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Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com After that night, an hour of each evening that remained to him was devoted to his ease or pleasure. He could not talk much, for breath was precious, and he spoke in whispers; but from occasional conversations, I gleaned scraps of private history which only added to the affection and respect I felt for him. Once he asked me to write a letter, and as I settled pen and paper, I said, with an irrepressible glimmer of feminine curiosity, "Shall it be addressed to wife, or mother, John?"
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Louisa May Alcott, best known for her lastingly popular novel Little Women, was home-schooled by her father, A. Bronson Alcott, and such family friends as Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. An outspoken abolitionist and feminist, Alcott chose writing as a profession at an early age.
During the Civil War, she served for six weeks as a nurse in the Union Hospital at Georgetown, and her letters home during this period served as the basis for her first successful book, Hospital Sketches (1863). In this excerpt from the end of chapter four of Hospital Sketches, Alcott records the final days of a "stately looking" Virginia blacksmith named John, a man who "seldom spoke, uttered no complaint, asked no sympathy, but tranquilly observed what went on about him." Compare Alcott's sketch with Phoebe Yates Pember's account in "Letting Go" of the death of a young Confederate soldier.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Best known today as the father of novelist Louisa May Alcott, Amos Bronson Alcott was a passionate educator, abolitionist, and advocate for women's rights in mid-19th century New England. Though ridiculed by some of his contemporaries (Thomas Carlyle described him as "a venerable Don Quixote . . . all bent on saving the world by a return to acorns"), he was admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E. Channing. Bronson was a founder of Fruitlands (a short-lived experiment in community living near Harvard) and the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature.
"Exercise" is one of the longer "fragments" in Alcott's essay collectionTable-Talk, originally published in 1877.
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Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Fifty years ago, science took for granted that the rate of acceleration could not last. The world forgets quickly, but even today the habit remains of founding statistics on the faith that consumption will continue nearly stationary. Two generations, with John Stuart Mill, talked of this stationary period, which was to follow the explosion of new power. All the men who were elderly in the forties died in this faith, and other men grew old nursing the same conviction, and happy in it; while science, for fifty years, permitted, or encouraged, society to think that force would prove to be limited in supply. This mental inertia of science lasted through the eighties before showing signs of breaking up; and nothing short of radium fairly wakened men to the fact, long since evident, that force was inexhaustible. Even then the scientific authorities vehemently resisted.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Thus, taking the year 1900 as the starting point for carrying back the series, nothing was easier than to assume a ten-year period of retardation as far back as 1820, but beyond that point the statistician failed, and only the mathematician could help. Laplace would have found it child’s-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton, and himself. Watt could have given in pounds the increase of power between Newcomen’s engines and his own. Volta and Benjamin Franklin would have stated their progress as absolute creation of power. Dalton could have measured minutely his advance on Boerhave. Napoleon I must have had a distinct notion of his own numerical relation to Louis XIV. No one in 1789 doubted the progress of force, least of all those who were to lose their heads by it.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com The grandson of American president John Quincy Adams, Henry Adams taught medieval and American history at Harvard, edited the North American Review, and wrote several important historical works. He remains best known, however, for his classic autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1919.
In "A Law of Acceleration," the second-to-last chapter of The Education of Henry Adams, Adams observed that whereas coal output served as the measure of progress in the 19th century, the dynamo would characterize the acceleration of progress in the 20th. Looking ahead to the year 2000, he imagined a world in which people would be able to "control unlimited power" and "think in complexities unimaginable to an earlier mind."
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com On the whole, then, the position of an alien cannot be a very pleasant one, unless one has a good deal of money and a rich vein of transferable patriotism. To be despised as dirty--foreigners are all dirty by classification--even by those who would regard a hot bath as no better than a pneumonia-trap, is the smallest part of the alien's burden.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Born in Belfast and educated at Queen's University of Belfast, Robert Lynd spent most of his adult life in London, writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the New Statesman.
In his essay "On Being an Alien," originally published in 1921, less than three years after the end of World War I, Lynd examines the "anti-foreign feeling which is already vehement enough in most of us, and which must be tamed into moderation if the world is to be civilised." Compare Lynd's sentiments with those expressed by Oliver Goldsmith in his essay "On National Prejudices" (1763). |
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