| | 44 | Author: | Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The economic consequences of the peace  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a
marked characteristic of mankind. Very few of us realise with
conviction the intensely unusual, unstable, complicated,
unreliable, temporary nature of the economic organisation by
which Western Europe has lived for the last half century. We
assume some of the most peculiar and temporary of our late
advantages as natural, permanent, and to be depended on, and we
lay our plans accordingly. On this sandy and false foundation we
scheme for social improvement and dress our political platforms,
pursue our animosities and particular ambitions, and feel
ourselves with enough margin in hand to foster, not assuage,
civil conflict in the European family. Moved by insane delusion
and reckless self-regard, the German people overturned the
foundations on which we all lived and built. But the spokesmen of
the French and British peoples have run the risk of completing
the ruin which Germany began, by a peace which, if it is carried
into effect, must impair yet further, when it might have
restored, the delicate, complicated organisation, already shaken
and broken by war, through which alone the European peoples can
employ themselves and live. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 46 | Author: | Labriola, Antonio, 1843-1904 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In three years we can celebrate our jubilee. The memorable date of
publication of the Communist Manifesto (February, 1848) marks our first
unquestioned entrance into history. To that date are referred all our
judgments and all our congratulations on the progress made by the
proletariat in these last fifty years. That date marks the beginning of
the new era. This is arising, or, rather, is separating itself from the
present era, and is developing by a process peculiar to itself and thus
in a way that is necessary and inevitable, whatever may be the
vicissitudes and the successive phases which cannot yet be foreseen. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 48 | Author: | Lang, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Stories of the Border Marches | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Among the old castles and peel towers of the Border, there are few to
which some tale or other of the supernatural does not attach itself. It
may be a legend of buried treasure, watched over by a weeping figure,
that wrings its hands; folk may tell of the apparition of an ancient
dame, whose corpse-like features yet show traces of passions unspent; of
solemn, hooded monk, with face concealed by his cowl, who passes down
the castle's winding stair, telling his beads; they whisper, it may be,
of a lady in white raiment, whose silken gown rustles as she walks. Or
the tale, perhaps, is one of pitiful moans that on the still night air
echo through some old building; or of the clank of chains, that comes
ringing from the damp and noisome dungeons, causing the flesh of the
listener to creep. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 49 | Author: | Lang, Andrew | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letters to Dead Authors | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Sir,--There are many things that stand in the way of the critic when he has a
mind to praise the living. He may dread the charge of writing rather to vex a
rival than to exalt the subject of his applause. He shuns the appearance of
seeking the favour of the famous, and would not willingly be regarded as one
of the many parasites who now advertise each movement and action of
contemporary genius. 'Such and such men of letters are passing their summer
holidays in the Val d'Aosta,' or the Mountains of the Moon, or the Suliman
Range, as it may happen. So reports our literary 'Court Circular,' and all our
Pre'cieuses read the tidings with enthusiasm. Lastly, if the critic be quite
new to the world of letters, he may superfluously fear to vex a poet or a
novelist by the abundance of his
eulogy. No such doubts perplex us when, with
all our hearts, we would commend the departed; for they have passed almost
beyond the reach even of envy; and to those pale cheeks of theirs no
commendation can bring the red. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 50 | Author: | Lang, Andrew | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Making of Religion | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The modern Science of the History of Religion has attained conclusions
which already possess an air of being firmly established. These
conclusions may be briefly stated thus: Man derived the conception of
'spirit' or 'soul' from his reflections on the phenomena of sleep, dreams,
death, shadow, and from the experiences of trance and hallucination.
Worshipping first the departed souls of his kindred, man later extended
the doctrine of spiritual beings in many directions. Ghosts, or other
spiritual existences fashioned on the same lines, prospered till they
became gods. Finally, as the result of a variety of processes, one of
these gods became supreme, and, at last, was regarded as the one only God.
Meanwhile man retained his belief in the existence of his own soul,
surviving after the death of the body, and so reached the conception of
immortality. Thus the ideas of God and of the soul are the result of early
fallacious reasonings about misunderstood experiences. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 52 | Author: | Locke, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Some considerations of the consequences of the lowering of interest, and raising the value of money [microform] :
in a letter to a member of Parliament | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | These Notions, concerning Coinage, having for the main, as you
know, been put into Writing above Twelve Months since; as those
other concerning Interest, a great deal above to many Years: I
put them now again into your Hands with a Liberty (since you will
have it so) to communicate them further, as you please. If, upon
a Review, you continue your favourable Opinion of them, and
nothing less than Publishing will satisfie you, I must desire you
to remember, That you must be answerable to the World for the
Stile; which is such as a man writes carelesly to his Friend,
when he seeks Truth, not Ornament; and studies only to be right,
and to be understood. I have since you saw them last Year, met
with some new Objections in Print, which I have endeavoured to
remove; and particularly, I have taken into Consideration a
Printed Sheet, entituled, Remarks upon a Paper given in to the
Lords, &c. Because one may naturally suppose, That he that was so
much a Patron of that Cause would omit nothing that could be said
in favour of it. To this I must here add, That I am just now told
from Holland, That the States, finding themselves abused by
Coining a vast quatity of their base [Schillings] Money, made of
their own Ducatoons, and other finer Silver, melted down; have
put a stop to the Minting of any but fine Silver Coin, till they
should settle their Mint upon a new Foot. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 58 | Author: | Meade, L. T. [pseud.] | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Sweet Girl Graduate | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PRISCILLA'S trunk was neatly packed. It was a new trunk and had a nice canvas
covering over it. The canvas was bound with red braid, and Priscilla's initials
were worked on the top in large plain letters. Her initials were P. P. P.,
and they stood for Priscilla Penywern Peel. The trunk was corded and strapped
and put away, and Priscilla stood by her aunt's side in the little parlor
of Penywern Cottage. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 60 | Author: | Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Utilitarianism / by John Stuart Mill | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE are few circumstances among those which make up the present
condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been
expected, or more significant of the backward state in which
speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the
little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy
respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of
philosophy, the question concerning the summum
bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been
accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the
most gifted intellects, and divided them into sects and schools,
carrying on a vigorous warfare against one another. And after more
than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers
are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither
thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the
subject, than when the youth Socrates listened to the old
Protagoras, and asserted (if Plato's dialogue be grounded on a real
conversation) the theory of utilitarianism against the popular
morality of the so-called sophist. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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