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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 38 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 95514 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 67 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 God 16 man 16 France 15 England 12 Mr. 11 state 10 Paine 10 King 9 law 9 good 9 States 8 Republic 8 Parliament 8 New 8 Europe 8 America 7 great 7 United 7 Thomas 7 Rights 7 Paris 7 Congress 6 Plato 6 Man 6 Lord 6 English 6 Constitution 5 thing 5 power 5 people 5 nature 5 nation 5 like 5 life 5 York 5 Washington 5 State 5 Revolution 5 London 5 Italy 5 Government 5 General 5 Church 4 world 4 true 4 right 4 person 4 government 4 Socrates 4 Sir Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 life is no longer 5 man is not only 4 man has no authority 4 man has no property 3 government has no other 3 man has no need 3 man is not better 3 man was not able 3 men are not just 3 nature has no part 3 nature is not twofold 3 people are not fit 3 powers have not yet 3 things has no sense 3 time is not very 2 _ are not _ 2 _ had no injurious 2 _ is not everything 2 case is not rightly 2 country are no longer 2 england have no such 2 england is no friend 2 england was no secret 2 england were not enemies 2 england were not satisfactory 2 france has no business 2 france has no right 2 france is not satisfied 2 god is no variableness 2 god was not open 2 government has no right 2 government is no farther 2 government is no other 2 government is not necessarily 2 government was not favourable 2 governments are not polities 2 law gives no protection 2 laws are not only 2 life is not exactly 2 man had no interest 2 man had no more 2 man has no doubt 2 men are not so 2 men have no point 2 men have no regard 2 men have not public 2 men is not competent 2 nation has no right 2 nation is not so 2 one has no better A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 10613 author = Adams, Brooks title = The Theory of Social Revolutions date = keywords = Chief; Congress; Constitution; Convention; Court; Danton; France; Jefferson; Justice; King; Marshall; Mr.; Paris; States; Supreme; United; american summary = a new governing class, as every considerable change in human environment fifty years later the Court of King''s Bench gravely held that a royal the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to the President of the United has no constitutional power to confer upon the Supreme Court original Court when it so decided made a serious political and social error. precedents the Supreme Court of New York decided that, under the _Police first presented to the Supreme Court of the United States, did not come The effect of the adoption by the Supreme Court of the United States of the Supreme Court of the United States under the Fourteenth Amendment, it the duty of every court of general jurisdiction, state or federal, to the Police Power, which was adopted by the Supreme Court of the United On March 10, 1793, the Convention passed a decree constituting a court id = 26095 author = Aristotle title = The Athenian Constitution date = keywords = Archon; Areopagus; Assembly; Athens; Council; Piraeus; Pisistratus; Solon; law summary = The elections to the various offices Solon enacted should be by lot, nine Archons; whereas in early times the Council of Areopagus summoned Council of Five Hundred, and others to the Assembly and the law-courts. Council, holding office for a year, consisting of men over thirty years law-courts if the Council declare the charge proved. point of fact the person on whom the lot falls holds the office even done by a jury in the law-courts appointed by lot, since the Council Council, to receive two obols a day from the state for their support. charge the Eleven bring the case before the law-courts; if the arbitrations to the persons belonging to that year, casting lots to Of the magistrates elected by lot, in former times some including the The juries for the law-courts are chosen by lot by the nine Archons, the law, the jurors receive their pay in the order assigned by the lot. id = 6762 author = Aristotle title = Politics: A Treatise on Government date = keywords = Aristotle; Lacedaemonians; Plato; Socrates; chapter; city; democracy; different; good; government; law; man; person; power; state summary = If the state is the organisation of men seeking a common good, power and the proper form of government when there is in the state one man of men have common aspirations, but government, and political power, the contrary to those things which good laws ought to establish, and which is established in any state: thus in a democracy the supreme power is states is different, and we shall find the same thing hold good in power for the common good, such states are well governed; but when the large govern for the public good, it is called a state; which is also virtue of a good man and of a citizen in the most perfect government the demagogues: for where a democracy is governed by stated laws there rightly called so; for a state governed by the best men, upon the most city, for every state ought to be governed according to its particular id = 4350 author = Bagehot, Walter title = Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society date = keywords = Athens; England; English; Mr.; Romans; Sir; age; early; good; great; history; like; man; mind; nation; race; time; world summary = science says, ''makes modern nations what they are; their born structure not exist when the tribe was the nation, and when all the men in the superhuman power had set down the thoughts and actions of men ages modern world in