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...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ...global network. 29 The early Internet was implemented at university computer science depart- ments, U.S. government research units, 30 and select tele... ... the U.S. government, allowing flat- rate pricing for its users. The National Science Foundation (NSF) managed the Internet backbone and asked that it ... ...uter or workstation of the sort typi- cally found within university computer science departments—and usually used with direct network connections rath... ...chnology and, to some degree, draws upon their mean- ings. The Free Software Philosophy The normative ideals of the free software movement and the des... ...criptive attri- butes of generativity have much in common. According to this philosophy, any software functionality enjoyed by one person should be un... ...person should be understandable and modifiable by everyone. The free software philosophy emphasizes the value of sharing not only a tool’s functionalit...
...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...
...This paper explores the utility of a debriefing method resulting in individual, unit, and organizational transcendence toward increased effectiveness in the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF). The conceptual framework is centered on the transformational and ...
...ially decentralized command system work?” To answer this question, the study examines theoretical perspectives on command and control,including those of Napoléon, the Germans, the Israelis, and former fighter pilot John R. Boyd. Following this theoretical survey, the study analyzes two historical case studies that exhibited both the use and non use of mission-type orders a...
...cs Series Publication Evan Harrington by George Meredith 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ufficient vindication be found in the exercise he affords our crews in the science of seamanship. She entered our noble river somewhat early on a fine... ... ‘Well, sir !’ he observed, as one whom mental conflict has brought to the philosophy of the case, ‘now, was we to change places, I couldn’t a’ done i... ...d into him, and a little, perhaps, to her self-satisfied essay in surgical science on his person, earned him the name he went by. When her neighbours ... ...uments the argument, for instance, that they have not fashioned us for the science of the shears, and do yet im- pel us to wield them. Nevertheless, t... ...ous pow- ers who have to do with us. Apart from its eloquent and consoling philosophy, the pic- ture is pleasant. You see two rows of shoulders resolu... ... Shorne, had not her ladyship been so firmly established in her phlegmatic philosophy. She said: ‘Quelle enfantillage! I dare say Rose was at the bott...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of livin...
...During my research period in the Summer of 2012 at the Research Institute of Extenics and Innovation Methods, from Guangdong University of Technology, in Guangzhou, China, I have introduced the Linear and Non-Linear Attraction Point Principle and the Network of Att...
...Contribution to Extenics (Preface by Florentin Smarandache): 4 1. Generalizations of the Distance and Dependent Function in Extenics to 2D, 3D, and n-D, by Florentin Smarandache: 22 2. Applications of Extenics to 2D-Space and 3D-Space, by Florentin Smarandache, Victor Vlădăreanu: 39 3. Generalization of ...
... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the... ...submit an abstract and use Sciendex's classification ("call") numbers and science descriptors, arranged in a massive directory available in the "Rea... ...NET. Other government departments joined the fray, headed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) which withdrew only lately from the Internet. T... ... It is not uncommon to find a mastery of English, a college degree in the sciences, readiness to work outlandish hours at a fraction of wages in Ger... ...umbents and their avaricious pricing. Peter Suber has both a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D. He is a professor of philosophy at Earlham College, ... ...y Institute on FOS issues. He is the general editor of the Web's foremost philosophy search engine Hippias and co-editor of Noesis, both available o... ...esis, both available online free of charge. He serves on the Committee on Philosophy and Computers of the American Philosophical Association. He is ...
...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...BLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTIO... ...cope Broadening" Debate 22 Social Marketing: Two Meanings 23 A BROADENED TYPOLOGY OF PRODUCTS 23 The Typology 24 Implications 27 EXCHANGE TRANSAC... ...ever been, taken as the spread of propaganda. Another reason for adopting this philosophy is that the word propaganda suffers from pejorative co... ...nts and needs reign supreme.) The Marketing Concept The marketing concept is the philosophy that the consumer's interest is the starting point if n... ...istics by which one discipline can be distinguished from another is the particular philosophy or method customarily employed by each discipline in so... ... but one advocating the views held by the majority. And in spite of the fact that science, art and politics had no special interest for him, he fir... ...ket marketing to its members. Admonishing concept sponsors to employ solid social science research in planning for concept dissemination, Harold Me... ...m total utility, thus adding deeper meaning to general concepts of price, economic science and its younger cousin, marketing science, may now be rea...
