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...here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time...

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...MAN AND SUPERMAN A Comedy and a Philosophy by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ... opportunity university. 3 Man & Superman MAN AND SUPERMAN A COMEDY AND A PHILOSOPHY by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALK... ...nant observations and demonstrations of life are not co-ordinated into any philosophy or religion: on the contrary, Dickens’s sentimental assumptions ... ... hear that, Henry? STRAKER. I’ve heard my sister say so. She was cook in a Jewish family once. MENDOZA. I could not deny it; neither could I eradicate...

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...This reading is in Hebrew. Der Judenstaat (German, The Jewish State) is a book written by Theodor Herzl and published in 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung. It was originally called Address to the Rothschilds referring to the Rothschild family ba...

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...tempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. The Republic is the centre around which the other Dialogues may... ...public is the centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attaine... ...to. The 3 greatest of all logical truths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose sight, the difference be tween words and t... ...e included an ideal history of Athens, as well as a political and physical philosophy. The fragment of the Critias has given birth to a world famous f... ...some elements of Plato remain still unde tected in Aristotle. In English philosophy too, many affini ties may be traced, not only in the works of t... ..., are most naturally represented in the form of the State? Just as in the Jewish prophets the reign of Messiah, or “the day of the Lord,” or the suff...

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...d, not with the original Sophist, but with the soph- istry of the schools of philosophy , which are mak- ing reasoning impossible; and is driven by th... ...onscious of the realities of human life. Yet the ideal glory of the Platonic philosophy is not 4 Statesman extinguished. He is still looking for a ci... ...er but with the animals, they had em- ployed these advantages with a view to philosophy , gathering from every nature some addition to their store of ... ...re was little or nothing in the space between them. Thus there is a basis of philosophy , on which the improb- abilities of the tale may be said to re... ...nform exactly to the same pattern. We do not find perfect consistency in his philosophy; and still less have we any right to demand this of him in his... ...n another question of great inter- est—the consciousness of evil—what in the Jewish Scriptures is called ‘eating of the tree of the knowl- edge of goo...

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... my soul if you like. And if you don’t want to, don’t, damn you! That’s my philosophy. Ivan talked well here yesterday, though we were 159 Dostoevsky... ...itary existence there. He was a good scholar who had gained distinction in philosophy in the uni- versity. Something made him take a fancy to Markel, ... ...r watch which had long ceased to go. He snatched it up and carried it to a Jewish watch maker who had a shop in the market-place. The Jew gave him six... ... had made merry there. All the girls who had come had been there then; the Jewish band with fiddles and zithers had come, too, and at last the long ex... ...e a pain in my forehead… and in the top of my head… only please don’t talk philosophy, as you did last time. If you can’t take yourself off, talk of s... ...ng fine. That’s a great pity, for I only give what I can—” “Don’t talk philosophy, you ass!” “Philosophy , indeed, when all my right side is n... ...ou are rubbish, you are my fancy!” “Well, if you like, I have the same philosophy as you, that would be true. Je pense, donc je suis,* I know that...

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...he higher one of science, in the spirit of one who desires to include in his philosophy every aspect of human life; just as he recognizes the existenc... ...t of the affinities of nature (ate tes thuseos oles suggenous ouses). Modern philosophy says that all things in nature are de pendent on one another;... ...Laches, to the transcendentalism of Plato, who, in the sec ond stage of his philosophy , sought to find the nature of knowledge in a prior and future... ...s silent about them. This is the spirit of idealism, which in the history of philosophy has had many names and taken many forms, and has in a measure ... ...le of explanation. And yet, if there are no universal ideas, what becomes of philosophy? (Parmenides.) In the Sophist the theory of ideas is spoken of... ...nd Parmenides. The teach ing of Spinoza might be described generally as the Jewish religion reduced to an abstraction and taking the form of the Elea...

