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Queer things about Egypt - by Douglas Sladen - PDF ebook

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Queer things about Egypt

Of all the climates of the world, there is none to equal the winter climate of Upper Egypt: it is so dry, so genial, so equable, so wedded to blue skies and pageants of sunrise and sunset. Such is the call of Egypt's climate.

There remains the call of the Motherland. I do not mean by this that any of us — except perhaps the not too reputable gipsies — are descended from the Ancient Egyptians, or that our countries were colonized by them. Not one inch of Europe was ever included in the Empire of the greatest of the Pharaohs. But civilization makes us all one country, and civilization was born in Egypt. There is no historical and attested antiquity to compare with that of Egypt and Chaldaea. The Chinese and Japanese use large figures, but their proofs get shaky no further back than the Middle Ages. The world power of Babylon was as short-lived as that of Athens. But in Egypt, we have documentary proofs for at least five thousand years.

We need to take nothing from hearsay; for in their marvellous system of hieroglyphics, the Pharaohs and their subjects wrote on every temple and tomb the date and circumstances of its erection, the story of its founder, and the uses to which it was to be put. The Carthaginians and Etruscans frankly borrowed their civilization from the Egyptians — many of their tombs might have been hewn out by Egyptian artificers, and they are rich in Egyptian jewels and implements. Through them, as well as direct, the Greeks and Romans felt the influences of Egypt.

Of what character are the remains left by the Pharaohs in the fifty centuries during which they were laying the basis of civilization? Tombs and temples, and the tiniest minutiae of household implements and personal ornaments, but hardly one house that was not built of mud. From their houses, we learn little except the antiquity of the vaulted ceiling. All we know of their dwellings we learn from their tombs when they had left off building mountains of stone and taken to hewing mausoleums — some of the dimensions of cathedrals — out of the living rock.

t would be worthwhile going to Egypt, were it only to see the tombs of the Pharaohs at Thebes, and of their viziers at Memphis, which have the whole life of ancient Egypt illuminated on their smooth limestone walls, and have yielded furniture (put into them for the use of the doubles of the dead) which helps us to picture almost every detail in the domestic life of ancient Egypt.

Author: Douglas Sladen
Publication Date: 1910

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The children of Odin (1920) by Padraic Colum with Illustrations

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The children of Odin

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At that time, too, there were men and women in the world. But before the Sun and the Moon were devoured and before the Gods were destroyed, terrible things happened in the world. Snow fell on the four corners of the earth and kept on falling for three seasons.

Winds came and blew everything away. And the people of the world who had lived on in spite of the snow and the cold and the winds fought each other, brother killing brother until all the people were destroyed. Also, there was another earth at that time, an earth green and beautiful. But the terrible winds that blew levelled down forests and hills and dwellings. Then fire came and burnt the earth.

There was darkness, for the Sun and the Moon were devoured. The Gods had met with their doom. And the time in which all these things happened was called Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods. Then a new Sun and a new Moon appeared and went travelling through the heavens; they were more lovely than Sol and Mani, and no wolves followed behind them in the chase. The earth became green and beautiful again, and in a deep forest that the fire had not burnt a woman and a man wakened up. They had been hidden there by Odin and left to sleep during Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods. Lif was the woman's name, and Lifthrasir was the man's.

They moved through the world, and their children and their children's children made people for the new earth. And of the Gods were left Vidar and Vali, the sons of Odin, and Modi and Magiii, the sons of Thor; on the new earth, Vidar and Vali found tablets that the older Gods had written on and had left there for them, tablets telling of all that had happened before Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods. And the people who lived after Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods, were not troubled, as the people in the older days were troubled, by the terrible beings who had brought destruction upon the world and upon men and women, and who from the beginning had waged war upon the Gods.

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Money and the Mechanism of Exchange by William Stanley Jevons (PDF)

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In "Money and the Mechanism of Exchange" by William Stanley Jevons, the author delves into the intricate world of economics and the role of money in facilitating exchange.

Money and the Mechanism of Exchange

This book is important to understand the history of money and other aspect of money and finance

Published in 1900, the book explores various aspects of money and its functions in society.

The book begins by discussing the challenges of barter, highlighting the lack of coincidence in the wants of individuals engaging in direct exchange. Jevons points out the difficulties in finding a common measure of value and the absence of means for subdividing goods in barter transactions.

Moving on to the concept of exchange, Jevons argues that utility and value are not intrinsic qualities of goods but are rather determined by the preferences and needs of individuals. He emphasizes that value is a relative concept, expressing the ratio of exchange between different goods.

In the following chapters, Jevons explores the functions of money, describing it as a standard and store of value. He discusses the importance of money in facilitating trade and the separation of its various functions in the economy.

The book also delves into the early history of money, tracing its evolution from the hunting and pastoral states to the agricultural state. Jevons examines the use of various items as currency, including articles of ornament and manufactured goods, in different societies.

Overall, "Money and the Mechanism of Exchange" provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of money in the economy and its significance in facilitating exchange and trade. Jevons' insights into the functions and history of money offer valuable perspectives on the complex relationship between money, value, and exchange in society.

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The slang dictionary; etymological, historical and anecdotal (1913) PDF by John Camden Hotten

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The slang dictionary; etymological, historical, and anecdotal

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Slang, like everything else, changes much in the course of time; and though but fifteen years have elapsed since this Dictionary was first introduced to the public, alterations have since then been many and frequent in the subject of which it treats.

The first issue of a work of this kind is, too, ever beset with difficulties, and the compiler was always aware that, though under the circumstances of its production the book was an undoubted success, it necessarily lacked many of the elements which would make that success lasting, and cause the " Slang Dictionary" to be regarded as an authority and a work of reference not merely among the uneducated, but among people of cultivated tastes and inquiring minds.

For though the vulgar use of the word Slang applies to those words only which are used by the dangerous classes and the lowest grades of society, the term has in reality and should have as everyone who has ever studied the subject knows a much wider significance. Bearing this in mind, the original publisher of this Dictionary lost no opportunity of obtaining information of a useful kind, which could hardly find a place in any other book of reference, with the intention of eventually bringing out an entirely new edition, in which all former errors should be corrected and all fresh meanings and new words find a place.

His intention always was to give those words which are familiar to all conversant with our colloquialisms and locutions, but which have hitherto been connected with an unwritten tongue, a local habitation, and to produce a book which, in its way, would be as useful to students of philology, as well as to lovers of human nature in all its phases, as any standard work in the English language.

The squeamishness which tries to ignore the existence of slang fails signally, for not only in the streets and the prisons, but at the bar, on the bench, in the pulpit, and in the Houses of Parliament, does slang make itself heard, and, as the shortest and safest means to an end, understood too.

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The sportsman's gazetteer and general guide - Charles Hallock- PDF book

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The sportsman's gazetteer and general guide

The game animals, birds and fishes of North America: their habits and various methods of capture. Copious instructions in shooting, fishing, taxidermy, woodcraft, etc. Together with a glossary, and a directory of the principal game resorts of the country; illustrated with maps

When I wrote the preface to the First Edition, in 1877, I little thought that I was placing a stepping-stone to bridge the six-year interval from that to this. I had sold the copyright to the present publishers, and abandoned literary labour for other pursuits; and, although often felt that the book needed a thorough revision, to bring it up to the advanced requirements of present needs, it is only by persistent persuasion, that I have been induced to undertake my part in placing the improved book before the public. In assuming the pleasant task, I am like one who returns to the threshold to repeat ‘‘farewell.” And now, more than at the beginning, I am convinced that just such a compendium is indispensable to the cultivated sportsman.

