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...reaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift from script to print amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. -- 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink-Printer...

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...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ... just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ... The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps most significantly by helping to uni... ...four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far superior to anything in the West that it dazzled his reader... ...unching raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds of Teutonic speech. L... ...it England. (―Englaland‖ had been the Angles homeland in the south of the Danish peninsula. Similarly, their ―Englisc‖ language became English.) ...

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...C MODEL 33 JOSEPH J. THOMSON (1856 - 1940) English Physicist 46 ERNEST RUTHERFORD (1871 - 1937) British Physicist 47 NIELS H. BOHR (1885 - 1962) Danish Physicist 48 MAX K. PLANCK (1858 - 1947) German Physicist 49 JAMES CHADWICK (1891 - 1974) English Physicist 49 ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879 - 1955) German Physicist 51 ALESSANDRO VOLTA (1745 - 1827) Italian Physicist 53 ...

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...services whose importance is only enhanced by the "free for all" Internet culture. Content intermediaries grade content and separate the qualitat... ...ers, movers and shapers. These two neglected aspects of Internet hype and culture led to the trouncing of erstwhile promising web media companies wh... ...ny and in Subiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civilization. Their attacks on printing read like the litanies... ...ny other factors which determine the interaction of free and paid content. Culture plays an important role as do the law and technology. But as long ... ...ish, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebr... ...sist that others don't. Q. Technology is often considered the antonym of "culture". TV, for instance, is berated for its vulgar, low-brow, programmi...

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...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ...ng just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ... The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps most significantly by helping to uni... ...four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far superior to anything in the West that it dazzled his reader... ...unching raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds of Teutonic speech. Later... ...it England. (―Englaland‖ had been the Angles homeland in the south of the Danish peninsula. Similarly, their ―Englisc‖ language became English.) No...

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...iences, our variables are nearly infinite. But not as infinite as the possibilities expressed by the many religions of the world. ―Our cultur... ... a common purpose and dynamic leadership, they stop growing when the individual selfishness of greed pulls down the necessary bulwarks of the cultur... ...anguage for frivolity rather than for philosophy. But guys, let‘s get serious again. Our mental environment is undoubtedly important. What our cultur... ...faction in individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one's neighbor, without true humility, faith, and discipline. In a cultur... ...gh their attitudes are conventional, they relate to ends rather than means. While they tend toward the conventional and exist well within the cultur... ... cause of the frustration. But rather they are what is nearest and least dangerous to the rioters. ―Then there were the infamous Danish... ...dvocate? But a few imams in Denmark were offended. It took a few months for the offense to be broadcast to the Muslim world. Then a couple of Danish... ...l rather than logical it could be expected. A more sensible act of revenge would have been to kill the cartoonist or perhaps stop buying the Danish... ...ls in a homosexual bar. Hispanic or black gangs may fight each other over who controls which street. Mass revolts are often religious. When a Danish...

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...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ... panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheistic. Obviously if ... ...thought their way into their belief system using the evidence available. A Danish study (24) found that atheists are 5.8 IQ points higher than the be... ...r them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss their r... ...ious country is a more moral country. The idea that materialism leads to ―cultures of death‖ is the official opinion of your church, father. Pope Jo... ... Islam had been advanced. What he said was true, but it upset people. The Danish newspaper cartoons, showing the prophet Mohammad in varying poses r... ...rs in Denmark and Germany take the least sick leave in Europe even though Danish workers get full pay for the first five weeks, only then is their p... ... in the U.S., Canada or France his speech would be protected. ―The Danish cartoons of Mohammad were done with the idea of free speech, with th... ...but rather that one should be able to freely express political ideas. The Danish cartoons fell well within the confines of freedom of speech. Many E...

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...his expresses itself in the development of sci- ence, educational systems, and culture. This stage has become associated with the Renaissance and the... ...ourselves and test it. Prof. Tiller mentioned Tor Norretranders, the renowned Danish researcher who published a book entitled The User Illusion. Nor... ...s not let them evolve at their own pace and accord- ing to their own rules and culture. This situation is creating a real deformity within humankind ... ...that will eliminate every aspect of human life: ecology, society, economy and culture, research and education. These scientists already understand t... ...ore, but they had al- ways appeared in a single realm of human life: religion, culture, industry, or science. When one realm fell, another rose in it... ...s to be turning to religion, as it has done before science, industrialism and culture took its place. In truth, this time around it is a very differ...