...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some o...
...arcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...rcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic... ...rush to pieces many an object in its path." (G.W.F . Hegel, "Lectures on the Philosophy of History") "Such beings are incalculable, they come like fat... ...are global. If a scientist – he is always in the throes of revolutionizing science. If a journalist – he is in the middle of the greatest story eve... ... the classical Idea of Progress, which is most strongly reified by Western science and liberal democracy. All four illiberal ideologies firmly espo... ...semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, ... ...hology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site for 8 years. – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World... ... Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. Write to Me: palma@unet.com....
...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....
...ty of Chicago Manual Style by University of Chicago Classic Literature Collection World Public Library.org... ...World Public Library.org Title: Chicago Style Manal Author: University of Chicago Language: English Subject: NonFiction, Reference Publisher: W... ...ww.WorldLibrary.net is an effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and... ...or instance, general practice has established certain usages in some of the sciences which it would not be advisable to ignore. Similar discrepancie... ...Day Adventists, the Establishment, High Church (High €!hurchman), Christian Science, Theosophist, Jew (but: gen- tile), Pharisee (but: scribe); Epic... ...list; epicurean tastes, stoic endurance, dualism arid monism in present-day philosophy, an altruistic world-view; the classics, a realistic novel. ... ... letters). But do not capitalize such phrases when spelled out : doctor of philosophy, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. 21. Nouns and adj... ...c. : "This was, however, not the case;" "It is sufticiently plain that the sciences of life, at least, are studies of processes." 51. From foreign ...
...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Sty...
...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had i...
...Preface Table of Contents Rules for Composition Capitalization The Use of Italics Quotations Spelling Punctuation Divisions Footnotes Tabular Work Technical Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofr...
...DROLL STORIES COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN T... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a pub... ...ne: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ding and peripatetic reasons, or the author knows nothing of sound and the philosophy of Aristotle. He has on his side the crown of France and the ori... ...rink to the author, and let his inkstand with the double cup endow the Gay Science with a hundred glorious Droll T ales. Stand back then, curs; strike... ... and show how our citizens have finished by acquiring names. But enough of science. This said provost, who had as many names as there were provinces i... ... honestly Christian, in order to argue with her con- cerning the things of science or the science of things. Think- ing herself quite learned enough, ... ...el was poor, was that a reason his under- standing should not be rich? His philosophy amused his cli- ents, to whom he would repeat, by way of thanks,...
... Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an installment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies publicly knit their brows, and have put to him other questions of a like character....
.................... 9 CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS............................. 25 ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY... 34 BERTHA THE PENITENT .......................................................................................................... 51 I HOW BERTHA REMAINED A MAIDEN IN THE MARRIED STATE ............................
...n Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...e perennial supplies with which he fertilizes his labors in every field of science, art, or com- merce. A crafty Frenchman here and there will turn a ... ... Schmucke was fain to bury his chagrin beneath the flow- ers of his German philosophy; but a week later he grew so yellow that Mme. Cibot exerted her ... ... famous of doctors of the day (they were not as yet styled the “princes of science”) had been called in to consult upon his case; and it so chanced th... ...ssess the mysterious power of reading the future. The belief of the occult science is far more widely spread than scholars, lawyers, doctors, magistra... ...agnetism, one of the great sciences of antiquity, had its origin in occult philosophy; chemistry is the outcome of alchemy; phrenology and neurology a... ...s yet cannot account. The Catholic Church, the law of the land, and modern philosophy, in agreement for once, combined to prescribe, persecute, and ri...
...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking ...
...cation Our Mutual Friend Volume Three by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...iously fallen into the hands of some of the Christians, I can bear it with philosophy.’ ‘I have had an interview to-day, Eugene, with a Jew, who seems... ...d me of the Secretary’ s having made a declaration to her. Suppose my con- science should oblige me to repeat it to Mr Boffin.’ ‘I rather like that,’ ... ... myself with anything but re- proach for having turned out of the paths of science into the paths of—’ he was going to say ‘villany,’ but, unwilling t... ...y repeat that it was his fixed intention to betake himself to the paths of science, and to walk in the same all the days of his life; not dropping dow...
...night-creatures that had no business abroad under the sun; while the sun itself when it was for a few moments dimly indicated through circling eddies of fog, showed as if it had gone out and were collapsing flat and cold....
