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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...d, “I am told that you are a coward!” It was not he that turned over the new leaf—she did it for him. He must not strut around in the merit of it—i... ...es of outside influences—we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the imp... ...hat the tract distributor does. It is what the missionary does. It is what governments ought to do. Y.M. Don’t they? What Is Man and Other Essays 34 ... ...be instinct, too. O.M. We will look still further. The ant has a system of government; it is well planned, elaborate, and is well car ried on. Y.M. I... ...ell at a glance who was who by the size of the vacancy between stakes—with locality to help, of course. Although I am away off here in a Swedish villa... ...tch itself wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock... ...rs have been sentenced to heavy punishment of a public sort—and are become local heroes, by consequence. That is the very mistake which was at first m...

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............. 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER ........................................................................................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ...........................................................................................

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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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... ...ical Succession of Organic Beings On the slow and successive appearance of new spe- cies — On their different rates of change — Species once lost do n... ...t of ancient forms — On the suc- cession of the same types within the same areas — Summary of preceding and present chapters. 8 On the Origin of Spec... ... principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will b... ...ed in the indi- viduals of the same species inhabiting the same con- fined locality. No one supposes that all the individu- als of the same species ar... ...can rarely be found within the same country, but are common in sepa- rated areas. How many of those birds and insects in North America and Europe, whi... ...lace would be chiefly between the indi- viduals of the same new variety. A local variety when once thus formed might subsequently slowly spread to oth... ...hat, as I hear from Colonel Poole, who examined the breed for the In- dian Government, a horse without stripes is not con- sidered as purely-bred. The...