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1. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY
A religious system so many-faced and so enduring as Christianity must necessarily be saturated with truth even if it be not wholly true.
2. WRITING
The door is not half open; the light is but a light new lit. Our world to-day is only in the beginning of knowledge.
3. What a Computer Can Do for You - Recordkeeping
A good place to start is with farm records.
4. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 15
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5. THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN
Mentally and physically they were upon a different line from the human line.
6. What a Computer Can Do for You - Process Controllers
Besides analyzing farm management problems and storing data, computers have another key use—as process controllers.
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8. This Misery of Boots by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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9. THE FIRST SEAGOING PEOPLES
Cnossos was not so much a town as a great palace for the Cretan monarch and his people.
10. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 1
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11. THE WORLD AS BOOTS AND SUPERSTRUCTURE
My friend was a realistic novelist, and a man from whom hope had departed.
12. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 6
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13. Some Experiences in the Oil Business
"I'll go no higher, John; the business is yours."
14. On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo - Table of Links
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15. THE TEACHING OF JESUS
Our only direct sources of information about the life and teaching of Jesus are the four Gospels.
16. Selling to the Steel Company
The work went on uninterruptedly and prosperously until the formation of the United States Steel Corporation.
17. A Normal Growth
Dock property was secured at low prices and made valuable by buildings and development.
18. SOCIALISM MEANS REVOLUTION
I want to change everything in the world that made that; and I do not greatly care what has to go in the process. Do you?
19. Computers on the Farm: Purpose of This Bulletin
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20. The Question of Rebates
The Standard gave advantages to the railroads for the purpose of reducing the cost of transportation of freight.
21. TO PROVE THAT THE INDIANS AFORENAMED CAME ONLY BY THE NORTH-WEST
For if they had come by the Cape of Good Hope, then must they, as aforesaid, have fallen upon the south parts of America.
22. How to Select Hardware - Types of Hardware
The modem turns the computer from an information processor and storage machine into a piece of communications equipment.
23. THE WORLD IN SPACE
The earth, as everybody knows nowadays, is a spheroid, a sphere slightly compressed, orange fashion, with a diameter of nearly 8,000 miles.
24. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 5
The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum
25. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 6 - Animal Mathematics
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26. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated by John Henry Newman - Table of Links
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27. Computers on the Farm: Information available Online From USDA, State, and Private Sources
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28. Information available From Your County Extension Agent
The county Extension staff can tell you what is available online in your area that is tailored to your kind of farming and your region.
29. BETWEEN ROME AND CHINA
China at this time was the greatest, best organized and most civilized political system in the world.
30. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 2
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum
31. THE NATURE OF LOVE
Love does not seem to me to be a simple elemental thing.
32. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The human being was needed now only where choice and intelligence had to be exercised.
33. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Advertisement
The present collection of Lectures and Essays, written by him while Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland, is certainly not an exception to this remark.
34. PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS
We have to remember that human races can all interbreed freely and that they separate, mingle and reunite as clouds do.
35. OF ABSTINENCES AND DISCIPLINES
Most people speak of drugs in the spirit of that admirable firm of soap-boilers which assures its customers that the soap they make “contains no chemicals.
36. A Landsman for Ship Manager
The great ships and the railroad put us in possession of the most favourable facilities.
37. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 10
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum
38. On the influence of Demand and Supply on Prices
This is true of monopolized commodities, and indeed of the market price of all other commodities for a limited period.
39. THE SECOND MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM
His business undertakings would be under limitations his grandfather never knew—even harmless adulterations that merely intensify profit, forbidden him!
40. The Dance of Life by Havelock Ellis - Table of Links
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41. THE SYNTHETIC MOTIVE
Different people, of differing temperament and tradition, have sought oneness, this steadying and universalizing thing, in various manners.
42. What a Computer Can Do for You - Other Uses
Other Uses
43. Panic Experiences
I had desired to retire from business in the early nineties.
44. WRONG WAYS OF LIVING
Much more do we condemn dishonest or fraudulent trading and every act of advertisement that is not punctiliously truthful.
45. How to Select Hardware - Where to Look for Good Hardware
A reliable dealer who handles several brands can help you make this decision.
46. ON USING THE NAME OF GOD
Yet let me confess that I am greatly attracted by such fine phrases as the Will of God, the Hand of God, the Great Commander.
47. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud - Table of Links
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48. THE FIRST BIRDS AND THE FIRST MAMMALS
The very earliest birds seem to have been seabirds living upon fish, and their fore limbs were not wings but paddles rather after the penguin type.
49. The Limitations of the Rich
The novelty of being able to purchase anything one wants soon passes, because what people most seek cannot be bought with money.
50. THE FIRST LOAN
"All right, Mr. Rockefeller, you can have it," he replied. "Just give me your own warehouse receipts; they're good enough for me."
51. Coral Reefs by Charles Darwin - Table of Link
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52. The Future in America by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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53. The Sacrifice for Scientific Research
Dr. Alexis Carrel has been associated with Dr. Flexner and his work, and his wonderful skill has been the result of his experiments and experiences.
54. INTRODUCTORY PASSAGES QUOTED BY DARWIN IN HIS “ORIGIN OF SPECIES.”
INTRODUCTORY PASSAGES QUOTED BY DARWIN IN HIS “ORIGIN OF SPECIES.”
55. AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
VIENNA, December, 1909.
56. SOCIALISM
Socialism for me is a common step we are all taking in the great synthesis of human purpose.
57. AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
I have added many passages in this edition, but I have abstained from calling attention to them, as in former editions, by special marks.
58. THE WAR AIMS OF THE WESTERN ALLIES
In some fashion it is now necessary to achieve sufficient human unity to establish a world peace and save the future of mankind.
59. The World of Dreams by Havelock Ellis - Table of Links
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60. How to Choose a Microcomputer System
Many computer experts strongly recommend against buying a computer first and then shopping for the software packages.
61. Computers on the Farm
A computer can be very useful when repetitive analyses are needed or when data storage is important, as with financial records or daily milk output per cow.
62. CERTAIN REASONS ALLEGED FOR THE PROVING OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-EAST BEFORE THE QUEEN’S MAJESTY
In like manner is this current in the Frozen Sea increased and maintained by the Dwina, the river Ob, etc.
63. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Introductory Letter
To The Right Honourable WILLIAM MONSELL, M.P., ETC., ETC.
64. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN
Among all the apes and monkeys, the only group that have their great toes developed on anything like the same fashion as man are some of the lemurs.
65. BELIEFS
I draw my beliefs exactly as an artist draws lines to make a picture, to express my impression of the world and my purpose.
66. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Note on Page 478
I think it worthwhile, in illustration of what I have said above at the page specified, to append the following passage from Grandorgæus's catalogue of Muratori
67. Exercising Economic Judgement in Planning
If sufficient funds are available, one sensible way to proceed is to use the accumulated collective experience outlined above.
68. FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION
I glance at this question rather to express a detachment than a view.
69. Disinterested Service the Road to Success
The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
70. Institutions as they Relate to Each Other
A number of enthusiastic people had a plan for founding an orphan asylum which was to be conducted by one of our strongest religious denominations.
71. Table of Links - Cottage Economy to Which Is Added the Poor Man's Friend
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72. THE SWORD OF PEACE
Europe is at war!
73. THE CONSOLATION OF FAILURE
“This and not that was my appointed work, and this I had to be.”
74. THE LAST CONFESSION
Behind everything I perceive the smile that makes all effort and discipline temporary, all the stress and pain of life endurable.
75. THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIPS
"I may want to call upon you for the use of some money. I don't know that we shall need it, but I thought I'd speak to you in advance about it."
76. Taxes on Rent
A tax on rent would affect rent only; it would fall wholly on landlords, and could not be shifted to any class of consumers.
77. THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEA OF SOCIALISM
He wants a complete organization for all those human affairs that are of collective importance.
78. ELEGIAC VERSES BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
In Memory of a Brother Drowned at Sea.
79. PEOPLE WHOSE BOOTS DON’T HURT THEM
Everybody does not suffer misery from boots.
80. INTRODUCTION
Recently I set myself to put down what I believe.
81. The Claim of Higher Education
The mere fact that most of the great achievements in science, medicine, art, and literature are the flower of the higher education is sufficient.
82. THE WORLD OF FACT
Fact expresses for me something in its nature primary and unanalyzable.
83. How to Select Software - Where to Look for Good Software
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84. PLANES AND DIALECTS OF THOUGHT
Let me endeavour to make myself a little less obscure by a flagrant instance from physical things.
