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Excerpt from Here Is Television: Your Window to the WorldThe author of this book has helped to shape the beginnings of television, the newest of the instruments available to those in the future who seek to inform the minds of men, or to win their sym pathy and understanding. It takes imagination and daring to leave the security of a known medium, to explore, through trial and error, with tools which are often anachronisms as soon as used, a ne...

Excerpt from Southern Africa: The Land and Its Peoples It is to be hoped that this brief study of the geography of Southern Africa will be of value to candidates for the Matriculation and Senior Certificate Examinations and to first year University students, as well as to the general reader. The work was first begun by Mr. H. R. Storey, B.A., F.R.G.S. It is greatly to be regretted that on appointment to an inspectorship in the Eastern Provinc...

Excerpt from Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days: A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life I have been requested by my friend Mr. Hutchinson, to express my Opinion upon the series of drawings which have been prepared by that excellent artist of animals, Mr. Smit, for this little book entitled Extinct Monsters. Many of the stories told in early days, of Giants and Dragons, may have originated in the discov...

Excerpt from The Chronicles of Middletown MY dear sir: Through the kindness of good friends in dear old Middletown, I have been permitted to read the articles published by you in the journal, entitled Chronicles of Middletown. To say that I have been interested, is to state very mildly the feeling of happi ness that I have experienced, in common with many others of the readers of the journal. We all owe you a debt of gratitude for your labor ...

Excerpt from The Medical Times, Vol. 1: A Semi-Monthly Journal of Medical and Surgical Science About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present i...

Excerpt from Joseph Mazzini, an Essay Read at the April 1909 Meeting of the Chit Chat Club of San Francisco At the opening of the nineteenth century, the Common Man, having fought his way up through the ascending stages of slave, serf, and hireling, had reached the very threshold of freedom, when, suddenly, in the glare of the red lights of the French Revolution, old man Autocracy and old woman Papacy, both galvanized into a semblance of new ...

Excerpt from The Campaign in Tirah, 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais and Afridis Under General Sir William Lockhart, Based (by Permission) On Letters Contributed to 'the Times' I Believe this narrative of the Tirah Expedition gives an accurate account of the operations, and I hope it will also be found a readable account. Its interest will certainly be enhanced by the reliable maps and plans which accompany it, and...

Excerpt from The Socialism of New Zealand Neither is this growing State Socialism an isolated thing, peculiar to any one country or section of the world. It is impossible to point to any one place and say, There we have State Socialism, or There we have pure Capi talism, or There we have pure Socialism, for no one place is so constituted as not to have elements of all three conditions in it. The fact to be grasped is that this economic phenom...

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Excerpt from Thought-Symbolism and Grammatic Illusions: Being a Treatise on the Nature, Purpose, and Material of Speech, and a Demonstration of the Unreality, the Useless Complexity, and the Evil Effects, of Orthodox Grammatic Rules in GeneralThe character of the audible thought-symbols we call words is first dealt with, and incidentally, the character of those other symbols, also called words, but which are visible representatives, indirectly...

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