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Gems (?) Of German Thought
- Literary Collections
- English
- 40169 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
In Accordance With Classic Precedent, This Anthology Ought To Have
Consisted Of "1,001 Gems Of German Thought," I Have Been Content With
Half That Number, Not--Heaven Knows!--For Any Lack Of Material, But
Simply For Lack Of Time And Energy To Make The Ingathering. After All,
Enough Is As Good As A Feast, And I Think That The Evidence As To The
Dominant Characteristics Of German Mentality Is Tolerably Complete As
It Stands.
Though I Hope It Is Fairly Representative, The Collection Does Not
Pretend To Be Systematic. I Have Cast No Sweeping Drag-Net, But Have
Simply Dipped Almost At Random Into The Wide Ocean Of German Thought.
Some Of My Most Precious "Finds" I Have Come Upon By Pure Chance; And
By Pure Chance, Too, I Have No Doubt Missed Many Others. Some Books
That I Should Have Liked To Examine Have Not Been Accessible To Me;
And There Must Be Many Of Which I Have Never Heard. On The Other Hand,
The List Of Books From Which My Gems Have Been Selected By No Means
Indicates The Extent Of My Reading--Or Skimming. I Have Gone Through
Many Books And Pamphlets Which Furnished No Quotable Extracts, But
None That Diverged In Tone From The Rest, Or Marred The Majestic
Unison Of German Self-Laudation And Contempt For The Rest Of The
World. I Have Read Of (But Not Seen) A Book By One F.W. Förster Which
Is Said To Contain A Protest Against Theoretic War-Worship, And Even A
Mild Defence Of England. How Very Mild It Is We May Judge From This
Sentence: "England Has Given Us Not Only Men Like Lord Grey,
Scoundrels And Hypocrites, Who Have This War Upon Their Conscience; It
Has Also Given Us The Salvation Army," Etc., Etc.
One Voice The Reader May Be Surprised To Miss From The Great
Chorus--The Voice Of William The Second. He Is Unrepresented--Save In
One Passing Remark (No. 136)--For Two Reasons. [more]
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Bayard Tuckerman
A History Of English Prose Fiction (Fiscal Part I)
- Fiction
- English
- 101786 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
In The Midst Of An Age Of Gloom And Anarchy, When Feudalism Was Slowly
Building Up A New Social Organization On The Ruins Of The Roman Empire,
Arose That Spirit Of Chivalry, Which, In Its Connection With The
Christian Religion, Forms So Sharp A Division Between The Sentiments Of
Ancient And Modern Times. Following Closely On The Growth Of Chivalry
As An Institution, There Came Into Being A Remarkable Species Of
Fiction, Which Reflected With Great Faithfulness The Character Of The
Age, And Having Formed For Three Centuries The Principal Literary
Entertainment Of The Knighthood Of Europe, Left On The New
Civilization, And The New Literature Which Had Outgrown And Discarded
It, Lasting Traces Of Its Natural Beauty. Into The General Fund Of
Chivalric Romance Were Absorbed The Learning And Legend Of Every Land.
From The Gloomy Forests And Bleak Mountains Of The North Came Dark And
Terrible Fancies, Malignant Enchanters, And Death-Dealing Spirits,
Supposed To Haunt The Earth And Sea; From Arabia And The East Came
Gorgeous Pictures Of Palaces Built Of Gold And Precious Stones, Magic
Rings Which Transport The Bearer From Place To Place, Love-Inspiring
Draughts, Dragons And Fairies; From Ancient Greece And Rome Came
Memories Of The Heroes And Mysteries Of Mythology, Like Old Coins Worn
And Disfigured By Passing, Through Ages, From Hand To Hand, But Still
Bearing A Faint Outline Of Their Original Character. All This Mass Of
Fiction Was Floating Idly In The Imaginations Of Men, Or Worked As An
Embellishment Into The Rude Numbers Of The Minstrels, When The Mediaeval
Romancers Gathered It Up, And Interweaving It With The Traditions Of
Arthur And Charlemagne, Produced Those Strange Compositions Which Are
So Entirely The Product And Repository Of The Habits, Superstitions,
And Sympathies Of The Middle Ages That They Serve To
"Hold The Mirror Up To Nature,
To Show Vice Its Own Image, Virtue Its Own Likeness,
And The Very Age And Body Of The Times,
His Form And Pressure."
The Men Who Wrote, And The Men Who Read These Romances, The First
Springs Of Our Modern Fiction, Were Influenced By Two Dominant Ideas:
"One Religious, Which Had Fashioned The Gigantic Cathedrals, And Swept
The Masses From Their Native Soil To Hurl Them Upon The Holy Land; The
Other Secular, Which Had Built Feudal Fortresses, And Set The Man Of
Courage Erect And Armed Within His Own Domain."[1] These Two Ideas Were
Outwardly Expressed In The Roman Church And The Feudal System. [more]
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John LaFleur II
Louisiana's Creole French People: Our Language, Food & Culture
500 Years Of Culture
- Language & Literature
- English
- 21946 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 1007
In this provocative and poignant book, 500 Years Of Culture: Louisiana's Creole French & Metis People, Food, Language and Culture, I seek to provide my intelligent lay readers appropriate and useful scholarly resources which illustrate that a pre-Acadian culture of Canadian and North American Métis roots, to which was added European, African and later Spanish elements combined in both “Upper” and "Lower Louisiana" resulting in a multi-ethnic, but distinctly unique Louisiana Creole culture. Though reminiscent of other kindred Creole cultures and people of the world of the former French Empire, she remains unique.
