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Time makes more converts \nthan reason.\n\n\n2\nAs a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling\nthe right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have\nbeen thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the\ninquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right,\nto support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good\npeople of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination,\nthey have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of\nboth, and equally to reject the usurpation of either.\n\n\n3\nIn the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing\nwhich is personal among ourselves.  Compliments as well as censure to\nindividuals make no part thereof.  The wise, and the worthy, need not\nthe triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious,\nor unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are\nbestowed upon their conversion.\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 147 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Paine, Thomas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 1994 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Paine, Thomas,1737-1809 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211089936541,"sku":"gb-147-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/147_7e2e6891-8a63-4459-acff-e1ca757a7228.jpg?v=1671247504"},{"product_id":"the-republic-gb-150","title":"The Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of\r\nthe Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them.  There are nearer\r\napproaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist;\r\nthe Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of\r\nthe State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, the\r\nSymposium and the Protagoras are of higher excellence.  But no other\r\nDialogue of Plato has the same largeness of view and the same\r\nperfection of style; no other shows an equal knowledge of the world, or\r\ncontains more of those thoughts which are new as well as old, and not\r\nof one age only but of all.  Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony\r\nor a greater wealth of humor or imagery, or more dramatic power.  Nor\r\nin any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and\r\nspeculation, or to connect politics with philosophy.  The Republic is\r\nthe centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here\r\nphilosophy reaches the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever\r\nattained.  Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, was\r\nthe first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them\r\nalways distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of\r\ntruth; and both of them had to be content with an abstraction of\r\nscience which was not yet realized.  He was the greatest metaphysical\r\ngenius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other\r\nancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained.  The\r\nsciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many\r\ninstruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of\r\nSocrates and Plato.  The principles of definition, the law of\r\ncontradiction, the fallacy of arguing in a circle, the distinction\r\nbetween the essence and accidents of a thing or notion, between means\r\nand ends, between causes and conditions; also the division of the mind\r\ninto the rational, concupiscent, and irascible elements, or of\r\npleasures and desires into necessary and unnecessarythese and other\r\ngreat forms of thought are all of them to be found in the Republic, and\r\nwere probably first invented by Plato.  The greatest of all logical\r\ntruths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose\r\nsight, the difference between words and things, has been most\r\nstrenuously insisted on by him, although he has not always avoided the\r\nconfusion of them in his own writings.  But he does not bind up truth\r\nin logical formulae,logic is still veiled in metaphysics; and the\r\nscience which he imagines to \"contemplate all truth and all existence\"\r\nis very unlike the doctrine of the syllogism which Aristotle claims to\r\nhave discovered.\nNeither must we forget that the Republic is but the third part of a\r\nstill larger design which was to have included an ideal history of\r\nAthens, as well as a political and physical philosophy.  The fragment\r\nof the Critias has given birth to a world-famous fiction, second only\r\nin importance to the tale of Troy and the legend of Arthur; and is said\r\nas a fact to have inspired some of the early navigators of the\r\nsixteenth century.  This mythical tale, of which the subject was a\r\nhistory of the wars of the Athenians against the Island of Atlantis, is\r\nsupposed to be founded upon an unfinished poem of Solon, to which it\r\nwould have stood in the same relation as the writings of the\r\nlogographers to the poems of Homer.  It would have told of a struggle\r\nfor Liberty, intended to represent the conflict of Persia and Hellas.\r\nWe may judge from the noble commencement of the Timaeus, from the\r\nfragment of the Critias itself, and from the third book of the Laws, in\r\nwhat manner Plato would have treated this high argument.  We can only\r\nguess why the great design was abandoned; perhaps because Plato became\r\nsensible of some incongruity in a fictitious history, or because he had\r\nlost his interest in it, or because advancing years forbade the\r\ncompletion of it; and we may please ourselves with the fancy that had\r\nthis imaginary narrative ever been finished, we should have found Plato\r\nhimself sympathizing with the struggle for Hellenic independence,\r\nsinging a hymn of triumph over Marathon and Salamis, perhaps making the\r\nreflection of Herodotus where he contemplates the growth of the\r\nAthenian empire\"How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has\r\nmade the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in\r\ngreatness!\" or, more probably, attributing the victory to the ancient\r\ngood order of Athens and to the favor of Apollo and Athene.\nAgain, Plato may be regarded as the \"captain\" ('arhchegoz') or leader\r\nof a goodly band of followers; for in the Republic is to be found the\r\noriginal of Cicero's De Republica, of St. Augustine's City of God, of\r\nthe Utopia of Sir Thomas More, and of the numerous other imaginary\r\nStates which are framed upon the same model.  The extent to which\r\nAristotle or the Aristotelian school were indebted to him in the\r\nPolitics has been little recognized, and the recognition is the more\r\nnecessary because it is not made by Aristotle himself.  The two\r\nphilosophers had more in common than they were conscious of; and\r\nprobably some elements of Plato remain still undetected in Aristotle.\r\nIn English philosophy too, many affinities may be traced, not only in\r\nthe works of the Cambridge Platonists, but in great original writers\r\nlike Berkeley or Coleridge, to Plato and his ideas.  