.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ... The Farmers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179... ...thics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sciences in general and synthetic biology in particular. I was also inspi... ...lar. I was also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am descr... ...at define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try to sketch out in the pages ahead. Ack... ...efferson and Macaulay focused do not disappear merely because one embraces a philosophy of moral rights—if anything, they become more pressing, partic... ... ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle ...
...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Comm...
...The present book, being a sequel to Dialectics of Force: Ontobia, is dedicated to the topics of progress and force of society - topics that may appear trivial at first sight, for a mountain of literature has been written on them. The author, however, having conscientiousl...
...This book is intended for instructors and students of philosophy and social sciences, and also for all those who are interested in problems of man and mankind....
...The fourth volume, in my book series of “Collected Papers”, includes 100 published and unpublished articles, notes, (preliminary) drafts containing just ideas to be further investigated, scientific souvenirs, scientific blogs, project proposals, small experiment...
... can form a statistically reliable opinion based on limited clinically observed data, regarding whether an osteo-hyperplasia could actually be a case of Ewing’s osteosarcoma. The basic premise underlying our methodology is that a primary bone tumour, if it is indeed Ewing’s osteosarcoma, cannot increase in volume beyond some critical limit without showing metastasis. We pr...
...................................14 1. First Lunar Space Base, project proposal, by V. Christianto, Florentin Smarandache..15 2. On Recent Discovery of New Planetoids in the Solar System and Quantization of Celestial System, by V. Christianto, F. Smarandache..................28 3. Open and Solved Elementary Questions in Astronomy, by Florentin Smarandache.. 36 BIOLOGY.....
...Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pen... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four, the Pennsylvania State Uni... .... This I mastered before I was breeched. I now began to feel my way in the science, and soon came to understand that, provided a man had a nose suffic... ... “And what, Robert,” he inquired, “is Nosology?” “Sir,” I said, “it is the Science of Noses.” “And can you tell me,” he demanded, “what is the meaning... ...‘Confessions of an Opium-eater’—fine, very fine!—glorious imagination—deep philosophy acute specula- tion—plenty of fire and fury, and a good spicing ... ...on was one of those human anomalies now and then to be found, who make the science of mystification the study and the business of their lives. For thi... ...r. Is it not truly remarkable that, before the magnificent light shed upon philosophy by Humanity, the world was accustomed to regard War and Pes- til... ...OST NOTORIOUS ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy—as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless vigilance of an enemy...
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.......................................................................................................................................... 23 THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER ...................................................................... 31 HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE .....................................................................................
...NonNovel is indeed a novel of drawer, carried year after year in the bottomless sack of the exile. This fierce parabola about totalitarianism, about alienation, guilty obedience and lie, opportunism, cruelty, violence, monstrosity, written in a strong ...
...WARNING!: 5 Mister Editor (a letter arrived at the editorial office): 6 I: 7 Dedication: 10 The Adventures of Hon Hyn: 11 Happenings from Wodania: 23 II: 26 About patriotism: 28 The royal feast: 29 The press: 30 Post Office: 31 The State control: 32 Non-values’ Epoch: 36 Pluralism: 43 A leader not like anyone else: 45 I...
...The July-August-September, 2011 edition of Hinduism's flagship spiritual magazine, Hinduism Today, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. This issue takes you on a wondrous adventure through time as well as culture showcasi...
...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...matter, for “seeing my story,” through the opportunity and the sensibility of some more or less detached, some not strictly involved, though thoroughl... ...othing in himself at all events to prevent it. He was ally ing himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the pr... ...ame; all he could do was practically to leave it to her, emulating her own philosophy. He had again and again sat up late to discuss those situations ... ...ool upper air of the finer discrimination, the deeper sincerity, the larger philosophy. No mat ter what were the facts invoked and arrayed, it was onl... ...hetic for the advantage now extracted from it by Fanny Assingham’s bruised philosophy. This good friend’s relation to it was ac tually the revanche, ...
...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...
...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...
...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...ng cultural preference for technical fields over the humanities and social sciences. Many of these young men, even if able to study abroad, lacked the... ...even more obvious early in 1999, when he addressed the National Academy of Sciences and presented his most somber account yet of what could happen if ... ...”The authors expressed concern that “we have not fundamentally altered our philosophy or our approach” even though the terrorist threat had grown.They... ...were distrib- uted on specific topics.These included Bin Ladin’s political philosophy, his command of a global network, analysis of information from t... ... which performs human source collection, all-source analysis, and advanced science and technology National intelligence agencies: • National Security ...
