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Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Should all young people be required to attend college or university? That's the question explored in this dream essay by Benjamin Franklin--composed when he was just 16 years old. Writing in the persona of a widow named Silence Dogood, Franklin published the essay in his older brother's newspaper, the New England Courant, in 1722. Note that Franklin's own formal education ended when he was 10 years old.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com 5 In the third place, property makes its owner feel that he ought to do something to it. Yet he isn't sure what. A restlessness comes over him, a vague sense that he has a personality to express--the same sense which, without any vagueness, leads the artist to an act of creation. Sometimes I think I will cut down such trees as remain in the wood, at other times I want to fill up the gaps between them with new trees. Both impulses are pretentious and empty. They are not honest movements towards moneymaking or beauty. They spring from a foolish desire to express myself and from an inability to enjoy what I have got. Creation, property, enjoyment form a sinister trinity in the human mind. Creation and enjoyment are both very, very good, yet they are often unattainable without a material basis, and at such moments property pushes itself in as a substitute, saying, "Accept me instead--I'm good enough for all three." It is not enough. It is, as Shakespeare said of lust, "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame": it is "Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream." Yet we don't know how to shun it. It is forced on us by our economic system as the alternative to starvation. It is also forced on us by an internal defect in the soul, by the feeling that in property may lie the germs of self-development and of exquisite or heroic deeds. Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership, where (in the words of Dante) "Possession is one with loss."
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com English writer E(dward) M(organ) Forster, best known today for the novels Howard's End and A Passage to India, was the author of several novels, two biographies, a book of criticism, and many essays and short stories. The essay "My Wood," first published in 1926, encourages us to think about the nature of materialism and the seductive power of our possessions. Compare Forster's thoughts on ownership with those expressed by Henry Van Dyke in his essay "Who Owns the Mountains?"
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com He asked me what I wanted. I told him to let me get a new home; that as sure as I lived with Mr. Covey again, I should live with but to die with him; that Covey would surely kill me he was in a fair way for it. Master Thomas ridiculed the idea that there was any danger of Mr. Covey's killing me, and said that he knew Mr. Covey; that he was a good man, and that he could not think of taking me from him; that should he do so, he would lose the whole year's wages; that I belonged to Mr. Covey for one year, and that I must go back to him, come what might; and that I must not trouble him with any more stories, or that he would himself get hold of me.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass eventually became a major leader of the civil rights movement in the United States. In thisnarrative passage from Chapter 10 of his first autobiography, Douglass recounts "the turning-point" in his "career as a slave." Refusing to take further abuse from Edward Covey, a farmer who had a reputation as a "slave-breaker," the 16-year-old Douglass rebelled--and in so doing renewed his "determination to be free."
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Nations, like men, may be classified roughly as Red-blood and Mollycoddle. To the latter class belong clearly the ancient Greeks, the Italians, the French and probably the Russians; to the former the Romans, the Germans, and the English. But the Red-blood nation par excellence is the American; so that in comparison with them, Europe as a whole might almost be called Mollycoddle. This characteristic of Americans is reflected in the predominant physical type--the great jaw and chin, the huge teeth, and predatory mouth; in their speech, where beauty and distinction are sacrificed to force; in their need to live and feel and act in masses. To be born a Mollycoddle in America is to be born to a hard fate
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com A popular author at the beginning of the twentieth century, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson has been largely forgotten in our own time. From 1886 to 1920, he lectured in history and political science at Cambridge University. He was friends with members of the Bloomsbury Group in London and published more than 300 books and articles on a wide range of subjects.
In the essay "Red-Bloods and Mollycoddles" (excerpted from chapter eight of Appearances, 1915), Dickinson offers an extended contrastbetween two broad categories of humankind. Note how he uses examplesto add life to the types (orcaricatures) he has introduced.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com It is disagreeably unnecessary. Why should not the old fellow do his duty quietly, and tell off another year without such an outrageous uproar? Does he think it so pleasant to hear his increasing tally--forty, five, fifty, five, sixty, five? Peace! peace! Why not have it understood that the tally beyond--well, say fifty, is a gross impertinence? Let something be left to the imagination. Besides, what is the use of wigs and hair-dye and padding, and what not coloring and enamelling, and other juvenescent procedures of the feminine arcana, if annual proclamation of impertinent dates and facts is to be made?
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com A social activist and one of the founders of the Republican Party,George William Curtis served as editor of Harper's Weekly from 1863 until his death in 1892. During that same period he regularly contributed essays to Harper's Monthly, under the title of "The Easy Chair."
In this reflective essay, originally published in 1887, Curtis uses the occasion of the new year to challenge conventional ideas about youth and age. You may find it rewarding to compare Curtis's essay with Charles Lamb's "New Year's Eve." |
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