The best proof of its usefulness and popularity is the steady demand for the Gazetteer. It stands today as the only Cyclopedia of American sport.

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Author: Charles Hallock,

Publication date: 1883

Company: New York, Orange Judd Company

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Ancient times, a history of the early world by James Henry Breasted - PDF ebook

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Ancient times, a history of the early world - Illustrated.

an introduction to the study of ancient history and the career of early man.

The book illustrates Ancient History the same as an encyclopedia with many illustrations, maps, fossils, and wonderful drawings.

Excerpt from the introduction:

In the selection of subject matter as well as in style and diction, it has been the purpose of the author to make this book sufficiently simple to be put into the hands of first-year high-school pupils. A great deal of labor has been devoted to the mere task of clear and simple statements and arrangements. While simple enough for first-year high-school work, it nevertheless is planned to interest and stimulate all students of high-school age.

In dealing with each civilization a sufficient framework of political organization and of historical events has been laid down; but the bulk of the space has been devoted, to the life of man in all its manifestations — society, industry, commerce, religion, art, literature. These things are so presented as to make it clear how one age grows out of another, and how each civilization profits by that which has preceded it.

The story of each great race or nation is thus clearly disengaged and presented in the period after period; but, nevertheless, the book purposes to present the career of man as a whole, in a connected story of expanding life and civilization from the days of the rudest stone hatchet to the Christian cathedrals of Europe, without a serious gap.

Asymmetrical presentation of the career of man requires adequate space for the origins of civilization and the history of the Orient, as these two subjects have been revealed by the excavations and discoveries of the last two generations, especially the last twenty-five years. The reasons for devoting more than the customary space to these subjects in this book may therefore be briefly noted.

The length of the career of man discernible by us has been enormously increased at the present day by archaeological Furthermore, the value of the early oriental monuments as teaching material has as yet hardly been discerned. The highly graphic pictorial monuments and records of the East, when accompanied by proper explanations, may be made to convey to the young student the meaning and character of a contemporary historical source more vividly than anybody of ancient records surviving elsewhere.

When adequately explained, such records also serve to dispel that sense of complete unreality that besets the young person in studying the career of ancient man. These materials have not been employed in our schools, because they have not been available to the teacher in the current textbooks. Finally, when we recall that the leading religion of the world — the one which still dominates Western civilization today — came to us out of the Orient; when we further remember that before it fell the Roman Empire was completely orientalized, it would appear to be only fair to our schools to give them books furnish- ing an adequate treatment of pre-Greek civilization. This does not mean to question for a moment the undeniable supremacy of Greek culture or to give it any less space than before. The author believes that no one who reads the chapters on Greece in this survey will gain the impression that Hellas has been sacrificed to Moloch — in other words, to her oriental predecessors. The author is convinced that the surviving monuments of the entire ancient world can be so visualized as to render ancient history a very real story even to young students and that these monuments may be made to tell their own story with great vividness.

This method he has already introduced into the ancient-history chapters of Outlines of European History^ Part / where it has demonstrated its availability. The same method has been employed in illustrating this ancient history. The result has been a book somewhat larger than the current textbooks on ancient history, but the excess is due to the series of illustrations. The book actually contains a text of about five hundred pages, with a " picture book " of about two hundred Preface vii and fifteen pages. Teachers will do well to make the illustrations and accompanying descriptive matter part of each lesson.

The references in the text to the illustrations, and the references to the text in the descriptive matter under the illustrations, if noted and used, will be found to -merge text and illustrations into a unified whole. It should be noted that all references to the text are by paragraph (§) except a few references by " Section." An elaborate system of maps has been arranged by the author for the purpose of bringing the successive epochs of history before the pupil in terms of geography.

The underlying principle is the arrangement on the same plate of from two to four maps representing successive historical epochs- It is believed that these composite maps, called by the author sequence maps, will prove a powerful aid to the teacher.

The author has not found it an easy task to turn from twenty-five years of research in a laboratory of ancient history, extending from g. university post in America to the frontiers of the oriental lands, and endeavor to summarize for youthful readers the facts" now discernible in the career of ancient man. Under these circumstances, the experience of my friend Professor James Harvey Robinson, who has done so much for the study of history in the schools of America, has been invaluable. The book owes a great deal to the inspiration of his unflagging interest and the helpfulness of his long experience in the art of simplification. It may be mentioned here that Professor Robinson's Medieval and Modern Times forms the continuation of this volume on ancient history.

To my colleague Professor C. F. Huth also I am indebted for careful reading of the proofs, accompanied by unfailingly valuable counsel. To him, furthermore, I owe the excellent bibliography of Greece and Rome at the end of the volume. Mr. Robert I. Adriance, head of the history department of the East Orange high schools, has kindly read all the proofs. His discerning criticisms and wide knowledge have proved very valuable to the book, and his unfailing interest has been a great encouragement. viii Ancient Times It will be noticed that some of the author's treatment of the ancient world in Outlines of European History, Fart J, has been retained here. These portions had already been looked over by Mr. A. F. Barnard of the University High School of Chicago, and he has also very kindly read the proofs of the remainder of the volume.

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Some contents of the book:

PART I. THE EARLIEST European

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Early Mankind in Europe

1. Earliest Man's Ignorance and Progress i

3. The Early Stone Age . ..... 5

3. The Middle Stone Age .... . . . . 9

4. The Late Stone Age .... . . . 14

PART II. THE ORIENT

11. The Story of Egypt: the Earliest Nile-Dwellers
AND THE Pyramid Age

5. Egypt and its Earliest Inhabitants 35

6. The Pyramid Age (about 3000 to 2500 B.C.) ... .49

7. Art and Architecture in the Pyramid Age . . .68

III. The Story of Egypt: the Feudal Age and the Empire

8. The Nile Voyage and the Feudal Age. 74

9. The Founding of the Empire . . 80

10. The Higher Life of the Empire ... . 86

1 1 . The Decline and Fall of the Egyptian Empire. 93

12. The Decipherment of Egyptian Writing by Champollion 97

IV. Western Asia: Babylonia

13. The Lands and Races of Western Asia . . . loo

14. Rise of Sumerian Civilization and Early Struggle of

Sumerian and Semite ... . . ... 107

15. The First Semitic Triumph -.: the Age of Sargon. 122

16. Union of Sumerians and Semites: the Kings of Sumer

and Akkad ... ... ..... 126

17. The Second Semitic Triumph: the Age of Hammurapi

and After ..128

V. The Assyrians and Chaldeans

18. Early Assyria and her Rivals . . 140

19. The Assyrian Empire (about 750 to 606 B.C.) 151

20. The Chaldean Empire: the Last Semitic Empire . . . 164

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CHAPTER FAGE

VI. The Medo-Persian Empire

21. The Indo-European Peoples and their Dispersion. i?'

22. The Aryan Peoples and the Iranian Prophet Zoroaster 176

23. Rise of the Persian Empire: Cyrus i79

24. The Civilization of the Persian Empire (about 530

to 330 B.C.) 182

25. Persian Documents and the Decipherment of Cuneiform 189

26. The Results of Persian Rule and its Religious Influence 194

VII. The Hebrews and the Decline of the Orient

27. Palestine and the Predecessors of the Hebrews there 197

28. The Settlement of the Hebrews in Palestine and the

The United Hebrew Kingdom 200

29. The Two Hebrew Kingdoms 206

30. The Destruction of the Hebrew Kingdoms by Assyria

and Chaldea 210

31. The Hebrews in Exile and their Deliverance by the

Persians

32. Decline of Oriental Leadership; Estimate of Oriental

Civilization . . ... . .

