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...ten before 1875 by ‘Abbás Effendí, known as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (the Servant of Bahá) (1844-1921). The Persian text was first lithographed in Bombay in 1882 and printed in Cairo in 1911. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was the eldest son and appointed successor of Bahá’u’lláh, the Founder of the Bahá’í Faith. The original text of this work was written and published anonymously, and the first Englis...

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...The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation is a non-fiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. It is a snapshot of the religious movements in the U.S. before i...

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...“Bahaism is not a new religion,” writes Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, “It is religion renewed… it does not pretend to represent the whole Truth; on the contrary, it recognises Truth in fundamental principles which are the basis of all former dispensat...

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...e economic growth, income inequality, poverty, corruption, causes of the decline of the middle class, sustainable development, emerging technologies, and more. Below is a list of questions answered throughout: * Which nations have the best living standards? What are they doing right? * Why do rich countries still have so many poor people in them? * What caused ...

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The way representative democracy works means that campaign contributions, lobbying, and bribery are part of “normal” business strategy.

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...Chapter 1: Standard of Living Definition Chapter 2: Money, Wealth, and Value Chapter 3: Environment and Standard of Living Chapter 4: Measuring Standard of Living Chapter 5: Nordic Model Chapter 6: Swiss Democracy Chapter 7: What Is Capitalism? Chapter 8: Liberalization in Modern Count...

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...The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of the Bible. Published in thr...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania St... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...s or Members of Parliament. In the feu dal ages, on the contrary, war and politics were not thought unnatural to women, because not unusual; it seeme... ...ally more sincere: and because women, as is often said, care nothing about politics except their personalities, it is supposed that the general good i... ... father persevered, except perhaps when she might obtain the protection of religion by a determined resolution to take monastic vows. After marriage, ... ...n inter ested one. She neither knows nor cares which is the right side in politics, but she knows what will bring in money or invitations, give her h... ...wer than in the case of almost any other human infirmity. Phi losophy and religion, instead of keeping it in check, are generally suborned to defend ... ... to this depraved state of the human mind. We shall be told, perhaps, that religion imposes the duty of obedience; as every established fact which is ...

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...L Reprinted from FRASER’S MAGAZINE Seventh Edition London Longmans, Green, and Co. 1879 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Uti... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...re not included. If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opin i... ...of institutions, and of opin ion, directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make every person grow up from infancy surrounded on all sides... ... Politique Positive. I entertain the strongest objections to the system of politics and morals set forth in that treatise; but I think it has superabu... ...ef in a Providence, both the physical power and the so cial efficacy of a religion; making it take hold of human life, and colour all thought, feelin...

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...o-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of...

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...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using thi... ...kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any... ... any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any... ...ort of a Papist or an Unitarian; another, every one who believes in revealed religion; a few extend their charity a little further, but stop at the be... ...ce from the reigning opinion in self regarding, than even in social matters; religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the f... ...d ern reformers who have placed themselves in stron gest opposition to the religions of the past, have been noway behind either churches or sects in... ...en we turn to sub jects infinitely more complicated, to morals, reli gion, politics, social relations, and the business of life, three fourths of th... ... by deeds, for words, on this subject, have nearly exhausted their power. In politics, again, it is almost a commonplace, that a party of order or sta... ...e was a considerable power. At present individuals are lost in the crowd. In politics it is almost a trivi ality to say that public opinion now rules...

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ..........................................................................................................

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...AL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE Volume T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE R... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... .... 2 of the enthusiasm of poetry; he was in poetry what the scep- tic is in religion. In his smooth and polished verse we meet with no prodigies of nat... ...rs, and examples. The third book regarded civil regimen, or the science of politics, in which the several forms of a republic were to have been examin... ...dious; in which all the great principles of true and false governments and religions should be chiefly delivered in feigned examples. The fourth and l... ...hartres: Now conscience chills her, and now passion burns; And atheism and religion take their turns; A very heathen in the carnal part, Yet still a s... ... St John, who alone peruse With candid eye the mimic Muse, What schemes of politics, or laws, In Gallic lands the patriot draws! Is then a greater wor... ... on set purpose. Yea, even direct oppositions in religion, principles, and politics, have equally been supposed in him inherent. Surely a most rare an...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a ...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ebt, or in any pecuniary difficulty; holding, as he did, opinions, both in politics and in religion, which were more odious to all per sons of influe... ...ecuniary difficulty; holding, as he did, opinions, both in politics and in religion, which were more odious to all per sons of influence, and to the ... ...ef in Revelation, but the foundations of what is com monly called Natural Religion. I have heard him say, that the turning point of his mind on the s... ...uld have ascribed to it no depraving influence. As it was, his aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind w... ...of which I ever afterwards kept myself au courant , as much as of English politics: a thing not at all usual in those days with Englishmen, and which... ...a where what were then thought ex 45 John Stuart Mill treme opinions, in politics and philosophy, were weekly as serted, face to face with their op...

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...trong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however....

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...er Functions of Representative Bodies............................................................................... 61 Chapter VI Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable ............................. 76 Chapter VII Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only 92 Chapter VIII Of the Extensio...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...y them. If the supporters of what may be termed the naturalistic theory of politics, mean but to insist on the necessity of these three conditions; if... ...; but we do not therefore say that watermills “are not made, but grow.” In politics, as in mechanics, the power which is to keep the engine going must... ...the princes there assembled. But these, it may be said, are cases in which religion was concerned, and reli gious convictions are something peculiar ... ...eculiar in their strength. Then let us take a case purely political, where religion, if concerned at all, was chiefly on the losing side. If any one r... ...last or present generation, have applied themselves to the philoso phy of politics in any comprehensive spirit, have felt the importance of such a cl... ...lmost always the work of an absolute ruler, deriving his power either from religion or military prowess—very of ten from foreign arms. Again, uncivil...

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... States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...nt spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes ... ...has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and swor... ...t union will be the solid foundation of lasting peace: It will secure your religion, liberty, and property; remove the animosities amongst your- selve... ...rit of mutual amity and concord. Is it not (we may ask these projectors in politics) the true interest of all nations to cultivate the same benevolent... ...from long observation of the progress of society become a sort of axiom in politics, that vicinity or nearness of situation, constitutes nations natur... ...t circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculat...

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...The full title of this book is Bible Defense of Slavery; and Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race, by Rev. Josiah Priest, A. M. 5th edition. This is a compilation of pro-slavery literature and propaganda that went through numerous editions in the Southern United States b...

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...r a divinely-ordained, hereditary, absolute monarchy. The more influential Second Treatise outlines a theory of civil society based on natural rights and contract theory. Locke begins by describing the state of nature, and goes on to explain the hypothetical rise of property and civilization, asserting that the only legitimate governments are those which have the consent o...

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...Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's rights. Meditations From The Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart —published in 1879, shortly before her death—is a collection of those speeches as well as her mem...

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...In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nature of a Christian commonwealth. Book 3 begins with a wealth of biblical scholarship, directed ...

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...In 1623, Francis Bacon expressed his aspirations and ideas in New Atlantis. Released in 1627, this was his creation of an ideal land where people were kind, knowledgeable, and civic-minded. Part of this new land was his perfect college, a vision for our modern research univ...

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...spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the...

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...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment fil... ...charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania ... ...lication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copyright © 1998 Th... ...rmany, has stripped him of every trace of national character. Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in a... ...s of existence. When the ancient world was in its last throes, the an cient religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas succumbed i... ...idical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality philosophy, political science, and law, constantly sur...