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... of its population. They could bring in foreign workers but the traditional culture of Japan has not been particularly open to people from other cult... ...e were no arrests made 71 of Muslims demonstrating against the notorious Danish cartoons, even though the demonstrators called for the exterminat...

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...es 9% irrigated Environment: air and water pollution Special notes: controls Danish Straits linking Baltic and North Seas Population: 5,121,766 (July ... ...1987), average annual growth rate 0.07% Nationality: noun Dane(s); adjective Danish Ethnic divisions: Scandinavian, Eskimo, Faroese, German Religion: ... ...gelical Lutheran, 2% other Protestant and Roman Catholic, 1% other Language: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Eskimo dialect); small German- speaking ... ...calendar year Communications Railroads: 2,770 km 1.435-meter standard gauge; Danish State Railways (DSB) oper- ate 2,120 km (1,999 km rail line and 12... ...satellite earth stations for domestic service Defense Forces Branches: Royal Danish Army, Royal Danish Navy, Royal Danish Air Force Military manpower:... ...force: 1.66 million (1980); 732,806 (1980) in salaried employment; 54% agri- culture, 25% government, 9% industry and commerce, 8% services Government... ...men 59.5, women 65.1 Literacy: 82% Labor force: 26 million (1984); 73% agri- culture, 11% industry and commerce, 10% services, 6% government; 8% unemp... ...n 53.3, women 56.8 Literacy: 45-55% Labor force: 1,985,000 (1985); 78% agri- culture; 18% mining, manufacturing, construction; 4% transport and servic...

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...2. 'Czar," when capitalized, 19. Dagger, use of, for footnote index, 214. Danish titles of publications, use of capi- tals in, 37. Dashes: defini... ...nd regen- erate the distracted world by the potent influence of Hellenistic culture. A world-empire, including all the lands and nations about the M... ...nd regenerate the distracted world by the potent influ- ence of Hellenistic culture. A world-empire, including all the lands and nations about the ... ...k and regenerate the dlshacted world by the potent influence of Hellenistic culture. A world.mpire. including all the lands and nations about the Me... ... and regenerate the distracted world by the potent influence of Hellenistic culture. A WORLD EMPIRE, INCLUDING ALLTHE LANDS AND NATIONS ABOUT THE M... ... and regenerate the distracted world by the potent influence of Hellenistic culture. A world-empire, including all the lands and nations about the M...

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...the nobler benefits of wealth, with extra means of health, of intellectual culture, and of elegant enjoyment, on the other hand, we knew nothing of it... ... The school which professes to teach grammatica, professes, therefore, the culture of lit- erature in the widest and most liberal extent, and is oppos... ...dioms, and verbal peculiarities belonging to the primitive ages of Ro- man culture were to be found still lingering in the old Ro- man settlements, bo... ...e almost the first effectual trial of the Congreve rockets. Soon after the Danish capital had fallen, and whilst the Prometheus was still cruising in ... ...ars 284 Thomas de Quincey had reached the shore, they saw a detachment of Danish cavalry trotting their horses pretty coolly down in a direc- tion fo... ...ard various and splendid frigates. Wyborg, in Jutland, was the seat of his Danish captivity; and such was the amiableness of the Danish character, tha... ...y, or in the person of his nearest friends, by the ruin inflicted upon the Danish commercial shipping, or by the dreadful havoc made in Zealand, would... ...aily bread has made all ridicule of female literary 302 Thomas de Quincey culture not less ridiculous than would be the attempt to ridi- cule that sa...

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...of courtesy, telling him that “no wonder the Franks thought he had no more culture than a Viking (or pirate), fresh caught from Norway. A fine notion ... ... foe, not before him,” said Sir Eric. “Speed thee well, my son—let not our Danish cousins say we learn Frank graces instead of Northern blows.” With s... ...her, and arranged us beneath that standard of the King, as if to repel his Danish inroad. Oh, he was, in all seeming, hand-and-glove with Louis, guid-...