so many things, so much more like than many far more progress gives an early society some gain in war; more obvious cases dealing with early ages; nation-MAKING is the occupation of man in a modern idea; in early ages all nations were destructible, and the English Government in India has in many cases made new and great works race--like, probably, in this respect so much of the ancient world-find early times of the human races is the impulse to action. No doubt there will remain people like the aged savage, who in his old things of life, which makes both men and nations in excessive haste to id = 40208 author = Carlile, Richard title = Life of Thomas Paine Written Purposely to Bind with His Writings date = keywords = England; France; Government; Man; Mr.; Paine; Rights summary = literary character in the country; and it did not fail to obtain for Mr. Paine universal approbation. From his connection with the leading characters at Philadelphia, Mr. Paine immediately took a part in the politics of the Colonies, and being man who writes a letter to his relatives or friends is an author, but production of "Rights of Man" will ever rank Mr. Paine among the first outlive treachery, it drew forth from Mr. Paine his "Rights of Man" Portland''s with Thomas Paine the great political writer of the United Second Part of "Rights of Man," offered Mr. Paine for his copyright, is Paine''s "Rights of Man," had the more extensive circulation. Mr. Paine had resolved to defend the publication of "Rights of Man" in the nation against such a man as Thomas Paine! further appears, that they corresponded up to the time of Mr. Paine''s Mr. Paine published various letters and id = 37701 author = Conway, Moncure Daniel title = The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett date = keywords = America; Burke; Common; Congress; Deane; Dr.; England; Europe; France; Franklin; General; Jefferson; John; June; King; London; Lord; Morris; Mr.; New; Paine; Paris; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Quaker; Revolution; Rights; Sense; September; Sir; States; Thetford; Thomas; Washington; York; english; french summary = read some letters upon Paine contributed by Mr. Conway to the _New York and 382) that Washington''s failure to answer Paine''s private letter of In a letter written at the time Yorke states that Paine had for some famous man of his time, in England, America, France. of Thomas Pain, Author of ''The Rights of Men,'' with a Defence of his poet born with the "Rights of Man," and a child of Paine''s revolution. Paine left England in October and arrived in America November 30, 1774. the country (Nov. 30, 1774), Paine speaks of America as a "nation," and would appear by the following friendly letter of Paine, addressed to and personal, Paine rose into song, as appears by the following letter year the United States government was supplied by Paine, mainly through At the very time that Paine was writing "Common Sense," Paine wrote ''Everything in the English government appears to id = 37702 author = Conway, Moncure Daniel title = The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England date = keywords = Age; America; Bible; Bishop; Bonneville; Cheetham; Committee; Congress; Constitution; Convention; Dr.; England; English; Europe; France; French; General; God; Jefferson; John; King; London; Madame; Man; Minister; Monroe; Morris; Mr.; New; Paine; Paris; Philadelphia; President; Reason; Revolution; Rights; Robespierre; States; Thomas; United; Washington; York summary = judgment, but that Thomas Paine wrote ''The Rights of Man.''" "The militia Paine''s book on the Rights of Man!"* Incredible as this may appear the That Thomas Paine and his "Rights of Man" were the actual cause of the "Mr. Thomas Paine, Author of The Rights of Man." The other Paine wrote to Danton a letter brought to light by Taine, who says: during all this summer Paine had good reason to believe that his friends France." In a letter written in 1802, Paine said: "There must have been This is the only letter written by Paine to any one in France about of State (Paine''s friend, Jefferson), but in a confidential letter to ample time had passed, and no word about Paine came from Washington Paine''s Letter iii to the People of the United States Fifteen days afterwards Thomas Paine received a letter Seeing the state of things in America, Thomas Paine wrote a letter to id = 21210 author = Davis, Thomas Osborne title = Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry date = keywords = Academy; Act; Association; Brigade; CHAPTER; Catholics; College; Commons; Davis; Dublin; England; English; France; God; Grattan; Green; Harris; Ireland; Irishmen; James; King; Limerick; London; Lord; Majesty; Mr.; Munster; Orange; Parliament; People; Protestants; Repeal; Society; St.; Union; William; history; iii; irish; man summary = governing facts about Irish public life is the existence in the country hearts, and the victorious hands of Ireland, let not the men of that how slowly the Irish war proceeded, had prepared and sent to Ireland a people of Ireland--presided in person over that Parliament. An Act declaring, That the Parliament of England cannot bind Ireland landlords in England or Ireland acted with equal liberality? the Irish parliament might make should bind Ireland. school for general (national) education in every parish in Ireland. of Irish freedom did not depend upon an English act of parliament. be--men able to serve The Irish Nation in peace and war. Moore''s, and O''Halloran''s Histories of Ireland.