85. PREFACE
The references are to the American edition of Darwin’s works published by D. Appleton & Co., New York.
86. Employing a Competitor
In giving such an order he was exposed, of course, to the risk of paying very high prices.
87. PRIMITIVE THOUGHT
The sources to which scientific men have gone in their attempts to reconstruct that primitive mentality are very various.
88. THE MONGOL CONQUESTS
In 1214 Jengis Khan, the leader of the Mongol confederates, made war on the Kin Empire and captured Pekin (1214).
89. THE STUDY AND PROPAGANDA OF DEMOCRACY
All round the world there is this same obscuration of the real intelligence of men.
90. Obvious And Very Important Things Computers Can Do For Farmers
Determine the most economical feed ration for dairy cows and other farm animals.
91. Some Underlying Principles
Every right-minded man has a philosophy of life, whether he knows it or not.
92. Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud - Table of Links
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93. THE NECESSITY FOR METAPHYSICS
This persuasion is a very important thing in my mind.
94. The Start of the Standard Oil Company
It has placed its manufactories at the points where they could supply markets at the least expense.
95. A NIMBLE BORROWER
I rounded up all of our banks in the city, and made a second journey to get the money, and kept going until I secured the necessary amount.
96. EDITORIAL NOTE
The three introductions, which my friend Professor Judd has kindly furnished, give critical and historical information which makes this edition of special value
97. THE AGE OF ARMAMENT IN EUROPE, AND THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-18
The rest of the European Powers were in a state of intensifying congestion.
98. THE SYNTHESIS
I write this down. It is the form of my belief, and that unanalyzable something called Beauty is the light that falls upon that form.
99. THE PROBLEM OF MOTIVES THE REAL PROBLEM OF LIFE
I confess I find myself a confusion of motives beside which my confusion of perceptions pales into insignificance.
100. SEX
We have set aside the conception of Justice as in any sense a countervailing idea to that of the synthetic process.
101. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 8
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum
102. SOCIAL PARASITISM AND CONTEMPORARY INJUSTICES
These broad principles about one’s way of living are very simple; our minds move freely among them.
103. HOW THAT THE PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST IS MORE COMMODIOUS FOR OUR TRAFFIC THAN THE OTHER BY THE EAST
But by the north-west we may safely trade without danger or annoyance of any prince living, Christian or heathen, it being out of all their trades.
104. The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin - Table of Link
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105. Tithes
Tithes are a tax on the gross produce of the land, and, like taxes on raw produce, fall wholly on the consumer.
106. THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS
These Nordic people were destined to play a very important part indeed in the world’s history.
107. The Insurance Plans
The company never went into outside ventures, but kept to the enormous task of perfecting its own organization.
108. Some Old Friends
The men who have been very successful are correspondingly conservative, since they have much to lose in case of disaster.
109. Oil Pipe-lines vs. Railroads
"I am opposed on principle to the whole system of rebates and drawbacks—unless I am in it."
110. RAISING CHURCH FUNDS
The begging experiences I had at that time were full of interest.
111. How to Select Hardware - Checklist for Evaluating Hardware
Some agricultural programs use 48K or 64K of memory.
112. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 9
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum
113. The Benevolent Trusts
I confess I felt most strongly on the subject, and I feel so now.
114. OF SECESSION
No profession of faith, no formula, no usage can be perfect.
115. THE HERD INSTINCT
After this encouragement to modesty, we shall be inclined to listen to another voice, which promises us an explanation based upon simpler grounds.
116. THE MAN’S OWN SHARE
They will in their own time take this world as a sculptor takes his marble and shape it better than all our dreams.
117. The Appeals that Come
"I don't give to such and such a board, because I have read that of the money given only half or less actually gets to the person needing help."
118. INTRODUCTION
To the Labouring Classes of this Kingdom.
119. The Reason for Conditional Gifts
It is highly important that every charitable institution shall have at all times the largest possible number of current contributors.
120. INDIVIDUALITY AN INTERLUDE
I do not know whether the average age of the parent at the birth of a child under modern conditions can be determined from existing figures.
121. CONDUCT IN RELATION TO THE THING THAT IS
Secrets will be contraband in the new time.
122. DEMOCRACY
And to begin with I must have a quarrel with the word itself.
123. More About Computers on the Farm
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124. POSSIBILITY OF A NEW ETIQUETTE
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125. What is Coming? by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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126. WHAT IS GOOD?
That is the general expression for right living as I conceive it.
127. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM
About forty Muhammad began to develop prophetic characteristics like those of the Hebrew prophets twelve hundred years before him.
128. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 14
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129. The Foundations of Geometry, by David Hilbert - Table of Links
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130. Alternatives to Buying a Microcomputer
A programmable calculator may be an appropriate tool that is much less costly then a microcomputer.
131. What a Computer Can Do for You - Telecommunications
With the computer hooked up to the telephone, you can get information quickly, receive it visually, and record it in detail if you wish.
132. THE FUTURE OF MONARCHY
It is the fashion for the apologists of monarchy in the British Empire to speak of the British system as a crowned republic.
133. THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES
The growth of the United States is a process that has no precedent in the world’s history; it is a new kind of occurrence.
134. THE DYNASTIES OF SUY AND TANG IN CHINA
In Central Asia the Turkish peoples had taken root in what is now Western Turkestan, and Persia already employed many Turkish officials and Turkish mercenaries.
135. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 13 - Animals Scavengers and Criminals
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136. THE WARS OF THE GREEKS AND PERSIANS
The Greeks were becoming serious rivals to the Semites upon the sea, and their detached and vigorous intelligence made them useful and, unprejudiced officials.
137. A PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF MEN
I seem to be a consciousness, vague and insecure, placed between two worlds.
138. Computers on the Farm: Components of a Microcomputer
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139. Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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140. TO PROVE THAT THOSE INDIANS CAME NOT BY THE NORTH-EAST
The like whereof also happeneth in the Frozen Sea, which proveth but small continuance of that sea toward the east.
141. THE AGE OF FISHES
This question of Organic Evolution, like the question of the age of the earth, has in the past been the subject of much bitter controversy.
142. STARTING AT WORK
"Please pay this bill."
143. In The Fourth Year by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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144. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE
The earliest rocks in the record are called by geologists the Azoic rocks, because they show no traces of life.
145. INTEREST AT 10 PER CENT
These experiences with my father remind me that in the early days there was often much discussion as to what should be paid for the use of money.
146. THE RESUMPTION OF METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY
Since then the world never effectually reopened these questions until the modern period.
147. An Added Note as to the "Practical"
Nothing is said about the nature of the consequences; they may be aesthetic, or moral, or political, or religious in quality—anything you please.
148. THE PLEASURES OF ROAD PLANNING
Of all the profitable things which develop quickly under the hand, I have thought my young nurseries show the greatest yield.
149. TWO ARTIFICIAL GROUPS: THE CHURCH AND THE ARMY
The most interesting example of such structures are churches—communities of believers—and armies.
150. US Online Services For Farmers
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151. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Introduction
In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
152. Poor Rates
The rate might equal or exceed the rent; but whether it did or not, no part of this rate would be paid by the landlord.
153. Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Richard Hakluyt - Table of Links
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154. A COMMENT
So my friend, who I think is altogether too strongly swayed by biological analogies.
155. THE CASE OF THE WIFE AND MOTHER
These principles give a rule also for the problem that faces the great majority of thinking wives and mothers to-day.
156. What a Computer Can Do for You - Farm Management Analysis
A good place to start is by analyzing data already stored in the computer or available in the files.
157. LOVE AND DEATH
Faith which feeds on personal love must at last prevail over it.
158. THE AGE OF REPTILES
Age by age and with abundant fluctuations that mitigation came.
159. DEMOCRACY AND ARISTOCRACY
The broad principles determining that attitude are involved in things already written in this book.
160. TO PROVE THAT THESE INDIANS, AFORENAMED, CAME NOT BY THE SOUTH-EAST, SOUTH-WEST
TO PROVE THAT THESE INDIANS, AFORENAMED, CAME NOT BY THE SOUTH-EAST, SOUTH-WEST, NOR FROM ANY OTHER PART OF AFRICA OR AMERICA
161. Other Business Experiences and Business Principles
I was a minority stockholder in all these enterprises, and had no part in their management. Not all of them were profitable.
162. CONCERNING MR. MAXIMILIAN CRAFT
We are, I believe, assisting at the end of a vast, intolerable oppression upon civilisation.
163. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Chapter 3 - PROCESS-CONTROL APPLICATION
Tables 12 and 13 give a summary of present and anticipated process-control applications disclosed by the survey.
164. OF LOVE AND JUSTICE
“Justice,” she asserts, “is an instinctive craving very nearly akin to the physical craving for equilibrium. Its social importance corresponds.
165. The Difficult Art of Getting
Naturally, people of modest means lead a closer family life than those who have plenty of servants to do everything for them.
166. OF OTHER RELIGIONS
These schemes are true, and also these schemes are false! in the sense that new things, new phrasings, have to replace them.
167. TO PROVE BY EXPERIENCE OF SUNDRY MEN’S TRAVELS THE OPENING OF SOME PART OF THIS NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
Likewise Hieronimus Fracastorius, a learned Italian, and traveller in the north parts of the same land.
168. THE REVOLUTION AND FAMINE IN RUSSIA
In 1921 came a drought and a great famine among the peasant cultivators in the war-devastated south-east provinces. Millions of people starved.
169. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller - Table of Links
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170. INTRODUCTION
Psychoanalysis always showed that they referred to some definite problem or conflict of the person concerned.
171. WHY BRITAIN WENT TO WAR
We face, perhaps, the most awful winter that mankind has ever faced.
172. CONCERNING NEW STARTS AND NEW RELIGIONS
When one is discussing this possible formation of cults and brotherhoods, it may be well to consider a few of the conditions that rule such human re-groupings.
173. MY PRIMARY ACT OF FAITH
I dismiss the idea that life is chaotic because it leaves my life ineffectual, and I cannot contemplate an ineffectual life patiently.
174. The Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt - Table of Links
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175. HATE AND LOVE
London people have recently seen an edifying instance of the transition, in the Brown Dog statue riots.
176. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John - Table of Links
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177. THE BARBARIANS BREAK THE EMPIRE INTO EAST AND WEST
In Asia the Roman frontiers were crumpling back under the push of a renascent Persia.
178. KING ASOKA
Asoka was at first disposed to follow the example of his father and grandfather and complete the conquest of the Indian peninsula.
179. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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180. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 16
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum
181. The Best Philanthropy
No mere money-giving is comparable to this in its lasting and beneficial results.
182. Nursing the Commercially Ill
Before these matters were entirely closed up we had a vast amount of experience in the doctoring of the commercially ill.
183. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES
In the several original surveys, from which the small plans on this plate have been reduced, the coral-reefs are engraved in very different styles.
184. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 4 - Persevere
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185. PRIMITIVE NOMADIC PEOPLES
For settlement under the conditions of the primitive civilizations men needed a constant water supply and warmth and sunshine.
186. ON FORGETTING, AND THE NEED OF PRAYER, READING, DISCUSSION AND WORSHIP
One aspect of life I had very much in mind when I planned those Samurai disciplines of mine. It was forgetting.
187. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 13
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188. THE LIBERAL FEAR OF RUSSIA
Defeat, or even a partial victory for the Allies, means nothing less than that.
189. THE RACES OF MANKIND
It is necessary now to discuss plainly what is meant by a phrase, used often very carelessly, “The Races of Mankind.”
190. The Generosity of Service
Probably the most generous people in the world are the very poor, who assume each other's burdens in the crises which come so often to the hard pressed.
191. Darwinism Stated by Darwin himself - Table of Links
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192. Strategies for Getting Into Computers
One way is to first buy the basic hardware and components you think you need, and then add memory and other components later
193. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 7
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194. THE FIRST TRUE MEN
These first real human beings we know of in Europe appear already to have belonged to one or other of at least two very distinct races.
195. Computers on the Farm: Try it Out
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196. EGYPT, BABYLON AND ASSYRIA
We are entering now upon a thousand years of warfare between the once quite separated civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Nile.
197. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 12
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198. THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN 1914
It was and is a quite unique political combination; nothing of the sort has ever existed before.
199. MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN
Now the past history of the Primates is one very difficult to decipher in the geological record.
200. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 11 - Be Systematic
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201. THE MYSTIC ELEMENT
To the mystery of Power and Beauty, out of the earth that mothered us, we move.
202. New Worlds For Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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203. Taxes on Houses
A tax on the rent of houses may either fall on the occupier, on the ground landlord, or on the building landlord.
204. LOGIC STATIC AND LIFE KINETIC
The current syllogistic logic rests on the assumption that either A is B or it is not B.
205. How to Select Software - Compatibility Counts
Not all hardware and software are compatible.
206. THE AGE OF MAMMALS
As the Cainozoic period unrolled, the resemblance of its flora and fauna to the plants and animals that inhabit the world to-day increased.
207. Follow the Laws of Trade
The underlying, essential element of success in business affairs is to follow the established laws of high-class dealing.
208. THE WEAKNESS OF IMMATURITY
One is apt to write and talk of strong and weak as though some were always strong, some always weak.
209. THE LEAGUE MUST BE REPRESENTATIVE
Half a world peace is better than none.
210. How to Select Software - Checklist for Evaluating Software
Some software programs may come to you with bugs (errors) in them.
211. The Management of Capital
In the early days the risks of the business were great, and if the stock had been dealt in on the Exchange its fluctuations would no doubt have been violent.
212. OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY
Let me shift my ground a little and ask you to consider what is involved in the opposite belief.
213. SUMERIA, EARLY EGYPT AND WRITING
About the same time, for chronology is still vague, the great history of Egypt was beginning.
214. Of the vision of the Image composed of four Metals
The head of the Image was of gold, and signifies the nations of Babylonia, who reigned first, as Daniel himself interprets.
215. THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I
Even under the Assyrian monarchs and especially under Sardanapalus, Babylon had been a scene of great intellectual activity.
216. THE REFORMATION OF THE LATIN CHURCH
In 1398 a learned Czech, John Huss, delivered a series of lectures upon Wycliffe’s teachings in the university of Prague.
217. Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud - Table of Links
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218. The Copy of the Duke of Muscovy and Emperor or Russia his Letters, sent to King Edward VI.
These letters were sent the next year after the date of King Edward’s letters, 1554.
219. A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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220. SUMMARY
Most minds, it seems to me, are similar, but none are absolutely alike in character or in contents.
221. EMPTY TERMS
You will find a large proportion of human prejudice and misunderstanding arises from this universal proclivity.
222. ROME AND CARTHAGE
A temple to the Roman god, Jupiter Capitolinus, stood in the place of the Temple, and Jews were forbidden to inhabit the city.
223. A DILEMMA
We are led by this discussion of secession straight between the horns of a moral dilemma.
224. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM
In that spirit, and with no presumption of finality, this little book of explanations is given to the world.
225. AT THIS POINT A DISPUTE ARISES
Such arguments are not to be swept aside with a wave of the hand.
226. COMMON SENSE AND THE BALKAN STATES
The Balkan States never have been a problem, they have only been a part of a problem.
227. WAR AND COMPETITION
War is manifestly not a thing in itself, it is something correlated with the whole fabric of human life.
228. Building the Ships
All the conferences, as I said before, were carried on by Mr. Gates, who seemed to enjoy work, and he has had abundant privileges in that direction.
229. The Salvaging of Civilization by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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230. A CRITICISM OF CERTAIN FORMS OF SOCIALISM
The Socialism of my beliefs rests on a profounder faith and broader proposition.
231. IS SOCIALISM POSSIBLE?
I don’t think the “human nature” argument against the possibility of Socialism will hold water.
232. PERSONAL LOVE AND LIFE
I have already spoken under the heading of Beliefs of the part that the idea of a Mediator has played and can play in the religious life.
233. Dr. William R. Harper
He raised millions of dollars among the people of Chicago and the Middle West, and won the personal interest of their leading citizens
234. THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE
We live in a constantly changing development and modification of that tradition.
235. THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT ALEXANDRIA
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236. MODERN WAR
In our contemporary world, in our particular phase, military and naval organization loom up, colossal and unprecedent facts.
237. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 8 - In their Boudoirs, Hospitals, and Churches
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238. CHILDHOOD AND CONCEALING MEMORIES
In the aforementioned essay I only touched upon, but in no way exhausted, the varieties in the relations and meanings of concealed memories.
239. Anticipations by H. G. Wells - Table of Links
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240. THE BENEVOLENT TRUST-THE VALUE OF THE COOPERATIVE IN GIVING
Many benefactors of education are availing themselves of these disinterested inquiries, and it is hoped that more will do so.
241. Of the Kingdoms represented by the feet of the Image composed of iron and clay
Non nisi perfidiâ nacti penetrabile tempus,
Irrupere Getæ, nostras dum Rhætia vires
Occupat, atque alio desudant Marte cohortes.
