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...at I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equal- ity of the white and black races; that I am not... ...ch I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while... ..., a man, woman, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men. I recollect of but one... ... his attention to the fact that he felicitates himself to-day that all the Democrats of the free States are agreeing with him, while he omits to tell ... ... the free States are agreeing with him, while he omits to tell us that the Democrats of any slave State agree with him. If he has not thought of this,... ...eiterated his charge of a con- spiracy or combination between the National Democrats and Republicans. What evidence Judge Douglas has upon this sub- j... ...fore, as I think, a very important question for due consid- eration of the American people, whether the policy of bringing in additional territory, wi... ...tion in the act announcing to the world the indepen- dence of the thirteen American colonies, that men are created equal. Now, as an abstract principl... ...tion in the act announcing to the world the inde- pendence of the thirteen American colonies, that all men are created equal. Now, as an abstract prin...

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...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ... contest, as I understand it, is that the former consider slavery a moral, social and political wrong, while the latter do not consider it either a mo... ...and political wrong, while the latter do not consider it either a moral, a social or a political wrong; and the action of each, as respects the growth... ...s. I will not affirm that the Demo- cratic party consider slavery morally, socially and politically right, though their tendency to that view has, in ... ...lavery is voted down or voted up.” I am quite willing to believe that many Democrats would prefer that slavery should be always voted down, and I know... ...e believe that Edmunds and Morrill will spend this week among the National Democrats, trying to in- duce them to content themselves by voting for Jake... ...f dollars and cents. I suggest to this portion of the Ohio Republicans, or Democrats, if there be any present, the serious consideration of this fact ...

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...horescent dial. Babbitt was proud of being awakened by such a rich device. Socially it was almost as creditable as buying expensive cord tires. He sul... ... she was alive. After a rather thorough discussion of all the domestic and social aspects of towels she apologized to Babbitt for his having an alcoho... ...d her dad are millionaires! I suppose you’re trying to rub in your exalted social position! Well, let me tell you that your revered paternal ancestor,... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...i- date for mayor of Zenith on an alarming labor ticket. To oppose him the Democrats and Republicans united on Lucas Prout, a mattress-manufacturer wi... ... some day be a Third Party which would give trouble to the Republicans and Democrats. Escott shook hands with Babbitt three times, at parting. Babbitt...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...therefore taboo, but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University Settlemen... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...this star-chamber!” They tittered politely, but they did not move from the social security of their circle, and they did not cease staring. Carol had ... ...do with Jack Elder.” 45 Sinclair Lewis “I’m glad. I’ve never met a tailor socially. It must be charming to meet one and not have to think about what ... ...o the bank for a talk, and tell ‘em a few things. I don’t mind their being democrats, so much, but I won’t stand having socialists around. But thank G...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...o escape in this world. About Nostromo, the second of the two racially and socially contrasted men, both captured by the silver of the San Tome Mine, ... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ... affair for his poor dad, and the whole story threw a queer light upon the social and political life of Costaguana. The view he took of it was sympath... ...ime. It was Fed- eration. But he was no politician. He simply stood up for social order out of pure love for rational lib- erty and from his hate of o... ... the first open sign of the change in his convictions. Presently notorious democrats, who had been living till then in constant fear of arrest, leg ir... ... “We have started on foot. All our servants ran away yesterday to join the democrats. We are going to put ourselves under the protection of Fa- ther C... ...r of the harbour, and had a steamer at his disposal. And now, with all the democrats in the province up, and every Campo township in a state of distur...

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...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...h the inhabitants of the country gradually changed their pursuits from the social and bustling movements of the time of snow to the laborious and dome... ...th the promise of the coming summer. The gay and fluttering blue-bird, the social robin, and the industrious little wren were all to be seen enlivenin... ...of your Washington’—a very sensible man, I declare, and none of your crazy democrats. Hum, hum—’our gallant navy’—hum, hum—’under our most excellent m...

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...n duly ratified and carried into execution. It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious... ...ally as I first put it. Henderson, and especially Brown, believe that the social influence of St. Louis would inevitably tell injuriously upon Gener... ...Y AND NICHOLS. GENTLEMEN : The number for this month and year of the North American Review was duly received, and for which please accept my thanks. ... .... The world has never had a good definition of the word lib- erty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for lib... .... “We have to hold territory in inclement and sickly places; where are the Democrats to do this? It was a free fight, and the field was open to the wa... ...mocrats to do this? It was a free fight, and the field was open to the war Democrats to put down this 173 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven... ...ce has been freely opened with Liberia, and it gives us a pleasing view of social and political progress in that republic. It may be expected to deri... ...ith hearty good-will the conventional laws which regulate com- mercial and social intercourse among the Western nations. Owing to the peculiar situati...

