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...nificant contributing factors, but we must also look at the entire world around us. We must examine our different societies, human behaviors, and all of humanity. The purpose of this book is to have you ask a variety of engaging questions, both of yourself and about the world around you. I want to help you explore the deeper questions so you can find answers that will ult...

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...Chapter One: Changes Occurring in the Fractionalized World of Today Threshold I feel that something is happening worldwide. I believe that we now stand at the “threshold” of current society and maybe even the future of our species. Is this a new dawn, or the end? Some changes a...

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...Contents Introduction Chapter One: Changes Occurring in the Fractionalized World of Today Threshold Edge of a Frightening and Unknown World Changing World—Change, Flexibility, and Adaptability History Repeated Changing World: Beginning or End? Actions in Our Shrinking World Cultural Interaction F...

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...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its mani...

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...CATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...horough and judicial inquiry into the merits of many, if not all, forms of religion, an investigation which has never been made, and from the nature o... ...embodied their “taboos,” their incantations, their habits and customs into religions and stat- utes. A law was only a codification of a habit or custo... ...owledge may have somewhat soft- ened the language of vengeance, still both religion and the law have found their chief justification for punishment in... ...they live. Few of them have much knowledge of biology, of psy- chology, of sociology, or even of history. One curse of our political life comes from t...

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... had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in ...

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...Table of Contents: Part I 1 -- Chapter 1, 1 -- Chapter 2, 3 -- Chapter 3, 6 -- Chapter 4, 9 -- Chapter 5, 13 -- Chapter 6, 20 -- Chapter 7, 23 -- Chapter 8, 24 -- Chapter 9, 27 -- Chapter 10, 32 -- Chapter 11, 38 -- Chapter 12, 42 ...

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...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...hree days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every pers... ...ance in any inn had more in com mon with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her ... ... nature. The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the peo... ...tions as to the origin of man as an animal, as to reflex action, biology, and sociology, with those questions as to the meaning of life and death to hi... ...e, the period of fasts and monks and church services, when he was seeking in religion a support and a curb for his passionate temperament, every one, ... ... my affair; that’s the affair of her conscience, and falls under the head of religion,” he said to himself, feeling consolation in the sense that he h... ...that; no doubt you know all about it as well as I do. I’m not a professor of sociology, of course, but it interested me, and really, if it interests y... ...d on the introduction that awaited him to the Petersburg savant, a writer on sociology, and what he would say to him about his book. Only during the fi...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

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...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

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...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey 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... ... seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion would be... ...ed. The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment... ...how- ing the significance of “objective mind”—language, gov- ernment, art, religion—in the formation of individual minds. But since Hegel was haunted ... ... in the social sciences—the studies termed history, economics, poli- tics, sociology—shows that social questions are capable of being intelligently co...

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...LICATION Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...of the theatre in England is growing so great that whilst private conduct, religion, law, science, politics, and morals are becoming more and more the... ...nd more theatrical, the theatre itself remains impervious to common sense, religion, science, politics, and morals. That is why I fight the theatre, n... ...c that he calls my portraiture of the Reverend Samuel Gardner an attack on religion. According to this view Subaltern Iago is an attack on the army, S... ...y com- bine capable art criticism with West-End solecism on poli- tics and sociology. It is very noteworthy, however, on com- paring the press explosi...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev wanted a rest from mental work, and instead of going abroad as he usually did, he came towards the end of May to stay in the country with his brother. In his judgment the best sort of life was a country life. He had come now to enjoy such a life at his brother?s. Konst...

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...ina – Part Three by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett 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... ...riends very often astonished them by the freedom of her views in regard to religion. She had a strange religion of transmigration of souls all her own... ... again and think of something other than his wife. “No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman. I always knew it and always saw it, though I tri... ...By such a course only shall I be acting in accordance with the dictates of religion,” he told himself. “In adopting this course, I am not casting off ... ...at; no doubt you know all about it as well as I do. I’m not a professor of sociology, of course, but it interested me, and really, if it interests you...

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...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...

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...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ...do not want this overgrown popula- tion! However, we will put politics and sociology and the pack of their modern barbarous words aside. You read me i... ... to me, Clara, plighted faith, the affiancing of two lovers, is a piece of religion. I rank it as holy as marriage; nay, to me it is holier; I really ... ...ndly challenge her to speak out, whether the romance might be his piece of religion. He propitiated the more unwarlike sentiments in her by ejaculatin... ...ouple of Powers to account for discomfort when Egoism is the kernel of our religion. Benevolence had singled him for uncommon ben- efits: malignancy w...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

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...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dividing the other tenth between charity, churchgoing (as a substitute for religion), and conservative electioneering (as a substitute for politics). ... ...omestic servants keep fashionable society going without any instruction in sociology. The Cherry Orchard The Heartbreak people neither could nor would... ...nation are all nonsense, and that predestination is the cen- tral truth of religion, inasmuch as human beings are pro- duced by their environment, the... ...to be limited) of subsistence available. We 9 GB Shaw taught Prussia this religion; and Prussia bettered our instruc- tion so effectively that we pre...

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... had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in ...

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...enina – Part One by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett 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... ...ature. The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the peopl... ...ns as to the origin of man as an animal, as to reflex action, biology, and sociology, with those ques- tions as to the meaning of life and death to hi... ... the period of fasts and monks and church services, when he was seeking in religion a support and a curb for his passionate temperament, everyone, far...

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...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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...ke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common 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. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ditor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... a broad and rapid sketch of Nietzsche as a writer on Morals, Evolution, and Sociology, so that the reader may be prepared to pick out for himself, so... ...mself and reach Superman (see espe- cially the Prologue). (D.) Nietzsche and Sociology NIETZSCHE AS A SOCIOLOGIST aims at an aristocratic arrange- men... ... noticeable in the case of so many of the world’s giants in art, science, or religion. In verse 19 we are told what Nietzsche called Redemption—that i...

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...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t more by an experience like this than he could profit by all the books on sociology and economics that ever were written. I talked with a boy at Tusk... ...n’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and pro- fesses the white man’s religion. When the difficulty of learning the English language was subtract... ...long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from what it wan...

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... Publication The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...s to what is called belles-lettres. As for serious treatises in Russian on sociology , for instance, on art, and so on, I do not rea d them simply fro... .... “I, too, at dinner and at the hunt liked to lay down the law on life and religion, and the way to manage the peasantry. I, too, used to say that sci...

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...ication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... with her father, a man of active mind and bad digestion, with a taste for sociology, science in general, and the fine arts. On these subjects he had ... ...s own views, and she was, therefore, destitute of the consola- tions which religion has for the wrongdoer. It was plainly her duty to send for the pol...