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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...nteresting, silly, eloquent, trouble- some. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine ver- dict. ... ...nly into this or that;—it will find its level in all. Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine with- out being able to show how they follow.... ...ority of the spontane- ous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the second, but virtual and latent. We want in ... ...peration, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theo- logically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son; but which we will call here... ... differ- ently on the inside and on the outside; in its quality and in its consequences. Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets an... ...l in each place, the arrival of a gentleman of France, is an event of some consequence. Wherever he goes he pays a visit to what- ever prince or gentl... ...he astronomers were right in making much of it, for there is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself thro...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of false- hood. Never be frightened at your own f... ...self,” interposed the elder. “No matter. You are a little late. It’s of no consequence….” “I’m extremely obliged to you, and expected no less from you... ... looked at him with curios- ity. “Is that really your conviction as to the consequences of the disappearance of the faith in immortality?” the elder a... ...ry of sixty thousand. That’ s very alluring to start with, for a man of no consequence and a beggar. And, take note, he won’ t be wronging Mitya, but ... ...then not he, Ivan. This letter at once assumed in his eyes the aspect of a logical proof. There could be no longer the slight- est doubt of Mitya’s gu... ...nd. Does all that exist of itself, or is it only an emanation of myself, a logical development of my ego which alone has existed for ever: but I make ... ...to me. I told him I don’t want to keep quiet, and he talked about the geo- logical cataclysm… idiocy! Come, release the monster… he’s been singing a h... ... that son, Dmitri, about the money, the envelope, and the signals? Is that logical? Is that clear? “When the day of the murder planned by Smerdyak... ...ate, so to speak, a romance, especially if God has endowed us with psycho- logical insight. Before I started on my way here, I was warned in Petersbur...

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St Statesman

By: Plato

... regions of transcendental speculation back into the path of common sense. A logical or psy- chological phase takes the place of the doctrine of Ideas... ... ideal, in the de- lineation of which he is frequently interrupted by purely logical illustrations. The younger Socrates resembles his namesake in not... ...y the presence of Theodorus, the geometrician. There is political as well as logical insight in refusing to admit the division of mankind into Hellene... ...nd like rules might be extended to any art or science. But what would be the consequence? ‘The arts would utterly perish, and human life, which is bad... ... can tell?’ As in the Theaetetus, evil is supposed to continue,—here, as the consequence of a former state of the world, a sort of mephitic vapour exh... ...en it a single name. Whereas you would make a much better and more equal and logical classification of numbers, if you divided them into odd and even;... ...NG SOCRATES: Indeed I should. STRANGER: And there is a still more ridiculous consequence, that the king is found running about with the herd and in cl... ...hown in the previous argument. STRANGER: Thank you for reminding me; and the consequence is that any true form of government can only be supposed to b...

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Notes from the Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...idity the latter looks upon his revenge as justice pure and simple; while in consequence of his acute consciousness the mouse does not believe in the ... ...f it disgusts you to be reconciled to it; by the way of the most inevitable, logical combinations to reach the most revolting conclusions on the everl... ...t because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes ... ... be done if I have not even spite (I began with that just now, you know). In consequence again of those accursed laws of consciousness, anger in me is... ...ests they may at once become good and noble—are, in my opinion, so far, mere logical exercises! Y es, logical exercises. Why, to maintain this theory ... ...omes softer, and consequently less bloodthirsty and less fitted for warfare. Logically it does seem to follow from his arguments. But man has such a p... ...emptuously. “You thirst for life and try to settle the problems of life by a logical tangle. And how persistent, how insolent are your sallies, and at... ...ll. It is not worth while to pay attention to them for they really are of no consequence. Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that th... ... to me, tell me that, please?” I began, gasping for breath and regardless of logical connection in my words. I longed to have it all out at once, at o...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...8th day of April you have to appear at the Law Courts, as juryman, and, in consequence, can on no account accom- pany us and Kolosoff to the picture g... ... in tips during 12 years’ service. The indictment concluded as follows: In consequence of the foregoing, the peasant of the village Borki, Simeon Kart... ..., that a murder is an action which has the death of a hu- man being as its consequence, and that poisoning could 80 Resurrection therefore also be te... ...ervitude in Siberia, Kartinkin for eight, Maslova for four years, with the consequences stated in Statute 25 of the code. The meschanka Botchkova, 43 ... ...al personal and acquired rights, and to be imprisoned for three years with consequences in accord with Statute 48 of the code. The costs of the case t... ...of his views did make everything seem simple and clear. One only had to be logical, as he said. His self- assurance was so great that it either repell...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...e that fiery which before seem’d earth (Conquering those things of highest consequence, What’s difficult of language or of sense), He will appear some... ...kind may agree in reason with the contrary of the other, it must follow by consequence that the other contrary must answer to the remanent opposite to... ...ave the 60 Gargantua & Pantagruel same connection, for vice is evil. This logical rule being understood, take these two con- traries, joy and sadness... ... go so far on that it may thereby be deprived of its nourish- ment, and by consequence of life itself, by this perichary or extremity of gladness, as ... ...de in modo et figura. For lo, to this end serve the suppositions and parva logicalia. Pannus, pro quo supponit? Confuse, said Bandouille, et distribut... ...y the damned souls. By St. T reignan! said Ponocrates, then by nec- essary consequence he shall pass there. Yes, yes, said Gymnastes, or I shall stick... ...ia, inspire me at this time, re- store unto me my spirits; for this is the logical bridge of asses! Here is the pitfall, here is the difficulty , to h... ... had your eyes in your head, or I am very much out of my understanding and logical sense. It is a gallant thing to see the clearness of (wine, gold,) ... ... the speech of others, I will from that antecedent bring you to infer very logically a most absurd and paradoxi- cal conclusion. But let it pass; I wi...