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...t a kindred nation plead- ing for the scattered people of its own race and culture, or any nation presenting a case on behalf of some otherwise unrepr... ...ce, the mother- land of republics, was handed over to a needy scion of the Danish royal family; the sturdy peasants of Bulgaria suffered from a kindre...

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...er formed; which still shows it- self in the latest forms of our spiritual culture. Higher consid- erations have to teach us that the God Wish is not ... ... believed in the God Aegir. In- deed our English blood too in good part is Danish, Norse; or rather, at bottom, Danish and Norse and Saxon have no dis... ...ear, and the rest, is a Norse mythus! Old Saxo, as his wont was, made it a Danish history; Shakspeare, out of Saxo, made it what we see. That is a twi... ... so long as he had any basis. He has an instinct of Nature better than his culture was. His savans, Bourrienne tells us, in that voyage to Egypt were ...

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...r the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called General Culture. In her class there were two or three prettier girls, but none more... ... corker— not a better man in the state to go hunting with; and if you want culture, besides Vida Sherwin there’s Reverend Warren, the Congregational p... .... He passed the stewed apricots effusively. “There are a great many bright cultured people here. Mrs. Wilks, the Christian Sci- ence reader, is a very... ...—have you met him? —oh, you must!—he’s simply a darling—intel- ligence and culture and so gentle.) But I don’t care so much about the ugliness. That w... ... for farmers’ wives. And they do take such an inter- est in refinement and culture. So—in fact, so very unique.” Carol was disappointed—by nothing ver... ...heir pet religious corns. Oh, the mill foreman keeps dropping in, and that Danish shoemaker, and one fellow from Elder’s factory, and a few Svenskas, ...

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...rly as mother, was the first great source of life and be- ing, and also of culture. The man was but the instrument and the finisher. She was the sourc... ...ne, Sir William,” said the Major, with the wistful grimness of his age and culture. And the young fellow stared like a crucified cyclops from his one ... ... the man English. He looked so English—yet he might be—he might perhaps be Danish, Scandinavian, or Dutch. Therefore, the elegant young man watched an... ...ck to tea, and found himself alone next a group of women, mostly Swedes or Danish or Dutch, drinking a peculiar brown herb-brew which tasted like noth... ...if the world were still safe and stable, like a garden in which delightful culture, and choice ideas bloomed safe from wind and weather. Alas, never w... ...ted, young-seeming lady from the safe days of the sev- enties. All the old culture and choice ideas seemed like blow- ing bubbles. And dear old Corinn...

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...Almost as silent as the turf they trod. Nor less, when spring had warmed the cultured Vale, Moved we as plunderers where the mother bird Had in high p... ...ge cave, The Grotto of Antiparos, or the Den 565 In old time haunted by that Danish Witch, Yordas; he looks around and sees the vault Widening on all ... ...pression worse than death 195 Salutes the being at his birth, where grace Of culture hath been utterly unknown, And poverty and labour in excess From ...

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...uin Classics, London, 1962). Saxo Grammaticus: The First Nine Books of the Danish His- tory, T ranslated by Oliver Elton (London, 1894). 5 The V olsu... ...d the close contact with an artistic and inventive folk, possessed of high culture and great learning. The infusion of Celtic blood, however slight it...

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...o farmers, and bring in sixty thousand francs a year, in spite of ignorant culture. The du Gaisnics remain the own- ers of these lands although they r... ...o Croisic by water. This idea came to me on finding that there is a little Danish vessel now here, laden with marble, which is to touch at Croisic for... ...s afternoon, the fishermen were saying that they had seen a little vessel, Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian, in the offing.” This speech brought a flush ... ...s clothing a woman wears, the more nobly modest is her bearing. The little Danish vessel had just finished lading, therefore the landing of the two ha...