242. THE IMMIGRANT
These are all mitigations of the outlook, but still the dark shadow of disastrous possibility remains.
243. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE
About 200 centuries ago or earlier, real men of our own species, if not of our own race, came drifting into the European area.
244. The Problem of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell - Table Of Links
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245. THE HUNS AND THE END OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE
In 453 Attila died suddenly after a great feast to celebrate his marriage to a young woman, and at his death this plunder confederation of his fell to pieces.
246. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 15 - The Future life of Animals
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247. RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE
As Egypt developed from city states into one united kingdom there was much of this theocrasia.
248. Preface
When these Reminiscences were begun, there was of course no thought that they should ever go so far as to appear between the covers of a book.
249. The New Opportunities
The great economic era we are entering will give splendid opportunity to the young man of the future.
250. CERTAIN WORKERS
Privations are not needed to create a sense of economic disadvantage; thwarted hopes suffice.
251. THE BEING OF MANKIND
Let me point out that this is no sentimental or mystical statement. It is hard fact as any hard fact we know.
252. THE THIRD AND LAST VOYAGE INTO META INCOGNITA
There fell also the same day, being the 26th July, such a horrible snow, that it lay a foot thick upon the hatches, which froze as fast as it fell.
253. Of the Times of the Birth and Passion of Christ
All this time Matthew passeth over in few words, and here begins to relate the preaching and miracles of Christ.
254. Character the Essential Thing
Late in 1871, we began the purchase of some of the more important of the refinery interests of Cleveland.
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256. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME
Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth.
257. The Fundamental Lesson in Help
If the people can be educated to help themselves, we strike at the root of many of the evils of the world.
258. FURTHER PROBLEMS AND LINES OF WORK
We have hitherto considered two artificial groups and have found that they are dominated by two emotional ties.
259. On Profits
The whole value of their commodities is divided into two portions only: one constitutes the profits of stock, the other the wages of labour.
260. THE WORLD IN TIME
At last a condition of things must have been attained in which a man might have stood up on earth and looked about him and lived.
261. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THESE CONSIDERATIONS
The man trained solely in science falls easily into a superstitious attitude; he is overdone with classification.
262. SOME ASPECTS OF AMERICAN WEALTH
This sort of childishness, of course, has nothing distinctively American in it.
263. NAÏVE REALISM VS. PRESENTATIVE REALISM
The idealists attribute to the realists the doctrine that "the perceived object is the real object."
264. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 7 - The language of Animals
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265. Errors of memory
From these errors, which originate from repression, we must sharply distinguish those which are based on actual ignorance.
266. A DISCOURSE
It is to be considered that of the Bona Speranza no word nor knowledge was had at this present day, nor yet of the arrival of the ships or goods from Scotland.
267. THE NEW EDUCATION
The exact sciences lead to the administrative work of industrialism, and to general economics.
268. CERTAIN OTHER REASONS OR ARGUMENTS TO PROVE A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST
Quarum quæ media est, non est habitabilis æstu.
269. MISTAKES IN READING AND WRITING
We found what is probably not exactly the same thing, a disturbance of the attention through a strange obtruding thought.
270. THE MOST NECESSARY MEASURES IN THE WORLD
At the very core of all this evil that has burst at last in world disaster lies this Kruppism, this sordid enormous trade in the instruments of death.
271. HANDS OFF THE PEOPLE’S FOOD
At the end unless the more prosperous people pull themselves together it will not be like that.
272. BEING IN LOVE AND HYPNOSIS
Even in its caprices the usage of language remains true to some kind of reality.
273. FRINGING OR SHORE-REEFS
The outer edge of the reef on the western or leeward side of the island is tolerably well defined, and is a little higher than any other part.
274. A REVIEW OF MOTIVES
Now in this matter of physical appetites I do not know whether to describe myself as a sensualist or an ascetic.
275. FORGETTING OF FOREIGN WORDS
“Very well, the ridiculous idea comes to me to divide the word in the following way: a and liquis.”
276. THE JOY OF ACHIEVEMENT
The part played by one of my earliest partners, Mr. H.M. Flagler, was always an inspiration to me.
277. THE MODERN CORPORATION
Beyond question there is a suspicion of corporations.
278. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION
The instincts with which every child is born furnish desires or cravings which must be dealt with in some fashion.
279. "THE WHITE MAN'S BURTHEN"
The ghosts of the thirst-tormented Hereros rise up in their thousands from the African dust, protesting.
280. WHAT THE WAR IS DOING FOR WOMEN
The war came, the jolt of an earthquake, to throw things into their proper relationships.
281. THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
The motive that had sent Columbus to America and Vasco da Gama to India was the perennial first motive of all sailors since the beginning of things—trade.
282. OF AN ORGANIZED BROTHERHOOD
The idea of organizing the progressive elements in the social chaos into a regular developing force is one that has had a great attraction for me.
283. NEGATIVE TERMS
Let me try and express how in my mind this matter of negative terms has shaped itself.
284. THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA
The mind plunges hopelessly through that tangle to the elements of a speech which is as yet unknown.
285. NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES
m all things whatever that are without life in certain general aspects.
286. PRIESTS AND PROPHETS IN JUDEA
All other peoples had national gods embodied in images that lived in temples. If the image was smashed and the temple razed, presently that god died out.
287. THE NEW OVERSEAS EMPIRES OF STEAMSHIP AND RAILWAY
In 1859, following upon a serious mutiny of the native troops in India, this empire of the East India Company was annexed to the British Crown.
288. The Difficult Art of Giving
I am sure it is a mistake to assume that the possession of money in great abundance necessarily brings happiness.
289. Taxes on Gold
Taxes on gold are of two kinds, one on the actual quantity of gold in circulation, the other on the quantity that is annually produced from the mines.
290. On Natural and Market Place
In the 7th chap. of the Wealth of Nations, all that concerns this question is most ably treated.
291. The Ore Mines
We had great faith in these mines, but to work them the railroad was necessary.
292. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 9 - Self-defense and Home-Government
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293. THE GREEKS
The Greek tribes as we have told were a branch of the Aryan- speaking stem.
294. THE NEED OF A NEW MAP OF EUROPE
That is why I think we liberal English should draw our new map of Europe now, first of all on paper and then upon the face of the earth.
295. On Bounties on Production
But how would the interest of the landlord be affected?
296. THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER
To the North-West for the search of the passage or strait to China, written by Christopher Hall, and made in the year of our Lord 1576.
297. ADMINISTRATIVE SOCIALISM
Systematic expropriation of private owners by death-duties and increased taxation.
298. THE EMPEROR CHARLES V
Some families have fought, others have intrigued their way to world power; the Habsburgs married their way.
299. EARLY THOUGHT
The drawings even of Late Palæolithic man do not suggest that he paid any attention to sun or moon or stars or trees.
300. The first relations between England and Russia were established in Queen Elizabeth’s reign
The story of our first contact with Russia belongs to the days of Ivan the Terrible.
301. ON DEBTS OF HONOUR
My ethical disposition is all against punctilio and I set no greater value on unblemished honour than I do on purity.
302. STATE-BLINDNESS
"The Now is an atom of Sand,
And the Near is a perishing Clod,
But Afar is a fairyland,
And Beyond is the Bosom of God."
303. THE FIRST MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM
And who can doubt the amount of mental and moral dwarfing that is going on side by side with this physical shortage?
304. CONFUCIUS AND LAO TSE
If there were human sacrifices they had long given way to animal sacrifices before the dawn of history.
305. THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE
A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase.
306. A DIFFERENTIATING GRADE IN THE EGO
There is always a feeling of triumph when something in the ego coincides with the ego ideal.
307. THE SPLENDOUR OF GREECE
The century and a half that followed the defeat of Persia was one of very great splendour for the Greek civilization.
308. THE WILL TO LOVE
Love is a thing to a large extent in its beginnings voluntary and controllable, and at last quite involuntary.
309. THE WAY TO CONCRETE REALIZATION
Fantastic as they are, they have played a large part in reducing the Hague Tribunal to an ineffective squeak amidst the thunders of this war.
310. Of the vision of the four Beasts
I beheld, saith Daniel, till the Beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flames.
311. THE OUTLOOK FOR THE GERMANS
I will do no more than I must to injure Germany further, and I will do all that I can to restore the unity of mankind.
312. Of the King who did according to his will, and magnified himself above every God
The Bishop and Presbyters of one city meddled not with the affairs of another city, except by admonitory letters or messages.
313. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS
Like the early Aryan life, it was a life in a sort of family-tribe household.
314. Of the kingdoms represented in Daniel by the Ram and He-Goat
Now because this horn was a horn of the Goat, we are to look for it among the nations which composed the body of the Goat.
315. THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY
To judge the character of all the members of a great organization or the organization itself by the actions of a few individuals would be manifestly unfair.
316. What is Epistemological Realism?
In short, the moral is quite literally, "Forget it," or "Cut it out."
317. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse II - Theology A Branch Of Knowledge.
The word “God” is a Theology in itself, indivisibly one, inexhaustibly various, from the vastness and the simplicity of its meaning.
318. THE PART PLAYED BY WORMS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PLANET
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose.
319. DARWIN AND HIS THEORIES FROM A RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW
“Darwin’s writings may be searched in vain for an irreverent or unbelieving word.”—The Church Review.
320. THE PRELIMINARY SOCIAL DUTY
Our problems of conduct lie in the world as it is and not in the world as we want it to be.
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322. ROME COMES INTO HISTORY
In the end the plebeians broke down most of the exclusive barriers of the old families and established a working equality with them.
323. SUGGESTION AND LIBIDO
Now that I once more approach the riddle of suggestion after having kept away from it for some thirty years, I find there is no change in the situation.
324. It is Not Always Possible to Remember Just How One First Met an old Friend
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325. ARGUMENTS VERSUS CAPITAL
"You say that we do not need to spend this money?"
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327. COMBINED FAULTY ACTS
I do not mean to assert that such cases of combined faulty actions can teach anything new that we have not already seen in the individual cases.
328. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
The settled folk had the weight of numbers on their side; the herdsmen might raid and loot, but they could not stay.
329. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES
Priests are not very much in evidence, but there is a sort of medicine man who deals in spells and prophecy.
330. SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT
The world of fact is not what it appears to be.
331. AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Already the wounds of our dead cry out to you.
332. Why the Standard Pays Large Dividends
The capital stock could be raised several hundred per cent. without a penny of over-capitalization or "water"; the actual value is there.
333. Introduction concerning the Compilers of the books of the Old Testament
The writer set down the race of those Kings till his own time, and therefore wrote before David conquered Edom.
334. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM
It was Karl Marx who brought the second great influx of suggestion into the intellectual process of Socialism.
335. EUROPEAN AGGRESSION IN ASIA AND THE RISE OF JAPAN
We cannot tell here in any detail of Japan’s war with China in 1894-95. It demonstrated the extent of her Westernization.
336. Of the eleventh horn of Daniel's fourth Beast
A Seer, Επισκοπος, is a Bishop in the literal sense of the word; and this Church claims the universal Bishoprick.
337. On Taxes
Capital may therefore be increased by an increased production, or by a diminished consumption.
338. THE OPPORTUNITY OF LIBERALISM
The opportunity of Liberalism has come at last, an overwhelming opportunity.
339. THE RECENT STRUGGLE FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN GREAT BRITAIN
British political life resists cleansing with all the vigour of a dirty little boy.
340. THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE
No creature can breathe, no creature can digest its food, without water.
341. TO PROVE BY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE HATH BEEN SAILED THROUGHOUT
First, as Gemma Frisius reciteth, there went from Europe three brethren though this passage: whereof it took the name of Fretum trium fratrum.
342. BRAINTREE, BOCKING, AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD
It is--or shall I write, "it may be"?
343. THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTIVATION
The pre-human age is called the “Older Palæolithic;” the age of true men using unpolished stones in the “Newer Palæolithic.
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345. Foreign Markets
We soon discovered, as the business grew, that the primary method of transporting oil in barrels could not last.
346. Keeping Pigs
If the weather be very mild, you may wait a little longer; for the hog cannot be too fat.
347. THE COMMON MAN’S LIFE UNDER THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
In this miscellaneous empire the ways of doing work and business were naturally also very miscellaneous.
348. Taxes Paid by the Producer
Eleven hundred pounds payable at the end of one year, when money is at 10 per cent. interest, is of no more value than 1000l. to be paid immediately.
349. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALÆOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN
Now here again, with every desire to be plain and explicit with the reader, we have still to trouble him with qualified statements and notes of interrogation.
350. THE WAR OF THE MIND
All the realities of this war are things of the mind.
351. On the Comparative Value of Gold, Corn, and Labour, in Rich and in Poor Countries
Spain and Portugal, the countries which possess the mines, are, after Poland, perhaps, the two most beggarly countries in Europe.
352. Roman Catholic Charities
It is unnecessary to dwell upon the centuries of experience which the Church of Rome has gone through to perfect a great power of organization.
353. The Curious Idea of a Church
In quite a little while the whole world may be alive with this renascent faith.
354. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture VII
Its basis of operations, what it starts from, what it falls back upon, is the phenomena which meet the senses.
355. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse III -Bearing Of Theology On Other Branch
It does not follow that they deny the existence of a God, because they are not found talking of it, when the topic would be utterly irrelevant.
356. CULTURE
Boston is now producing no literature except a little criticism.
357. SOCIALISM A DEVELOPING DOCTRINE
The first early Socialisms were most various and eccentric upon the question of government and control.
358. On Colonial Trade
The advance in the price of money is the same thing as the decline in the price of commodities.
359. THE CLASSIFICATORY ASSUMPTION
A mind nourished on anatomical study is of course permeated with the suggestion of the vagueness and instability of biological species.
360. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture III - English Catholic Literature
Every great people has a character of its own, which it manifests and perpetuates in a variety of ways.
361. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIND AND LANGUAGE
The newborn child is at first no more than an animal.
362. ASSOCIATIONS
There is in this passage one particularly valuable idea, the idea of an association of people to guarantee the welfare of their children in common.
363. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE JEWS
Before that time the Jews do not seem to have been a very civilized or united people.
364. THE IDEA OF JUSTICE
The weak have no essential rights against the strong, nor the strong against the weak.
365. THE IDEA OF THE CHURCH.
Now all this leads very directly to a discussion of the relations of a person of my way of thinking to the Church and religious institutions generally.
366. CONDUCT TOWARDS TRANSGRESSORS
One thing renders a sexual relationship incurably offensive to others and altogether wrong, and that is cruelty.
367. What is the Biological Equivalent of Sin?
Exploring the modern ideas of sin and damnation.
368. THE BYZANTINE AND SASSANID EMPIRES
The sixth century, which was an age of complete darkness for the West, saw indeed a considerable revival of the Greek power.
369. THE GREAT DAYS OF THE ARABS
Very speedily the intolerant self-sufficiency of the early days of faith, which made the Koran seem the only possible book, was dropped.
370. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture IV - Elementary Studies
Again, compare one idea with another; adjust truths and facts; form them into one whole, or notice the obstacles which occur in doing so.
371. STICKING TO BUSINESS PRINCIPLES
"My son, I find I have got to have that money."
372. The Coins, Weights, and Measures, used in Russia
Whensoever you find the prices of your wares rated by the pode, consider that to be the great weight, and the pound to be small.
373. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 11 - Food Conservers
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374. THE RISE OF GERMANY TO PREDOMINANCE IN EUROPE
After the turn of the century Europe broke out into a fresh cycle of wars. They were chiefly “balance-of- power” and ascendancy wars.
375. RECALCITRANT PRINCES AND THE GREAT SCHISM
The consequences of this want of firm definition are to be seen in the whole history of the papacy up to the sixteenth century.
376. THE LABOUR VIEW OF MIDDLE AFRICA
What are these broad essentials? What are the ends that must be achieved if Africa is not to continue a festering sore in the body of mankind?
377. THE GROUP AND THE PRIMAL HORDE
The primal father of the horde was not yet immortal, as he later became by deification.
378. TWO STUDIES IN DISAPPOINTMENT
Ever and again, in the pauses, my eyes would go to where New York far away glittered like a brighter and more numerous Pleiades.
379. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LATIN CHRISTENDOM
Upon this divided world of Christendom rained the blows of three sets of antagonists.
380. Making Bread - (continued)
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381. POSTSCRIPT
Every Christian loves Christ as his ideal and feels himself united with all other Christians by the tie of identification.
382. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS
Not only is Space from the point of view of life and humanity empty, but Time is empty also.
383. THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD
The Peace Conference at Versailles was a gathering very ill adapted to do more than carry out the conflicts and defeats of the war to their logical conclusions.