PART III. THE GREEKS

VIII. The Dawn of European Civilization and the Rise
OF the Eastern Mediterranean World

33. The Dawn of Civilization in Europe ... 221

34. The ^gean World: the Islands . . . . . 22c

35. The Aegean World: the Mainland . . . ,,g

36. Modern Discovery in the Northern Mediterranean and

the Rise of an Eastern Mediterranean World

IX. The Greek Conquest of the Aegean World

37. The Coming of the Greeks .... . _ ^,

38. The Nomad Greeks make the Transition to the Settled

X. Greek Civilization in the Age of the Kings

39. The Aegean Inheritance and the Spread of Phoenician

Commerce f

40. The Phoenicians bring the First Alphabet to Europe 270

41. Greek Warriors and the Hero Songs 271

42. The Beginnings and Early Development of Greek

Religion 276

XI. The Age of the Nobles and Greek Expansion in
THE Mediterranean

43. The Disappearance of the Kings and the Leadership.

of the Nobles 282

44. Greek Expansion in the Age of the Nobles .... 287

45. Greek Civilization in the Age of the Nobles . . 290

XII. The Industrial Revolution and the Age of theTyrants

46. The Industrial and Commercial Revolution .... 295

47. Rise of the Democracy and the Age of the Tyrants. 301

48. Civilization of the Age of the Tyrants 307

XIII. The Repulse of Persia

49. The Coming of the Persians 322

Author:

James Henry Breasted

Publication date:

1916

Keywords:

Ancient times. civilizations- Greek Civilization - Egyptian Civilization- Encyclopedia of History

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Captains Courageous (1897) novel by Rudyard Kipling, PDF book

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Captains Courageous (1897)

Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlantic.

This novel is full of adventures and a good plot, the novel also was turned into a movie

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King".

Kipling said:

When, at the end of my tale, I desired that some of my characters should pass from San Francisco to New York in record time, and wrote to a railway magnate of my acquaintance asking what he himself would do,

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Atheism in philosophy, and other essays - Frederic Henry Hedge - PDF ebook

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Atheism in Philosophy, and other essays

Atheism in philosophy, and other essays -

There are few philosophers, and indeed few men, about whom such opposite opinions have been formed and such different judgments pronounced as those concerning Epicurus. To speak of him as an atheist at all, in the view of some, is to misrepresent him.

There have not been wanting defenders of his philosophy who acquit it of that charge and have even sought to adjust its principles with Christian doctrine. Prominent among them is Gassendi, who published toward the middle of the seventeenth century an elaborate account of Epicurus, entitled " De vita, moribus, et philosophia Epicuri ; " to which he afterward added "Animadversions in Diogenem Laertium," the biographer of Epicurus, and also a " Syntagma philosophias Epicuri."

Among ancient critics, his best advocate was a leader of the sect most opposed to his own, — the Stoic Seneca. I call him an atheist in philosophy; for though he recognizes the existence of the national gods, it is only as accidents, not as powers. He recognizes no divine agency in his system. His gods have no right to be, in the light of his philosophy. They have none of the attributes proper to deity;

. they are chance collections of atoms, destined sooner or later, like all other creatures, to perish and dissolve. To him, they have only an ethical im- port. Finding them fixed in popular belief, he uses them as illustrations of a blessed life. The testimony of the ancients is decisive on this subject. Lucretius makes it his special merit to have freed his followers from the yoke of religion.^ As to his morals, the authorities differ. Plutarch represents him as licentious; but, on the whole, the balance of testimony gives the impression of a man who led a blameless, and unquestionably very frugal and abstemious, life.

Contents:

Introduction 3

Epicurus 5

The Philosophy of Epicurus 24

Arthur Schopenhauer 51

Schopenhauer's Philosophy 70

Critique of Pessimism as taught by Eduard

VON Hartmann 123

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

Life and Character of Augustine 145

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz 195

Leibniz's Philosophy 217

The Monadology of Leibniz 245

Immanuel Kant 271

Irony 306

The Philosophy of Fetichism 337

Genius 354

The Lords of Life 376

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Author: Frederic Henry Hedge

Publication date: 1884

Remark The book contains philosophical essays

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The complete works of Arthur Schopenhauer -PDF ebooks

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The complete works of Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer is often praised for his deep understanding of human nature and his ability to articulate complex philosophical ideas in a clear and concise manner.

He is known for his pessimistic worldview, which emphasizes the inherently suffering nature of human existence. Schopenhauer's emphasis on the human will as the driving force behind all actions and his exploration of the concept of the "will live" are considered to be major contributions to philosophy.

Additionally, Schopenhauer's writings on aesthetics, particularly his ideas on the power of art and beauty to alleviate suffering and provide glimpses of transcendence, continue to be highly regarded.

On human nature; essays (partly posthumous) in ethics and politic
On the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason, and On the will in nature.
Religion dialogue, and other essays.
Studies in pessimism a series of essays.
The Art of Literature; a series of essays.
The basis of morality;
The Wisdom of Life, being the first part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit
The world as will and idea Volume 1
The world as will and idea Volume 2
The world as will and idea volume 4
Essays

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

Publication date: before 1930

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Autobiography of Orion Paul Fisher- PDF (1921)

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Autobiography of Orion Paul Fisher

banker, and financier, his "ups and downs" during forty years of business life

This book is dedicated to the young men and women workers in the mercantile and industrial fields of business, as a means of inspiring them to greater efficiency and encouraging them in their work. 50 per cent of the net proceeds from the sale of this book will be set aside in a trust fund to be used exclusively for the help of worthy young people who have some initiative and are striving for the efficiency which will enable them to enter the business for which they are best fitted and to furnish capital to those who have the experience and ability to start and manage a business in a line with which they are familiar. The other 50 per cent will also be set aside in a trust fund for other philanthropic work.

My great-grandfather Paul Fisher with his brother emigrated from Saxony, Ger- many. They fought in the Revolutionary War after which they settled among the Dutch settlers in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.

My great-grandfather reared a family of eleven children, one of whom was my grandfather, Paul, later he emigrated and settled near Calcutta, Ohio, in 1810, where my grandfather married a Miss Margaret Souder of Welsh ex- traction. Of this union were born six children, three boys and three girls, my father George being the youngest son.

My grandfather died at the age of eighty- six, being very active and sturdy and having great physical endurance all his life, his occupation being that of a farmer and stock raiser. As was the custom in those days, on coming of age my father received a parental gift of $1000. At this time April 14th, 1857, he and his brother Paul left the home of their boyhood to seek their for- tunes in the sunny south, engaging in the stock-raising business together with an elder brother who had preceded them some years before. When the Civil War broke out in 1861 my father was pressed into the rebel ranks under protest, being at that time a citizen of the south.

He soon obtained a furlough to return to his home and dispose of his property, after which, instead of again joining his regiment, he deserted to return to his northern home. He was captured while crossing the Ozark Mountains on horseback and again pressed into the rebel ranks, in another regiment. Watching his opportunity, he again deserted, this time on foot, keeping close to the brush, he slowly made his way to General Schofield's headquarters in the Union lines, then stationed at Cassville, Missouri, arriving there October 12th, 1861.

