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... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...d passed and left the new age stripped bare. In nearly every department of economic and social life now there was upheaval, and it was an upheaval ver... ...the demand that action should be taken increased. The literature of church history and the controversies aris- ing out of doctrinal development became... ...eled over like a ship that founders. Through the swiftest, tensest week in history Europe cap- sized into war. 6 6 6 6 6 The first effect of the war u... ... countless minds that for the first time they realized the epic quality of history and their own relationship to the destinies of the race. The flimsy... ...the world which alone permits men to serve God in state and city and their economic lives…. They are all com- ing to the verge of the same salvation, ... ...r, it seemed, had a good prospect of a scholarship at the London School of Economics that would practically keep her. There would be no Cambridge for ...

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Excerpt: The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells.

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...922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- troni... ..., thinking of it.” “A social smash-up.” 6 The Secret Places of the Heart “Economic. Social. Yes. Don’t you?” “A social smash-up seems to me altogethe... ...nges.” “Consistently with itself.” “I have been trying to recall my sexual history ,” said Sir Rich- mond, going off at a tangent. “My sentimental edu... ...o think on that scale. Just as a man who has been trained in 49 H G Wells history and law grows to think on the scale of the Roman empire. I don’t kn... ... be a tattooed creature wearing a knife of stone…. “ “The healing touch of history.” “And for the first time my damned Committee has mat- tered scarce... ...cience and honour than they have ever been before. In matters of property, economics and public conduct it will probably be just the reverse. Then, th... ...lism, and that she had what he considered to be a most unfeminine grasp of economic ideas. He thought her attitude towards so- cialism a very sane one...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest social and economic reconstruction and by pass- ing through a phase of revolution that... ...THE SUN SNARERS S S S S Section I ection I ection I ection I ection I T HE HISTORY OF MANKIND is the history of the attain- ment of external power. Ma... ...priest and king began to develop their roles in the opening drama of man’s history. The priest’s solicitude was seed-time and harvest and fertility, a... ...he subjugation of himself and oth- ers to larger and larger societies. The history of man is not simply the conquest of external power; it is first th... ...rval of technical adaptation, but with very little realisation of the huge economic revolution that im- pended. What chiefly impressed the journalists... ...p the Professorship of World Politics in the Lon- don School of Sociology, Economics, and Political Science, to take up these duties. Firmin was a man...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitat... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of In- toxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ..., though you see them alive, and feel certain enough that they must have a History, no History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of... ...him a public graduate. But omitting these broken, unsatisfactory thrums of Economical relation, let us present rather the following small thread of Mo... ...world an addi- tional horse’s power in the grand corn-mill or hemp-mill of Economic Society. For me too had such a leading-string been provided; only ... ...t profess ourselves unable to explain. Certain Landlords’ Bills, and other economic Documents, bearing the mark of Settlement, indicate that he was no...

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Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two.

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...Contents AFTERWAR .....................................................................................................4 THE FULNESS OF LIFE ...............................................................................33 A VENETIAN NIGHT?S ................................................................................43 ENTERTAINMENT.......................

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic... ...ing in its favor with two romantic Americans per- versely in search of the economic drawbacks which were as- sociated, in their tradition, with unusua... ...gray walls), he dreamed of the production of his long-planned book on the “Economic Basis of Culture”; and with such absorbing work ahead no existence... ... his presence as though it were she who had a secret to keep from him! The thought that there was a secret somewhere between them struck her with a su... ... at first because it did worry me—annoyed me, rather. But it’s all ancient history now. Y our correspondent must have got hold of a back number of the... ... I was the fashionable painter.” “Ah, poor Stroud—as you say. Was that his history?” 89 Wharton “That was his history. She believed in him, gloried i... ...v- ering from a previous heart attack. Just a note! But it tells his whole history. There are years of patient scornful persistence 91 Wharton in eve...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...The Natural State In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti Peter Maverick Introduction 1972-... ...1990—Various Places Publisher's Note When I read the manuscript of Peter's book, it was as though U.G. was talking through the pages. It w... ... It was wonderful to hear him without all the questions and interjections of the people who normally surround him. It felt very personal. Coming ... ...ise. I read him more—it was the same. It was as though he was thinking my thoughts! That is the sole reason why I decided to publish his words—this i... ...ce something so unusual that it cannot be placed in any category of human thought. Don’t underestimate the power of his words. Here is an original... ...robably something happened to so many hundreds of people. This is part of history—so many rishis, some Westerners, monks, so many women, and sometime... ... acausal. It seems to have happened to some people during the course of history. Each one has given expression to that uniqueness in their own way... ...resulted in massacre, murder, assassination and wars. This is a matter of history, not my opinion. It is the same thing everywhere. All our political... ...beings and nothing more. It is something like saying that in the field of economics you are not controlled by the laws of supply and demand. But we a...

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...omas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ght, on certain terms? What is indispens- able let us not omit to say. The history of a man’s child- hood is the description of his parents and enviro... ...his parents and environment: this is his inarticulate but highly important history, in those first times, while of articulate he has yet none. Edward ... ...e with which I was wont to carry to his seat a well-thumbed duodecimo, the History of Greece by Oliver Goldsmith. I remember the mental agonies I endu... ...ery pos- sible for such a one! Being now turned of sixteen, and the family economics getting yearly more propitious and flourishing, he, as his brothe... ...at present; and his outlooks into the future, whether for his spiritual or economic fortunes, were confused enough. Among his familiars in this period... ...endly, by no means romantic appre- ciation of the Blacks; quiet prosperity economic and do- mestic: on the whole a healthy and recommendable way of li...

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