This unique historic, but forgotten culture existed prior to the arrival of the Acadians, and its cultural and linguistic traditions resulted in Louisiana’s historic “Creole” culture. This multi-ethnic culture's food ways, language and social traditions were hijacked and promoted as if it was something totally new in the 1970s and 80s, and then relabeled "Cajun" with no regard for the pre-existant and dominant history and sensibilities of the non-white ethnicities who were the true originators and creators of Louisiana's long indigenous and pre-Acadian culture!
It is my hope to sufficiently demonstrate through this historical narrative, which is both passionate and humorous, how greed, ignorance and commerce joined hands in relabeling Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic Creole French and metis culture as if Acadian-Canada was the source of this remarkable and unusual culture which remains foreign to anything in Acadie!
Informative and well-researched, I submit to you the reading and caring public, this revision which is also a much more readable, better edited and supplemented text.
In this book, for example, a badly needed chapter on the cultural relationship between Louisiana Creole and Haitian Creole culture is provided and will prove to be a great source of help in avoiding needless confusion of these two separate, but kindred cultures.
Though small, this little book will no doubt, prove to be a powerhouse of jaw-dropping facts, as it is an uproariously humorous expose' of one of the most popular cultural forces in America and across the planet today!
And, notwithstanding our best efforts, sometimes typographical errors and misses occur. For whatever imperfections of text remain, I take full responsibility as I also apologize to you dear reader. [more]
Keywords: Cajun culture, Creole culture, Creole-Metis Culture, Louisiana French & Creole Languages, Louisiana Creole People
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince / Il Principe
Bilingual Edition: English - Italian / Edizione bilingue: inglese - italiano
- Fiction
- English
- 59888 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 860
This edition contains the English translation and the original text in Italian.
"The Prince" (Italian: "Il Principe") is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, "De Principatibus" ("About Principalities"). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of the 'Prince' in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings". Although it was written as if it were a traditional work in the "mirrors for princes" style, it is generally agreed that it was especially innovative. This is only partly because it was written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin, a practice which had become increasingly popular since the publication of Dante's "Divine Comedy" and other works of Renaissance literature. "The Prince" is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics. Although it is relatively short, the treatise is the most remembered of Machiavelli's works and the one most responsible for bringing the word "Machiavellian" into usage as a pejorative. It also helped make "Old Nick" an English term for the devil, and even contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words "politics" and "politician" in western countries. In terms of subject matter it overlaps with the much longer "Discourses on Livy", which was written a few years later. In its use of near-contemporary Italians as examples of people who perpetrated criminal deeds for politics, another lesser-known work by Machiavelli which "The Prince" has been compared to is the "Life of Castruccio Castracani".
"Il Principe" (titolo originale in lingua latina: "De Principatibus", lett. "Sui Principati") è un trattato di dottrina politica scritto da Niccolò Machiavelli nel 1513, nel quale espone le caratteristiche dei principati e dei metodi per mantenerli e conquistarli. Si tratta senza dubbio della sua opera più nota e celebrata, quella dalle cui massime (spesso superficialmente interpretate) sono nati il sostantivo "machiavellismo" e l'aggettivo "machiavellico". L'opera non è ascrivibile ad alcun genere letterario particolare, in quanto non ha le caratteristiche di un vero e proprio trattato; se ne è ipotizzata la natura di libriccino a carattere divulgativo. "Il Principe" si compone di una dedica e ventisei capitoli di varia lunghezza; l'ultimo capitolo consiste nell'appello ai de' Medici ad accettare le tesi espresse nel testo. [more]
Keywords: niccolo machiavelli, the prince, il principe, machiavellianism, machiavellian, discorsi
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shawnty
christianity
facts & history
- History
- English
- 507 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 748
- 10
Christianity (from the Ancient Greek word Χριστός, Khristos, "Christ", literally "anointed one") is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings. Adherents of the Christian faith are known as Christians.
Christianity teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, God having become human and the saviour of humanity. Because of this, Christians commonly refer to Jesus as Christ or Messiah. The three largest groups in the world of Christianity are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and the various denominations of Protestantism. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox patriarchates split from one another in the East–West Schism of 1054 AD, and Protestantism came into existence during the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, splitting from the Roman Catholic Church.