At this time being physically incapacitated because of the many hardships endured on his five hundred mile journey by foot, he was excused from military duty and immediately returned to his father home in Ohio. Recovering his health, he resumed his former occupation as a teacher of a country school near Calcutta, Ohio. A few years later his friends requested him to write a history of his experiences while in Texas. This he did in spare moments while teaching school, bringing out a book entitled "

The Yankee Conscript or Eighteen Months in Dixie,'' many thousands of copies of which were sold throughout the United States. When living in Texas and while on his way north my father had no thought of writing a book, therefore made no memorandums of dates of occurrences contained therein, but from beginning to end correct dates are given showing a wonderful memory, w^hich was inherited by his son, the writer of the following auto- biography.

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Making a success of salesmanship - PDF by Maxwell Droke

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Making a success of salesmanship

from the introduction:

A certain naive and candid author, of a generation gone by, once declared that he wrote books in order to have an excuse to write prefaces. Perhaps that author was in a more fortunate position than the present writer. Maybe he real¬ ly had something to say in the preface of his books. I am afraid, in this instance, that I have not. I find myself in the sorry predicament of having put everything into the book. This was an unfortunate slip-up and greatly to be deplored.

But, you see, I am not a professional writer of books, and I must plead ignorance of most of the tricks of the trade. I believe that this book, Making a Success of Salesmanship, will not require extended explanation or introduction; if it does, then I have failed in my desire to have a simple, friendly talk with salesmen about the day-to-day problems that we all meet up with on the battlegrounds of business.
I did not write this book. It was written for me by dozens of salesmen, in as many lines; men who have told me their stories, and discussed with me their trials and triumphs.

If you find between the covers of this little volume (an expression which all accredited preface writers use) a bit of cheer, inspiration, and helpfulness, it is to these salesmen your gratitude is due. They furnished the power—I merely pushed the pen.

A few years ago a certain salesman who had met with rather phenomenal success in the east was transferred to a middle- western city which is celebrated for its large percentage of the foreign-born population. The salesman started out with a great deal of “pep” and “ginger” but for some reason or other, he couldn't close his prospects. Finally, the District Manager, who was conversant with local conditions, pointed out the trouble, “You are travelling at too fast a gait,” he declared. “You are trying to sell these phlegmatic foreigners by the same strong-arm methods you used on the high-powered, quick-thinking eastern business executive, and it won't work.

Help your prospect to think—and think your way—as you go along, and you will do a lot more business in this town.” The salesman saw the point and immediately altered his tactics. Speaking slowly and distinctly, he presented his proposition a step at a time, pausing frequently to ask, “Is that perfectly clear to you, Mr Schneider?” or “You agree with that statement, do you not ?” And throughout the interview the salesman closely studied the prospect, carefully noting the reaction to each point and making certain that every claim was throughly believed.

As a result, the very first day he wrote $20,000 -worth of insurance. Psychologists, you know, tell us that a sale is consummated when the prospective customer makes up his mind that he wants a certain commodity more than he wants the money required to purchase it. That is all very true. But the fact remains that the prospective customer, left to his own de¬ vices would, nine times out of ten, decide negatively. We men who earn our bread and butter by making sales know from practical experience that very few commodities are bought voluntarily.

They have to be sold. And the very foundation of every sale is—confidence. First and foremost we must make our man believe in us, in our product, and in our proposition, before we can hope to close the sale. You remember the story of the man who by way of experiment stationed himself on a busy street corner and tried in vain to sell genuine five-dollar gold pieces for fifty cents. He had the goods all right. But he couldn't secure the confidence of the passing public.
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Author: Maxwell Droke

Publication date: 1922

Company: Chicago, New York, The Dartnell corporation

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Imaginary conversations - PDF by Walter Savage Landor (1886)

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Imaginary conversations

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Landor will always be a great figure in English literature. His is an Olympian form, like Milton's, solitary, it is true, but he stands on " the far eastern uplands," fairly beyond the ebb and flow of time. Born into the midst of the second flowering-time of our national literary energy,* Landor was isolated from the first by the necessity of his own proud and imperious temperament. During a period of literary activity extending over seventy years, he slowly built up the life-work that now finds a more or less inaccessible home in the stately volumes of Forster's final edition.

He was a poet embodying revolutionary aspirations in classic and concrete language; he was a critic in the largest sense, a critic of life and of the human spirit as it is expressed in literature, a patient and unwearied critic of language; above all, he was what we may for the moment, for want of a better term, consent to call him with * Wordsworth, Scott, Coleridge, Southey, Lamb, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and De Quincey were all born during the years between 1770 and 1785. During some period Chatterton, Gray, Goldsmith and Johnson died. Byron, Shelley, Carlyle and Keats were born a few years later. Browning, " a great dramatic poet." His Examination of William Shakspere for deer-stealing is marked by its individual power and solemn deliberate humour; in the Pentamero? Boccaccio and Petrarch discourse together in delightful old-world fashion; Pericles and Aspasia is full of glimpses of Greek life mingled with Landorian wisdom. But it is in the Imaginary Conversations, elaborated during the thirty most mature years of his life, that Landor has given us most of himself. As was said many years ago, a well-edited selection of the Conversations would be " one of the most beautiful books in the language — that is to say, in the world." In these Conversations, a great procession of noble and gracious forms, of olden times and of a later day, pass sweetly or sadly before us. Hannibal supports the dying body of his enemy Marcellus and exclaims

"What else has the world in it?" Chaucer and Boccaccio dine together at the house of Messer Francesco Petrarca, and tell each other stories in the manner of old time; large wise sayings mixed with kisses fall from the lips of Epicurus as he talks philosophy with his girl- pupils in the garden outside Athens; Garibaldi and Mazzini laugh sadly together over " French honour, French veracity;" the dignified Bossuet respectfully advances to hear the con- fession of his king's volatile young mistress; Cicero and his brother discourse together in lofty Ciceronian ways of life and death and fame; Leonora di Este implores her imprisoned lover Tasso to forget her, and dies with a happy smile, receiving the assurance that he can never forget Montaigne in his wise and genial way laughs quietly at the stiff and learned Scaliger; Ascham warns his young pupil Lady Jane Grey of the perils of greatness; Pericles leads Sophocles through the Athens that he has adorned, and delights more than all in the voices that praise him for his friends' sake; Leofric rides into Coventry with his young bride Godiva, so resolute to save the city; Joan of Arc strives to stir Agnes Sorel's weak heart to heroism; Washington and Franklin discourse of the free spirit of New England; the Empress Catharine stands outside the door, hears the dogs lapping her murdered husband's blood, and seeks to justify LANDOR. ix herself; Sir Philip Sidney and Greville talk of poetry amid the woods of Penshurst; Beatrice receives her lover's last kiss with " Dante! Dante! they make the heart sad after " — such are the forms — and how many more! — that Landor with his unfailing instinct for what is heroic or tender has brought before us in these Imaginary Conversations.

Marcellus And Hannibal

Queen Elizabeth And Cecil.

Tiberius And Virsania

Epictetus And Seneca.

Peter The Great And Alexis

Louis Xiv. And Father La Chaise

Henry Viii. And Anne Boleyn

Joseph Scaliger And Montaigne

Boccaccio And Petrarca

Metellus And Marius ....