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A Treatise on Parents and Children

By: George Bernard Shaw

...compels us to ac- cept it from those adults among whom political and theo- logical discussion does as a matter of fact lead to the drawing of knives a... ...ry day at marriages or financial specula- tions that may involve far worse consequences than burnt fingers. And just as it is part of the business of ... ...n dealing with children what is needed is not logic but sense. There is no logical reason why young persons should be allowed greater control of their... ...erty the day after they are twenty-one than the day before it. There is no logical reason why I, who strongly object to an adult stand- ing over a boy... ...ners, and practice on his docility to make him learn them. And there is no logical reason why I should do for a child a great many little offices, som... ...e cannot break up the facts of kinship nor eradicate its natural emotional consequences. What we can do and ought to do is to set people free to behav...

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Phaedo

By: Plato

...ser heads than his own; he prefers to test ideas by the consistency of their consequences, and, if asked to give an account of them, goes back to some... ...ting the whole human race into heaven or hell for the greater convenience of logical division? Are we not at the same time describing them both in sup... ...mould human thought, Plato naturally cast his belief in immortal ity into a logical form. And when we consider how much the doctrine of ideas was als... ...ly verbal, and is but the expression of an instinctive confidence put into a logical form:—’The soul is immortal because it con tains a principle of ... ... in the Republic, a system of ideas, tested, not by experience, but by their consequences, and not explained by actual causes, but by a higher, that i... ...pro ceed from the less general to the more general, and are tested by their consequences; the puzzle about greater and less; the resort to the method... ...es, he said. And can all this be true, think you? he said; for these are the consequences which seem to follow from the assump tion that the soul is ... ...e in the best of the higher; but you would not confuse the principle and the consequences in your reasoning, like the Eristics—at least if you wanted ...

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The Doctors Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

By: George Bernard Shaw

...nd he does so not only with impunity, but with public applause, though the logical course would be to prosecute him either for the mur- der of his own... ...man, employ incendiaries to set it on fire, with a heroic disregard of the consequences to myself and others? Any vivisector would, if he had the cour... ...he evolution- ists; and when it is considered how completely obsessed bio- logical science has become in our days, not by the full scope of evolution,... ...rding to their folly, promising miracles, and threatening hideous personal consequences of neglect of by-laws and the like; therefore it will be impor...

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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...chievousness, cruelty, and utter incapacity for sympathy as the inevitable consequence of his magnificent bodily and mental health. In short, though m... ...ild and Siegfried. He would certainly not have thought this a matter of no consequence had he finished the whole work ten years ear- lier. It must alw... ...ed into the key of actual life Night Falls On The Gods would have been the logical con- summation of Das Rheingold and The Valkyrie instead of the ope... ... exactly as we deify the creative force of the universe, by attributing to logical design what is the result of blind instinct. What Wagner meant by “... ...sign in this respect. Thus the second stave is usually a perfectly obvious consequence of the first; and the third and fourth an exact or very slightl... ...of the theme is an intel- 96 The Perfect Wagnerite ligent and interesting consequence of the recurrence of the dramatic phenomenon which it denotes. ... ...from the first note to the last as the untrammelled themes of The Ring. In consequence, it used to be professorially demanded that all dramatic music ...