That there is a\r\ntruth higher than experience, of which the mind bears witness to\r\nherself, is a conviction which in our own generation has been\r\nenthusiastically asserted, and is perhaps gaining ground.  Of the Greek\r\nauthors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plato\r\nhas had the greatest influence.  The Republic of Plato is also the\r\nfirst treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and\r\nLocke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants.\r\nLike Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon,\r\nhe is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early\r\nChurch he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of\r\nLiterature on politics.  Even the fragments of his words when \"repeated\r\nat second-hand\" have in all ages ravished the hearts of men, who have\r\nseen reflected in them their own higher nature.  He is the father of\r\nidealism in philosophy, in politics, in literature.  And many of the\r\nlatest conceptions of modern thinkers and statesmen, such as the unity\r\nof knowledge, the reign of law, and the equality of the sexes, have\r\nbeen anticipated in a dream by him.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 150 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Plato, 427? BCE-347? BCE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 1994 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Plato, 427? BCE-347? 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The more\r\nI advanced in the study of American society, the more I perceived that the\r\nequality of conditions is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be\r\nderived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly\r\nterminated.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 815 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Tocqueville, Alexis de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 21, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Reeve, Henry, 1813-1895 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Tocqueville, Alexis de,1805-1859 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211181260957,"sku":"gb-815-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/815_33d7f363-e165-45e3-a645-899a8cc5cf98.jpg?v=1671248861"},{"product_id":"democracy-in-america-volume-2-gb-816","title":"Democracy in America — Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDemocracy in America — Volume 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturally\n      suggested to them certain laws and a certain political character. This\n      same state of society has, moreover, engendered amongst them a multitude\n      of feelings and opinions which were unknown amongst the elder aristocratic\n      communities of Europe: it has destroyed or modified all the relations\n      which before existed, and established others of a novel kind. Theaspect\n      of civil society has been no less affected by these changes than that of\n      the political world. The former subject has been treated of in the work on\n      the Democracy of America, which I published five years ago; to examine the\n      latter is the object of the present book; but these two parts complete\n      each other, and form one and the same work.\n    \n\n      I must at once warn the reader against an error which would be extremely\n      prejudicial to me. When he finds that I attribute so many different\n      consequences to the principle of equality, he may thence infer that I\n      consider that principle to be the sole cause of all that takes place in\n      the present age: but this would be to impute to me a very narrow view. A\n      multitude of opinions, feelings, and propensities are now in existence,\n      which owe their origin to circumstances unconnected with or even contrary\n      to the principle of equality. Thus if I were to select the United States\n      as an example, I could easily prove that the nature of the country, the\n      origin of its inhabitants, the religion of its founders, their acquired\n      knowledge, and their former habits, have exercised, and still exercise,\n      independently of democracy, a vast influence upon the thoughts and\n      feelings of that people. Different causes, but no less distinct from the\n      circumstance of the equality of conditions, might be traced in Europe, and\n      would explain a great portion of the occurrences taking place amongst us.\n    \n\n      I acknowledge the existence of all these different causes, and their\n      power, but my subject does not lead me to treat of them. I have not\n      undertaken to unfold the reason of all our inclinations and all our\n      notions: my only object is to show in what respects the principle of\n      equality has modified both the former and the latter.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 816 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Tocqueville, Alexis de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 21, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Reeve, Henry, 1813-1895 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Tocqueville, Alexis de,1805-1859 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211181654173,"sku":"gb-816-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/816_35100eef-7ed6-4833-babd-88fc6ce85502.jpg?v=1671248864"},{"product_id":"the-jubilee-of-the-constitution-gb-896","title":"The Jubilee of the Constitution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Jubilee of the Constitution\r - Delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, Before the New York Historical Society\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      \"The Jubilee of the Constitution, delivered at New York, April 30, 1839,\n      before the New York Historical Society.\"\n    \n\n      Would it be an unlicensed trespass of the imagination to conceive that on\n      the night preceding the day of which you now commemorate the fiftieth\n      anniversaryon the night preceding that thirtieth of April, 1789,\n      when from the balcony of your city hall the chancellor of the State of New\n      York administered to George Washington the solemn oath faithfully to\n      execute the office of President of the United States, and to the best of\n      his ability to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the\n      United Statesthat in the visions of the night the guardian angel of\n      the Father of our Country had appeared before him, in the venerated form\n      of his mother, and, to cheer and encourage him in the performance of the\n      momentous and solemn duties that he was about to assume, had delivered to\n      him a suit of celestial armora helmet, consisting of the principles\n      of piety, of justice, of honor, of benevolence, with which from his\n      earliest infancy he had hitherto walked through life, in the presence of\n      all his brethren; a spear, studded with the self-evident truths of the\n      Declaration of Independence; a sword, the same with which he had led the\n      armies of his country through the war of freedom to the summit of the\n      triumphal arch of independence; a corselet and cuishes of long experience\n      and habitual intercourse in peace and war with the world of mankind, his\n      contemporaries of the human race, in all their stages of civilization;\n      and, last of all, the Constitution of the United States, a shield,\n      embossed by heavenly hands with the future history of his country?