Bossuet And The Duchess De Fontanges

John Of Gaunt And Joanna Of Kent.

Lady Lisle And Elizabeth Gaunt.

Empress Catharine And Princess Dashkov

Leofric And Godiva ....

Essex And Spenser ....

William Wallace And King Edward I.

Archbishop Boulter And Philip Savage

Lord Bacon And Richard Hooker

General Lacy And Cura Merino

Oliver Cromwell And Walter Noble

Lord Brooke And Sir Philip Sidney.

Southey And Porson...

The Abbe Delille And Walter Landor

Diogenes And Plato...

Barrow And Newton...

Scipio, Polybius, And Pan^etius .

Pav1d Hume And John Home

Alfieri And Salomon The Florentine Jew

Rousseau And Malesherbes
Lucullus And Cesar...

Epicurus, Leontion, And Ternissa
Marcus Tullius And Quinctus Cicero.

Author: Walter Savage Landor
Publication Date:(1886)

The notebooks of Samuel Butler - PDF ebook

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The notebooks of Samuel Butler

https://In "The Doctor's Dilemma" there is a saucy reference to an unprofessional heretic who has views on art, science, morals and religion. Old Sir Patrick CuUen shocks the heretic's disciple by not even recognizing the name. "Bernard Shaw ?" he ponders, "I never heard of him. He's a Methodist preacher, I suppose."

Louis is horrified. "No, no. He's the most advanced man now living: he isn't anything.'' The old doctor is not set back an inch. These "advanced" men who impress the young by employing the accumulations of genius — he knows them. "I assure you, young man," he in- forms Louis, "my father learnt the doctrine of deliverance from sin from John Wesley's own lips before you or Mr Shaw were born." It is a pleasant thing to claim that the man you admire is "advanced" and to believe serenely that you are progressive along with him.

It is also a convenient thing to employ such question-begging phrases as heterodox, radical, free-thinker, and anarchist. The trouble with such phrases, indicative and ex- citing as they are, is their plain relativity to something reprehensible that only you yourself have in mind. The world is full of moss-grown places called Newtown and Newburg and Nykobing and Neuville.

It is also full of moss-grown writers who once were advanced and revolutionary. If a writer is to be paraded as heterodox it has to be shown that he does something more than take up an agreeable position. It has to be shown that he has a manner, a method, of dealing with things that really deserve to be considered advanced. This is Samuel Butler's claim on posterity.

The urgently intelligent son of a dull English clergyman, he certainly did not lack incentives to heterodoxy. Besides that, he was born in 1835 and was one of the first of Darwin's admirers, as later he was one of the first of his critics. But there was more than reflex action in Samuel Butler's heterodoxy. He iv Introductory was never anything so regular as an anarchist.

He distrusted authority in religion and art and science without dis- carding religious, artistic or scientific values. He thought freely without being a freethinker, and radically without be- ing a radical. To say he was lawless would entirely misrepresent him, he was not nearly so much a revolutionary as a conscientious objector on the loose.

Here again, he fell into none of the ordinary classifications. He was not a missionary. He had as little ambition to form a new orthodoxy as to attach himself to an old one. He had a marked propensity, that of thinking for himself — one of those perplexing propensities that nothing seems to determine, that may occur in an emperor or his slave and no one knows how or why.

And that propensity, the capital distinction of his many-sided life, gave him emancipation in a way that no one could have predicted and that was long quite difficult to label.

It was difficult to label mainly because Samuel Butler's intellectual adventure had come to an end before the label was invented. Samuel Butler was above everything a pragmatist, one of those forerunners of pragmatism who did not become conscious of its "universal mission" or its "conquering destiny," who nevertheless employed the method intuitively and "made momentous contributions to the truth by its means."

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Author: Samuel Butler

Publication date:1917

Company: New York, E.P. Dutton

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A sketch of morality - Jean-Marie Guyau - PDF ebook

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A sketch of morality independent of obligation or sanction

A sketch of morality - Jean-Marie Guyau

There can be little doubt that the present moment offers a fit opportunity for introducing to a large circle of English readers this book of Guyau's, which, in his own country, is rightly considered his masterpiece.

Guyau is already known in England by his remarkable and suggestive work on Education and Heredity and The Irreligion of the Future; and another work from him, on so important a subject as Morality, may furnish a much-needed source of inspiration and encouragement, at a time when moral science is evidently entering upon a period of renewed energy and wider interest.

Stimulated by the great difficulties of the ever-increasing complexity of life, under circumstances which render many of the old creeds and religions incompetent to grapple with the problems demanding solutions; distressed by mental chaos which threatens to retard all progressive efforts by fitful reactions; the lovers of freedom and social amelioration turn to Morality for the support and the strength-giving quality without which life is doomed to decay and destruction.

But, in order to make the influence of morality a living reality, instead of shadowy and conventional dogma, the study of its principles should be approached with a deep. reverence for human nature and truth, and a broad-minded sympathy, which alone can achieve success in so arduous an undertaking. In this sphere of moral science, which includes all that is of most vital importance to man, the author of Morality Independent of Sanction or Obligation is a master spirit. He merits the study of all men and women who look for the development of the highest and best from germs which lie hidden in the human breast itself.

That Guyau is one of ourselves, born in the central life of the nineteenth century, gives all the more significance and actuality to his thoughts, and fills his writings with a convincing interest that the utterances of authors belonging to earlier times cannot possess in the same degree and intensity.

For each generation, the hope and the light of the future must necessarily spring from its own present. The past may give us the eternal essence of human thought, which has a historical and unquestionable value; but the present alone can fully express its own needs, capacities, and forces.

The present must work out its own salvation. Neither Socrates nor Christ, neither Aristotle nor Buddha, neither Luther nor Kant, can give us the keys to the problems of an age which was unknown to them. Our springs of life, the energies of our new birth, take their rise in the most highly-gifted minds of our own era.

And among these finely-organized and superior natures, Guyau stands one of the foremost. Born in 1856, a typical offspring of the second part of our century, we find in him a personality specially endued with a genius for reflecting the intellectual and moral evolution of the age. These are the very doubts and negations which we experience, and it is the very hopes and ideals translator's preface. ix which shall lift us out of the depths of mechanical materialism. Exclusive attention to physical and external phenomena has occupied our minds and shut us out from the sphere of reflective and emotional activity, which is none other than the sphere of morality.

Guyau, in no way hampered by an antiquated education, found himself, from the very beginning of his intellectual life, at the point which even now a great many enlightened minds only reach after a severe struggle. He possessed the great advantage of which Emerson speaks in his essay on "Worship ": " For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training — the religion of character is so apt to be invaded." We should like to add: Religion of thought — that is to say, the loyalty to the truth — is so apt to be lost. From this danger Guyau escaped, his first and only religion having been the idealism of Plato and Kant.

These were the masters from whose lofty conceptions he gradually evolved the standpoint whence the royal road to human self-direction lies open before his vision and his efforts. And his nature was such as to unite the qualities of the thinker and moralist with those of the artist and poet. While acting as the mirror of all the conflicting tendencies and characteristics of his age, it remained a witness to the higher unity which underlies all existence.

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Author: Jean-Marie Guyau

Publication date: 1898

Company:London: Watts

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Ann Veronica - A Modern Love story - PDF by H. G. Wells

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Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells

Ann Veronica is the youngest of five children and the only one left at home.