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Ana Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...sisted in upholding the statements obtained by the revising commission. In consequence of 24 Anna Karenina – Part Four this, in the higher spheres, a... ...you know, when you grasp this fully, then somehow everything becomes of no consequence. When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, ... ...lligent people that after enormous efforts, and an enormous expenditure of logical subtleties and words, the disputants finally arrived at being aware... ...hand, mo- tionless, thinking. “Of course,” he said to himself, as though a logical, continuous, and clear chain of reasoning had brought him to an ind...

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Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...uld be proved he could not tell, but he knew that this would inevitably be logically proved to him, and he awaited the proofs. The argument turned out... ...suit of my public duties.” Official duties, which had always been of great consequence in Alexey Alexandrovitch’s eyes, seemed of special importance t... ...toy in the world that she enjoyed, and that had seemed to her of so little consequence in the morning, that this position was precious to her, that sh... ...d in- vited, and whom she had forgotten, was, however, a personage of such consequence that, in spite of his youth, both the ladies rose on his entran... ... affair and his leaving Moscow, had given up sending him the money. And in consequence of this, Vronsky, who had been in the habit of living on the sc... ...hey?” Anna said, restraining her tears, and obviously attaching no sort of consequence to what he said. She felt that her fate was sealed. 98 Anna Ka... ... those people, always a source of wonder to Levin, whose convictions, very logical though never original, go one way by themselves, while their life, ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: “Y ou’ll die... ... his success and at the inability of others to understand these things. In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all his relations w... ...field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he pun- ishes us all, isn’t it logical? “This is the first act. Those that follow are naturally increas- i...

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The Doctors Dilemma

By: George Bernard Shaw

...lacing them I put Ridgeon’s tube where Muldooley’s ought to have been. The consequence was that I inoculated the typhoid case for tetanus and the teta... ...ur sake. Sir Colenso Ridgeon will be in his proper place, in the bacterio- logical laboratory. I shall be in my proper place, at the bed- side. Your h...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio]

By: Dante Aligheri

...nown to thee.” 1 The virtuous Heathen did not possess the so-called theo- logical virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity; but they prac- ticed the four ... ...e He who discerns everything scourges you. 20 These examples of the fatal consequences of the sin. CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO XV O XV O XV O XV O XV ....

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E. M. Forster

...e will not trouble her with them.” Philip saw that his mother was scarcely logical. But there was no advantage in saying so. “Here beginneth the New L... ... sharpness. After all, if she would reveal her thoughts, she must take the consequences. “I know you did,” she retorted with equal sharp- ness. “Lilia...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...flee from the field,” and the like. But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their act... ...y were to be interrogated. 195 HenryDavidThoreau Some minds are as little logical or argumentative as na ture; they can offer no reason or “guess,” ...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...t all changes which may hazard a diminu- tion of the power, emolument, and consequence of the of- fices they hold under the State establishments; and ... ...f my next address. Publius. *The same idea, tracing the arguments to their consequences, is held out in several of the late publications against the n... ... reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their ... ...the dictates of personal interest, but others, from a mistaken estimate of consequences, or the undue influence of former attachments, or whose am- bi... ...t to expect that they should regard our advancement in union, in power and consequence by land and by sea, with an eye of indifference and composure. ... ...of the States will be a majority of confederated America. But this kind of logical legerdemain will never counteract the plain suggestions of justice ...

