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Excerpt from A Modern ZoroastrianPolarity is such a word. It sums up what Emer son says in his Essay on Compensation: Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of Nature, in darkness and light, in the ebb and ¿ow of waters, in male and female, in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals in the undulations of ¿uids and of sound, in the centripetal and centrifugal gravity, in electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinit...

Excerpt from A Sporting Quixote, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, the Life and Adventures of the Honble Augustus Fitzmuddle, Afterwards Earl of MuddletonSporting misadventures made to amuse grand children. The next process was to write short descriptions to illustrate the sketches. Then the idea gradually arose of making the hero a sort of modern Don Quixote, and trying to develop the theme that goodness is better than smartness and show how a shy, sensitive,...

Excerpt from Problems of the Future and EssaysMen, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do. Tennyson's Locksley Hall.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to...

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Excerpt from A Modern Zoroastrian From some of the criticisms on the First Edition of this work I fear that the distinction I endeavoured to draw between the use of the term polarity in the inorganic and in the spiritual worlds has not been made suficiently clear. I stated in the Introduction That while the principle of polarity pervades both worlds, I am far from assuming that the laws under which it acts are identical, and that virtue and v...

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This little book has been written primarily for the senior house officer in Accident and Emergency and the registrar pursuing a career in the specialty. I hope also that it will be of interest to medical students. Thanks to the initiative of Professor Miles Irving, Professor of Surgery, University of Manchester, medical students have been taught Accident and Emergency in Hope Hospital since 1974. Many of the answers to the questions here have ...

Excerpt from A Sporting Quixote, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, the Life and Adventures of the Honble Augustus Fitzmuddle, Afterwards Earl of Muddleton Those who read novels for ingenious plots, stirring incidents, and sensational characters, are warned that nothing of the sort is to be found on these premises, and that, on the contrary, spring-guns are set which may explode unexpectedly, and compel them either to throw down the volume in disgust, or go th...

Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA and Australia. The aim of the book is to redress the imbalance in moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, the view that the criterion of morality is the maximization of good effects over bad, without regard for basic right or wrong. This approach has become the orthodoxy over the last few de...

Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA and Australia. The aim of the book is to redress the imbalance in moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, the view that the criterion of morality is the maximization of good effects over bad, without regard for basic right or wrong. This approach has become the orthodoxy over the last few de...

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Excerpt from Problems of the Future and Essays Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do. Tennyson's Locksley Hall. 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 techn...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.