Finding a life of "calls, tennis, selected novels, walks and dusting" to be stifling, she has persuaded her father to let her attend college, although only the Tredgold Women's College, not the more prestigious "mixed" college that she wants to attend.

Being one of the "New Woman" novels, I didn't know quite what to expect. This is the best, most realistic one I've read thus far. Vee's spunk is admirable and Wells took on the subject with a decent blend of traditional and non-traditional behaviour. The ending was very appropriate for me at this time in my life. It wasn't edgy and yet it wasn't sentimental. I would read this one again.

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Memoirs of a cavalier - PDF novel by Daniel Defoe

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Memoirs of a cavalier, or, a military journal of the wars in Germany and the wars in England

Memoirs of a cavalier - by Daniel Defoe

The "Memoirs of a Cavalier " were published on the 21st of May 1720, three weeks only after the appearance of " Duncan Campbell." The full title of the original edition, which bore no date, was, " Memoirs of a Cavalier; or, a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648.

Written threescore years ago, by an English Gentleman, who served first in the Army of Gustavus Adolphus, the glorious King of Sweden, till his death, and after that in the Royal Army of King Charles the First, from the beginning of the Rebellion to the end of the War."

The book must have been ready for the press when " Duncan Camp-bell " appeared, at the latest; it purports to have been written "threescore years ago" that is, not later than the Restoration. Elsewhere the data is carried back to 1651, or earlier.

The first question, then, that has to be considered is whether Defoe's work is in reality based upon a contemporary manuscript narrative; and this question leads to the other great problem connected with the book, viz., Who was the cavalier whose adventures are here described?

It will be convenient, for the facility of reference, to give a brief summary of the main incidents of the Cavalier's 1441794 viii Introduction life as set forth in the Memoirs. It will then be easy to judge the plausibility of any theory which may be put forth. "

It may suffice the reader," says the Cavalier, " without being very inquisitive after my name, that I was born in the county of Salop, in the year ^608." His father, a gentleman of means, lived six miles from " the town."

Being a second son, the Cavalier was carefully taught and was sent to " College," Oxford, when he was seventeen. At the end of three years he returned home, but, as he evinced a great desire to travel, his father gave his permission, and he set out for the Continent with a friend on April 22, 1630. After seeing something of France and Italy, the young man attached himself to the French army under the Due de Montmorency in Italy and was present at the capture of Saluzzo. From September 1630 to January 1631 he was in Milan, and in April 1631 he reached Vienna, where everyone was discussing the war in Germany, and the action of the King of Sweden.

The Cavalier abandoned his former plans, and decided to see the army of Gustavus Adolphus; but, owing to difficulties in passing the guards on the frontiers of Silesia, he had to go through Saxony, and at the beginning of May 1631. he was with the Imperial forces, under Count Tilly, at the siege of Magdeburg. Horrified at the cruelties which followed the fall of that city, the Cavalier left the Imperial army for Leipsic, where he remained until August when a siege seemed imminent. In September he reached the Swedish army, was introduced to the king and entered himself as a volunteer under Sir John Hepburn. Immediately afterwards the Cavalier took part in the battle of Leipsic (September 7, 1631), where Tilly was defeated; and at the end of the month, he was wounded in the arm at the attack on the castle Introduction ix of Marienburg. Afterwards,

he took an active part in the capture of the fort at Oppenheim and was made Colonel at Mentz in February 1632. In April he was engaged at the battle of the Lech, where Tilly was slain; and in June he went to Nuremberg, which was then being besieged by Wallenstein. He was present when Freynstat was taken but was not engaged in the battle of Altenberg.

Before Leipsic was captured by the Imperialists, the Cavalier had been taken prisoner, and he thus missed the battle of Liitzen (November 16, 1632), where his hero Gustavus Adolphus was killed. When Leipsic was retaken, he obtained his liberty.

Afterwards he travelled about Germany for two years, was present at councils of war in 1634, and at the defeat of the Protestants at Nordlingen (August 17, 1634). By March 1635 he had inspected Prince Maurice's army and reached the Hague, and he arrived in England at the end of the year.

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Author: Daniel Defoe

Publication date:1908

Company: London: J. M. Dent & co.; New York, E. P. Dutton & co.

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Alice adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - PDF ebook

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Alice's adventures in Wonderland

A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters

Excerpt from the book introduction

In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll created a fantastic world peopled with unforgettable characters and creatures. This world may fascinate adults, but it was originally envisioned and expanded upon for the entertainment of children, and that is why it has been loved for well over a century. Victorian children's authors considered it their duty to "improve" their audience. But Alice in Wonderland is neither moralistic nor condescending.

In Carroll's hands. Father William, a man committed to diligence and dignity, becomes a scalawag who revels in absurdity. The same treatment was also given to "How doth the little busy bee," and "'Tis the voice of the sluggard." The Queen of Hearts, with her maniacal devotion to manners and protocol, can definitely be read as a rather thinly veiled caricature of Queen Victoria.

The dry speech given by the Mouse at the very beginning of Alice's journey is, in fact, an actual quote from a textbook of Carroll's time. Besides parodying most of the Victorian era's customs, Alice in Wonderland is practically brimming over with word games and logical fallacies.

The Mad Hatter is being punished for beating Time. The March Hare can't understand why the Hatter's watch doesn't keep time after being filled with butter — after all, it was the best butter One makes turtle soup from the turtle, so Mock Turtle soup must be made from . . . and so on.

Contents of the book

I. Down the Rabbit-Hole 1

II. The Pool of Tears 9

III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale 16

IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill 24

V. Advice from a Caterpillar 34

VI. Pig and Pepper 43

VII. A Mad Tea-Party 54

VIII. The Queen's Croquet-Ground 63

IX. The Mock Turtle's Story 73

X. The Lobster-Quadrille 82

XI. Who Stole the Tarts? 91

X11. Alice's Evidence 98

Author: Lewis Carroll

Publisher: Great Britain: Aerie Books

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Tamil self-taught - PDF by Don M. Wickremasinghe

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Tamil self-taught : (in roman characters)

DESIGNED primarily for TOURISTS and TRAVELERS in Foreign lands who, without previous knowledge of the Language, desire to express themselves sufficiently to be understood, these books also form a good foundation for the more serious-minded student.

The Method followed throughout the Series is to give Classified vocabularies and Conversational Phrases under Subjects, arranged in three columns giving first the English word or phrase, second the Foreign equivalent, and third the English phonetic pronunciation

This latter column makes correct pronunciation a simple matter.

A section an Elementary Grammar is included in most cases and deals with the construction of sentences and any special peculiarities of the language, such as Genders, Tenses, Conjugation of Verbs, etc. For the more important languages, a separate volume on Grammar is published containing, in addition to a thorough treatise on Grammar, Exercises for translation.

Author: Don M. Wickremasinghe
Publication Date: 1906

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The medical features of the Papyrus Ebers - PDF by Carl H. von Klein

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The medical features of the Papyrus Ebers

The costly manuscript was unfolded and on close inspection Ebers made the startling discovery that it was a document of great value and in an unusual condition of preservation.

Ebers says he can with difficulty de- scribe the impression that the precious, delightfully written and undamaged memorial made on him. The first lines on which his eyes fell belonged to a fragment of a calendar that he had known for a long time.