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...de intervals and under peculiarly favouring circumstances—as in cases like to this, for instance, when genius and culture depart and leave no heir. Ho... ...the peculiar ceremonies observed in drinking from it, are older than English history. It is thought that both are Danish importations. As far back 19...

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...ld-like delight in verse, in sweet poetry, and in the delightful game of a cultured home. His blood was strong even to coarseness. But that only made ... ...ooded people, true English, as holly-trees and hawthorn are English. Their culture was grafted on to them, as one might perhaps graft a common pink ro... ...bod.’ A young man approached, wearing rough khaki and kneebreeches. He was Danish looking, broad at the loins. ‘I’s come back then,’ said the father t...

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...tea from Ceylon or coffee from Brazil, devour an egg from France with some Danish ham, or eat a New Zealand chop, wind up his breakfast with a West In... ...ar, transit, lighting, building, and every sort of manufacture, even agri- culture, every material human concern—’ Then Holsten stopped short. Lawson ...

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... sullen Mole, that hides his diving flood; And silent Darent, stain’d with Danish blood. High in the midst, upon his urn reclined, (His sea-green mant... ...? Where grows?—where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil: Fix’d to no spot is happiness sincere, Tis nowhere t...

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...d been kept busy negotiating with the members of Don Vincente’s Government—cultured men, men to whom the conditions of civilized busi- ness were not u... ...was indeed a fabulously rich mine. Its so-called agent, evidently a man of culture and abil- ity, seemed, without official position, to possess an ext... ...vellanos, their neighbour across the street, a statesman, a poet, a man of culture, who had rep- resented his country at several European Courts (and ... ...ut his parentage was German and Scotch and English, with remote strains of Danish and French blood, giving him the temperament of a Puritan and an ins... ...n the Palace of the Intendencia in Sulaco, and who piqued him- self on his culture and Europeanism generally in a rather French style because he had l... ... had brought into a five- year dictatorship Don Vincente Ribiera, a man of culture and of unblemished character, invested with a mandate of reform by ...

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...seamen (of the names in two syllables with accent on the first), and their Danish captains, and it may be but a remnant of high-nosed old Norman Lord ... ...e wealthy City merchant; young, vigorous, elegant, a man of taste, highest culture, speaks the languages of Europe, patron of the Arts, a perfect gent... ...to supply the deficiency. She does not declare war upon tobacco. She has a cultured and a beautiful voice. We abstain from enlargeing on the charms of...

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..., Prince John had extended his invitation to a few distinguished Saxon and Danish families, as well as to the Norman nobility and gentry of the neighb... ...d was naturally rough rather than mellow, and, in short, had done all that culture can do in supplying natural deficiencies. His performance, therefor...

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...the solidarity between their peoples while respecting their history, their culture and their traditions, DESIRING to enhance further the democratic an... ...tribution to education and training of quality and to the flowering of the cultures of the Member States; (q) a policy in the sphere of development co... ...rticle 92(3): — the following point shall be inserted: “(d) aid to promote culture and heritage conservation where such aid does not affect trading co... ...tions of the Member States.” 37) The following shall be inserted: TITLE IX Culture ARTICLE 128 1. The Community shall contribute to the flowering of t... ...ture ARTICLE 128 1. The Community shall contribute to the flowering of the cultures of the Member States, while respecting their national and regional... ...ake this step. ARTICLE S This Treaty, drawn up in a single original in the Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese a... ...ular problems existing at the present time, TAK- ING INTO ACCOUNT that the Danish Constitution con- tains provisions which may imply a referendum in D... ...n con- tains provisions which may imply a referendum in Den- mark prior to Danish participation in the third stage of Economic and Monetary Union, HAV... ...shall be annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community: 1. The Danish Government shall notify the Council of its position concerning parti...

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... festo, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages. I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS The history of all hithe... ...ch feudal society pro duced and exchanged, the feudal organisation of agri culture and manufacturing industry, in one word, the feudal relations of... ...rty is the disappearance of production itself, so the disappearance of class culture is to him identical with the disappearance of all culture. That ... ...n of bourgeois property, the standard of your bourgeois notions of freedom, culture, law, etc. “The Communist Manifesto” 18 Your very ideas are but...