Christianity began as a Jewish sect in the mid-1st century. Originating in the eastern Mediterranean coast of the Middle East (modern Israel and Palestine), it quickly spread to Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Egypt, it grew in size and influence over a few decades, and by the 4th century had become the dominant religion within the Roman Empire. During the Middle Ages, most of the remainder of Europe was Christianized, with Christians also being a sometimes large religious minority in the Middle East, North Africa, Ethiopia and parts of India. Following the Age of Discovery, through missionary work and colonization, Christianity spread to the Americas, Australasia, sub Saharan Africa and the rest of the world. In order to follow Jesus' command to serve others, Christians established hospitals, churches, schools, charities, orphanages, homeless shelters, and universities in the areas in which they spread Christianity.
Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, referred to as the "Old Testament" in Christianity. The foundation of Christian theology is expressed in the early Christian ecumenical creeds which contain claims predominantly accepted by followers of the Christian faith. These professions state that Jesus suffered, died, was buried, and was resurrected from the dead to open heaven to those who believe in him and trust him for the remission of their sins (salvation). They further maintain that Jesus bodily ascended into heaven where he rules and reigns with God the Father. Most denominations teach that Jesus will return to judge all humans, living and dead, and grant eternal life to his followers. He is considered the model of a virtuous life, and both the revealer and physical incarnation of God. Christians call the message of Jesus Christ the Gospel ("good news") and hence refer to the earliest written accounts of his ministry as gospels.
As of the early 21st century, Christianity has approximately 2.2 billion adherents. Christianity represents about a quarter to a third of the world's population and is the world's largest religion. Christianity is the state religion of several countries. Among all Christians, 37.5% live in the Americas, 25.7% live in Europe, 22.5% live in Africa, 13.1% live in Asia, 1.2% live in Oceania and 0.9% live in the Middle East [more]
Keywords: christianity
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Charles Dickens
A Child's History Of England
- History
- English
- 162700 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 4
- 3
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.[1] During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.[2][3]
Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed. Over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens sprang to fame with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication.[4][5] The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback.[5] For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens went on to improve the character with positive features.[6] His plots were carefully constructed, and Dickens often wove in elements from topical events into his narratives.[7] Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in ha'pennies to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.[8]
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age.[9] His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, is one of the most influential works ever written, and it remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Set in London and Paris, his 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, is the best selling novel of all time.[10] His creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.[11] [more]
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Santosh Jha
Fifth Force
- Psychology
- English
- 28720 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 63
Four forces create all realities but what crafts humanity’s worst criminalized-depraved-brutal actualities? Fifth Force hypothesis seeks to decipher ‘mystical code’ that plays out harmonious-melodious probabilities; supplanting them over discordant-cacophonous propensities in human world, lives. It revisits fundamentals of life-living; especially relationships, to install lasting bliss, fruition.
Fifth Force premise journeys beyond populist perceptions of good-bad, right-wrong, success, morality, even meanings and experiences; to unravel probability of a ‘Cosmic Causality’, pervading and embedded in consciousness as well as in building blocks of reality, which installs and sustains aesthetics and homeostatic synergy in emergent realities. It diagnoses pathologies; seeks code of vitality.
This eBook delves into the spectrum of reality, in a novel and alternative way; as facilitated by modern contemporary scientific knowledge of the mechanisms and processes of all realities. The Fifth Force metaphor attempts to deliberate on the cosmic construct of the criminality-depravity-hypocrisy-deception-shamelessness-brutality-insanity of contemporary humanity and in turn discover the missing element and dimension, which have potentials of nobility-amiability-mutuality-magnanimity-sincerity-fraternity. It also inquires the processes of emergence of realities within human body-brain mechanism as well as in external milieus of society-cultures, to ascertain where and how realities get aligned to discord-cacophony, instead of harmony-melody.
This Fifth Force enterprise is aimed at bringing to deliberation the reality that since ages, we all have been used to accepting meanings in a definitive way and restricted to some experiences, dominant in popular cultures and it is high time we revisit them and accept novel and alternative dimensions about them. We must revisit the earliest landscapes of brains as well as consciousness to unravel true and unadulterated feel of experiences, as they engender in brain states, representing meanings, through metaphors. We must revisit all meanings; which we take for granted and seldom think about their true nature. We must revisit critical ideas and feels of morality, aesthetics, melody, harmony, poise, emotions, righteousness, et al. This revisiting is a two-way process – first we need to unlearn this age-old and innate subconscious habit of accepting populist and intuitive meanings and experiences and secondly; we must then learn and accept a novel and alternative meanings and experiential realities, as propounded and enunciated by modern science.
It is a humble and simple hypothesis that probably contemporary humanity is in such calamitous shape and spirit because of our old, archaic, obsolete and partial perceptions about life-living realities, realities of Self and Reality of the cosmos as a whole. That is why I continue to write about probable novel and alternative meanings and experiences, so that you embark on this new journey, which contemporary science beckons you to. This is the road to neo-spiritualism as knowledge is true divinity. This is the definitive journey towards the optimization of your true potentials. All meanings as well as experiences in life-living must always align to potential optimization. Thanks. Welcome. [more]
Keywords: Blissfulness, Fulfillment, Aesthetics, Harmony, Intimacy, Potential Optimization, Alternative Thinking
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