This little document, so very important to the Egyptian chronology, was years ago shown to the renowned Egyp-tologists, Diimchen, Naville, Brugsch, Bisenlohr, and in 1870 to Ebers himself, in a copy belonging to a Mr. Smith, an American inhabitant of Luxor, who main-tained that he was the possessor of an extensive medical papyrus. Because of an affection of the eyes contracted while copying inscriptions, Ebers could not study the Smith copies ; hence

Professor Eisenlohr of Heidelberg succeeded in obtaining a drawing (by means of tracing) of the fragment of calendar which was then regularly advertised in a periodical devoted to the Egyptian lan- guage and archseology, biit without success. Outside of the already-mentioned fragment of calen- dar, not a line of the papyrus was known. Mr. Smith claimed to have possessed a roll from which he had copied the fragment of the calendar, while, in reality, he possessed only a copy, which was the product of his own handwriting.

The Anglo-Saxon nations, though renowned for deep thinking and philosophizing in every branch of science and art, can not boast of a scholarship in bringing forth the first literature of the science of medicine.

A third of a century has elapsed since George Ebers revealed the pages on medicine which were written some seven thousand years ago, and which were concealed for nearly four thousand years between the legs of a mummy.

With the assistance of the learned Ludwig Stern and other Egyptologists, Ebers published the fact that Hippocrates of Cos, who for twenty-three hundred years has been known to the world as the "Father of Medicine,"

Delivered before the Thirtieth Annual Session of the American Academy of Medicine at Chicago, 1905.

Hermetic, which means compiled, or inspired by Thoth, was any work which was written by a priest according to the inspiration of the god, which would correspond excellently to the Ebers Papyrus.

However, Luring believes that the Ebers Papyrus is much older than the book, and argues that there are certain remarkable differential points between them. Whatever may be the truth, the value of the Ebers Papyrus is the same, be it the hermetic work or a compilation from writings of prominent physicians of the earliest ages.

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Author: Carl H. von Klein

Publication date: 1905

Remark Chicago, American Medical Association

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The Conflict between Man and Mammon PDF by George Woodward

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"The Conflict between Man and Mammon; or, Gold Slavery the Curse of the World" by George Woodward Warder delves into the contentious issue of the world's financial system and the impact it has on society.

The book begins by highlighting how the world's energies are being expended in the enslavement of the human race, with individual avarice and corporate greed playing a significant role in perpetuating this cycle.

The author then delves into the present financial issue of free silver, arguing that the gold standard is not the standard of civilization. He explores why England demonetized silver and how silver has been the unit of value for a century. Warder goes on to discuss the crime of 1873 and how President Cleveland's actions were a disappointment to many. He refutes the notion that silver was demonetized due to overproduction, pointing out the increase of gold over silver and how silver was at par when demonetized.

The book also delves into the avarice of the rich as the primary motive behind the push for the gold standard, arguing that there is not enough of both metals to sustain a healthy financial system. Warder explains how destroying silver doubles the purchasing power of gold and how all parties are in favor of bi-metalism. He argues that other nations have followed the United States' example and there is no reason why the country should wait to return to a bi-metallic system.

The author distinguishes between bi-metalism and concurrent circulation, emphasizing that silver still measures the value of the world's products. He argues that only the usurer benefits from the gold standard, while the rest of society suffers. Warder concludes by advocating for a return to bi-metalism and a system that benefits the majority of the population rather than a select few. "The Conflict between Man and Mammon" is a thought-provoking exploration of the financial systems that govern our world and the impact they have on society.

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A club; an assembly of good fellows, ( 1914) by Joseph S. Auerbach

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A club; an assembly of good fellows

A CLUB In memory of long, unbroken comradeship with fine fellows and beautiful streams and woods and fields, this rambling journey is affectionately inscribed as the tribute of the lover to them all.
All morning there had been a little gathering of people outside the gate. It was the day on which Mr Meredith was to be, as they say, buried. He had been, as they say, cremated.

The funeral coach came, and a very small thing was placed in it and covered with flowers. One plant of the wallflower in the garden would have covered it. The coach, followed by a few others, took the road to Dorking, where, in a familiar phrase, the funeral was to be, and in a moment or two all seemed silent and deserted, the cottage, the garden, and Box Hill.

The cottage was not deserted, as They knew who now trooped into the round in front of it, their eyes on the closed door. They were the mighty company, his children, Lucy and Clara and Rhoda and Diana and Rosa and Old Mel and Roy Ricmond and Adrian and Sir Willoughby and a hundred others, and they stood in line against the boxwood, waiting for him to come out. Each of his proud women carried a flower, and the hands of all his men were ready for the salute. What a rebuke is such words for our dullness of vision! How much more then, can we be said to continue in the companionship of those comrades who have really lived, and who are now the haunting memories of these rooms and fields and woods and streams.

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A complete Geography - PDF (1902) by Ralph S. Tarr

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A complete geography (with Illustrations)

A complete geography

Excerpt from the introduction:

In the plan of this volume, the authors have left the beaten track to such an extent that some words of explanation seem in place. General Geography. — Probably the most difficult part of the geography for Grammar School grades is that dealing with seasons, winds, rainfall, temperature, etc. It ordinarily occupies a considerable number of pages at the beginning of the larger book and follows immediately upon Primary Geography.

This arrangement requires pupils to spring from a meagre study of simple, concrete facts to the highest abstractions in the entire subject; and, what makes the matter worse, these broad abstractions are usually only very briefly stated. The authors of this volume have followed a different plan. Only three chapters, at the beginning of the book, precede the in- tensive treatment of the United States.

The first is a physiographic history of the continent, showing how its principal mountain ranges and valleys came into existence; how its coal beds were formed; what were the effects of the great Ice Age; and what have been the more recent changes in the coastline, with their results. Then comes a chapter on the Plants, Animals, and Peoples of North America; and following that is a treatment of Latitude and Longitude.

Only so much is presented before taking up the United States because that is all that seems really necessary. Whatever further facts have been needed for North America in regard to seasonal changes, winds, etc., have been plainly stated, when needed, just as other concrete facts have been. After our continent is finished and a fair number of concrete data, bearing on these matters, has been collected, these topics themselves are treated in much detail. By this arrangement, the study of these difficult subjects has been postponed one year, and they are then approached somewhat inductively.

The authors regard this as one of the most important among their proposed changes in method. The general principles in regard to industries, distribution of inhabitants, mutual relation of city and country, and dependence of various sections upon one another, form another subject which, contrary to custom, is treated in the middle and hatter parts of the volume. One reason for this is that these broad truths approach abstractions in their nature, and are, consequently, too difficult to be earlier appreciated by children.

They are, moreover, to a large extent, a summary of what has preceded, and, therefore, naturally come last. A more inductive approach is, therefore, again highly desirable. Their great importance, also, has caused more than the usual amount of space to be given to them. Physiographic Basis and Causal Sequence. — The authors believe that rational geography must rest upon a physiographic foundation. It is physiographic conditions that most often furnish the reasons for the location of human industries, the development of transportation routes, the situation of cities, etc

. In other words, when the physiographic facts about a given region are clearly grasped, most of the other geographic facts easily arrange themselves as links in a causal chain. Thus the many details touching a certain locality are taught in relation to one another, so that they approach the form of a narrative, rather than that of a mere list of statements.