\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 896 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Adams, John Quincy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Adams, John Quincy,1767-1848 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211197644957,"sku":"gb-896-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/896_57c16ce9-5312-47c4-8efc-7fe6086c9079.jpg?v=1671249022"},{"product_id":"united-states-presidents-inaugural-speeches-from-washington-to-george-w-bush-gb-925","title":"United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. 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The new President gave his inaugural\n        address before a joint session of the two Houses of Congress assembled\n        inside the Senate Chamber.]\n      \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 925 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: United States. Presidents \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"United States. 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The existence\r\nof the latter not inconsistent with the former class of laws.\r\n\r\nDivine law a kind of law founded on human decree:\r\ncalled Divine from its object.\r\n\r\nDivine law:\r\n(1) universal;\r\n(2) independent of the truth of any historical narrative;\r\n(3) independent of rites and ceremonies;\r\n(4) its own reward.\n\r\nReason does not present God as a law-giver for men.\r\n\r\nSuch a conception a proof of ignorance - in Adam - in the Israelites -\r\nin Christians.\r\n\r\nTestimony of the Scriptures in favour of reason and the\r\nrational view of the Divine.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 989 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Spinoza, Benedictus de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Elwes, R. 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(Robert Harvey Monro), 1853- \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211214323869,"sku":"gb-989-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/989_2920751c-a364-4466-8db6-e03b7802b10f.jpg?v=1671249217"},{"product_id":"theologico-political-treatise-part-2-gb-990","title":"Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheologico-Political Treatise — Part 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nCurrent systems of interpretation erroneous.\r\n\r\nOnly true system to interpret it by itself.\r\n\r\nReasons why this system cannot now be carried out in its entirety.\r\n\r\nYet these difficulties do not interfere with our understanding\r\nthe plainest and most important passages.\r\n\r\nRival systems examined - that of a supernatural\r\nfaculty being necessary - refuted.\r\n\r\nThat of Maimonides.\r\n\r\nRefuted.\r\n\r\nTraditions of the Pharisees and the Papists rejected.\r\n\n\r\nThe Pentateuch not written by Moses.\r\n\r\nHis actual writings distinct.\r\n\r\nTraces of late authorship in the other historical books.\r\n\r\nAll the historical books the work of one man.\r\n\r\nProbably Ezra.\r\n\r\nWho compiled first the book of Deuteronomy.\r\n\r\nAnd then a history, distinguishing the books by the names of their subjects.\r\n\n\r\nThat these books have not been thoroughly revised and made to agree.\r\n\r\nThat there are many doubtful readings.\r\n\r\nThat the existing marginal notes are often such.\r\n\r\nThe other explanations of these notes refuted.\r\n\r\nThe hiatus.\r\n\n\r\n(1) As men are accustomed to call Divine the knowledge which transcends\r\nhuman understanding, so also do they style Divine, or the work of God,\r\nanything of which the cause is not generally known: for the masses think\r\nthat the power and providence of God are most clearly displayed by events\r\nthat are extraordinary and contrary to the conception they have formed of\r\nnature, especially if such events bring them any profit or convenience: they\r\nthink that the clearest possible proof of God's existence is afforded when\r\nnature, as they suppose, breaks her accustomed order, and consequently they\r\nbelieve that those who explain or endeavour to understand phenomena or\r\nmiracles through their natural causes are doing away with God and His\r\nprovidence. (2) They suppose, forsooth, that God is inactive so long as\r\nnature works in her accustomed order, and vice versa, that the power of\r\nnature and natural causes are idle so long as God is acting: thus they\r\nimagine two powers distinct one from the other, the power of God and the\r\npower of nature, though the latter is in a sense determined by God, or (as\r\nmost people believe now) created by Him. (3) What they mean by either, and\r\nwhat they understand by God and nature they do not know, except that they\r\nimagine the power of God to be like that of some royal potentate, and\r\nnature's power to consist in force and energy.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 990 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Spinoza, Benedictus de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Elwes, R. H. M. 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This was the period of Machiavellis literary activity\r\nand increasing influence; but he died, within a few weeks of the expulsion\r\nof the Medici, on 22nd June 1527, in his fifty-eighth year, without having\r\nregained office.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1232 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Machiavelli, Niccolò \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 11, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Marriott, W. K. 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There are nearer approaches to\r\nmodern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or\r\nStatesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more\r\nclearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, the Symposium and the\r\nProtagoras are of higher excellence. But no other Dialogue of Plato has the\r\nsame largeness of view and the same perfection of style; no other shows an\r\nequal knowledge of the world, or contains more of those thoughts which are new\r\nas well as old, and not of one age only but of all. Nowhere in Plato is there a\r\ndeeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power.\r\nNor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and\r\nspeculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. The Republic is the centre\r\naround which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the\r\nhighest point (cp, especially in Books V, VI, VII) to which ancient thinkers\r\never attained. 