--Walker''s Irish Irish-speaking people of Ireland, and while they everywhere tolerate Nation_ into racy and musical Irish; though a time may come when Irish Ballads and Songs--why (except that _Spirit of the Nation_ which id = 27368 author = Faguet, Émile title = The Cult of Incompetence date = keywords = Aristotle; France; Government; Minister; Montesquieu; Senate; State; democracy; law; man; moral; people; principle; respect summary = correct morals, and the people, as we know, only thinks of choosing as Under democracy, then, the national representatives govern as directly to appoint a general or a high-court judge or other officer of the law. Is the people capable of governing the state, of taking measures given an international law decreeing respect for conquered peoples, it the people may be naturally persuaded that laws are sacred things, and In other words modern democracy _is not governed by laws_ but by democracy be a real form of government, _the sort of constitution in laws," the only way to translate it is--"a State governed by a very there is to be justice, all men ought to be equal before the law. is not in every respect the equal of the poor man before the law. A democratic element is required in the government of a people, because id = 3207 author = Hobbes, Thomas title = Leviathan date = keywords = Assembly; Authority; Christ; Christian; Church; Civill; Covenant; Doctrine; Earth; God; Gods; Holy; Jesus; Jews; Judge; Justice; Kingdome; Law; Lawes; Lord; Moses; Nature; People; Pope; Power; Publique; Saviour; Soveraign; Spirit; St.; Testament; Word; apostle; body; common; king; man; person; reason; religion; right; scripture; subject summary = the Soveraign Power, into the hand of a Man, or an Assembly of men; is the man and the woman, as that the right can be determined without War. In Common-wealths, this controversie is decided by the Civill Law: and without a Sword in the hands of a man, or men, to cause those laws to onely of the Common-wealth, but also of a man; and a Soveraign Assembly Authority of man to declare what be these Positive Lawes of God, how can abrogation of the Law. If that Man, or Assembly, that hath the Soveraign Power, disclaime "That he that hath the Soveraign Power, is subject to the Civill Lawes." men," hath place in the kingdome of God by Pact, and not by Nature. Divine Right; that is, by Authority immediate from God. Of The Soveraign Power Between The Time Of Joshua And Of Saul thing contrary to the Civill Law, which God hath expressely commanded us id = 38373 author = Holland, Frederic May title = Liberty in the Nineteenth Century date = keywords = America; April; Boston; Congress; England; House; July; March; Massachusetts; Napoleon; New; North; October; Parliament; President; South; Spencer; States; Sunday; Union; United; Whigs; York summary = If any nation can maintain a free press, just laws, and elections of Need of a strong government in time of war had given a power almost Parliament passed laws that same year which made public meetings nothing for public opinion or the people''s rights; but he was too good publishers in New York City than by all those in Great Britain. declared that the people of the United States would look upon attempts The money was given by a generous New Yorker; but Garrison''s work in the the New England Anti-Slavery Society at Boston early in 1832. Free State men were then supplied with rifles; and an anti-slavery business, public opinion, and social life in the cotton States; where the State District Court, told the convention that "the Sunday law, first laws against Sunday amusement were passed by men who thought all New England Anti-Slavery Society founded in Boston, January id = 37704 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = An Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine date = keywords = Church; God; Paine; Thomas; man; world summary = heart of any one who might deny their divine right to enslave the world. Paine gave to the world his "Common Sense." It was the first argument There is a world of political wisdom in this:--"England lost her liberty upon every human heart: "The world is my country, and to do good my as the enemy of man and God. In all ages reason has been regarded as the idea that God will forever reward the true believer, and eternally damn In his time the Church believed and taught that every word in the Bible energies of the world; filled all countries with want; housed the people In the day of Thomas Paine the Church was ignorant, bloody and If to love your fellow men more than self is goodness, Thomas Paine was "The world is my Country, and to do good my Religion." id = 38101 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Thomas Paine From ''The Gods and Other Lectures'' date = keywords = Church; God; Paine; Thomas; man; world summary = At the age of thirty-seven, Thomas Paine left England for America, Paine gave to the world his "Common Sense." It was the first argument There is a world of political wisdom in this: "England lost her liberty upon every human heart: "The world is my country, and to do good my Paine was filled with a real love for mankind. than that of Thomas Paine voting against the king''s death. as the enemy of man and God. In all ages reason has been regarded as the God will forever reward the true believer, and eternally damn the man When Paine was born, the world was religious, the pulpit was the real In his time the Church believed and taught that every word in the bible If to love your fellow-men more than self is goodness, Thomas Paine was "The world is my Country, and to do good my Religion." id = 29815 author = Jellinek, Georg title = The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens date = keywords = Declaration; England; Footnote; French; New; american; english; law; right; state summary = Until it appeared public law literature recognized the rights of heads Law of the State" of December 21, 1867, on the general rights of the THE BILLS OF RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL STATES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION _The first state to set forth a declaration of rights The declarations of Virginia and of the other individual American states The new constitutions of the separate American states were well known at public law, that the individual American states had the first written [Footnote 30: _The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, VIRGINIA''S BILL OF RIGHTS AND THOSE OF THE OTHER NORTH AMERICAN STATES. The English laws that establish the rights of subjects are collectively rights of the individual and then establish the state. the doctrine of an original right of the individual and of a state [Footnote 113: The idea of all individual rights of liberty being the id = 7370 author = Locke, John title = Second Treatise of Government date = keywords = God; Sect; government; law; legislative; man; nature; people; power; property; right; society; state summary = of the law of nature is, in that state, put into every man''s hands, 8. And thus, in the state of nature, one man comes by a power over by the law of nature, every man upon this score, by the right he hath to judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without father no power of governing, i.e. making laws and enacting penalties on right of nature subjected to the absolute dominion and arbitrary power society, as to quit every one his executive power of the law of nature, law of nature, the same power with every man else to punish, as he this end it is that men give up all their natural power to the society subject: for no man or society of men, having a power to deliver up the power in his hands, has by the common law of nature a right to make id = 14660 author = Mabini, Apolinario title = Mabini''s Decalogue for Filipinos date = keywords = God summary = =MABINI''S DECALOGUE FOR FILIPINOS= "Thou shalt love thy country after God and they honor and more than Mabini was arrested by the American forces in September, 1899, and Thou shalt love God and thy honor above all things: God as the Thou shalt worship God in the form which thy conscience may appointed thee in this life and by so doing, thou shalt be honored, and being honored, thou shalt glorify thy God. Fourth. Thou shalt love thy country after God and thy honor and more Thou shalt strive for the happiness of thy country before thy if she be happy, thou, together with thy family, shalt likewise be Thou shalt strive for the independence of thy country: for only Thou shalt not recognize in thy country the authority of any Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: for God has imposed liberty and thy interests, then thou shalt destroy and annihilate him id = 10827 author = Machiavelli, Niccolò title = Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius date = keywords = CHAPTER; Camillus; Cæsar; Etruscans; Fabius; Florence; Florentines; France; Gauls; Hannibal; Italy; Latins; Livius; Manlius; Prince; Romans; Rome; Samnites; Swiss; Titus; Venice; city; state summary = Of the methods followed by the Romans in making War republics of old times, by kings, captains, citizens, lawgivers, and the senate or great men of Rome thought fit to engage. peoples possessed of great power, the Romans, for the reasons I have methods followed by the city of Rome were suited to increase her power, Chapter, a method employed by the Roman senate to enlighten the people a well-built city, a moiety of the Roman people might in this way be that the Romans engaged in two great wars at the same time. CHAPTER VI.--_Of the Methods followed by the Romans in making War_. Having spoken above of the methods followed by the Romans in making war, at that time a great war between the Romans and the Carthaginians, the The great difference between the methods followed by the ancient Romans think that all the methods of conduct followed by the Roman people and id = 1232 author = Machiavelli, Niccolò title = The Prince date = keywords = Alexander; Castruccio; Florence; Florentines; France; Italy; King; Lucca; Machiavelli; Messer; Pisa; Pope; Rome; man; prince summary = All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been prince; thus, wishing to be good, they have more cause to love him, and man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate Those who by valorous ways become princes, like these men, acquire And above all things, a prince ought to live amongst his people in such the people, becomes a prince by the favour of the nobles, ought, above CHAPTER XV -CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES, Hence it is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know has been that those princes who have done great things have held good actions of this man, as a new prince, were great, I wish to show fortune, especially when she desires to make a new prince great, who id = 15772 author = Machiavelli, Niccolò title = Machiavelli, Volume I date = keywords = Alexander; Ansigne; CHAP; COSIMO; Campe; Capitaine; Centurion; Church; Cæsar; Duke; Florence; France; God; Italy; King; Machiavelli; Pikes; Pope; Prince; Principalities; Romaines; Rome; Scipio; Veliti; armie; battaile; bee; fabricio; man; order; ought; place; shall; sidenote; state; thei; whiche summary = prevaile in the tyme of warre, that in peace thei maie bee able to kepe is to levie armies, and by meane of the Prince, thei maie then well bee Romaine menne, whiche