...you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United 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...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...- plish a change in their attitude and habits is too urgent to leave these consequences wholly out of account. Since our chief business with them is t... ...thing to which he is naturally inclined by arous- ing fear of disagreeable consequences if he persists. But 31 John Dewey he may be left in the posit... ...m has no means of foreseeing their outcome. If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of under- standing what he is t... ... some cases, it is well to permit him to experi- ment, and to discover the consequences for himself in order that he may act intelligently next time u... ...d with its first systematic exposition. 2 This conception is, of course, a logical correlate of the conceptions of the external relation of stimulus a... ...y stage short of attainment of this goal is merely an unfolding toward it. Logically the 61 John Dewey doctrine is only a variant of the preparation ... ...with rigid ad- herence to their past customs. On such a basis it is wholly logical to fear intercourse with others, for such contact might dissolve cu... ...upposed) except the acknowledgment of duty or the value of discipline. The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American ... ...nt is developed below in a discussion of what are termed psychological and logical methods respectively. See p. 219. 188 Democracy & Education Chapte...

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Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

By: John Stuart Mill

...utility of the theory implied in these and similar phrases, was an obvious consequence from the speculations of writ- ers even anterior to Mr. Ricardo... ...nterior to that of cost of production, and from which this last flows as a consequence,—namely, the prin- ciple of demand and supply. In order to appl... ...e same as before. Or it may not diminish it at all, or so little, that, in consequence of the higher price, a greater money value will be purchased th... ...consumers of linen, who pay a higher price for that imported commodity, in consequence of the tax on our exports, which at the same time they, in cons... ...ual to what its price without the duty was at first, it is not a necessary consequence that the fall will stop; for the same amount of exportation as ... ...hat the definition of a science would occupy the same place in the chrono- logical which it commonly does in the didactic order. As a treatise on any ... ... definition of the science itself as should not be liable to well-grounded logical objections. From this remark, we cannot except the authors of eleme... ...itical Economy has remained des- titute of a definition framed on strictly logical principles, or even of, what is more easily to be had, a definition... ... one cause, a knowledge of the law of that cause would, unless there was a logical error in our reasoning, en- able us confidently to predict all the ...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...Fettercairn, one of the Bar ons of the Exchequer in Scotland, and was, in consequence, sent to the University of Edinburgh, at the expense of a fund ... ... expression on the other), and had re duced it to rules, grounded on the logical analysis of a sen tence. These rules he strongly impressed upon me... ...e as anyone that Christians do not, in general, undergo the de moralizing consequences which seem inherent in such a creed, in the manner or to the e... ...eory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logical conse quences of the theory. Such is the facility with which man ... ...other, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recom mended to them by their feelings, that multit... ... fact. This point in my early education had, however, incidentally one bad consequence deserving notice. In giving me an opinion contrary to that of t... ...er, my father put into my hands Condillac’s Traité des Sensations, and the logical and meta physical volumes of his Cours d’Etudes; the first (notwi... ...ervice to me, by compelling precision in conceiving and expressing psycho logical doctrines, whether accepted as truths or only regarded as the opini... ...a desire to promote the exercise of other mental faculties than the purely logical, he advised me to make my next exercise in composition one of the o...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

... what things are fit to be done by a government. And it seems to me that, in consequence of this absence of rule or principle, one side is at present ... ... of our life to suit our own character; of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow; without impediment from our fellow creatures,... ... any one’s persuasion may be, not only of the falsity, but of the pernicious consequences—not only of the pernicious conse quences, but (to adopt exp... ...he enemies of religious freedom, when hard pressed, occasionally accept this consequence, and say, with Dr. Johnson, that the persecutors of Christian... ...e internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent in tellects who once adorned the thinking world. The... ...the part of heretics is no evil, should consider in the first place, that in consequence of it there is never any fair and thorough discussion of here... ...tion to slavery. What is called Christian, but should rather be termed theo logical, morality , was not the work of Christ or the Apostles, but is of...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

... it depends solely on the proportion of the sexes in the population. If in consequence of a great war three-quarters of the men in this country were k... ...premium on want of self-respect in certain very important matters; and the consequence is that we are very badly gov- erned and are, on the whole, an ... ... instincts put together. The process may be pleasant and romantic; but the consequences are not. It would be far better for everyone, as well as far h... ...ot. By all means let it be the subject of contracts with society as to its consequences; but to make marriage an open trade in it as at present, with ... ...enslaved by one another. 38 Shaw THE ECONOMIC SLAVERY OF WOMEN One of the consequences of basing marriage on the consid- erations stated with cold ab... ...sonably be made the last, or wholly excluded. The present law is perfectly logical only if you once admit (as no decent person ever does) its fundamen...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