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...ne towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I... ...dead level of site and sentiment, the chill east wind, and the chillest of social atmospheres;—all these, and whatever faults besides he may see or im... ...d the many tri umphs of my own party as it now did that of the Whigs. The Democrats take the offices, as a general rule, because they 35 Hawthorne n... ...rge from one an other—had sometimes made it questionable with his brother Democrats whether he was a friend. Now, after he had won the crown of marty... ...out a murmur at its severity, but had none of the heartlessness of another social state, which would find only a theme for jest in an exhibition like ... ...ivation, while its comparative remoteness put it out of the sphere of that social activity which already marked the habits of the emi grants. It stoo...

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...at book in order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, ... ...tate and solve. In Mankind in the Making, therefore, I tried to review the social organisation in a different way, to con- sider it as an educational ... ...ack to imaginative writing again. In its two predecessors the treatment of social organisation had been purely objective; here my intention has been a... ..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...it would seem that the ideal of the British Liberals and of the Ameri- can Democrats is to favour the existence of just as many petty, loosely allied,...

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...o come first and above all things else in your heart? In time past you put social success, yourself, heaven knows what, before him; now it is God, it ... ...er for reflection to those who are fain to observe or describe the various social zones; and pos- sibly an enquiry into the causes that bring about th... ...nded by this statement. An aristocracy is in a manner the intellect of the social system, as the middle classes and the proletariat may be said to be ... ...solute monarchy, which she defended to admiration. Few women venture to be democrats; the at- titude of democratic champion is scarcely compatible wit... ... island, 128 The Duchesse de Langeais and the crew of the vessel were all American sailors, who spoke nothing but English. One of M. de Montriveau’s ...

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...der the warmth of increasing revenue and suc- cess, miscellaneous cheerful socialities and abundant specu- lations, chiefly political (and not John’s ... ...terlings, among others, he had made acquaintance; became famil- iar in the social circle at South Place, and was much es- teemed there. With Madam Tor... ...onths of his history! Money was subscribed, collected: the young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos; nay certain of them decided t... ...ke a charge of Cossacks, on occasion: but it was also eminently ingenious, social, guileless. We did all very well together: and Sterling and I walked... ...a disastrous shadow hanging over it, not to be cleared away by effort. Two American gentlemen, acquaintances also of mine, had been recommended to him...

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... in any way concerned in public life to feel that the highest ambition any American can possibly have will be gratified just in proportion as he raise... ...ong men of great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American ... ...ncoln: V ol One the leader, Lincoln, at least should remain a real, living American. No matter how clearly, how directly, Lincoln has shown himself in... ... than ever. The bonds of accustomed party allegiance gave way. Antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs felt them- selves drawn together by a commo... ... and when he, an old Whig, could not obtain the votes of the Anti-Nebraska Democrats neces- sary to make a majority, he generously urged his friends t... ...d occasion- ally spoken on the ostensible issues between the Whigs and the Democrats, the tariff, internal improvements, banks, and so on, but only in... ...with their consent. He repeatedly dis- avowed any wish on his part to have social and political equality established between whites and blacks. On thi... ...tive by temperament and mental habit, and led the most sudden and sweeping social revolution of our time; who, preserving his homely speech and rustic... ...ci- pal members of the convention not only condemned sla- very as a moral, social, and political evil, but believed that by the suppression of the sla...

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...inger? The Clergy have means and material: means, of number, organization, social weight; a material, at lowest, of public ignorance, known to be the ... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ...d, grow and flourish; new every where bud forth. It is the sure symptom of Social Unrest: in such way, most infallibly of all, does Social Unrest exhi... ...o a known sort. Chapter 2.1.VII. Prodigies. To such length had the Contrat Social brought it, in be- lieving hearts. Man, as is well said, lives by fa... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...King, and even death for him, the glory of all Frenchmen,—except these few Democrats? Let Democrat Constitution-builders see what they will do without... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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...ts Arsenal; and then on Electoral Mentz, not uninvited, wherein are German Democrats and no shadow of an Elector now:—so that in the last days of Octo... ...ders far over the marches; and likewise she has shattered her own internal Social Constitution, even to the minutest fibre of it, into wreck and disso... ...better or worse luck: the wreck and dissolution must reshape itself into a social Arrangement as it can and may. But as for this Na- tional Convention... ...ing; shaking off daily (so to speak), and trampling into the dust, its old social garnitures, ways of thinking, rules of existing; and cheerfully danc... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th...

