeals made to the American Minister at Paris; and in spite of subse- quent action taken by th... ...h- ington, on the initiative of my friend, Hon. . 4 The Enormous Room The victims are two American ambulance drivers, Edward Estlin Cummings of Cambr... ...e initiative of my friend, Hon. . 4 The Enormous Room The victims are two American ambulance drivers, Edward Estlin Cummings of Cambridge, Mass., and... ...ad by this time overcome their respective inertias and were chomping cheek-murder- ing chunks. They had quite a layout, a regular picnic-lunch elabora... ...fe before had I wanted to kill, to thor- oughly extinguish and to entirely murder. Perhaps ... some day …. Unto God I hope so. Amen. Now I will try to... ... of the door. The smoke proceeded from the open cabinot in great ponderous murdering clouds. In one of these clouds, erect and tense and beautiful as ...

...e mistaken, all in error, all mankind are the false Church. I, a thief and murderer, am the only true Christian Church.’ It will be very difficult to ... ...Like your elder, he takes a stick to a just man and falls at the feet of a murderer.” “What crime? What do you mean?” Alyosha stopped dead. Rakitin st... ...rime? What do you mean?” Alyosha stopped dead. Rakitin stopped, too. “What murderer? As though you didn’ t know! I’ll bet you’ve thought of it before.... ...o fruits to deck the feasts, Only flesh of bloodstained victims Smouldered on the altar-fires, ... ...ture.’ After murdering them, he puts pillows under the head of each of his victims; he goes away. Next, a young hero ‘decorated for bravery’ kills the... ..., 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...

...turally it oc- curs to ask what was a sacrifice? I am afraid that the dark murderous nature of the pagan gods is here made apparent. Modern readers, w... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten... ...d bibliolatrous ancestors proceeded on that idea throughout Christendom to murder harmless, friendless, and oftentimes crazy old women. Meantime the w... ...desolated whole districts and terri- fied vast provinces by their judicial murders of witches, un- der plea of a bibliolatrous warrant; until at last ... ...belief it became the occa- sional means of exciting the imagination of its victims; after which the consequences were the same as if the magic had act... ...nzy of excitement, which is fatal to far more than are heard of as express victims to that system. The late Lord Londonderry’s nervous seizure was no ...

...and magnitude of the social system, the more it multiplies and extends its victims, the more it conceals them; and for the very same reason: just as i... ...one her sense of the crying injustice committed as to the selection of the victims, and the proportion of the punishment awarded. Others, in the langu... ...ble with elevation of mind,) better to have committed some bloody act—some murderous act. Dreadful was the panic I underwent. God pardon the wrong I d... ...I did not see. ‘Look behind!’ he called out rapidly. I did so, and saw the murderous villain Manasseh with his arm uplifted, and in the act of cutting... ...at I could do would have been unavailing, and too late—she would have been murdered in my arms. But—and that was what none of us saw—neither I, nor Pi... ...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... ... like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny gauze, somet... ...koi, a man memorable for his vanity, and memorable also as one of the many victims to the Tartar revolution. This Kichinskoi had been sent by the Empr...

... to be tried, after more than three months of confinement with thieves and murderers in the stifling air of a prison. 12 Resurrection CHAPTER III NEK... ...ry service with its honours, uniforms, flags, its permitted vio- lence and murder, there is added the depraving influence of riches and nearness to an... ...ich guest, and uses his trust in order first to rob and then pitilessly to murder him.” “Well, he is piling it on now, isn’t he?” said the presi- dent... ...s locking it he remained looking out through the little hole. CHAPTER LIII VICTIMS OF GOVERNMENT Passing back along the broad corridor (it was dinner ... ...nd this is a thing not only we but many have been considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is what he has thought out, and I agree with h... ...lova’s would shape if she were acquitted. He remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in America s... ...tress in Petersburg to the island of Sakhalin, hun- dreds and thousands of victims were pining? What did this strange criminal law exist for? How had ...

... 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 ... ...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... ... of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be. But, leaving these victims of vanity, let us, with new hope, observe how nature, by worthier i... ...s, we adduce the scholars as examples of this treachery. They are nature’s victims of expression. You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too ne... ...life no more excellent than that of me- chanics or farmers, and themselves victims of partiality, very hollow and haggard, and pronounce them failures... ... on the inside and on the outside; in its quality and in its consequences. Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers wi... ...ighbors, or poverty, or mutila- tion, or at the rumor of revolution, or of murder? If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice 239 E...