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385. Taxes on raw produce
A tax on raw produce would not be paid by the landlord; it would not be paid by the farmer; but it would be paid, in an increased price, by the consumer.
386. God the Invisible King: Preface
This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer.
387. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 12 - Tourists and Sight-seeing
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388. OTHER ACCOUNTS OF COLLECTIVE MENTAL LIFE
In face of these completely contradictory accounts, it looks as though the work of Group Psychology were bound to come to an ineffectual end.
389. On the rent of mines.
By the discovery of America and the rich mines in which it abounds, a very great effect was produced on the natural price of the precious metals.
390. THE END OF THE WAR
The prophet who emerges with the most honour from this war is Bloch.
391. Land-Tax
In no respect would such a tax differ from a tax on rent.
392. THE LIFE OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The sense of disease and mortality, the insecurity and the un-satisfactoriness of all happiness, descended upon the mind of Gautama.
393. Of the Prophetic Language
For understanding the Prophecies, we are, in the first place, to acquaint our-selves with the figurative language of the Prophets.
394. FORECASTING THE FUTURE
Science is very largely analysis aimed at forecasting.
395. H.G. Wells' Thoughts on America's Treatment of African Americans
No, I can't help idealizing the dark submissive figure of the negro in this spectacle of America.
396. THE CRUSADES AND THE AGE OF PAPAL DOMINION
Aristotle was read and discussed by these Jews and Arabs during these centuries of European darkness.
397. On Gross and Net Revenge
Adam Smith constantly magnifies the advantages which a country derives from a large gross, rather than a large net income.
398. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IDEAS
The institutions and customs and political ideas of the ancient civilizations grew up slowly, age by age, no man designing and no man foreseeing.
399. THE MIDDLE-CLASS MAN, THE BUSINESS MAN, AND SOCIALISM
Socialism is not the coming of chaos and repudiation, it is the coming of order and justice.
400. Of the relation which the Apocalypse of John hath to the Book of the Law of Moses
Only the things, which the seven thunders uttered, were not written down, and therefore not interpreted.
401. WHAT COMMODITIES WOULD ENSUE, THIS PASSAGE ONCE DISCOVERED
It hath been attempted by Corterialis the Portuguese, Scolmus the Dane, and by Sebastian Cabot in the time of King Henry VII.
402. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse I
The past never returns; the course of events, old in its texture, is ever new in its colouring and fashion
403. NEW YORK
Noise and human hurry and a vastness of means and collective result, rather than any vastness of achievement, is the pervading quality of New York.
404. THE NECESSARY POWERS OF THE LEAGUE
No man can join a partnership and remain an absolutely free man.
405. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES
No doubt he ventured at first as a fisherman, having learnt the elements of seacraft in creeks and lagoons.
406. THE AGE OF THE COAL SWAMPS
Plants no doubt preceded animal forms in this invasion of the land, but the animals probably followed up the plant emigration very closely.
407. On Wages
The natural price of labour, therefore, depends on the price of the food, necessaries, and conveniences required for the support of the labourer and his family.
408. THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE EUROPEANS IN ASIA AND OVERSEAS
The first overseas settlements of the Dutch and Northern Atlantic Europeans were not for colonization but for trade and mining.
409. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 14 - As the Allies of Man
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410. Taxes on Profits
Taxes on those commodities, which are generally denominated luxuries, fall on those only who make use of them.
411. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE
Neolithic men came slowly into Europe from the south or south-east as the reindeer and the open steppes gave way to forest and modern European conditions.
412. GETTING THE LEAGUE IDEA CLEAR IN RELATION TO IMPERIALISM
Why, then, does the waste and killing go on? Why is not the Peace Conference sitting now?
413. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Preface
Such is a University in its essence, and independently of its relation to the Church.
414. TO PROVE BY AUTHORITY A PASSAGE TO BE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF AMERICA
By the like experiment you may find the ordinary motion of the sea in the ocean, how far soever you be off the land.
415. Doctrine of Adam Smith Concerning the Rent of Land
The produce does not pay the expense.
416. THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE
Now the nineteenth century phrased this conception by talking about the "principle of nationality."
417. MATERIAL PROGRESS
Between the sparse great stars were deep blue spaces, unfathomed distances.
418. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture I
The great poet remained unknown for some centuries,—that is, unknown to what we call fame.
419. CHANGES IN THE WORLD’S CLIMATE
It must be borne in mind that great changes of climate have always been in progress, that have sometimes stimulated and sometimes checked life.
420. IDENTIFICATION
Identification is known to psycho-analysis as the earliest expression of an emotional tie with another person.
421. On Sudden Changes in the Channels of Trade
To sustain life, food is necessary, and the demand for food must continue in all ages, and in all countries.
422. THE GROWTH OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
The centre of this new system lay far to the west of the more ancient centres of empire, which had hitherto been the river valleys of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
423. THE PLAIN NECESSITY FOR A LEAGUE
It is the unhappy usage of our schools and universities to study the history of mankind only during periods of mechanical unprogressiveness.
424. CORRUPTION
It struck me as a pretty tough gathering.
425. The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan
With regard to the island Britannia, it is of considerable length to the north-east, being eight hundred miles long and only two hundred miles broad.
426. NATURAL SELECTION: OR, THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
The undulations of the ether and even its existence are hypothetical, yet every one now admits the undulatory theory of light.
427. Effects of Accumulation on Profits and Interest
Productions are always bought by productions, money is only the medium by which the exchange is effected.
428. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANIC BEINGS
Living birds can hardly fail to be highly effective agents in the transportation of seeds.
429. Introduction, concerning the time when the Apocalypse was written
The success of others put me upon considering it; and if I have done any thing which may be useful to following writers, I have my design.
430. Heresies; or The Things that God Is Not
Heresies are misconceptions of God.
431. THE PROPHETIC HABIT OF MIND
To begin with, I remember that to me in my boyhood speculation about the Future was a monstrous joke.
432. THE INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL OF THE EUROPEANS
Arabic paper manuscripts from the ninth century onward still exist.
433. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA
Side by side with the Museum, Ptolemy I created a more enduring monument to himself in the great library.
434. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE RESTORATION OF MONARCHY IN FRANCE
We have said that the French monarchy was the most successful of the personal monarchies in Europe.
435. WOULD MODERN SOCIALISM ABOLISH ALL PROPERTY?
The word “property,” one must remember, is a slightly evasive word.
436. Of the ten Kingdoms represented by the ten horns of the fourth Beast
——Cujus solum amissas post sæcula multa
Pannonias revocavit iter, jam credere promptum est.
Quid faciet bellis.
437. THE ECONOMIC PROCESS
So in its broad features, as a conflict between the birth strength of a splendid civilization and a hampering commercialism, I see America.
438. FORGETTING OF PROPER NAMES
During the year 1898 I published a short essay On the Psychic Mechanism of Forgetfulness.
439. The Religion of Atheists
It is a curious thing that while most organized religions smother the statement of the true God, the atheist reproduces divine likeness.
440. THE GENEALOGY OF MAN
“If left to themselves to roam as they were wont and undisturbed, they would have reared more children, and there would have been less mortality.”
441. Keeping Cows
Every act that tends to neatness round a dwelling, tends to the creating of a mass of manure.
442. On Currency and Banks
It is not my intention to detain the reader by any long dissertation on the subject of money.
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444. WAR
I suppose I must count myself mad, but I can recall my ravings.
445. BREWING BEER
With regard to hops, the quality is very various.
446. THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS
With all, or almost all, animals, even with birds, terror causes the body to tremble. The skin becomes pale, sweat breaks out, and the hair bristles.
447. CONDUCT FOLLOWS FROM BELIEF
I hold that the broad direction of conduct follows necessarily from belief.
448. BARRIER REEFS
The authorities from which these charts have been reduced, together with some remarks on them and descriptive of the Plates, are given separately.
449. THE MIND OF A MODERN STATE
You see, my hero in the confused drama of human life is intelligence; intelligence inspired by constructive passion.
450. Of the Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks
The grounds of the Chronology here followed, I will now set down as briefly as I can.
451. Of the Prophecy of the Scripture of Truth
All these nations compose the Empire of the Turks, and therefore this Empire is here to be understood by the King of the North.
452. THE LAWS OF VARIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO ANIMALS AND PLANTS
I shall in this volume treat, as fully as my materials permit, the whole subject of variation under domestication.
453. HOW FAR WILL EUROPE GO TOWARD SOCIALISM?
"Go as you please" has had its death-blow.
454. CONSTRUCTIVE SOCIALISM
One has to recognize that this mind is at present a mind in a state of confusion, full of warring suggestions and warring impulses.