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...s of beeches, and fre- quent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made ... ...t Scatcherd, who had hitherto been silent enough about his sister in those social hours which he passed with his gentleman friend, boasted of the enga... ... aunts of kings and queens, the search should be made in the fami- lies of democrats. None have so servile a deference for the very nail-parings of ro... ... dishonesty—an act of dishonesty both to Scatcherd and to that far-distant American family, to that father, who, in former days, had behaved so nobly,... ...al of red beard beneath his chin, cut in a manner to make him look like an American. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of ... ...rican. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of an American trader and an English groom; and his eyes were keen and fixed, and... ... had in effect banished herself from the most intimate of the Greshamsbury social circles. She magnified in her own mind the importance of the confere...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ... of 6 Democracy in America the people, of all races and conditions, their social and reli- gious sentiments, their education and tastes; their indust... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...cibly than the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are... ...now search for a law that would negative this provision in its effect upon social equality, he would fail to find it. But he would find it in the unwr... ... The Republi- cans are the representatives of the old Federalists, and the Democrats of the old Republicans. – T rans. Note (1861). 200 Democracy in ...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...Minor, where no definite national boundaries, no religious, linguistic, or social homogeneities have ever established them- selves since the Roman leg... ...ay mean simply an ebb of vigour on both sides, unusual hardship, a general social and economic disorganisation and grading down. The fact that a great... ... oughness of mobilisation. There need be no doubt that she will completely socialise herself, completely reorganise her whole social and economic stru... ...t. The mercantile and professional classes will join hands with the social democrats to remove the decaying incubus of the Hohenzollern system, and Ge...

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...s.] Y es, he furnished himself, and if you suppose he controlled the other Democrats that went with him, he furnished three votes; while the Republica... ...e five to one Republi- cans who beat that bill. Everything must be for the Democrats! They did everything, and the five to the one that really did the... ...e Judge thinks thus; and it so happens that there is a vast portion of the American people that do not look upon that matter as being this very little... ...ot done it; they, too, as well as the Re- publicans and the Anti-Lecompton Democrats, have not done it; but on the contrary, they together have insist... ...anation of the people or not, Judge Douglas, with the Republicans and some Americans, had greatly the argument against the Admin- istration; and while... ... Judge Douglas’s friends furnished twenty , to add to which there were six Americans and ninety-four Republicans. I do not say that I am precisely acc... ...s about my disposition to make negroes per- fectly equal with white men in social and political relations. He did not stop to show that I have said an... ... denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine wo... ...s is the whole of it; and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fan- tas...

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...r- thy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it, but t... ...r newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have be... ... so radically changed, for the mo- ment, the occupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed the social condition, and affect... ...cupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed the social condition, and affected very deeply the prosperity, of the nations w... ...h you request of me, I cannot overlook the fact that the meeting speak as “Democrats.” Nor can I, with full respect for their known intelligence, and ... ...ent, or in any way other than that they preferred to designate themselves “Democrats” rather than “American citizens.” In this time of national peril ... ... denied me this I will yet be thankful for the country’s sake that not all Democrats have done so. He on whose discretionary judgment Mr. V allandigha...

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...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ... promenaders, chiefly military of the garrison, were few at that period of social protestation, and he could declare his disap- pointment aloud, ringi... ...his usual absent interest in everything not turning upon Art, politics, or social intrigue. He said, ‘Yes, good, good,’ at the proper intervals, and w... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir... ...he transitory; with less of the gentlemanly fine taste, the light and easy social semi-irony, than Cecilia liked and would have expected from him. How... ...d him—he was rich. And you that put yourselves forward for republicans and democrats, do you deny the aristocracy of an oaklike man who is young upon ...

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...as yet been carried. My wish is to describe, as well as I can, the present social and political state of the country. This I should have attempted, wi... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ... woman’s keen eye, and described with a woman’s light but graphic pen, the social defects and 5 Trollope absurdities which our near relatives had ado... ...ure and operation of those political arrangements which had pro- duced the social absurdities which she saw, or to explain that though such absurditie... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ... own party could say for him, even in his own State of New York. As to the Democrats, their language respecting him was as harsh as any that I have he... .... Lin- coln at that time submitted himself to a compromise in favor of the Democrats, promising the support of the gov- 323 Trollope ernment to certa...