...s and gentlemen fill theirs with cats. In such places the children are the victims of all the caprices of doting affection and all the excesses of las... ...he people who have this morbid craze seldom have any difficulty in finding victims. Parents and guardians are so worried by children and so anxious to... ...r on educational pretexts. Not very long ago a schoolmaster in Ireland was murdered by his boys; and for reasons which were never made public it was a... ... which were never made public it was at first decided not to prosecute the murderers. Yet all these flogging schoolmasters and orphanage fiends and ba... ...le natural predilection, never happy unless they are sur- rounded by their victims, and always certain to make their living by accepting the custody o... ...se they rouse the crude passions which call for furious gratifica- tion in murder and rapine at worst, and, at best, lead to quar- rels and undesirabl... ...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-...

...shedding of guilty blood. Sacrificing a criminal to propitiate God for the murder of one of his righteous ser- vants is like sacrificing a mangy sheep... ...ckens’s novel, who, perplexed by the failure of the police to discover the murderer of the baronet’s solicitor, said “Far better hang wrong fellow tha... ...be led into the mistake of supposing that if we discard revenge, and treat murderers exactly as God treated Cain: that is, exempt them from punishment... ...n practically all the white inhabitants of the British Isles and the North American continent, to mention no other places) are condemned in the words,... ...at particular sort of conscience and nervous constitution which brings its victims under the tyranny of two delirious terrors: the terror of sin and t...

...eople who were anxious to read what I had to say on the subject, but among victims of the craze for collecting first editions, copies of privately cir... ...nst tolerating immorality are the same as the arguments against tolerating murder and theft; and this is why the Censor seems to the inconsider- ate a... ...hat whereas no evil can conceivably result from the total suppres- sion of murder and theft, and all communities pros- per in direct proportion to suc... ...in their capitals just now. It is an artistic treasure; but it glorifies a murder which Goethe described as the silliest crime ever commit- ted. It ma... ... other hand, it is some- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a ce... ...ough to hang you, anyway. [Going over to him threateningly]. Youre no true American man, to insult a 86 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet woman like th... ...he word of a woman of bad character. I stand on the honor and virtue of my American manhood. I say that she’s not had the oath, and that you darent fo...

...years, especially since they 13 Goethe were so few, be spent without much murdering. But to men afflicted with the ‘malady of Thought,’ some devoutne... ...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...n- eration of the world, and shown what a loss mankind had suffered by his murder. The idea of writing Faust seems to have come to Goethe in 28 Autob... ...edly knocked their heads together. At last they raised a dreadful shout of murder, and we were soon surrounded by all the inmates of the house. The sw... ..., even his nearest of kin, his own children, may thus bleed, the expiatory victims of such a delusion. In the mild and truly patriarchal character of ... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai...

...vening; I mean the affair of the Rue Morgue, and the mystery attending the murder of Marie Rogêt. I looked upon it, therefore, as some- thing of a coi... ..., even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any American — if we except, perhaps, the author of the “Curiosities of America... ...der and infinitely stiffer, so that it was quite impossible for these poor victims to move their heads in any direction without moving the body at the... ...y increasing sound, like the moan- ing of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that what seamen term ... ...n. I studied him in his own works as well as in those of his European and American ech- oes. The ‘Charles Elwood’ of Mr. Brownson, for example, was p... ...in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, with- out a groan. This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, ... ...ellar—as the monks of the middle ages are recorded to have walled up their victims. For a purpose such as this the cellar was well adapted. Its walls ... ...y and tranquilly 87 V olume Two slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul! The second and the third day passed, and still my torm... ...ad. As it is, you will easily perceive that I am one of the many uncounted victims of the Imp of the Perverse. It is impossible that any deed could ha...

...o repeated robberies of the most aggravated kind, and, also, far more than murder- ous neglect!! Mankind often vainly attempts to atone for unkindness... ...arate her fa- ther and mother. A slave auction is a terrible affair to its victims, and its incidents and consequences are graven on their hearts as w... ...a had witnessed this scene from her window, and was greatly shocked at the murderous treat- ment of poor Robert, whom she truly loved, and whose only ... ...ome other place. *Yet no official notice was taken of his more than brutal murder. HER ESCAPE The question in her mind, and one not easily solved, now... ...re treated; they are scarcely regarded as being present. This trait in our American character has been frequently noticed by foreign travel- ers. One ...