455. THE GOOD WILL IN MAN
There is a secular amelioration of life, and it is brought about by Good Will working through the efforts of men.
456. THE PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS
Physiologists agree that the whole organism consists of a multitude of elemental parts, which are to a great extent independent of one another.
457. ON THE PLAINS AND VALLEYS OF CHILE:—SALIFEROUS SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS
The talus-like plain slopes up with a smooth surface into the great dry valleys of the Cordillera.
458. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture X
For she is ever the same,—ever young and vigorous, and ever overcoming new errors with the old weapons.
459. LE BON'S DESCRIPTION OF THE GROUP MIND
We can achieve both of these aims by means of quotation from Le Bon's deservedly famous work Psychologie des foules.
460. The Problem of the Existence of an External World
My purpose is to ask what justification there is for calling immediate data "objects of sense."
461. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture VI - University Preaching
Nothing is so fatal to the effect of a sermon as the habit of preaching on three or four subjects at once.
462. The Backus Purchase
This is my reason for entering so much into detail in this particular case, which I am exceedingly reluctant to do, and for many years have refrained from doing
463. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND
The first languages were probably small collections of such words; they consisted of interjections and nouns.
464. MENTAL POWERS OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS COMPARED
The savage and the dog have often found water at a low level, and the coincidence under such circumstances has become associated in their minds.
465. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture IX
We must carefully distinguish, Gentlemen, between the mere diversion of the mind and its real education.
466. On Rent
In order to understand this part of the subject, we must inquire into the nature of rent, and the laws by which its rise or fall is regulated.
467. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture VIII
We count it a great thing, and justly so, to plan and carry out a wide political organization.
468. SCHOOLING
The modern school is not a thing that has evolved from a simple germ, by a mere process of expansion.
469. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture V - A Form Of Infidelity Of The Day
“The world has lost two thousand years. It is pretty much where it was in the days of Augustus. This is what has come of priests.”
470. Thirty-five years ago I made a voyage to the Arctic Seas in what Chaucer calls
A little bote
No bigger than a mannë’s thought;
471. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse V - Knowledge Its Own End
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith.
472. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS
On the whole, the common men were probably well content to live under lord or king or god and obey their bidding.
473. THOUGHT IN THE MODERN STATE
A community that thinks freely and fully throughout its population is capable of a thousand things that are impossible in an unthinking mass of people.
474. Certain Social Reactions
But how does this fit into the childless, disunited, and probably shifting ménage of our second picture?
475. NATIONS IN LIQUIDATION
Now, as a matter of fact, money is a power only in so far as people believe in it and Governments sustain it.
476. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MORAL SENSE
There is no evidence that man was aboriginally endowed with the ennobling belief in the existence of an Omnipotent God.
477. CERTAIN WHOLESALE ASPECTS OF MAN-MAKING
Food, warmth, cleanliness and abundant fresh air there must be from the first, and unremitting attention, such attention as only love can sustain.
478. Modern Religion Has No Founder
Perhaps all religions, unless the flaming onset of Mohammedanism be an exception, have dawned imperceptibly upon the world.
479. Taxes on Wages
A tax on wages is wholly a tax on profits, a tax on necessaries is partly a tax on profits, and partly a tax on rich consumers.
480. MAKING BREAD
I will now come to a comparative view, more immediately applicable to a labourer’s family.
481. Bounties on Exportation, and Prohibitions of Importation
A bounty on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.
482. What Pragmatism Means by Practical
The traditional notion is that of a "seeing force that runs things."
483. On Foreign Trade
They who hold this argument agree with me, that the profits of different employments have a tendency to conform to one another; to advance and recede together.
484. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse VIII
One portion of the subject remains:—this intellectual culture, which is so exalted in itself, not only has a bearing upon social and active duties, but upon Rel
485. OBJECTIONS TO THE THEORY OF DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION CONSIDERED
It may be urged that, when several closely-allied species inhabit the same territory, we surely ought to find at the present time many transitional forms.
486. On Value
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
487. THE EMPIRE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
he Macedonians spoke a language closely akin to Greek, and on several occasions Macedonian competitors had taken part in the Olympic games.
488. THE MAN-MAKING FORCES OF THE MODERN STATE
The average citizen of our great state to-day is, I would respectfully submit, scarcely more than a dirty clout about his own buried talents.
489. Politics and Modern Religion
God faces the blackness of the Unknown and the blind joys and confusions and cruelties of Life.
490. Value and Riches, their Distinctive Properties
"A man is rich or poor," says Adam Smith, "according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life."
491. WOULD SOCIALISM DESTROY THE HOME?
Consider all that amount of pent-up, thwarted or perverted emotional possibility, the sheer irrational waste of life implied….
492. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture II
The ideas and conceptions are so great and lofty in their own nature that they necessarily appear magnificent in the most artless dress.
493. THE NEW REPUBLIC
Toleration to-day is becoming a different thing from the toleration of former times.
494. THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF PLANTS
Under a practical point of view, agriculturists and horticulturists may learn something from the conclusions at which we have arrived.
495. SOME COMMON OBJECTIONS TO SOCIALISM
The fine big children are born in periods of low infantile mortality, that is the essential point.
496. The Letter of Master George Killingworth, the Company’s First Agent in Muscovy
And to certify you of the weather here, men say, that these three hundred years was never so warm weather in this country at this time of the year.
497. The Probable Diffusion of Great Cities
But I find my pen is running ahead, an imagination prone to realistic constructions is struggling to paint a picture altogether prematurely.
498. SYMPTOMATIC AND CHANCE ACTIONS
The richest output of such chance or symptomatic actions is above all obtained in the psychoanalytic treatment of neurotics.
499. Of the power of the eleventh horn of Daniel's fourth Beast, to change times and laws
Zosimus universis Episcopis per Gallias & septem Provincias constitutis.
500. THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINAL CHRISTIANITY
When religions flourish side by side they tend to pick up each other’s ceremonial and other outward peculiarities.
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502. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIAL KNOWLEDGE
We have already noted the formation of the Royal Society in 1662 and its work in realizing the dream of Bacon’s New Atlantis.
503. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CROSSED AND SELF-FERTILISED PLANTS IN CONSTITUTIONAL VIGOUR AND IN OTHER RESPECTS
A crossed plant flowered before any one of the self-fertilised in all three pots.
504. Faith, Morals, and Public Policy in The Twentieth Century
And in particular, there are certain broad questions much under discussion to which, thus far, I have purposely given a value disproportionately small:—
505. Locomotion in the Twentieth Century
The reader is a prospective shareholder—he and his heirs—though whether he will find this anticipatory balance-sheet to his belief or liking is another matter.
506. THE AGE OF POLITICAL EXPERIMENTS; OF GRAND MONARCHY AND PARLIAMENTS AND REPUBLICANISM IN EUROPE
For a time the scientific process which began so brilliantly in Greece and Alexandria was interrupted.
507. FORGETTING OF IMPRESSIONS AND RESOLUTIONS
To be sure, we are in possession of some view-points which we hope will receive general recognition.
508. God Is a Person
God is a person who can be known as one knows a friend, who can be served and who receives service, who partakes of our nature.
509. THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Our history is now approaching our own times, and our study becomes more and more a study of the existing state of affairs.
510. Of the Mahuzzims, honoured by the King who doth according to his will
Thus shall he do in the most strong holds or temples;—and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land among them for a possession.
511. THE VOYAGE.
The 29th of July we departed from Colmogro, and the 14th of August we came to Vstioug, where we remained one day, and changed our barques, or boats.
512. GROWTH INVINCIBLE
"A man we've killed," said he. "We caught him in the trestle-bridge."
513. THE SECOND VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER
It seemeth that these trees are driven from some part of the Newfoundland, with the current that setteth from the west to the east.
514. ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND GROWTH OF CORAL-REEFS
The entire absence of coral-reefs in certain large areas within the tropical seas, is a remarkable fact.
515. THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBERTY
All morbid disturbances of the sexual life may justly be considered as inhibitions of development.
516. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse IV
The intellect of man, on the contrary, energizes as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights and sounds something beyond them.
517. THE SPIRIT OF GAIN AND THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE
The gift for getting is the supreme gift—all others bow before it.
518. Taxes on Other Commodities than Raw Produce
The real expense is the twenty millions, and not the interest which must be paid for it.
519. ERRONEOUSLY CARRIED-OUT ACTIONS
Lapses in speech do not stand entirely alone. They resemble the errors which often occur in our other activities and are quite foolishly termed ‘forgetfulness.