was the strength of their armies, thei created with their orders to finde the enemies, whom if thei bee well armed, to whiche in soche exercises be necessarie: therfore thesame that thei doe, the armies, twoo orders is observed, the one, thesame that the men ought the enemies armie, whiche came to faight with hym, he caused his light us so moche good, and cause our armies to bee so strong, why ought not companie of the armie: From the whiche place, thei maie easely honours in an armie, whiche soche a man ought to rise by, as should bee flancke, whiche shall come to bee then the taile of the armie: the other id = 34901 author = Mill, John Stuart title = On Liberty date = keywords = Christianity; Liberty; Mill; State; case; christian; good; human; individual; man; opinion; people; person; society; thing; truth summary = punish him for acts or even opinions which are anti-social in character. on the regulation of human conduct, is the feeling in each person''s mind things society ought to like or dislike, than in questioning whether its feeling; absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, opposed to the general tendency of existing opinion and practice. powers of society over the individual, both by the force of opinion and right to think his judgment better than that of any person, or any every subject on which difference of opinion is possible, the truth state of the human mind, the interests of truth require a diversity of other free countries, of the ascendency of public opinion in the State. questions of social morality, of duty to others, the opinion of the likely to be wrong as right; for in these cases public opinion means, at better grounds than that persons whose religious opinions are different id = 5669 author = Mill, John Stuart title = Considerations on Representative Government date = keywords = Constitution; England; House; India; Mr.; Parliament; Progress; States; United; good; government; great; interest; man; order; people; person; power; public; representative summary = government of a country is what the social forces in existence compel state of things good government is impossible. officers of government, themselves persons of superior virtue and government, which is best under a free constitution, would generally A good despotism means a government in which, so far as depends on the good government its principal element, the improvement of the people The meaning of representative government is, that the whole people, or best constitution of a representative government is how to provide reference to public opinion necessary in all acts of the government of government--responsibility to those for whose benefit political power in the localities, of officers representing the general government, general government to see that the local officers do their duty. the same principles as that of representative governments generally. responsibility to the people of that country, and to govern one general government, not by the intermediate body, and a great officer id = 31270 author = Paine, Thomas title = The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete With Index to Volumes I - IV date = keywords = Age; America; Americans; Assembly; Bible; Britain; Burke; Christ; Committee; Congress; Constitution; Convention; England; English; Europe; France; French; General; God; Government; House; Jews; John; Joshua; King; London; Lord; Louis; Man; Minister; Monroe; Morris; Moses; Mr.; National; New; Paine; Paris; Parliament; Philadelphia; Pitt; President; Republic; Revolution; Rights; Sir; States; Testament; Thomas; United; Washington; York; british; nation summary = the Rights of Man, published by the National Assembly of France, as out right; we shall come to the time when man came from the hand of his that the nation has no right at all in the case; that the government is property in man, and governing him by personal right. Liberty, in cases determined by the Law. Twelve: A Public force being necessary to give security to the Rights in America, a government extending over a country ten times as large practice of the Rights of Man. Owing to the prejudices that still govern that nation, the author has Government is not a trade which any man, or any body of men, has a right England, France, and America, as the present prospect of things appears national benefit, it is stated in that work (_Rights of Man_, Part ii.) nation pays taxes, so has every man a right to a share in government, id = 31271 author = Paine, Thomas title = The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 date = keywords = America; Burke; Committee; Congress; Constitution; Convention; England; Europe; France; General; Government; Jay; John; King; London; Louis; Man; Minister; Monroe; Morris; Mr.; Paine; Paris; Parliament; President; Republic; Rights; Robespierre; Sir; States; Thomas; United; Washington; english; french summary = In the Second Part of the Rights of Man, I have distinguished government principles of government became understood in America, and the people national benefit, it is stated in that work (_Rights of Man_, Part ii.) proclamation calls wicked, they mean the work entitled _Rights of Man_, nation pays taxes, so has every man a right to a share in government, elected a member of the National Convention of France, called me from It is to France alone, I know, that the United States of America owe the United States of America, an ally of France, and not a subject of reclaim the liberty of Paine as an American citizen." Morris''s letter Paine that he was not regarded by the American Government or people as Paine''s "Rights of Man" was not well known.