...ial. Their world consists of “events,” from which “matter” is derived by a logical construction. Whoever reads, for example, Professor Eddington’s “Sp... ...what Meinong calls the act in thinking is not empirically discoverable, or logically de- ducible from what we can observe. The next point of criticism... ...ain es- sential relation to the past event which it remembers. There is no logical objection to this theory, but there is the objection, which we spok... ...f the hysteric or lunatic can be made to face the facts about himself. The consequence of this is that the treatment of many forms of insanity has gro... ...m conscious- ness), hence we try to explain censorship along ordinary bio- logical lines. We believe that one group of habits can ‘down’ another group... ... acting with- out foresight in a manner which is usually advantageous bio- logically. It is partly for this reason that it is so important to understa... ... out, very truly, that the same stimulus, repeated, does not have the same consequences, and he argues that this is contrary to the maxim, “same cause... ... single observer. It changed after the publication of his “Psychology,” in consequence of his abandoning the dualism of thought and things. Dunlap sum... ...ittle help: it is necessary to construct hypotheses and test them by their consequences, just as we do in physical science. Introspection, therefore, ...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...hich are most strongly evident in the art of De Maupassant. We now see the consequences which were inevitable by reason of them, endowed as Maupassant... ...e exact still because the half-civilized person is often impulsive and, in consequence, the physical easily predominates. There, as elsewhere, the deg... ...angerous pessimism that pervades some of his later work. This was partly a consequence of his honesty and partly of mental despair. He never accepted ... ...ection of proper names, or of verbs, or of numbers, or merely of dates, in consequence of an accident. The localization of all the avenues of thought ... ...ng, delicate hands of a sensual prelate—and exclaimed: “That is absolutely logical, and I should like to be in their place.” 201 Selected Writings TH... ... illness was, and were told that she had been in bed for fifteen years, in consequence of terrible grief. No doubt they did not believe it, and though... ... * “It would be useless to enter into all the psycho- 220 De Maupassant logical details which marked the course of my pas- sion for the Countess, a...

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Best of Four

By: David Retz

... because of this. They don’t care what they do, nor do they care about the consequences. I believe that because my mom was there, she taught me the th... ...as and statistics have come from is an act of plagiarism. Serious academic consequences can result from such behavior, and it is a federal crime to co... ...rents that the police cited me for underage drinking. I never knew all the consequences of drinking and I chose the wrong way to find them out. I’m no... ... I’m not sure I could have handled. The campus was notified, adding to the consequences I had to accept. Even though we were caught off campus, the ca... ...Segments, whether sec- tions or paragraphs, are fully developed and follow logically from what precedes them. Headings and subheadings are appropri- a... ... has an effective introduction and conclusion. The order of information is logical, and the reader can follow it because of well-chosen transitions. P... ... can follow it because of well-chosen transitions. Paragraph divisions are logical, and the paragraphs use enough specific detail to make their point ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...not take her father away before the fifteenth, he could not answer for the consequences. The princess decided to leave on the fifteenth. The cares of ... ...er because Napoleon had a bad cold on the twenty-fourth of August may seem logical and convincing. If it had depended on Napoleon’s will to fight or n... ...sh, bleeding from the mortal wound it had received at Borodino. The direct consequence of the battle of Borodino was Napoleon’s senseless flight from ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...d all sorts of reasons for this deci- sion. A whole serics of sensible and logical considerations showing it to be essential for him to go to Petersbu... ...He did not even remember how formerly, on the strength of similar wretched logical arguments, it had seemed obvious that he would be degrading himself... ...t such moments he was particularly cold, stern, and above all unpleasantly logical. “My dear,” Princess Mary entering at such a moment would say, “lit... ...ed his weak, human, unheroic sides; but as it was, Speranski’s strange and logical turn of mind inspired him with respect all the more because he did ... ... of a satirist, and laugh ironically at his op- ponents; now grow severely logical, or suddenly rise to the realm of metaphysics. (This last resource ... ...; he was not thinking about her, but only picturing her to himself, and in consequence all life ap- peared in a new light. “Why do I strive, why do I ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ce—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the Russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more rapid retreat. Austrian troops ... ...soldiers have to be incited to battle by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical ar- guments to show them that it is more dangerous to run away than... ...here was no answer to any of these questions, ex- cept one, and that not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: “Y ou’ll die... ... his success and at the inability of others to understand these things. In consequence of this discov- ery his whole manner of life, all his relations... ...e field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, isn’t it logical? “This is the first act. Those that follow are naturally increasing... ...reasons for 238 War & Peace this decision. A whole serics of sensible and logical con- siderations showing it to be essential for him to go to Peters... ...e did not even remember how formerly , on the strength of similar wretched logical arguments, it had seemed obvious that he would be de- grading himse... ...he was not thinking about her, but only pictur- ing her to himself, and in consequence all life appeared in a new light. “Why do I strive, why do I to... ...s incapable of considering how his actions might affect others or what the consequences of this or that action of his might be. He was convinced that,...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...s not been ad- hered to with strictness. Anything approaching to a chrono- logical arrangement was entirely lost sight of. Late Medina Suras are often... ..., p. 60, lii. 29, p. 64)–the first emigration to Abyssinia in A.D. 616, in consequence of the Meccan perse- cutions brought on by his now open attacks... ...ttin, fol. 57, where we read of the sufferings drawn down upon the Jews in consequence of the former of these crimes. 8 That is, if ye return to sin,... ...On that day thou shalt see the impious alarmed at their own works, and the consequence thereof shall fall upon them: but they who believe and do the t... ...anation. I have adopted that given by Freytag in v. That the calf lowed in consequence of Sama‰l having entered into it, is one of the traditions of t... ... Houd. 8 That is, Sandhills; at Taief, to which Muhammad had re- tired in consequence of the opposition, etc., of the Meccans. Verses 20-31 are proba...