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But he does not bind up truth in logical formulae,logic is\r\nstill veiled in metaphysics; and the science which he imagines to\r\ncontemplate all truth and all existence is very unlike the\r\ndoctrine of the syllogism which Aristotle claims to have discovered (Soph.\r\nElenchi, 33. 18).\r\n\n\r\nNeither must we forget that the Republic is but the third part of a still\r\nlarger design which was to have included an ideal history of Athens, as well as\r\na political and physical philosophy. The fragment of the Critias has given\r\nbirth to a world-famous fiction, second only in importance to the tale of Troy\r\nand the legend of Arthur; and is said as a fact to have inspired some of the\r\nearly navigators of the sixteenth century. This mythical tale, of which the\r\nsubject was a history of the wars of the Athenians against the Island of\r\nAtlantis, is supposed to be founded upon an unfinished poem of Solon, to which\r\nit would have stood in the same relation as the writings of the logographers to\r\nthe poems of Homer. It would have told of a struggle for Liberty (cp. Tim. 25\r\nC), intended to represent the conflict of Persia and Hellas. We may judge from\r\nthe noble commencement of the Timaeus, from the fragment of the Critias itself,\r\nand from the third book of the Laws, in what manner Plato would have treated\r\nthis high argument. We can only guess why the great design was abandoned;\r\nperhaps because Plato became sensible of some incongruity in a fictitious\r\nhistory, or because he had lost his interest in it, or because advancing years\r\nforbade the completion of it; and we may please ourselves with the fancy that\r\nhad this imaginary narrative ever been finished, we should have found Plato\r\nhimself sympathising with the struggle for Hellenic independence (cp. Laws,\r\niii. 698 ff.), singing a hymn of triumph over Marathon and Salamis, perhaps\r\nmaking the reflection of Herodotus (v. 78) where he contemplates the growth of\r\nthe Athenian empireHow brave a thing is freedom of speech, which\r\nhas made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in\r\ngreatness! or, more probably, attributing the victory to the ancient\r\ngood order of Athens and to the favor of Apollo and Athene (cp. Introd. to\r\nCritias).\r\n\n\r\nAgain, Plato may be regarded as the captain\r\n(arhchegoz) or leader of a goodly band of followers; for in the\r\nRepublic is to be found the original of Ciceros De Republica, of St.\r\nAugustines City of God, of the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, and of the\r\nnumerous other imaginary States which are framed upon the same model. The\r\nextent to which Aristotle or the Aristotelian school were indebted to him in\r\nthe Politics has been little recognised, and the recognition is the more\r\nnecessary because it is not made by Aristotle himself. The two philosophers had\r\nmore in common than they were conscious of; and probably some elements of Plato\r\nremain still undetected in Aristotle. In English philosophy too, many\r\naffinities may be traced, not only in the works of the Cambridge Platonists,\r\nbut in great original writers like Berkeley or Coleridge, to Plato and his\r\nideas. That there is a truth higher than experience, of which the mind bears\r\nwitness to herself, is a conviction which in our own generation has been\r\nenthusiastically asserted, and is perhaps gaining ground. Of the Greek authors\r\nwho at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plato has had the\r\ngreatest influence. The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon\r\neducation, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and\r\nGoethe are the legitimate descendants. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a\r\nrevelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the\r\nunity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on\r\ntheology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics. Even the fragments of\r\nhis words when repeated at second-hand (Symp. 215 D) have in all\r\nages ravished the hearts of men, who have seen reflected in them their own\r\nhigher nature. 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Central Intelligence Agency \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 1, 1999 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"United States. Central Intelligence Agency \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212182651037,"sku":"gb-1662-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/1662_dabaf21b-6b30-489d-ab2a-1b90e87acde1.jpg?v=1671251405"},{"product_id":"gorgias-gb-1672","title":"Gorgias","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGorgias\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIn several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters\r\nas to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The\r\nspeakers have the freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art restrict\r\nthem, and sometimes we are inclined to think, with one of the dramatis personae\r\nin the Theaetetus, that the digressions have the greater interest. Yet in the\r\nmost irregular of the dialogues there is also a certain natural growth or\r\nunity; the beginning is not forgotten at the end, and numerous allusions and\r\nreferences are interspersed, which form the loose connecting links of the\r\nwhole. We must not neglect this unity, but neither must we attempt to confine\r\nthe Platonic dialogue on the Procrustean bed of a single idea. (Compare\r\nIntroduction to the Phaedrus.)\r\n\n\r\nTwo tendencies seem to have beset the interpreters of Plato in this matter.\r\nFirst, they have endeavoured to hang the dialogues upon one another by the\r\nslightest threads; and have thus been led to opposite and contradictory\r\nassertions respecting their order and sequence. The mantle of Schleiermacher\r\nhas descended upon his successors, who have applied his method with the most\r\nvarious results. The value and use of the method has been hardly, if at all,\r\nexamined either by him or them. Secondly, they have extended almost\r\nindefinitely the scope of each separate dialogue; in this way they think that\r\nthey have escaped all difficulties, not seeing that what they have gained in\r\ngenerality they have lost in truth and distinctness. Metaphysical conceptions\r\neasily pass into one another; and the simpler notions of antiquity, which we\r\ncan only realize by an effort, imperceptibly blend with the more familiar\r\ntheories of modern philosophers. An eye for proportion is needed (his own art\r\nof measuring) in the study of Plato, as well as of other great artists. We may\r\nhardly admit that the moral antithesis of good and pleasure, or the\r\nintellectual antithesis of knowledge and opinion, being and appearance, are\r\nnever far off in a Platonic discussion. But because they are in the background,\r\nwe should not bring them into the foreground, or expect to discern them equally\r\nin all the dialogues.