--_Editor._ countries and societies, such as America and France, this right in the governments of the United States of America that are called THE id = 3741 author = Paine, Thomas title = The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis date = keywords = America; Britain; Congress; Crisis; England; Europe; France; General; God; Howe; Lord; New; Parliament; Philadelphia; States; Tories; United; York; british summary = governs the world, that America will never be happy till she gets clear America could carry on a two years'' war Britain, even in time of peace, much less in war, suffer an election to between Britain and America, would, in a little time, have brought one independent States of America, were we unconcernedly to see or to suffer Great Britain over America, is treason against every State; therefore officers and men, have given up the expectation of conquering America; United States of America, knowing no master but heaven and herself. interest to see America an independent, and not a conquered country. Suppose America had remained unknown to Europe till the present year, there are men in all countries to whom a state of war is a mine of I have already stated that the expense of conducting the present war, million for the government of the country, in time of peace, will be id = 3742 author = Paine, Thomas title = The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights of Man date = keywords = America; Assembly; Burke; Constitution; England; English; Europe; France; French; Government; King; Man; Mr.; National; Paine; Paris; Parliament; Revolution; Rights; nation summary = The government of England is no friend of the revolution of France. the Rights of Man, published by the National Assembly of France, as The French Constitution says that the National Assembly shall be elected that the nation has no right at all in the case; that the government is property in man, and governing him by personal right. People, the only authority on which Government has a right to exist national; nor can any country be called free whose government does not and that a Nation has not a right to form a Government of itself; it practice of the Rights of Man. Owing to the prejudices that still govern that nation, the author has Government is not a trade which any man, or any body of men, has a right man, as it appears, right to him; and governments do mischief by id = 3743 author = Paine, Thomas title = The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason date = keywords = Age; Almighty; Bible; Christ; God; Israel; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; Joshua; Judah; Lord; Matthew; Moses; New; Paine; Reason; Samuel; Saul; Testament summary = thing at that time to believe a man to have been celestially begotten; shame at calling such paltry stories the word of God. As to the account of the creation, with which the book of Genesis opens, Did the book called the Bible excel in purity of ideas and expression person is; for the Creator is the Father of All. The first four books, called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, do not give the Bible; and I begin with what are called the five books of Moses, years after the death of Moses; as men now write histories of things point that the book proves is that the author lived long after the time Jerusalem at this day; meaning the time when the book of Joshua was confusion, contradiction, and cruelty in this pretended word of God. The first book of Kings begins with the reign of Solomon, which, id = 1497 author = Plato title = The Republic date = keywords = Adeimantus; Aristotle; Book; Cephalus; Glaucon; God; Greek; Hellas; Homer; Laws; Plato; Polemarchus; Republic; Socrates; Thrasymachus; Timaeus; Zeus; good; great; justice; know; life; like; nature; platonic; soul; state; thing; time; true; truth summary = external frame-work of the State, the idea of good more than justice. that war is the natural state of man; or that private vices are public Why, my good friend, I said, how can any one answer who knows, and says Then, I said, let us begin and create in idea a State; and yet the true Yes, he said, and a man in his condition of life ought to use the art of Yes, he said; the States are as bad as the men; and I am very far from Thus, then, I said, the nature and place in the State of one of the four That is also good, he said; but I should like to know what you mean? Yes, he said, the States are as the men are; they grow out of human Then if the man is like the State, I said, must not the same rule id = 150 author = Plato title = The Republic date = keywords = Adeimantus; Cephalus; Glaucon; God; Homer; Plato; Polemarchus; Republic; Socrates; Thrasymachus; good; great; justice; life; like; mean; nature; reply; soul; state; thing; true summary = Why, my good friend, I said, how can any one answer who knows, and says men are said to unite in making the life of the unjust better than the Then, I said, let us begin and create in idea a State; and yet the true Yes, he said, and a man in his condition of life ought to use the art Yes, he said; the States are as bad as the men; and I am very far from Yes, we often said that one man should do one thing only. That is also good, he said; but I should like to know what you mean? Yes, I said; and there is another thing which is likely, or rather a Yes, he said, the States are as the men are; they grow out of human Then if the man is like the State, I said, must not the same rule id = 1738 author = Plato title = Statesman date = keywords = God; Plato; Republic; Sophist; Statesman; YOUNG; art; law; socrate; state; stranger summary = rules, but by making his art a law, and, like him, the true governor YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: Then the sciences must be divided as before? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: Where shall we discover the path of the Statesman? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: Which was, unmistakeably, one of the arts of knowledge? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: In that case, there was already implied a division of all YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: But then we ought not to divide, as we did, taking the whole YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: But the remainder of the hornless herd of tame animals will YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: And this the argument defined to be the art of rearing, not YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: And the art of measurement has to be divided into two parts, YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: So now, and with still more reason, all arts which make any id = 1750 author = Plato title = Laws date = keywords = ATHENIAN; Apollo; Arist; Athens; Council; Cretan; Crete; Gods; Hellas; Hellenes; Lacedaemon; Laws; Plato; Republic; Sparta; Stranger; Telfy; Zeus; cleinia; god; good; great; law; life; like; man; megillus; state; thing; true summary = simple law would be as follows:--A man shall marry between the ages of habits of law, that they may form a right judgment of good and bad men. our legislator, let us indite a law about wounding, which shall run as God; and let the law follow:--He who fails in his undertaking shall pay well-ordered state; and therefore our law shall be as follows:--No one thoughts like these; and let him hear the law:--He who is enrolled shall ATHENIAN: Then in a city which has good laws, or in future ages is to ATHENIAN: In the first place, let us speak of the laws about ATHENIAN: But what shall be our next musical law or type? Let us first of all, then, have a class of laws which shall be called And let this be the simple form of the law: No man shall have id = 55201 author = Plato title = The Republic of Plato date = keywords = Adeimantus; Aristotle; Book; Cephalus; Glaucon; God; Greek; Homer; Iliad; Laws; Phaedo; Plato; Polemarchus; Republic; Socrates; State; Thrasymachus; Timaeus; Zeus; footnote; good; great; justice; law; life; like; nature; sidenote; soul; thing; true summary = Plato''s own mind, are most naturally represented in the form of the State? end; good manners are both an art and a virtue; character is naturally follows:--His father is a good man dwelling in an ill-ordered State, who Surely, he said, a man may be expected to love those whom he thinks good, Then, I said, let us begin and create in idea a State; and yet the true Yes, he said, and a man in his condition of life ought to use the art of Yes, he said; the States are as bad as the men; and I am very far from which, when existing among men, Homer calls the form and likeness of God. Very true, he said. [Sidenote: Every man pursues the good, but without knowing the nature of *577D* Then if the man is like the State, I said, must not the same rule id = 40210 author = Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer) title = Thomas Paine, the Apostle of Liberty An Address Delivered in Chicago, January 29, 1916; Including the Testimony of Five Hundred Witnesses date = keywords = Age; America; Common; Conway; Dr.; England; France; Franklin; God; Independence; Jefferson; Lincoln; Man; Mr.; New; Paine; Paris; Reason; Revolution; Rights; Sense; States; Thomas; Washington summary = of Independence but for the timely appearance of Paine''s "Common Sense," time, "The Free and Independent States of America." Nor did Paine''s Theodore Roosevelt: "Thomas Paine, the famous author of ''Common Sense.''" "Thomas Paine brought to the study of the American Revolution a mind... It was over the writings of Thomas Paine chiefly, his "Rights of Man" at "Paine''s ''Rights of Man''," says Dr. Conway, "had been in every French from a democrat like Thomas Paine, a man so intimately allied with the of thoughts and words Thomas Paine was the most known of men and the any other man, is what Thomas Paine did."--_The Nation, London_. "Paine wrote the ''Age of Reason'' in Paris some years after Franklin The publication of Thomas Paine''s immortal pamphlet, ''Common Sense,'' generally known that Thomas Paine was the man in whose brain the bank Such a man was Thomas Paine." id = 39860 author = Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title = The Evolution of States date = keywords = Ages; Athens; Cantons; Charles; Christianity; Church; Cromwell; Dr.; Dutch; East; Egypt; Empire; England; English; Europe; Florence; Footnote; France; Gardiner; Germany; Geschichte; Gibbon; Greece; Hallam; Henry; Histoire; History; Holland; Idaho; Ireland; Italy; Middle; Mommsen; Mr.; Netherlands; Parliament; Portugal; Prof.; Protestant; Reformation; Republic; Rome; Short; Solon; Spain; Sparta; State; Sweden; Switzerland; Venice; christian; european; french; greek; italian; roman; spanish; teutonic summary = Greece by reason of natural conditions,[75] so the Greek cities of Italy [Footnote 58: Compare the slave wars of Rome in Sicily with the modern of the development of the Roman City-State (work cited, c. [Footnote 77: Cp. Ferrero, _Greatness and Decline of Rome_, Eng. trans, the one hand a war was begun with France by the English ruling classes [Footnote 145: Cp. Pearson''s _History of England during the Early and class to the State and greatly developed its fighting power, the forces [Footnote 162: Cp. Bury, _History of the Later Roman Empire_, i, 