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...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 ... ...man Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportuni ties for deliberating in perfect tranquil... ...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... ... then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and e... ...ent under which we live—a Government adequate to every purpose for which the social compact is formed; a Government elec tive in all its branches, un... ...le Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social inter course, and the ties of personal friendship formed be twee... ...pect to which we ought not to be, in a partisan sense, either Republicans or Democrats, but fellow citizens and fellowmen, to whom the interests of a ... ... The offices of President and Vice President have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the change mean? That is the question that is upperm... ...e His purpose. Jimmy Carter INAUGURAL ADDRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1977 The Democrats reclaimed the White House in the 1976 election. The Governor fr...

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...Canfield says he would like to have a document or two from you. The Locos (Democrats) here are in considerable trouble about Van Buren’s letter on Tex... ... that the Committee on the Post-office was composed of five Whigs and four Democrats, and their report was un- derstood as sustaining, not impugning, ... ... That report had met with the approbation of all the Whigs, and of all the Democrats also, with the exception of one, and he wanted to go even further... ...takable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us—Barnburners, Native Americans, Tyler men, disappointed office-seeking Locofocos, and the Lord k... ...onal question. In 1826 Chancellor Kent first published his Commentaries on American law. He devoted a portion of one of the lectures to the question o... ...myself, came down upon us astonishingly. He spoke in what the ‘Balti- more American’ calls the “scathing and withering style.” At the end of his secon... ...he only danger which seemed to threaten, at some distant day, to sever the social bond of union. All the evidences of public opinion at that day seeme... ...incoln: V ol Two upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this, and if mine wo... ... not be said that I am contending for the establish- ment of political and social equality between the whites and blacks. I have already said the cont...

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...sed. They recognized that the changed financial conditions had raised up a social bar between their daughters and the young me chanics. The daughters... ...ewport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the American Aristocracy. As a rule they spent a part of every Sab bath—after ... ...te. He would visit his friends and acquaintances. They would invite him to social parties, insisting that he should partake of the amuse ments that w... ...not get any great pleasure out of them, as a rule. Now the trouble with an American paper is that it has no discrimination; it rakes the whole earth f... ...s it strike you? 167 Mark Twain HOW TO TELL A STORY The Humorous Story an American Development.—Its Dif ference from Comic and Witty Stories I DO ... ... to be vivid; if it is a crowd of ten thousand—ten thousand proud, untamed democrats, horny handed sons of toil and of poli tics, and fliers of the e...

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...d perfect persons. We want men and women who shall reno- vate life and our social state, but we see that most na- tures are insolvent, cannot satisfy ... ... 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 ... ...e and with each new uproar of announcement, The delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hamp- shire! The Whigs of Maine! the young patriot feels... ... his skin,” is sound philosophy. All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst ... ... given no opinion on the times, on the church, on slavery, on marriage, on socialism, on se- 84 Essays cret societies, on the college, on parties and... ...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 religious sentiment of the present time ac- cords better with it. Born democrats, we are nowise quali- fied to judge of monarchy, which, to our fa...

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...n Europe from the Liberal explosion of 1848 to the con- fused attempt at a socialist, military, and municipal adminis- tration in Paris in 1871 (that ... ...nd in starvation, crushing taxation, suppression of all freedom to try new social experiments and reform ob- solete institutions, in snobbery, jobbery... ...ed too far; and everybody who rebels against it must be a rascal. Even the Social-Democrats in Germany differ from the rest only in carrying academic ... ...far; and everybody who rebels against it must be a rascal. Even the Social-Democrats in Germany differ from the rest only in carrying academic orthodo... ... Bebel is in German Socialism; but do you suppose that the Ger- man Social-Democrats tolerate me? Not a bit of it. I have begged again and again to be... ...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... ...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... ...will be conceded by everybody except perhaps those vet- eran German Social-Democrats who have made a cult of obsolescence under the name of Marxism, t...