\r\n\n\r\nThere may be some advantage in drawing out a little the main outlines of the\r\nbuilding; but the use of this is limited, and may be easily exaggerated. We may\r\ngive Plato too much system, and alter the natural form and connection of his\r\nthoughts. Under the idea that his dialogues are finished works of art, we may\r\nfind a reason for everything, and lose the highest characteristic of art, which\r\nis simplicity. Most great works receive a new light from a new and original\r\nmind. But whether these new lights are true or only suggestive, will depend on\r\ntheir agreement with the spirit of Plato, and the amount of direct evidence\r\nwhich can be urged in support of them. When a theory is running away with us,\r\ncriticism does a friendly office in counselling moderation, and recalling us to\r\nthe indications of the text.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1672 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Plato, 427? BCE-347? 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And in his later writings\n      generally we further remark a decline of style, and of dramatic power; the\n      characters excite little or no interest, and the digressions are apt to\n      overlay the main thesis; there is not the 'callida junctura' of an\n      artistic whole. Both the serious discussions and the jests are sometimes\n      out of place. The invincible Socrates is withdrawn from view; and new foes\n      begin to appear under old names. Plato is now chiefly concerned, not with\n      the original Sophist, but with the sophistry of the schools of philosophy,\n      which are making reasoning impossible; and is driven by them out of the\n      regions of transcendental speculation back into the path of common sense.\n      A logical or psychological phase takes the place of the doctrine of Ideas\n      in his mind. He is constantly dwelling on the importance of regular\n      classification, and of not putting words in the place of things. He has\n      banished the poets, and is beginning to use a technical language. He is\n      bitter and satirical, and seems to be sadly conscious of the realities of\n      human life. Yet the ideal glory of the Platonic philosophy is not\n      extinguished. He is still looking for a city in which kings are either\n      philosophers or gods (compare Laws).\n    \n\n      The Statesman has lost the grace and beauty of the earlier dialogues. The\n      mind of the writer seems to be so overpowered in the effort of thought as\n      to impair his style; at least his gift of expression does not keep up with\n      the increasing difficulty of his theme. The idea of the king or statesman\n      and the illustration of method are connected, not like the love and\n      rhetoric of the Phaedrus, by 'little invisible pegs,' but in a confused\n      and inartistic manner, which fails to produce any impression of a whole on\n      the mind of the reader. Plato apologizes for his tediousness, and\n      acknowledges that the improvement of his audience has been his only aim in\n      some of his digressions. His own image may be used as a motto of his\n      style: like an inexpert statuary he has made the figure or outline too\n      large, and is unable to give the proper colours or proportions to his\n      work. He makes mistakes only to correct themthis seems to be his\n      way of drawing attention to common dialectical errors. The Eleatic\n      stranger, here, as in the Sophist, has no appropriate character, and\n      appears only as the expositor of a political ideal, in the delineation of\n      which he is frequently interrupted by purely logical illustrations. The\n      younger Socrates resembles his namesake in nothing but a name. The\n      dramatic character is so completely forgotten, that a special reference is\n      twice made to discussions in the Sophist; and this, perhaps, is the\n      strongest ground which can be urged for doubting the genuineness of the\n      work. But, when we remember that a similar allusion is made in the Laws to\n      the Republic, we see that the entire disregard of dramatic propriety is\n      not always a sufficient reason for doubting the genuineness of a Platonic\n      writing.\n    \n\n      The search after the Statesman, which is carried on, like that for the\n      Sophist, by the method of dichotomy, gives an opportunity for many\n      humorous and satirical remarks. Several of the jests are mannered and\n      laboured: for example, the turn of words with which the dialogue opens; or\n      the clumsy joke about man being an animal, who has a power of two-feetboth\n      which are suggested by the presence of Theodorus, the geometrician. There\n      is political as well as logical insight in refusing to admit the division\n      of mankind into Hellenes and Barbarians: 'if a crane could speak, he would\n      in like manner oppose men and all other animals to cranes.' The pride of\n      the Hellene is further humbled, by being compared to a Phrygian or Lydian.\n      Plato glories in this impartiality of the dialectical method, which places\n      birds in juxtaposition with men, and the king side by side with the\n      bird-catcher; king or vermin-destroyer are objects of equal interest to\n      science (compare Parmen.). There are other passages which show that the\n      irony of Socrates was a lesson which Plato was not slow in learningas,\n      for example, the passing remark, that 'the kings and statesmen of our day\n      are in their breeding and education very like their subjects;' or the\n      anticipation that the rivals of the king will be found in the class of\n      servants; or the imposing attitude of the priests, who are the established\n      interpreters of the will of heaven, authorized by law. Nothing is more\n      bitter in all his writings than his comparison of the contemporary\n      politicians to lions, centaurs, satyrs, and other animals of a feebler\n      sort, who are ever changing their forms and natures. But, as in the later\n      dialogues generally, the play of humour and the charm of poetry have\n      departed, never to return.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1738 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Plato, 427? BCE-347? BCE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 1999 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Plato, 427? BCE-347? 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B.C 356-306), to\n      the enactment about prices, which occurs in Laws xi., viz that the same\n      goods should not be offered at two prices on the same day\n    \n\n      Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec.); (4) by the unanimous voice of later antiquity\n      and the absence of any suspicion among ancient writers worth speaking of\n      to the contrary; for it is not said of Philippus of Opus that he composed\n      any part of the Laws, but only that he copied them out of the waxen\n      tablets, and was thought by some to have written the Epinomis (Diog.