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A Theologico-Political Treatise Part 1 Chapters I to V Baruch Spinoza a Theologico-Political Treatise Part 1 Chapters I to V

By: R. H. M. Elwes

... the evils which generally follow therefrom, in ad- dition to such further consequences as might accrue to the Jews in particular from the ruin of the... ... intellectual axioms – that is, by the mere power of the understanding and logical order, and this is especially the case in spiritual matters which h... ...rather than deduce their conclusion from a few axioms, and set them out in logical order. (69) Whence it follows, that if anyone wishes to teach a doc... ...eople, who form the majority of mankind, and he will not set them forth in logical sequence nor adduce the definitions which serve to establish them. ...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...development of an Idea. He conceived the changes in the world as forming a logical development, in which one phase passes by revolution into another, ... ...n. If anywhere they unite to form more compact bodies, this is not yet the consequence of their own active union, but of the union of the bourgeoisie,... ...ations, intermediate ranks between rich and poor, instead of the clear-cut logical antith- esis between the workers who have nothing and the capital- ... ... a word, war and conquest, with the gods successively created by the theo- logical fantasy of nations. It has been from its origin, and it remains sti... ... the State as a capitalist institu- tion is peculiarly true in America. In consequence of the scan- dals thus arising, the Federal Government appointe... ...ernment are evils which must be abolished if freedom is our goal. But this consequence, true or false, cannot be proved so simply. In this chapter we ...

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Boyhood

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...Katenka on the subject, since a certain practical instinct, opposed to all logical reasoning, warned me that, right though she possibly was, I should ... ...isement at the police-station. Nevertheless, these faults of his and their consequences only served to elevate him in Masha’s eyes, and to increase he...

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

...nd powerful, in fact all the qualities resulting from strength, and that, in consequence, all forces which tend to promote or elevate life have been s... ...spirit of gravity, and all that it created: con- straint, law, necessity and consequence and purpose and will and good and evil:— For must there not b... ...rom their flock, and his lectures at the University of Bale were deserted in consequence; but it was not until 1879, when he finally severed all conne... ...ising soci- ety to a higher level and preached the profoundest Opti- mism in consequence. Chapter XLII. Redemption ZARATHUSTRA HERE ADDRESSES cripples... ...crifice something to us—His only begotten Son. Such a process carried to its logical conclusions must ultimately end in His own destruction, and thus ...

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The Witch and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...ime went on, the old lady lost the use of her legs and took to her bed. In consequence of which event the house was left without a woman to look after... ...turn him into a servant for some Captain Kopeikin or midshipman Dirka! How logical!” “It’s not hard work, Pavel Ivanitch. Y ou get up in the morn- ing... ... world the truth to their faces; and he had a great deal to put up with in consequence.” Pavel Ivanitch was exhausted with talking and gasped for brea...

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