520. SEXUAL SELECTION AS AN AGENCY TO ACCOUNT FOR THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE RACES OF MAN
The courtship of animals is by no means so simple and short an affair as might be thought.
521. THE INTERNATIONAL CATASTROPHE OF 1914
Even the foreign offices felt the fear of war.
522. SOME ARGUMENTS AD HOMINEM
After the revenue in the domestic budget under Socialism one must consider the expenditure.
523. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Duties Of The Church Towards Knowledge
As to Physical Science, of course there can be no real collision between it and Catholicism.
524. THE HABITS OF INSECTS IN RELATION TO THE FERTILISATION OF FLOWERS
Humble and hive-bees are good botanists, for they know that varieties may differ widely in the colour of their flowers and yet belong to the same species.
525. THE NEW NAVIGATION AND DISCOVERY OF THE KINGDOM OF MUSCOVY
Upon the Saturday they eat flesh.
526. THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS
The sexual expression corresponding to hunger not being found colloquilly, science uses the expression "libido."
527. SEVEN CENTURIES IN ASIA (CIRCA 50 B.C. TO A.D. 650)
For a brief time under Odenathus, and then under his widow Zenobia, Palmyra was a considerable state, wedged between the two empires.
528. MISTAKES IN SPEECH
The difference does not at first appear as wide as when it is taken into consideration in certain conclusions drawn from the symptomatology of speech-mistakes.
529. ON THE OLDER TERTIARY FORMATIONS OF PATAGONIA AND CHILE
The cliffs to the south of the river are about two hundred feet in height, and are composed of sandstone of various tints and degrees of hardness.
530. The Life-History of Democracy
Now, this age is being constantly described as a "Democratic" age; "Democracy" is alleged to have affected art, literature, trade and religion alike in the most
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532. THE CULTIVATION OF THE IMAGINATION
Meanwhile, as we work each one to solve his own problems, the young people are growing up about us.
533. THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
The true hero of the story of Alexander is not so much Alexander as his father Philip.
534. THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY
We may say that without infantile amnesia there would be no hysterical amnesia.
535. AT WASHINGTON
Only he chose to live as if this were not so.
536. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INFLUENCES
Why then should we not apply the Jury system to the electoral riddle?
537. The Logical of Judgments of Practice
Idealism in action does not seem to be anything except an explicit recognition of just the implications we have been considering.
538. CONVOLVULACEAE
A plant of Ipomoea purpurea, or as it is often called in England the convolvulus major, a native of South America, grew in my greenhouse.
539. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS
In the rear of the Greeks proper came the kindred Macedonians and Thracians; on their left wing, the Phrygians crossed by the Bosphorus into Asia Minor.
540. THE POSSIBLE UNIFICATION OF THE WORLD INTO ONE COMMUNITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND WILL
Our history has traced a steady growth of the social and political units into which men have combined.
541. War in the Twentieth Century
The great change that is working itself out in warfare is the same change that is working itself out in the substance of the social fabric.
542. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse VII
Judgment lives as it were by comparison and discrimination.
543. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse VI
Wisdom, again, is certainly a more comprehensive word than any other, but it has a direct relation to conduct, and to human life.
544. GERANIACEAE, LEGUMINOSAE, ONAGRACEAE, ETC.
The self-fertilised seeds germinated rather before the others; but as soon as I got equal pairs they were planted on the opposite sides of four pots.
545. ATOLLS OR LAGOON-ISLANDS
Captain Moresby found on one water-washed reef the marks of wells and graves, which were excavated when it supported an islet.
546. EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM
I have stated in the first chapter that at whatever age a variation first appears in the parent, it tends to reappear at a corresponding age in the offspring.
547. Bees and Fowls
It is not my intention to enter into a history of this insect about which so much has been written, especially by the French naturalists.
548. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS
All the books that constitute the Old Testament were certainly in existence, and in very much their present form, at latest by the year 100 B.C.
549. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
We have given these particulars of the advance in man’s knowledge of the metallurgy of steel and its results by way of illustration.
550. THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS
The reader will already have an idea of the gradual breaking up of the original unity of Islam.
551. DETERMINISM—CHANCE—AND SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS
“‘On the Bidassao bridge stands a saint grey with age, he blesses to the right the Spanish mountain, to the left he blesses the French land.’”
552. THE EFFECTS OF CROSS-FERTILISATION AND SELF-FERTILISATION ON THE PRODUCTION OF SEEDS
The present chapter is devoted to the Fertility of plants, as influenced by cross-fertilisation and self-fertilisation.
553. FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD EMPEROR IN ROME
Only one thing presently remained to remind the god emperor that he was mortal, and that was the army.
554. A SUMMARY OF THE HEIGHTS AND WEIGHTS OF THE CROSSED AND SELF-FERTILISED PLANTS
The details which have been given under the head of each species are so numerous and so intricate, that it is necessary to tabulate the results.
555. CENTRAL CHILE:—STRUCTURE OF THE CORDILLERA
The district between the Cordillera and the Pacific, on a rude average, is from about eighty to one hundred miles in width.
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557. The Larger Synthesis
It is doubtful if either the Latin or the Pan-Slavic idea contains the promise of any great political unification.
558. THE BEGINNINGS, THE RISE, AND THE DIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANITY
Monasteries had existed in the world before Christianity.
559. THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
For some years, until the fall of Robespierre, he remained a Jacobin.
560. Of the relation which the Prophecy of John hath to those of Daniel
The woman therefore began now to fly into the wilderness.
561. The Conflict of Languages
We have brought together thus far in these Anticipations the material for the picture of a human community somewhere towards the year 2000.
562. ON THE ELEVATION OF THE EASTERN COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA
Southward of Bahia Blanca, the river Colorado flows between two plains, apparently from thirty to forty feet in height.
563. GREEK THOUGHT AND LITERATURE
The reader must bear in mind that illuminating remark of Winckler’s, which says that this renascent Athens bore for a time the face of Pericles.
564. ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL-REEFS WITH REFERENCE TO THE THEORY OF THEIR FORMATION
The uncoloured coasts consist, first and chiefly, of those, where there are no coral-reefs, or such small portions as to be quite insignificant.
565. THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF CORAL-REEFS
No theory worthy of notice has been advanced to account for those barrier-reefs, which encircle islands of moderate dimensions.
566. THE PROBLEM OF THE BIRTH SUPPLY
We blame the popular mind overmuch
567. ON THE FORMATIONS OF THE PAMPAS
The Pampean formation is highly interesting from its vast extent, its disputed origin, and from the number of extinct gigantic mammifers embedded in it.
568. SCROPHULARIACEAE, GESNERIACEAE, LABIATAE, ETC.
When the crossed seedlings were on an average half an inch high, the self-fertilised ones were only a quarter of an inch high.
569. ON THE ELEVATION OF THE WESTERN COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA
The evidence of recent elevation is here more satisfactory.
570. MEANS OF THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS
Birds belonging to all the chief orders ruffle their feathers when angry or frightened.
571. PLUTONIC AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS:—CLEAVAGE AND FOLIATION
At Port Alegre, near the boundary of Brazil, there are porphyries and diorites.
572. No. VIII. Cottage Economy, to Which is Added The Poor Man's Friend
It seems odd, that nobody should have set to work to find out how the Italians came by this fine straw.
573. CRUCIFERAE, PAPAVERACEAE, RESEDACEAE, ETC.
In the later experiments, the fully-grown plants were cut down and weighed, and then the immense advantage from a cross became manifest.
574. THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS
Little value is now attached to this tale by modern historians.
575. NORTHERN CHILE. CONCLUSION
The relations of these species have been given under the head of Coquimbo.
576. PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS
All over the world the close of the sixteenth century saw monarchy prevailing and tending towards absolutism.
577. THE CÆSARS BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE OLD WORLD
Ever since the time of Alexander, human thought has been haunted by the possible political unity of the race.
578. MEANS OF FERTILISATION
The advantages derived from cross-fertilisation throw a flood of light on most of the chief characters of flowers.
579. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES
It is necessary that the reader should have a definite idea of the social condition of western Europe in the eighth century.
580. SOLANACEAE, PRIMULACEAE, POLYGONEAE, ETC.
Six flowers on a plant covered by a net were crossed with pollen from a distinct plant and produced six capsules, containing by weight 4.44 grains of seed.
581. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE
Of course this decision did not flash out complete and finished from the American mind at the beginning of these troubles.
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