\n      Laert.) That the longest and one of the best writings bearing the name of\n      Plato should be a forgery, even if its genuineness were unsupported by\n      external testimony, would be a singular phenomenon in ancient literature;\n      and although the critical worth of the consensus of late writers is\n      generally not to be compared with the express testimony of contemporaries,\n      yet a somewhat greater value may be attributed to their consent in the\n      present instance, because the admission of the Laws is combined with\n      doubts about the Epinomis, a spurious writing, which is a kind of epilogue\n      to the larger work probably of a much later date. 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In omnibus quae\r\n      dicit tanta auctoritas inest, ut dissentire pudeat; nec advocati studium,\r\n      sed testis aut judicis afferat fidem.\"Quintilianus.\r\n    \n\r\n      \"Democracy is the most monstrous of all governments, because it is\r\n      impossible at once to act and control; and, consequently, the Sovereign\r\n      Power is then left without any restraint whatever. That form of government\r\n      is the best which places the efficient direction in the hands of the\r\n      aristocracy, subjecting them in its exercise to the control of the people\r\n      at large.\"Sir James Mackintosh.\r\n    \n\r\n      The intellectual homage of more than half a century has assigned to Edmund\r\n      Burke a lofty pre-eminence in the aristocracy of mind, and we may justly\r\n      assume succeeding ages will confirm the judgment which the Past has thus\r\n      pronounced. His biographical history is so popularly known, that it is\r\n      almost superfluous to record it in this brief introduction. It may,\r\n      however, be summed up in a few sentences. He was born at Dublin in 1730.\r\n      His father was an attorney in extensive practice, and his mother's maiden\r\n      name was Nogle, whose family was respectable, and resided near Castletown,\r\n      Roche, where Burke himself received five years of boyish education under\r\n      the guidance of a rustic schoolmaster. He was entered at Trinity College,\r\n      Dublin, in 1746, but only remained there until 1749. In 1753 he became a\r\n      member of the Middle Temple, and maintained himself chiefly by literary\r\n      toil. Bristol did itself the honour to elect him for her representative in\r\n      1774, and after years of splendid usefulness and mental triumph, as an\r\n      orator, statesman, and patriot, he retired to his favourite retreat,\r\n      Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire, where he died on July 9th, 1797. He was\r\n      buried here; and the pilgrim who visits the grave of this illustrious man,\r\n      when he gazes on the simple tomb which marks the earthly resting place of\r\n      himself, brother, son, and widow, may feelingly recall his own pathetic\r\n      wish uttered some forty years before, in London:\"I would rather\r\n      sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the\r\n      tomb of the Capulets. I should like, however, that my dust should mingle\r\n      with kindred dust. The good old expression, 'family burying-ground,' has\r\n      something pleasing in it, at least to me.\" Alluding to his approaching\r\n      dissolution, he thus speaks, in a letter addressed to a relative of his\r\n      earliest schoolmaster:\"I have been at Bath these four months for no\r\n      purpose, and am therefore to be removed to my own house at Beaconsfield\r\n      to-morrow, to be nearer a habitation more permanent, humbly and fearfully\r\n      hoping that my better part may find a better mansion.\" It is a source of\r\n      deep thankfulness for those who reverence the genius and eloquence of this\r\n      great man, to state, that Burke's religion was that of the Cross, and to\r\n      find him speaking of the \"Intercession\" of our Redeeming Lord, as \"what he\r\n      had long sought with unfeigned anxiety, and to which he looked with\r\n      trembling hope.\" The commencing paragraph in his Will also authenticates\r\n      the genuine character of his personal Christianity. \"According to the\r\n      ancient, good, and laudable custom, of which my heart and understanding\r\n      recognise the propriety, I BEQUEATH MY SOUL TO GOD, HOPING FOR HIS MERCY\r\n      ONLY THROUGH THE MERITS OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. My body I\r\n      desire to be buried in the church of Beaconsfield, near to the bodies of\r\n      my dearest brother, and my dearest son, in all humility praying, that as\r\n      we have lived in perfect unity together, we may together have part in the\r\n      resurrection of the just.\" (In the \"Epistolary Correspondence of the Right\r\n      Hon. Edmund Burke and Dr. French Laurence\", Rivingtons, London, 1827), are\r\n      several touching allusions to that master-grief which threw a mournful\r\n      shadow over the closing period of Burke's life. In one letter the anxious\r\n      father says, \"The fever continues much as it was. He sleeps in a very\r\n      uneasy way from time to time?-but his strength decays visibly, and his\r\n      voice is, in a manner, gone. But God is all-sufficientand surely\r\n      His goodness and his mother's prayers may do much\" (page 30). Again, in\r\n      another communication addressed to his revered correspondent, we find a\r\n      beautiful allusion to his departed son, which involves his belief in that\r\n      most soothing doctrine of the Church,a recognition of souls in the\r\n      kingdom of the Beatified. \"Here I am in the last retreat of hunted\r\n      infirmity; I am indeed 'aux abois.' But, as through the whole of a various\r\n      and long life I have been more indebted than thankful to Providence, so I\r\n      am now singularly so, in being dismissed, as hitherto I appear to be, so\r\n      gently from life, AND SENT TO FOLLOW THOSE WHO IN COURSE OUGHT TO HAVE\r\n      FOLLOWED ME, WHOM, I TRUST, I SHALL YET, IN SOME INCONCEIVABLE MANNER, SEE\r\n      AND KNOW; AND BY WHOM I SHALL BE SEEN AND KNOWN\" (pages 53, 54).\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3286 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Burke, Edmund \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 2002 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Burke, Edmund,1729-1797 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212342296733,"sku":"gb-3286-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3286_564ce78c-7561-416c-b48d-b181932e7bec.jpg?v=1671255515"},{"product_id":"how-members-of-congress-are-bribed-gb-3316","title":"How Members of Congress Are Bribed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Members of Congress Are Bribed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      If a persistent intermeddler without proper warrant in Government affairs,\n      an unscrupulous dealer in threats and promises amongst public men, a\n      constant menace to sworn servants of the people in their offices of trust,\n      a tempter of the corrupt and a terror to the timid who are delegated to\n      power a remorseless enemy to wholesome legislation, a constant friend to\n      conspirators against the common welfare for private gainif such a\n      compound of dangerous and insolent qualities merged in one personality,\n      active, vigilant, unblushing, be a Lobbyistthen Collis P.