...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ...by the invisible whip of starvation. They never see him, any more than the victims of our “dangerous trades” ever see the share- holders whose power i... ...re love only when it was denied to him and made the instrument for cruelly murdering his self- respect. But the giants, with love within their reach, ... ...rning from a hunt with his father to find their home destroyed, his mother murdered, and his twin-sister carried off. This was the work of a tribe cal... ...y is a cave, in which he hides from the light like the eyeless fish of the American caverns. Before the cur- tain rises the music already tells us tha... ...cullion; and forthwith proceeds to poison some soup for him so that he may murder him safely when Fafnir is slain. Meanwhile Siegfned forges and tempe...

...hat the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity. That any sane nation, having observed that you could p... ...illed lawfully he must violate somebody else’s right to live by committing murder. But he is by no means free to live unconditionally. In society he c... ...owledge, any more than the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness (as the American Constitution puts it), from all social conditions. No man is allow... ...almost, legally speaking, a vivisector who inflicts no pain. By giving his victims chloroform before bit- ing them he could comply with the law comple... ...ly flatly that honorable men do not behave dishonorably, even to dogs. The murderer who, when asked by the chaplain whether he had any other crimes to...

...oof is supposed to lie with the affirmative. If a person is charged with a murder, it rests with those who ac cuse him to give proof of his guilt, no... ...of the wife; he was literally regarded as her sovereign, inasmuch that the murder of a man by his wife was called treason (petty as distin guished fr... ...ing disagree able generally only establishes a counter tyranny, and makes victims in their turn chiefly of those husbands who are least inclined to b... ...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ...t, it has been a softening influence. Those who were most liable to be the victims of violence, have naturally tended as much as they could towards li...

... from gaunt trees, broken windows, grey walls, and doors covered with torn American leather! 84 Anton Chekhov When I go to my own entrance the door i... ...arkable students who did not sleep for weeks, about nu- merous martyrs and victims of science; with him good tri- umphs over evil, the weak always van... ...g of the waste of money and the moral damage to the spectator when he sees murder, fornication, or false witness unsuit- ably treated on the stage. Ka... ...an, has denounced him, proving that the discovery was made in 1870 by some American; while a third person, also a German, trumps them both by proving ... ...d-clothes. He was afraid that something might hap- pen, that Afanasy might murder him, that thieves might break in, and so he had troubled dreams all ...

...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...aid, rubbing his hands over his face. I said nothing. “I could have him murdered,” he said. “Alcaeus...wait...” “Wait? How much longer must we wa... ... asleep. I slept inside a dream. Peter’s Home Kislev 10 John is dead. Murdered. He has been beheaded. The world has lost a voice of reason. I h... ...his benefit. Was I wizard, necromancer, fakir? I could not speak to this murderer: I envisioned John in prison, waiting, waiting for the liberty th... ... Bull Run. The broken regiments strug- gled all along Pennsylvania Avenue. Victims of panic—defeat. Not a drum sounded. All took place in rain-washed...

...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... ...el detailing a clever way to kill someone and you use it to carry out a real murder, the First Amendment does not allow the state to punish me. If I w... ...ly patients trapped in hospitals—but of a collapse of civilization: looting, murder and rape, stores being broken into with impunity, rescue helicopte... ...om hampered research?” In the wake of the outpouring of sympathy for tsunami victims in the same region, this example seems somehow even more tragic. ... ...t we never had the same traditional claims over the genetic commons that the victims of the first enclosure movement had over theirs; this is more like...

...voice: We did not believe that we should come to this place. And I saw the murderers and their accomplices cast into a certain narrow place full of ev... ...ike great black clouds afflicted them. And the souls of those who had been murdered said, as they stood and looked upon the punishment of their murder... ...The idea that punishment deters, means that unless A shall be punished for murder, then B will kill; therefore A must be punished, not for his own sak... ...esmanship are regularly organized and promoted to teach the art of getting victims to part with money for things they do not want or need. Every right... ... never would have forged, had their wages been higher. Many others are the victims of the get-rich-quick disease; they haunt the gambling houses, brok... ...nates furnish a large percentage of the inmates of prison, and most of the victims for the scaf- fold which civilization so fondly preserves. The grow... ...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... ...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...

... repining, would certainly not permit us to cross the seas, merely because murderers clothed in scarlet, and wearing caps two foot high, enlist citize... ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ... their own expense; and I do not perceive the least inclination in them to murder one another merely about syl- logisms, as some zealots among them on... ...us. That for which the French chiefly reproach the English na- tion is the murder of King Charles I., whom his subjects treated 29 V oltaire exactly ... ... the civil wars raised by a number of rigid fanatics, who at last were the victims to it; a great many pieces were published against theatrical and ot...