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...therto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theo... ...sh culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this, not Philosophy of Clothes, but recognition even that we have no such Philosophy... ...st months, did the above very plain considerations, on our total want of a Philosophy of Clothes, occur to him; and then, by quite foreign sugges- tio... ... and will exalt the almost new name of Teufelsdrockh to the first ranks of Philosophy, in our Ger- man Temple of Honor.” Mindful of old friendship, th... ...eliber- ate inspection, it became apparent that here a quite new Branch of Philosophy, leading to as yet undescried ulte- rior results, was disclosed;... ...om Old Clothes are not venerable. Watch, too, with reverence, that bearded Jewish High- priest, who with hoarse voice, like some Angel of Doom, summon... ...potted from the world. “They have their Temples, whereof the chief, as the Jewish Temple did, stands in their metropolis; and is named Almack’s, a wor... ...Fire-balls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this a...

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...dow of change among its members. This is what the New Testament, a code of philosophy fertile in new ideas, first introduced under the name of scandal... ...mise—except that the sleeves are want- ing; and during the first period of Jewish history, it was prob- ably worn as the sole under-garment by women o... ...worn by the Hebrew women in all ages; and in the flourishing period of the Jewish kingdom, probably by men: and so essential an ornament were they dee... ...doubtful. In a later age, as we collect from the Thalmud, Part VI. 43, the Jewish ladies wore gold or silver pendants, of which the upper part was sha... ...ff upon the face. That the nose-ring possessed no unimportant place in the Jewish toilette, is evident, from its being ranked, during the nomadic stat... .... xli. 2.] Under these circumstances, we should naturally presume that the Jewish courtezans, in the cities of Palestine, would not omit so conspicuou... ...te the objections, and then as briefly reply to them, by exposing the true philosophy of Milton’s practice. For we are very sure that, in doing as he ... ...he antagonist pole to the sin and misery of social man. Such is the covert philosophy which governs Milton’s prac- tice, and which might be illustrate... ... 1832 1832 H ISTORY IS SOMETIMES treated under the splendid conception of ‘philosophy teaching by example,’ and sometimes as an ‘old almanac;’ and, ag...

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...d never occurred to me as a possible one; I had rather feared, whenever my Jewish friends scrutinised me keenly, that I might be too well known to be ... ...e on which he wished me to write verses. On reading the letters, one of my Jewish friends agreed to furnish me with two or three hundred pounds on my ... ... when I am oppressed by anxieties that 39 Thomas de Quincey demand all my philosophy and the comfort of thy presence to support, and yet remember tha... ... the gentlemen in the cotton trade 15 at Manchester in affecting the Stoic philosophy, but not in this. Here I take the liberty of an Eclectic philoso... ...nd starts, or fragmentary efforts. Mathematics, for instance, intellectual philosophy, &c,, were all become in- supportable to me; I shrunk from them ...

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...matter of our personalities in space and time. Human analysis probing with philosophy and science towards the V eiled Being reveals nothing of God, re... ... of him, or reading in a blind, industrious way that strange miscellany of Jewish and early Christian literature, the Bible, and suchlike mental morti... ... in which, writing as one without authority or specialisation in logic and philosophy, as an ordinary man vividly interested, for others in a like cas... ...hanges. When he comes from his own world of modern biology to religion and philosophy he goes back in time. He attacks religion as he understood it wh... ..., after all the flat repudiations that have preceded it of “religion” and “philosophy” as remedies for human ills, is nothing less than the fundamenta... ...ate the modern outlook on life. Certainly modern culture—science, history, philosophy, and art—finds no purpose in life: that is to say, no purpose et...

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...women and boys with gauds and toys— I warrant thee store of shekels in thy Jewish scrap.” “Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a halfling—so help me... ...ow it in the like circumstances. The evening was now becoming dark, when a Jewish ser- vant entered the apartment, and placed upon the table two silve... ... hand the whilst. What, Isaac! thou must bear a conscience, though it be a Jewish one.” “Nay, but,” said Isaac, “thy master has won goodly steeds and ... ...ced upon the ground, beside which sat a young woman, richly dressed in the Jewish fashion, while an old man, whose yellow cap proclaimed him to belong... ...present, while the apathy of his companion served, instead of patience and philosophy, to defend him against every thing save the inconvenience of the... ...thought instead to pay me the ransom thou hast promised, or woe betide thy Jewish throat!” “Robber and villain!” said the Jew, retorting the insults o...