...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...
...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...
...Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts with a look at how humans get along social...
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...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ame an alter ego. In a short time he learned to keep his patron’s books, a science which, to use his own expression, pertains to the sergeant-majors o... ...t, his smile, the shedding of his rose-leaves, in short by his in- fantile philosophy. He imitates so well the language of our early youth that he lea... ...short, a cat’s paw and satellite. In Paris many men of celeb- rity in art, science, and literature have one or more train- bearers, captains of the gu... ...to my grotesque body. But I myself shall remain hidden like the cause that science seeks. God himself may not be glorious to the eye. Well, naturally,...
... Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII 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 ... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books I... ...and biographer, than of any other species of writing; for all the arts and sciences (even criticism itself) require some little degree of learning and... ...ed. “As to the fellow’s escape,” said she, “it gives me no uneasiness; for philosophy and Christianity both preach up forgiveness of injuries. But for... ...would make him amends for the additional burthen he was to lay on his con science. And here, reader, we must strictly caution thee that thou dost n... ...ed home, not highly pleased with his disappointment: which, how ever, the philosophy which he had acquired from Square, and the religion infused into... ...ng speeches for the House of Commons, or rather for the magazines. But the science of gaming is that which above all others employs their thoughts. Th... ...is no hopes of my recovery. I have somewhere read, that the great use of philosophy is to learn to die. I will not therefore so far disgrace mine, a...
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...tte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge 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 Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...tness that compensated for want of knowledge, the gentle- men with greater science and discrimination; indeed, Philip, as a connoisseur, could not but... ...tain Wellwood whose death had weighed so heavily on his grandfather’s con- science, feeling almost as if it were his duty to ask forgive- ness in his ... ...ce. You were always too young, and Laura too much addicted to the physical sciences to get on together.’ ‘A weak, silly mother, sighed Mrs. Edmonstone... ...spoiling uncle you will be! But now, having heard you reason yourself into philosophy, I’ll leave you to write. We were so anxious, that I could not h...
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... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... he did not wait for it. “He has gone mad!” said Minnie; “it’s that horrid science of his”; and, open- ing the window, would have called after him. Th... ...half a century, and has “left deep and abundant marks upon the body of the science.” And this Hapley-Pawkins business, though perhaps a more personal ... ... to give up chess. 81 H.G . Wells Perhaps the study of some new branch of science would after all be better diversion. The best rest is change of occ... ...n some pas- sages there are indications that he was also occupied with the philosophy of mathematics. I take it he has transferred the whole of his me... ...d bodies. But how such a change may be possible is without the range of my philosophy. I have been a materialist for all my thinking life, but here, s... ... but with something of a tradition of the arts of old Peru and of its lost philosophy. Generation followed generation. They forgot many things; they d...
...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...
...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......
...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ... facts: Doctor Berton is attending a lady whose disease puzzles and defies science. That, of course, is not our concern, but that of the Faculty. Our ... ... themselves in this state, and are recorded by physicians in the annals of science. My daughter gave birth to a dead child; in fact, it was twisted an... ...es or bones. This affection, which is not connected with anything known to science, spread to the arms and hands, and we then supposed it to be a dise... ...ay-scholar at the school of Louis-le-Grand, where he is nearly through his philosophy course, and only sixteen, too; that’s something to boast of! but...
...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, an...
...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...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 transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...of the best and noblest of the Greeks held what was called the Pythagorean philosophy. This was one of the many systems framed by the great men of hea... ... to form a sort of club, with common religious observances and pursuits of science, especially mathematics and music. And they were taught to restrain... ... attempt to over- throw his power. He was a good scholar, and very fond of philosophy and poetry, and he delighted to have learned men around him, and... ...f cul- ture and civilization, excelling all other nations of their time in science and art, and almost the equals of their Christian foes in the attri... ...ffered him to buy a suitably splendid dress for the occasion; but his con- science would not allow him to accept the invitation, though he well knew t...
...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...
...ga Saga trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888) 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... of life. The lowest savage, no less than his more advanced brother, has a philosophy of the uni- verse by which he solves the world-problem to his ow... ... Anglo-Saxons; being a collection of Documents illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest”. Ed: Rev. T . O. Cockay...