\n      Huntington is a Lobbyist at the doors of Congress, in its corridors and in\n      its councils, at Washington.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3316 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Moore, J. 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It is the story of the first\r\norganized militant ,political action in America to this end. The militants\r\ndiffered from the pure propagandists in the woman suffrage movement chiefly in\r\nthat they had a clear comprehension of the forces which prevail in politics.\r\nThey appreciated the necessity of the propaganda stage and the beautiful\r\nheroism of those who had led in the pioneer agitation, but they knew that this\r\nstage belonged to the past; these methods were no longer necessary or\r\neffective.\r\n\n\r\nFor convenience sake I have called Part II Political Action, and\r\nPart III Militancy, although it will be perceived that the entire\r\ncampaign was one of militant political action. The emphasis, however, in Part\r\nII is upon political action, although certainly with a militant mood. In Part\r\nIII dramatic acts of protest, such as are now commonly called militancy, are\r\ngiven emphasis as they acquired a greater importance during the latter part of\r\nthe campaign. This does not mean that all militant deeds were not committed for\r\na specific political purpose. They were. But militancy is as much a state of\r\nmind, an approach to a task, as it is the commission of deeds of protest. It is\r\nthe state of mind of those who is their fiery idealism do not lose sight of the\r\nreal springs of human action.\r\n\n\r\nThere are two ways in which this story might be told. It might be told as a\r\ntragic and harrowing tale of martyrdom. Or it might be told as a ruthless\r\nenterprise of compelling a hostile administration to subject women to martyrdom\r\nin order to hasten its surrender. The truth is, it has elements of both\r\nruthlessness and martyrdom. And I have tried to make them appear in a true\r\nproportion. It is my sincere hope that you will understand and appreciate the\r\nmartyrdom involved, for it was the conscious voluntary gift of beautiful,\r\nstrong and young hearts. But it was never martyrdom for its own sake. 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Definitions\n\nAppendixes\n\nAppendix A: Abbreviations\n\nAppendix B: United Nations System\n\nAppendix C: International Organizations and Groups\n\nAppendix D: Selected International Environmental Agreements\n\nAppendix E: Weights and Measures\n\nAppendix F: Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes\n\nAppendix G: Cross-Reference List of Hydrographic Codes\n\nAppendix H: Cross-Reference List of Geographic Names\n\nHistory\n\nContributors and Copyright Information\n\nPurchase Information\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3672 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: United States. 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This publisher was D. I. Eaton, who printed as the first number\n      of Paine's \"Crisis\" an essay taken from the London publication. But his\n      prefatory note says: \"Since the printing of this book, the publisher is\n      informed that No. 1, or first Crisis in this publication, is not one of\n      the thirteen which Paine wrote, but a letter previous to them.\"\n      Unfortunately this correction is sufficiently equivocal to leave on some\n      minds the notion that Paine did write the letter in question, albeit not\n      as a number of his \"Crisis \"; especially as Eaton's editor unwarrantably\n      appended the signature \"C. S.,\" suggesting \"Common Sense.\" There are,\n      however, no such letters in the London essay, which is signed \"Casca.\" It\n      was published August, 1775, in the form of a letter to General Gage, in\n      answer to his Proclamation concerning the affair at Lexington. It was\n      certainly not written by Paine. It apologizes for the Americans for\n      having, on April 19, at Lexington, made \"an attack upon the King's troops\n      from behind walls and lurking holes.\" The writer asks: \"Have not the\n      Americans been driven to this frenzy? Is it not common for an enemy to\n      take every advantage?\" Paine, who was in America when the affair occurred\n      at Lexington, would have promptly denounced Gage's story as a falsehood,\n      but the facts known to every one in America were as yet not before the\n      London writer. The English \"Crisis\" bears evidence throughout of having\n      been written in London. It derived nothing from Paine, and he derived\n      nothing from it, unless its title, and this is too obvious for its origin\n      to require discussion. I have no doubt, however, that the title was\n      suggested by the English publication, because Paine has followed its\n      scheme in introducing a \"Crisis Extraordinary.\" His work consists of\n      thirteen numbers, and, in addition to these, a \"Crisis Extraordinary\" and\n      a \"Supernumerary Crisis.\" In some modern collections all of these have\n      been serially numbered, and a brief newspaper article added, making\n      sixteen numbers. But Paine, in his Will, speaks of the number as thirteen,\n      wishing perhaps, in his characteristic way, to adhere to the number of the\n      American Colonies, as he did in the thirteen ribs of his iron bridge. His\n      enumeration is therefore followed in the present volume, and the numbers\n      printed successively, although other writings intervened.\n    \n\n      The first \"Crisis\" was printed in the Pennsylvania Journal, December 19,\n      1776, and opens with the famous sentence, \"These are the times that try\n      men's souls\"; the last \"Crisis\" appeared April 19,1783, (eighth\n      anniversary of the first gun of the war, at Lexington,) and opens with the\n      words, \"The times that tried men's souls are over.\" The great effect\n      produced by Paine's successive publications has been attested by\n      Washington and Franklin, by every leader of the American Revolution, by\n      resolutions of Congress, and by every contemporary historian of the events\n      amid which they were written. The first \"Crisis\" is of especial historical\n      interest. It was written during the retreat of Washington across the\n      Delaware, and by order of the Commander was read to groups of his\n      dispirited and suffering soldiers. Its opening sentence was adopted as the\n      watchword of the movement on Trenton, a few days after its publication,\n      and is believed to have inspired much of the courage which won that\n      victory, which, though not imposing in extent, was of great moral effect\n      on Washington's little army.