The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the...
And, of course, there is the moral component entailed in Taiwan being a vibrant democracy with a population that has no interest in reunification with China. To that end, the status quo has been simultaneously absurd and yet surprisingly sustainable: Taiwan is an independent country in nearly ...
and,wemay add, to our social existence; for the comforts and welfare of so large a mass of our people, whether engaged in agriculture or manufactures, have of late been proved to depend so greatly on the existence
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“Leaves of Grass” 草叶集( 1870) the first genuine epic poem. 美国历史上第一部真正的史诗 Song of Myself 自我之歌 惠特曼的诗离不开的话题包括 “Grass-root democracy”, equality, and communion between individuals. The poem explores the possibilities of communion between individuals. Starting fr...
A turbulent civil war had beheaded the monarch, lower-class puritanism had disrupted the Church, and the forces which were to produce modern secular society - science, democracy, rationalism, economic individualism - were in the ascendant. From about Andrew Marvell onwards, then, it was downhill...
You know the real meaning of peace only if you have been through the war. 只有经历了战争, 你才能真正知道和平的意义. Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it. 胜利是不会向我走来的,我必须自己走向胜利。 Unless it goes hand in hand with science, democracy will have no future. 民主...
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop Countee Cullen, Copper Sun A. A. Milne, Now We Are Six, illustrations by E. H. Shepard Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women (collection of short ...
In one of the books, the story narrated how a village of sheep fought back against a group of wolves who tried to take over their settlement, which was interpreted as supporting the pro-democracy movement by the court. Spotify to begin testing audiobooks aiming to utilize personalized ...
1.The Theory of the Leisure Class 《有闲阶级论》 The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions is a book, first published in 1899, by the Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago. In the book’...