...ent. But in the past such men have, as a rule, failed to interest the very victims of the injustices which they wished to remedy. The more unfortunate... ...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...rnment of assassins” and alluding to the Prime Minister as “Clemenceau the murderer.” Similar events in the strike at Villeneuve St. Georges in 1908 l... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor... ... will be men and women, otherwise sane, who will feel an impulse to commit murder from jealousy. These are now usually restrained by the fear of punis... ... restrained by the fear of punishment, but if this fear were removed, such murders would probably become much more common, as may be seen from the pre... ...re realization that the diffusion of hap- piness among all who are not the victims of some peculiar misfortune is both possible and imperative. A worl...

...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... 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... ...nited States might, at this moment have been numbered among the melancholy victims of mis- guided councils, must at best have been laboring under the ... ...gerated scene. We have been taught to tremble at the ter- rific visages of murdering janizaries, and to blush at the un- veiled mysteries of a future ... ... pardon in all cases, even in those of impeachment, except for treason and murder. Is not the power of the governor, in this article, on a calculation...

... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... .... Charac- ter is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie—for exam... ...ow, it makes no difference whether you consider the patients to be deluded victims of their imagination or not. That they seemed to themselves to have... ...age unless he says things that will have a sound of reality in the ears of victims such as these. But the deliverance must come in as strong a form as... ...I really thought I should become insane. I understand well those young men murdering their sweethearts, 178 The V arieties of Religious Experience wh... ...e, see p. 176, note, for fear, p. 161 ; for remorse, see Othello after the murder; for anger see Lear after Cordelia’s first speech to him; for resolv... ...n inferior self and its pet softnesses must of- ten be the targets and the victims.[145] [145] Example: Benjamin Constant was often mar- veled at as a...

... directly, frankly, and instinctively 6 Shaw that when a person commits a murder and is put into prison for twenty years for it, the free and innocen... ...son for twenty years for it, the free and innocent husband or wife of that murderer should remain bound by the marriage. T o put it briefly, a contrac... ...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ...e worth. In the extreme instances of reac- tion against convention, female murderers get sheaves of of- fers of marriage; and when Nature throws up th... ...most unbearable hardships will induce our statesmen to move so long as the victims submit sheepishly, though when they take the rem- edy into their ow... ...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... ...the young wife, of the mother, of the infected nurse, and of all the other victims, direct and indirect, arises with its invari- able refrain: “Why di... ...ot despise this woman’s soul because she speaks of fried fish. Some of the victims of the Miraculous Draught of Fishes were fried. And I eat fried fis...

...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...acy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union. Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manne... ...uncontrollable frenzy, the horsemen withdraw, and the matadores —literally murderers—enter, armed with knives having blades twelve or eighteen inches ... ...861, when he succumbed to that insidious disease which always flatters its victims into the belief that they are growing better up to the close of lif... ...e war somebody is responsible, and it would be but very little better than murder. He was not sure that Lee would consent to surrender his army withou...

...urts. Soldiers were acquitted, even on fully proved indictments for wilful murder, until at last the judges and magistrates had to an- nounce that wha... ...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... ...cent and enno- bling trades, and took up the blood-stained bayonet and the murderous bomb, forcing themselves to pervert their divine instinct for per... ...heir newspapers, suddenly burst into furious imprecations on “the Huns” as murderers, and shrieked for savage and satisfying vengeance. At such moment... ...tinence, though I was well acquainted personally with the three best-known victims, and under- stood, better perhaps than most people, the misfortune ...

...eon Opera, in an all too stupendous style; with music of cannon volleys, and murder shrieks of a world; his stage lights are the fires of Conflagration;... ...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... ...tature, and minded to make sport for himself, or perhaps profit, were it with murder, continues to advance; ever assailing me with his importunate trai... ...be hurled on altars like Pelion on Ossa, and the Moloch of Iniquity have his victims, and the Michael of Justice his martyrs, before Tailors can be ad... ..., 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,...

... 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... ...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 ... ...elpful. He expresses a conviction, indeed, that all will be made up to the victims in the end; that “what is untried and afterward” will fail no one, ... ...flection that it was the price we have to pay for cochineal. And with that murder- ous parody, logical optimism and the praises of the best of possibl... ...ouis Stevenson at games of hazard on the one hand, and on the other of the murder of one Thevenin Pensete in a house by the Cem- etery of St. John. If... ...; and she died about a year after the 147 Familiar Studies of Men & Books murder, of grief and indignation, unrequited love and un- satisfied resentm...