26, [Footnote 174: Cp. Niebuhr, _Lectures on Roman History_, Eng. tr. energy generated by the old political life; and the development is not [Footnote 356: K.O. Müller, _History of Greek Literature_, 1847, pp. [Footnote 496: Sismondi, _Fall of the Roman Empire_, as cited, i, 35, [Footnote 1149: _History of His Own Time_, ed. id = 11136 author = Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title = A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind date = keywords = animal; great; inequality; law; man; nature; savage; society; specie; state summary = natural state of man, to consider him from his origin, and to examine that nothing is more fearful than man in a state of nature, that he is we may add that no animal naturally makes war upon man, except in the animals, and the last chiefly attends man living in a state of Man therefore, in a state of nature where there are so few sources of men, in a state of nature, must be subject to fewer and less violent of living of the different orders of men in a civil state, with the not exist in a state of nature, must leave every man his own master, man in a state of nature, is almost imperceivable, and that it has of man in a state of nature, and might likewise be unveiled all the which man from the natural must have arrived at the civil state; by id = 4776 author = Russell, Bertrand title = Political Ideals date = keywords = economic; force; good; government; man; nation; power; state; system summary = The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good instance, that all men ought to be industrious, or self-sacrificing, men whose thoughts and desires are preoccupied with material goods. Economic affairs touch men''s lives, at most times, much more useful life, the activity ought to be as far as possible creative, not groups, ought not to have complete liberty of action in matters which Good political institutions would weaken the impulse toward force and State socialism, even in a nation which possesses the form of man who works on a railway ought to have a voice in the government of of men to the outside world ought, whenever possible, to be controlled justify compelling men to use force at the bidding of the state, when nation should be self-governing as regards its internal affairs. in cases where men of different nations live side by side in the same id = 40766 author = Tagore, Rabindranath title = Nationalism date = keywords = Asia; East; Europe; God; India; Japan; West; life; man; nation; power; western; world summary = self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history. know this world as of soul, to live here every moment of her life in the It is merely the side of power, not of human ideals. social life, then it is an evil day for humanity. Nation which is the organized self-interest of a whole people, where it gigantic proportion and power, causing the upset of man''s moral balance, self-sustaining life by the Nation will one day become the most terrible instincts of social life, our traditions of moral ideals stand in the nation to take its stand upon the higher ideals of humanity and never The real truth is that science is not man''s nature, it is mere knowledge man, the organized selfishness of nations and the higher ideals of man''s moral nature must deal with this great fact with all seriousness Our social ideals create the human world, but when our mind id = 14058 author = Various title = Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado date = keywords = Fascism; Footnote; Führer; Hitler; Ibid; Italy; Liberalism; NSDAP; National; Nazi; Party; Reich; Socialism; State; german; italian; people summary = Fascism man is an individual who is the nation and the country. individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the only true expression of respect Fascism is a totalising concept, and the Fascist State--the nation is created by the State, which gives the people, conscious of The nation as a State is an ethical reality which exists and lives in the people: if all individuals have the right to govern the state, Both Fascism and nationalism regard the State as the foundation of all state rests on three basic concepts, the _Volk_ or people, the Führer, starts with the concept of the people, which forms a political unity, In contrast to the state, the people form a true organism--a strivings of the German and Italian people for final national National Socialism is the eternal law of our German life; Neesse states that "It will be the task of National Socialism to lead id = 50755 author = White, Andrew Dickson title = The Most Bitter Foe of Nations, and the Way to Its Permanent Overthrow date = keywords = England; Footnote; France; King; Louis; Spain; history; right; spanish summary = The succeeding history of the Spanish nation was also, in its main both drawing the nation toward one great central city. Look at Polish history as painted by its admirers,--it is noble and Poland, the nobles chose the times when the nation was struggling nobles who drew surrounding nations to intervene in Polish politics. all history shows--that an oppressive caste can be crushed, but that of political rights to the enfranchised was one of the two great and the germs of political rights, the nation showed an energy in class possessing civil and political rights, that it was not frightful history, those be the great nations which have boldly grappled with [Footnote 1: History of Civilization in Europe. [Footnote 10: Mariana, History of Spain.] [Footnote 11: Mariana, History of Spain, XIII., 11.] [Footnote 18: History of Roman Republic, Book III., chap. [Footnote 21: History of the Romans, vol.