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...second man residing in the Celt put that fellow by and at once assumed the social character on his being requested to follow his card into Mr. Adister... ...he had not been out over the country for nothing. Fortunately for his good social principles, the butler at Earlsfont was a wary supervisor of his man... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...before the fig- leaf?—and you might have that for scroll and figure on the social banner of the hypocritical Saxon, who’s a gormandising animal behind... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...xt, and English aristocracy received the paean. Lectures were addressed to democrats; our House of Lords was pledged solemnly in reams of print. We we...

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...y’s view of life gradually shifted from that of an aristocrat to that of a social reformer, her own remained unaltered; with the result that at the en... ...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... ...mbines in a curious way a firm belief in the omnipotence and wisdom of his social superiors with a rooted distrust of their inten tions regarding him... ...r, there can be no question but that in Russia it held and holds true. The social condition of Russia is like a tideless sea, whose sullen quiescence ... ... to concentrate his thoughts on the land question. He began by reading the American propagandist’s “Social Problems,” which arrested his attention by ... ...e to separate my lot from theirs. But I must also avoid the error of those democrats and others who, in defending the oppressed and the enslaved, do n...

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...ood sense to be guided in civil matters by men who had studied the laws of social life and the theories of free government. He was justus et tenax pro... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...eir Northern brethren. They and their fami- lies had been more addicted to social pleasures. They are the descendants of the old English Cavaliers, wh... ...glish money. Russia and England are not more unlike in their political and social feelings than are the real slave States and the real free-soil State... ...he record which has been made of his public misdeeds. He is decried by the Democrats because he is a Republican, and by the anti-abolitionists because... ...ther of those politi- cians in the States who have since taken the name of Democrats, and in accordance with whose theory it has come to pass that eve... ...ct that many Senators, especially those who have been sent to the House as Democrats, do allow the State legislatures to dictate to them their votes, ...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...fairs. Let us see how it is with their immaterials. Both have been zealous Democrats; both have been zeal ous Republicans; both have been zealous Mug... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...on the human race to reach up—up—up— and strike from its far summit in the social skies the world’ s accepted ideal of Glory and Might and Splendor an... ...hiavelli whom he depicts does not cease to be politically a republican and socially a just man because he holds up an atrocious des pot like Caesar B... ...o to speak. I don’t know what’s the reason, but these material tokens of a social decay afflict me terribly; a tipsy woman isn’t dreadfuler than a hag...

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..... 15 Chapter III That the ideally best Form of Government is Representative Government .................................... 34 Chapter IV Under what Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable ................................... 51 Chapter V Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies.......................................................................

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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... ... the state of the country in regard to the distribution of the elements of social power. Whatever is the strongest power in society will obtain the go... ...sence of the whole, the seat of the supreme power, is determined for it by social circumstances. That there is a portion of truth in this doctrine I a... ...on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social 14 Considerations on Representative Government forces. One person w... ...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 ... ...o form it, but in those who are formed by it. Mr. Bright and his school of democrats think themselves greatly concerned in maintaining that the franch...

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...s difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my ... ...e is feeble and precarious, but the opinion of its necessity for moral and social purposes almost universal; and when those who reject revelation, ver... ...ound in a young man formed by a particular mode of thought or a particular social circle. His younger brother, Charles Austin, of whom at this time an... ...l of my companions formed a class. For several years from this period, our social studies assumed a shape which contributed very much to my mental pro... ...n of centralization. The powerful philosophic analysis which he applied to American and to French experience, led him to attach the utmost importance ... ... I was a democrat, but not the least of a Socialist. We were now much less democrats than I had been, because so long as education continues to be so ... ...he most elaborate is entitled Elements of Individualism: and a remarkable American, Mr. Warren, had framed a System of Society, on the foundation of ...

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...discus- sion kept free, cannot pretend to relish these joyless attempts at social sanitation? Is it not because at bottom they are ut- terly sexless? ... ...lling in love with her, or marrying her, is brought into conflict with the social convention which discounte- nances the woman. Now the conflicts of i... ...ically to sing “Protegga il giusto cielo”: they grasp formidable legal and social weapons, and retaliate. Political parties are wrecked and public car... ... 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... ...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... ... spent three evenings in discussing the question Have Anarchists or Social-Democrats the most personal courage? We have gone into the principles of An... ... Anarchist is suppressed. MENDOZA. On the other hand we have three Social- Democrats among us. They are not on speaking terms; and 94 GB Shaw they ha... ...lism; though, in a sense, once a Socialist, always a Socialist. THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS. Hear, hear! MENDOZA. But I am well aware that the ordinary man— ...

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