\n    \n\n \n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3741 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Paine, Thomas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Paine, Thomas,1737-1809 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212373262493,"sku":"gb-3741-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3741_452f0311-5e58-4c34-8d9b-8014c6642631.jpg?v=1671256660"},{"product_id":"the-writings-of-thomas-paine-volume-2-1779-1792-the-rights-of-man-gb-3742","title":"The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights of Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights of Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      What Archimedes said of the mechanical powers, may be applied to Reason\n      and Liberty. \"Had we,\" said he, \"a place to stand upon, we might raise the\n      world.\"\n    \n\n      The revolution of America presented in politics what was only theory in\n      mechanics. So deeply rooted were all the governments of the old world, and\n      so effectually had the tyranny and the antiquity of habit established\n      itself over the mind, that no beginning could be made in Asia, Africa, or\n      Europe, to reform the political condition of man. Freedom had been hunted\n      round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of\n      fear had made men afraid to think.\n    \n\n      But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks,and\n      all it wants,is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no\n      inscription to distinguish him from darkness; and no sooner did the\n      American governments display themselves to the world, than despotism felt\n      a shock and man began to contemplate redress.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3742 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Paine, Thomas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Paine, Thomas,1737-1809 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212373295261,"sku":"gb-3742-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3742_7949c7d8-44e2-4b9a-a97e-6cf34e177bdc.jpg?v=1671256662"},{"product_id":"the-writings-of-thomas-paine-volume-4-1794-1796-the-age-of-reason-gb-3743","title":"The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nI have mentioned in the former part of The Age of Reason that it had long been\r\nmy intention to publish my thoughts upon Religion; but that I had originally\r\nreserved it to a later period in life, intending it to be the last work I\r\nshould undertake. The circumstances, however, which existed in France in the\r\nlatter end of the year 1793, determined me to delay it no longer. The just and\r\nhumane principles of the Revolution which Philosophy had first diffused, had\r\nbeen departed from. The Idea, always dangerous to Society as it is derogatory\r\nto the Almighty,that priests could forgive sins,though it seemed\r\nto exist no longer, had blunted the feelings of humanity, and callously\r\nprepared men for the commission of all crimes. The intolerant spirit of church\r\npersecution had transferred itself into politics; the tribunals, stiled\r\nRevolutionary, supplied the place of an Inquisition; and the Guillotine of the\r\nStake. I saw many of my most intimate friends destroyed; others daily carried\r\nto prison; and I had reason to believe, and had also intimations given me, that\r\nthe same danger was approaching myself.\r\n\n\r\nUnder these disadvantages, I began the former part of the Age of Reason; I had,\r\nbesides, neither Bible nor Testament [It must be borne in mind that throughout\r\nthis work Paine generally means by Bible only the Old Testament,\r\nand speaks of the New as the Testament.Editor.] to refer\r\nto, though I was writing against both; nor could I procure any; notwithstanding\r\nwhich I have produced a work that no Bible Believer, though writing at his ease\r\nand with a Library of Church Books about him, can refute. Towards the latter\r\nend of December of that year, a motion was made and carried, to exclude\r\nforeigners from the Convention. There were but two, Anacharsis Cloots and\r\nmyself; and I saw I was particularly pointed at by Bourdon de lOise, in\r\nhis speech on that motion.\r\n\n\r\nConceiving, after this, that I had but a few days of liberty, I sat down and\r\nbrought the work to a close as speedily as possible; and I had not finished it\r\nmore than six hours, in the state it has since appeared, [This is an allusion\r\nto the essay which Paine wrote at an earlier part of 1793. See\r\nIntroduction.Editor.] before a guard came there, about three in the\r\nmorning, with an order signed by the two Committees of Public Safety and Surety\r\nGeneral, for putting me in arrestation as a foreigner, and conveying me to the\r\nprison of the Luxembourg. I contrived, in my way there, to call on Joel Barlow,\r\nand I put the Manuscript of the work into his hands, as more safe than in my\r\npossession in prison; and not knowing what might be the fate in France either\r\nof the writer or the work, I addressed it to the protection of the citizens of\r\nthe United States.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3743 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Paine, Thomas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Paine, Thomas,1737-1809 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212373360797,"sku":"gb-3743-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3743_3ace3f06-c476-418e-83b8-bc8da52e1c95.jpg?v=1671256665"},{"product_id":"common-sense-gb-3755","title":"Common Sense","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nPERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not\r\nYET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long\r\nhabit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial\r\nappearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry\r\nin defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more\r\nconverts than reason.\r\n\n\r\nAs a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of\r\ncalling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might\r\nnever have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated\r\ninto the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his\r\nOWN RIGHT, to support the Parliament in what he calls THEIRS, and\r\nas the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the\r\ncombination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the\r\npretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpations of either.\r\n\n\r\nIn the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every\r\nthing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as\r\ncensure to individuals make no part thereof. 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