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... they are too). It was interesting, and down at Swanage no one appreciated culture more than Mrs. Munt; but it was dangerous, and disaster was bound t... ...ars, to such life as is conferred by the stench of motor-cars, and to such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills. To histor... ...d before Mrs. Munt’s inattentive eyes, a series broken at one point by six Danish tumuli that stood shoulder to shoulder along the highroad, tombs of ... ...legels on the whole at that time— 37 EM Forster and while her lips talked culture, her heart was plan- ning to invite him to tea. “How tired one gets... ...ly he could talk like this, he would have caught the world. Oh, to acquire culture! Oh, to pronounce foreign names correctly! Oh, to be well informed,... ...r sis- ter and her brother were uncharitable. For all her clev- erness and culture, she was probably one of those soulless, atheistical women who have...

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...lower-supports mechanically, not in any im- pulse of love. He passed for a cultured man because he knew how to select, and he passed for an uncon- ven... ...d in the middle of the pattern grew one small tree. British? Roman? Saxon? Danish? The com- petent reader will decide. The Thompson family knew it to ... ...hristianity was the type best described as “cathedral.” “What a hole for a cultured woman! I don’t think it has blunted my sensations, though; I still... ... bold ‘no’ is at times the best. Take your stand upon classics and general culture.” Classics! A second in the Tripos. General culture. A smattering o... ...d one of the slow, gentle jokes he played on society was to talk upon some cultured subject with his hands behind his back and then suddenly reveal th...

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...n had, it seems, been little more than sufficient to pay the extraordinary culture and the expense of watering; for in countries so near the sun, it w... ...ng that he had examined the land, and that it was inca- pable of any other culture. The pretence of this order was the scarcity of corn and pasture, a... ...f soils than any other fruit-tree. From some it derives a flavour which no culture or management can equal, it is supposed, upon any other. This flavo... ...y to keep up the present price of tobacco, the superior advan- tage of its culture over that of corn, if it still has any, will not probably be of lon... ...a plant of which the most com- mon land, with the same, or nearly the same culture, produced a much greater quantity than the most fertile does of cor... ...r diamond mines, were discovered there. In the English, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies, none have 455 Adam Smith ever yet been discovered, at lea...

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...mmings”—he saluted me in modulated and cour- teous accents of indisputable culture, gracefully extending his pale hand. “I have heard a great deal abo... ... extracting his tired-looking hands from his tired-looking trousers with a cultured gesture. “Fine young fellow painted that. I knew him. Disciple of ... ...r. For a week we waited. Fritz, having waited months for a letter from the Danish consul in reply to the letters which he, Fritz, wrote every so often...

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...ning them. That is the actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet,” said the Danish charge d’affaires. “The doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profo... ...f Russia, or the balance of power in Europe, or a certain kind of European culture called “progress” appear to me to be good or bad, I must admit that... ...glance from under his brows. “Prince Theodore and all those. T o encourage culture and philanthropy is all very well of course. The aim is excellent b... ... states to the writers of general histories and the new his- tories of the culture of that period. The strangeness and absurdity of these replies aris... ...r produces events. A third class of historians—the so-called historians of culture-following the path laid down by the universal his- torians who some... ...y see it in what is called cul- ture—in mental activity. The historians of culture are quite consistent in regard to their progenitors, the writers of...

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...tinguished among the Miusovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end of his li... ...t know exactly which. He regarded it as his duty as a citizen and a man of culture to open an attack upon the “clericals.” Hearing all about Adelaida ... ...onation of a thousand roubles, while another was a very wealthy and highly cultured land- owner, upon whom all in the monastery were in a sense de- pe... ...out as a remembrance of it. But men, too, can be beaten. A well- educated, cultured gentleman and his wife beat their own child with a birch-rod, a gi... ...e merchant grows more and more eager for rank, and strives to show himself cultured though he has not a trace of culture, and to this end meanly despi... ...ndressed him, you’ d be sure to find he had a tail, long and smooth like a Danish dog’s, a yard long, dun colour…. Alyosha, you are cold. Y ou’ve been...