...............................................5 TRANSLATORS? PREFACE.......................................................................23 THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA.............................
...ries Publication War and Peace: Book Nine by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...onsisted of Pfuel and his adherents—mili- tary theorists who believed in a science of war with immutable laws—laws of oblique movements, outflankings,... ...constructed by Pfuel, and till then considered a chef-d’oeuvre of tactical science which would ensure Napoleon’s destruction, was an absurdity, threat... ...cause only Germans are self-confi- dent on the basis of an abstract notion—science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. A Frenchman is ...
...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ingle with yon springalds and beaux.” “To vaunt a knowledge of the stoical philosophy,” said the youth addressed as Sam, “might elicit a smile of incr... ...I can spend it in relieving the Poverty on which thou tramplest; in aiding Science, which thou knowest not; in uplifting Art, to which thou art blind.... ...ntries of Lord Brougham. A boxer is in the house; he taught Palmerston the science of the pugilate, who conferred upon him the seat,” &c. &c. His writ... ...entertainer, when he put this question to her, “than are dreamt of in your philosophy:” and, sooth to say, the archer was by this time in such a state... ...o him to legislate for us: he is wise in the law, and as- trology, and all sciences; he shall aid my Ministers in their councils. I have written to hi... ...rates wonderful reverses of fortune; it affords the moralist scope for his philosophy; perhaps it gives amusement to the merely idle reader. Nor must ...
...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...
.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........
... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... at least, not opposing attitude– or, shortly, to a man who is of Christ’s philosophy– every such saying should come home with a thrill of joy and cor... ... his eyes have broken jail! And again he who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches; if prosperity ... ...ir studies– no pedantic love of this subject or that lights up their eyes– science and learning are only means for a livelihood, which they have consi... ...n for his subject. With a somewhat grand devotion he left all the world of Science to follow his true love; and he con- trived to find that strange pe... ...e with determined views– roues in speculation– having gauged the vanity of philosophy or learned to shun it as the middle- man of heresy– a company of... ...nion’ at Cambridge or the ‘Union’ at Oxford. COLLEGE PAPERS CHAPTER IV–THE PHILOSOPHY OF UMBRELLAS* I T IS WONDERFUL to think what a turn has been giv...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...
...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................
...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eli... ...inted with the little geometry they contain; but never proceeded far in that science. And I read about this time Locke On Human Understanding, and the... ...ving his books, which were a pretty col lection of mathematicks and natural philosophy, to come with mine and me to New York, where he propos’d to wa... ...d produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Poli tics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss’d by the company; and once in three months prod... ... much originality as if you had been conducting discus sions in politics or philosophy; and what more worthy of experiments and system (its importanc... ...cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into t... ... of Benjamin Franklin 144 mental philosophy, and lectur’d in that branch of science, undertook to repeat what he called the Philadelphia Experi ment...
...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...
...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...se Boards, so that Edinburgh was a world centre for that branch of applied science; in Germany, he had been called “the Nestor of light- house illumin... ...ld have succeeded in one of the most abstract and arduous walks of applied science. The second remark is one that applies to the whole family, and onl... ...om these troublesome humours in his work, in his lifelong study of natural science, in the society of those he loved, and in his daily walks, which no... ...er by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. That which is understood excels... ...oment he transmigrates, dons the required character, and with moon- struck philosophy justifies the act in question. I can fancy nothing to compare wi... ...men than increase of knowl- edge or clarity of thought. The drama, not the philosophy, of life is the sphere of their intellectual activity. Even when...
...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...
...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...
...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e a dupe of me, even as he was seeking to make a dupe of himself, wresting philosophy to the needs of his own sorrow. But in the light of this new fac... ...s a contribution to the theory of life. So with the more icy parts of this philosophy of Thoreau’s. He was affecting the Spartan- ism he had not; and ... ... beyond, for which he had found or sought no formula, on which perhaps his philosophy even looked askance, is wanting in my study, as it was wanting i... ...the difference that there is between these two. Fielding has as much human science; has a far firmer hold upon the tiller of his story; has a keen sen... ...s since renewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in the... ...ar- range themselves in our minds, some day there will be found the man of science to stand up and give the explanation. Scott took an interest in man...
...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...
...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...