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...x- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every phi... ...- eral politics (meaning by general not personal politics) and with social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political ... ...d from the labor as too overwhelmingly exacting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of that man 80 “myriad-minded,” and of that century... ...anch of study, the points are so many at which theol- ogy inosculates with philosophy, and with endless casual and random suggestions of the self-prom... ...o some new mode of hope- ful existence, through intercourse with religious philosophy. What vast revolutions (vast for the individual) within how narr... ... that is, a born gentleman, speaks of bankers as we in England should of a Jewish usurer, or tricking money- changer. The liberal trades, such as thos... ...that God should vindicate by some memorable interference, since of all the Jewish institutions it was that one which only and which frequently became ... ...ns) entirely from their Chaldean captivity. Not before that great event in Jewish history, and, therefore, in consequence of that event, were the Jews... ...ugh that book is doubtful as to its chronology), and the chronicles of the Jewish kings (Ju- daic or Israelitish), that we first find any allusion to ...

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...ve its ideal or perfect state. Really, gentlemen, I beg pardon for so much philosophy at one time, and now let me apply it. When a murder is in the pa... ...to. Murdratus est, says the sublimer dialect of Gothic ages. Meantime, the Jewish, school of murder kept alive what- ever was yet known in the art, an... ...the art, and gradually transferred it to 16 the Western World. Indeed the Jewish school was always re- spectable, even in the dark ages, as the case ... ...ife at- tempted, rest assured there is nothing in him; and against Locke’s philosophy in particular, I think it an unanswerable objection (if we neede... ...hat if these Friezland hounds had been “game,” we should have no Cartesian philosophy; and how we could have done without that, considering the worlds... ...e said,— ”Dogs, you cannot cut my throat, for you carry Des Cartes and his philosophy,” and might safely have defied them to do their worst. A German ... ...sessors, and the business of the evening proceeded. The next toast was—The Jewish Sicarii. Upon which I made the following explanation to the com- pan...

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...books of every kind, feeding indiscriminately on religious works, history, philosophy, and physics. He has told me that he found indescribable delight... ...bert would leave it at the end of 1814, when he had finished the course of Philosophy. I doubt whether dur- ing the whole time he ever heard a word of... ... as third and second; and the first class comprised the senior students—of philosophy, rhetoric, the higher mathematics, and chemistry. Each of these ... ...hapel he was equally apt to think of God or to meditate on some problem of philosophy. To him Jesus Christ was the most perfect type of his sys- tem. ... ...mely witty; Bossuet and Pascal, incomparable in argument. A pro- fessor of philosophy may make a name by explaining how Plato is Platonic. Another dis... ... ness than those offered by money. Her features were of the purest type of Jewish beauty; the oval lines, so noble and maidenly, have an indescribable...

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...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... ...rom the period of the Polish emigration. “What can I do for you?” said the Jewish doctor, “for I see you are not ill.” And he fixed on his visitor a l... ...hey lift her with pulleys.” “You are not a physician, I suppose?” said the Jewish doc- tor, with a singular grimace which made his face appear more wi... ...rful, refused to fetch him. Godefroid now gave her a minute account of the Jewish doctor and his study; of which she knew nothing, for Mon- sieur Bern... ...gthened during the night, the thermometer mark- ing ten degrees of it. The Jewish doctor examined with curious eyes, though fur- tively, the room in w... ..., “you say you will answer for the cure?” “I will answer for it,” said the Jewish doctor. “Are you in love with the lady?” “No,” replied Godefroid. “Y...

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...east, and many for half an hour longer. There was no rigorous and pedantic Jewish superstition about the exact limits of Sunday. At the very worst, th... ...anguage as not to know, that (except in the merely historical parts of the Jewish records) every section of time has a secret and separate acceptation... ...owever, is right in a graver reflection which he makes upon the prevailing philosophy of Swift, viz., that ‘all his views were directed towards what w... ... mons, for seeking refuge in a literal dinner from the oppres- sion of his philosophy. This was, perhaps, in part a scoff of his opponents. Yet there ... ...e read of his attempt to introduce the no- tion of negative greatness into Philosophy. Negative greatness! What strange bird may that be? Is it the or... ...rence is evidently to Kant’s essay upon the advantages of introducing into philosophy the algebraic idea of negative quantities. It is one of Kant’s g... ... satisfied was derived originally the German re- generation of the Dynamic philosophy, its expansion through the idea of polarity, indifference, &c. O...