Physiography has, therefore, been introduced freely; but not too freely, provided each physical fact is shown really to function in man's relation to the earth. Physiography that is clearly shown to have a real bearing upon man greatly enriches the subject of geography; it is the unused physical geography that is a stumbling block in the grades, and this we have tried to avoid. Review of North America. —

A common defect in the teaching of geography is that the facts previously learned about the United States fade from the pupil's memory while other countries are being studied. Yet the relation between North America and the other continents is so marked that this defect is unnecessary. For example, most of the industries and important principles of physiography and climate have received the attention of a child when he has completed a general study of the United States. Foreign lands illustrate the same great ideas under slightly different conditions.

This book though old but very useful for geography students to know the fundamental of geography with illustrations

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Author: Ralph S. Tarr and Frank Morton McMurry,

Publication date: 1902

Company: New York, London, The Macmillan co.

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The books in my life, PDF book by Henry Miller

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The books in my life, by Henry Miller

The purpose of this book, which will run to several volumes in the course of the next few years, is to round out the story of my life. It deals with books as a vital experience. It is not a critical study nor does it contain a program for self-education. One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the confirmed belief that one should read less and less, not more and more.

As a glance at the Appendix will reveal, I have not read nearly as much as the scholar, the bookworm, or even the " well-educated " man — yet I have undoubtedly read a hundred times more than I should have read for my own good. Only one out of five in America, it is said, are readers of " books." But even this small number read far too much. Scarcely anyone lives wisely or filthy. There have been and always will be books that are truly revolutionary — that is to say, inspired and inspiring.

They are few and far between, of course. One is lucky to run across a handful in a Lifetime. Moreover, these are not the books that invade the general public. They are the hidden reservoirs that feed the men of lesser talent who know how to appeal to the man in the street. The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — ^never resolved, alas! — is to what extent it would be efficacious to curtail the overwhelming supply of cheap fodder. One thing is certain today — the illiterate are definitely not the least inteUigctit among us.

In this age, which believes that there is a shortcut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. All that is set forth in books, all that seems so terribly vital and significant, is but an iota of that from which it stems and which it is within everyone's power to tap. Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the water.

It applies to the pursuit of the arts as well as to the pursuit of knowledge. Men are still being taught to create by studying other men's works or by making plans and sketches never intended to materialize. The art of writing is taught in the classroom instead of in the thick of life. Students are still being handed models which are supposed to fit all temperaments, all kinds of intelligence. No wonder we produce better engineers than writers, and better industrial experts than painters.

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The psychology of relaxation - by George Patrick - PDF ebook

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The psychology of relaxation

The Gospel of Relaxation was the subject of a speech made by Mr Herbert Spencer at a dinner given in his honour in New York City in 1882. Mr Spencer called attention to the extreme form of "persistent activity" which characterizes the Ameri- can people. The energy of the savage, he said, was spasmodic. He could not apply himself persistently to work. He lived in the present and did not worry about the future.

A civilized man more and more pursues a future goal and applies himself to work until it becomes a passion. In America, said Mr Spencer, this strenuous and high-pressure life has become extreme, and a counterchange — a reaction — must be imminent.

We take our multitudinous responsibilities too seriously. There are too many lines in our faces, our grey hairs appear too early, and our nervous breakdowns are too frequent. Damaged constitutions and damaged posterity are among the results. Emerson, with his saying that the first requisite of a gentleman is to be a perfect animal, is a safer guide for us than Carlyle with his gospel of work. More recently, Professor James, Annie Payson Call, and other writers ^ have eloquently preached this same gospel of relaxation.

We are told that we are too breathless; that we live under too much stress and tension; that we are too intense and carry too much expression in our faces; that we must relax, let go, breathe deeply, and un- burden ourselves of many useless contractions. There seems to be a good deal of truth in this. Some of us manage to escape neurasthenia, but few of us are free from fatigue, chronic or acute. We hear with amazement now and again someone say, "I was never tired in my life." Surely un- der normal conditions we ought not to be so tired as we are, nor tired so often.

To select for psychological treatment, and to bring together in one book such subjects as play, sport, laughter, profanity, alcohol, and war may seem to some capricious — to others, possibly, even sensational.

Let me assure the reader that nothing could be farther from my purpose than to make any such appeal to popular favour. I have attempted a prosaic, and, so far as to lay in my power, strictly scientific treatment of these subjects from the psychological and psychogenetic standpoint. These subjects have been chosen, as I have explained in the introductory chapter because they all illustrate one fundamental law, that of relief from the stress and tension which characterize our modem life.

The connecting idea which links together these several themes is the catharsis idea, but the catharsis idea itself, as it appears in Aristotle and modem writers, I have found it necessary to subject to a new interpretation.

Content of the book:
Introduction.--The psychology of play.--The psychology of laughter.--The psychology of profanity.--The psychology of alcohol.--The psychology of war.--Conclusion

Published: 1916
Author: George Thomas White Patrick

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The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem -1099 to 1291 A.D - PDF by C. R. Conder

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The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

The sources on which we depend for the history of the time of the great Crusades, and which have been used by Gibbon and Michaud, are well known and accessible. They include the Chronicles of Foucher of Chartres, who accompanied Robert of Normandy (1095-1124 A.D.), and of Raymond of Aguilera, who was also present at the conquest of Antioch, with that of Albert of Aix, and the great history of William, Archbishop of Tyre, which was begun in 1182 and closes in 1184.

These I have read in the great collection of Bongar's Gesta Dei Per Francos (Hanover, 1611), which also includes the important description of later events by Jacques de Vitry, Bishop of Acre, written about 1220 A.D.f The Moslem accounts include Boha ed Din's life of his master Saladin about 1200 A.D., and the later works of Kemal ed-Din, Mejr ed-Din, Abu el Feda, and Makrizi, with El Edrizi's geography about 1150 A.D.

The full details of King Richard's expedition are given in the contemporary account of Jeoffrey de Vinsauf, written about 1200 A.D.; and for the Crusade of St. Louis, we have Joynville's Memoirs, the travels of Rubruquis, and Marco Polo, all full of vivid pictures of the age.

The pilgrim geographies now published by the Palestine Pilgrim Texts Society are equally important and well known; and even the later work of Marino Sanuto throws light on many questions, while the travels of Benjamin of Tudela explain the condition of the Jews in the East about 1 1 60 A.D. I have not thought it necessary to give exact citations in every case, where sources so well known have been consulted.

The object of this volume is, however, not so much to relate the history of Crusades, as to present a picture of the curious social conditions that resulted from the establishment of a feudal society amid Oriental surroundings, and to trace the growth of civilisation and prosperity during the two centuries of Latin rule.

The period is one of the most interesting in history, and the results of Frank colonisation in Palestine were far-reaching and important. A large amount of material also exists, which has not as yet been utilised fully in treating these questions. French antiquaries and especially Rey have diligently collected the contemporary documents, which relate to the tenure of land, and to the gifts and sales to the Church and to the great Military Orders.

Herr Rohricht in Germany has, quite recently, reduced to chronological order a list of 1,500 documents, of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, which relate to the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The geography of the age was only imperfectly understood before Palestine was sur- veyed, and the Norman buildings churches and castles have now been planned and photographed, and many interesting inscriptions were collected from them.

It thus becomes possible to give a picture, both of the country and of its populations, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, such as could not formerly be drawn; and, though Rey has done much towards the study of social conditions, the wealth of illustration found in the works of Jeoffrey de Vinsauf,f Joinville, Rubruquis, and others, has not as yet been fully utilised, nor are the peaceful relations between Franks and Orientals generally recognised. These circumstances may perhaps excuse the present attempt to draw a picture of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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