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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 struggling out...

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...ve by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...the records baldly (where brevity is most complimentary) as a gentleman of family and property, an idol of a decorous island that admires the con- cre... ...lossus of Egoism in that unborn, unconceived inheritor of the stuff of the family. They dare not be chuckling while Egoism is valiant, while sober, wh... ...y, fifth in descent from Simon Patterne, of Patterne Hall, premier of this family, a lawyer, a man of solid acquirements and stout ambition, who well ... ...d him. 21 George Meredith One question she asked: “Miss Durham is well, I trust?” And he answered “Durham?” and said, “There is no Miss Durham to my ... ...looked the fittest; he justified the dictum of Science. 38 The Egoist The survival of the Patternes was assured. “I would,” he said to his admirer, M... ... can be for me—I see none, only torture, unless I have your word, Clara. I trust it. I will trust it implicitly. My confidence in you is absolute.” “T...

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Excerpt: On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

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... by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy. No doubt error... ...bt errors will have crept in, though I hope I have always been cautious in trusting to good authorities alone. I can here give only the gen- eral conc... ...freely under con- finement, with the exception of the plantigrades or bear family; whereas, carnivorous birds, with the rarest exceptions, hardly ever... ... prickly skin, hairy bodies, &c., appearing in several members of the same family. If strange and rare deviations of structure are truly in- herited, ... ...twelve or four- teen, the normal number in all members of the great pigeon family; and these feathers are kept expanded, and are carried so erect that... ...ion of a whole group of species may often be a very slow process, from the survival of a few de- scendants, lingering in protected and isolated situa-...

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...Excerpt: ?THE COW IS THERE,? said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ?She is there, the cow. There, now.? ?You have not proved it...

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...rney by E. M. Forster A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... impossible socially, he married her. “I have taken a plunge,” he told his family. The family, hostile at first, had not a word to say when the woman ... ...said Rickie. But he wondered whether one of the bonds that kept the Ansell family united might not be their complete absence of taste—a surer bond by ... ... to Rickie when his parents died. They were thus rather in the position of family friends. “Please remember us when you write.” He added, almost rogui... ...was going on. Should she weep like the servants? Or should she bear up and trust in the consoler Time? Was the death of a man so terrible after all? A... ...you’ve got to mind it you’ve got to mind it. They’ll come saying, ‘Bear up trust to time.’ No, no; they’re wrong. Mind it.” Through all her misery she... ...y straight at things, and Demeter or Aphrodite are thinner veils than ‘The survival of the fittest’, or ‘A marriage has been arranged,’ and other drap...

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... play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

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...y GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...ittle know how remote from public opinion and how full of their own little family and party affairs British governments, both Liberal and Unionist, st... ... the press because no editor of a paper or magazine in- tended for general family reading could admit into his columns the baldest narration of the st... ...though no one knows better than a mag- istrate that a single ill-conducted family may demor- alize a whole street, no magistrate can imprison or other... ...terms, and made good their position in respectable society. This makes the survival of the old ostracism in the Act of 1843 intolerably galling; and t... ...ious heresy and mere baseness of mind and foulness of mouth, they might be trusted by theatrical managers not to abuse the powers of the common inform... ... Blanco Posnet she has on her parish church. If mob censorship can- not be trusted to keep naughty playwrights in order, still less can it be trusted ...

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... Phaedo by Plato, Trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...ology, they say, like the companions of Socrates, ‘What argument can we ever trust again?’ But there is a better and higher spirit to be gathered from... ...it presents itself to the mind. Some persons will say no more than that they trust in God, and that they leave all to Him. It is a great part of true ... ... Socrates, who wants to know his commands, in whose presence he talks to his family, and who performs the last duty of closing his eyes. It is observa... ...f his Phliasian auditors who are beginning to think ‘that they too can never trust an argument again.’ And the intense interest of the company is comm... ...t a man lasts far longer, thinks that he has thus certainly demonstrated the survival of the man, who is the more lasting, because the less lasting re... ...rought to him—(he had two young sons and an elder one); and the women of his family also came, and he talked to them and gave them a few directions in...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by ... ...s, trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...tance and alliance with them should date. V oluntarily , or induced by his family, Rabelais now embraced the ecclesi- astical profession, and entered ... ...ral- ize him completely in England. Thomas Urquhart belonged to a very old family of good standing in the North of Scotland. After studying in Aber- d... .... Next year, after the death of his father, he went to Scotland to set his family affairs in order, and to redeem his house in Cromarty. But, in spite... ...in spite of their curious in- terest, he owes his real distinction and the survival of his 15 Rabelais name to his translation of Rabelais. The first... ...h—that the words or expressions that are no longer in use to-day are but a survival, a still living trace of the tongue and the pronun- ciation of oth... ...or we are easy sullen things, and must Be laugh’d aright, and cheated into trust; Whilst a black piece of phlegm, that lays about Dull menaces, and te...

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...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...

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... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ...NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) ... ...nsel Barbara A. Grewe Senior Counsel, Special Projects Elinore Flynn Hartz Family Liaison Leonard R. Hawley Professional Staff Member L. Christine Hea... ...stant Y oel T obin Counsel Emily Landis Walker Professional Staff Member & Family Liaison Garth W ermter Senior IT Consultant Serena B.Wille Counsel P... ...series of calls from GTE airphones and cellular phones.These calls between family, friends, and colleagues took place until the end of the flight and ... ...hereby increasing the chances of keeping the U.S. hand out of sight.“Mike” trusted the information from the Afghan network; it had been corroborated b... ...to the handrails and stairs, were credited by some as the reason for their survival.The general evacuation time for the towers dropped from more than ... ...ns at or above the impact zone in the North Tower had the smallest hope of survival. Once the plane struck, they were prevented from descending becaus...

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...Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...Eat, and fare ye well!”— Thereafter Zarathustra again went on for two hours, trust- ing to the path and the light of the stars: for he was an experien... ...slay. Let your sorrow be love to the Superman: thus will ye justify your own survival! “Enemy” shall ye say but not “villain,” “invalid” shall ye say ... ...the evil!” cried the youth once more. “Thou saidst the truth, Zarathustra. I trust myself no longer since I sought to rise into the height, and nobody... ...rvels; and not like timid birds did ye come to me and my longing—nay, but as trusting ones to a trusting one! Yea, made for faithfulness, like me, and... ...l- wark to that which standeth, that it may stand more firmly. Not that your family have become courtly at courts, and that ye have learned—gay-colour...

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...head free. “Hello, Dan,” he said. “How did you get out of the jug?” “I’m a trusty, kid,” said Dan Cohan. “Got any dough?” “Not a damn cent!” “Me neith... ... able to get a job … . I have a mother and an old aunt dependent on me. My family has seen better days, you see, sir. It’s only by being high up in my... ...e older than he?” 249 John Dos Passos “Two years … . I am the head of the family … . It is a dignified position.” “Have you always lived in Paris?” “... ...u will be demobilized soon; the butchery is over. You will go home to your family. That will be good, hein?” “I wonder. It’s not far enough away. Rest... ...I ain’t. Maybe you are. Gawd, it’s hell, this life. A feller can’t put his trust in nobody.” “What division are you from?” “Hell, I came to warn you t... ...y if you want to. Of course, cowardice is the best policy, neces- sary for survival. The man who’s got most will to live is the most cowardly … go on....