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... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...of Species Chapter VI Difficulties on Theory Difficulties on the theory of descent with modifica- tion — Transitions —Absence or rarity of transitiona... ...ndamental belief: doubts have been thrown on this principle by theoretical writers alone. When a deviation appears not unfrequently, and we see it in ... ...encyclopaedia. Explicit rules are laid down by some of the Roman classical writers. From passages in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic ... ... the Galapagos Archipelago, both one with another, and with those from the American mainland, I was much struck how entirely vague and arbitrary is th... ...all chance. But how false a view is this! Every one has heard that when an American forest is cut down, a very different vegetation springs up; but it... ...ee and the simplicity of those of the humble-bee, we have the cells of the Mexican Melipona domestica, carefully described and figured by Pierre Huber... ...l sort of shield on their heads, the use of which is quite unknown: in the Mexican Myrmecocystus, the workers of one caste never leave the nest; they ...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... 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... ...r ideas and motives. These men, of course, are either comparatively modern writers, or else such earlier ones as have become religious clas- sics. The... ...the earlier church. Under just what biographic con- ditions did the sacred writers bring forth their vari- ous contributions to the holy volume? And w... ...inct, a little loss of animal tough- ness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our u... ...llu- cinations produced by the intoxicant cactus buds called mescal by the Mexicans:— “When I went in the morning into the fields to work, the glory o... ...he Byss and the Abyss, and the eternal generation of the holy Trinity, the descent and original of the world and of all creatures through the divine w...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can under...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... 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 ... ...ow. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in; for they said that the soul of man, embodied here on ... ...; requires beneficence, but is somewhat better; so that there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to ur... ...luminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing ... ... gives a value to the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless. They denote the height of the h... ...ive generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not ...

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains. However, in this case my pains w... ...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... ...ing towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.” The Mexicans also practised a similar purification at the end of every fifty tw... ...ith all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiq uity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they... ...us line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with s...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

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............................................................................................................................................... 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL............................................

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... Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Penn... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...The Unparalleled Adven- ture of Hans Pfaall,” “MSS. Found in a Bottle,” “A Descent Into a Maelstrom” and “The Balloon Hoax”; such tales of con- scienc... ..., although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and melody as “... ...d citiezns of Rotterdam. All attention was now directed to the letter, the descent of which, and the consequences attending thereupon, had proved so f... ...o the southward, and arrived, at nine P .M., over the northern edge of the Mexican Gulf. “April 10th. I was suddenly aroused from slumber, about five ... ...here any effort at plausibility in the de- tails of the voyage itself. The writers seem, in each instance, to be utterly uninformed in respect to astr...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns ...

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...ries Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...modified and altered, and the effect thus far changed. Thus it is with the writers of fiction. The young write in full sympathy with, as well as for, ... ...ether. No lack of illicit stores was found when the police- men made their descent, and a summons was accordingly served on its mistress to appear at ... ...ll, she said, it was not the spirits, but the tobacco, which the Dutch and American sail- ors were glad enough to exchange for her mother’s commodi- t... ... Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had cho- sen that place on account of American trading-vessels put- ting in there, as well as those of various fo... ...s he, judging by the depth of colour in those eyes?” “No; his mother was a Mexican, partly Indian. We used to call him the Cacique;” and Geraldine had... ...marriages were still valid without the civil ceremony. “Another step in my descent,” said Gerald. “Still, it does not prove whether this first husband...