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...e? One could admit science in that larger sense that sweeps in History, or Philosophy. Beyond that whatever work there is is work for which men are pa... ...ter a large and serious movement through his mind he came back to Science, Philosophy or Politics as the sole three justifications for the usurpation ... ...e for any departmentalized subject, and equally he felt no natural call to philosophy. He was left with politics…. “Or else, why shouldn’t I go down t... ...hovels…. W andering wise man with a roll- ing eye, a fakir under a tree, a Jewish sheik, an Arab epilep- tic….” “Would you sweep away the experience o... ...a gathering-place for mischief. The extremest case of race- feeling is the Jewish case, and even here, I am convinced, it is the Bible and the Talmud ... ...ourt that had become the refuge of a crowd of fugitives. Some of the young Jewish men had al- ready been making a fight, rather a poor and hopeless fi... ...- able German. It was a discourse upon the wrongs and the greatness of the Jewish people—and it was delivered by a compact middle-aged man with a big ... ...s a discourse Benham had provoked. For now he was at the very heart of the Jewish question, and he could get some light upon the mystery of this great... ...ulling down and try- ing again. Hope and disappointments and much need for philosophy…. I see myself now for the little workman I am upon this tremend...

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...e public amusements, as the Carnival, &c.—nothing was overlooked. He saw a Jewish child cir- cumcised, and wrote down a most minute account of the ope... ...se at the first occasion; and that this was the real object and aim of all philosophy. He then took my hand, and continued: “Brother, friend, there ar... ...noth- ing which has been written or been laid down, even in the schools of philosophy, respecting the sacred duties and rights of friendship, could gi... ... TO DIE O DIE O DIE O DIE O DIE CICERO SAYS—[Tusc., i. 31.]—”that to study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.” The reason of whic... ...orant vulgar, 161 Montaigne and make them perfect in things which all the philosophy in the world could never beat into the heads of the wisest men? ... ... “Odi ignava opera, philosopha sententia.” [“I hate men who jabber about philosophy, but do noth- ing.”—Pacuvius, ap Gellium, xiii. 8.] For what con...

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...n. In the real circumstances of the Christian church, when struggling with Jewish persecution at some period of the generation between the crucifixion... ...rsery audience, he did not pursue. For some time he turned his thoughts to philosophy, and read lectures to us every night upon some branch or other o... ...nded at last to join us; but there ended the course of lectures on natural philosophy. As it was impossible, however, that he should remain quiet, he ... ... Edinburgh. Lord Monboddo himself trod an eccentric path in literature and philosophy; and our tutor, who spent his whole life in reading, withdrawing... ...eems rea- sonable; but then also, which is intolerable, every Arminian. Is philosophy able to account for this morbid affection, and particularly when... ...most eminent Frenchmen at that time who cultivated literature jointly with philosophy. Voltaire, Diderot, Maupertuis, Condorcet, and D’Alembert had al... ...ance words, is not, as some readers may fancy, an old, obsolete, or merely Jewish form of seeking the divine pleasure. About a century ago, a man so f... ... title to their robes, (for which I could not help wishing that a party of Jewish old clothes men would at this moment have appeared, and made a loud ...

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...and motors. He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blodgett College, and a Doctor of Philosophy in econom- ics of Yale. He was the employment-manager and public... ...perous grocer, one a Yankee carpenter, one a soda-clerk, and one a Russian Jewish actor The Russian Jew quoted Kautsky, Gene Debs, and Abraham Lincoln... ...timistic lecturer and the creator of “Ads that Add.” Despite the searching philosophy and high morality of his verses, they were humorous and easily u... ...One the other day about a coupla Swedes and their wives,” and, in the best Jewish accent, he resolutely carried the Good One to a slightly disinfected... ...randams swung their legs in the more elementary cho- rus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of Jews. In the entr’actes they met other ... ...oker of the Men’s Club of the Chatham Road presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dia- lect stories. But in nothing was he more clearly r... ...but also much duller were the minor classes which were being instructed in philosophy and Oriental ethnology by earnest spinsters. Most of them met in... ...ainted pictures, and gentlemanliness, were now buying a refined ready-made philosophy. It had been a toss-up with them whether to buy New Thought, Chr... ...ns which depended upon them for mortgage-loans, table-manners, art, social philosophy and millinery. To the League belonged most of the prosperous cit...