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3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They reckon ill who leave me out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "? What sort of a book would a member make out of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chips from my Workshop ? Do the young men, to any extent, join in Browning clubs and Shakespeare clubs and D... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the Great West. He is more free and limber there, and unfolds those generous peculiarities and largenesses of humanity which never blossomed before. The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "has much to do with it. The great spaces over which he roams contribute to the e... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "EGO"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps there was talk of adding a course to the college curriculum, in addition to that for training the all-competent"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for the self-centring of the young. To apply the term to a man or w... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he means exactly the same that a Bostonian means when, he says that a man is a"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ego,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The world is very evil, The times are waning late."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "fitting, it may be supposed, the periodic line of charity. When a person receives some of these things in the blessed season of such, he is apt to be puzzled. He wants to know what they are for, what he is to do with them. If there are no"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "American Girl may be the agency to bring this about. This charming product of the Western world has come into great prominence of late years in literature and in foreign life, and has attained a notoriety flattering or otherwise to the national pride. No institution has been bet... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the result of his absolute breaking with the Past. He can repose only in the midst of intense activity. He can sit down quietly in a town that is growing rapidly; but if it stands still, he is impelled to move his rocking-chair to one more lively. He wants the world to move, and... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if the American girl goes in seriously for"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best thing you can do, he said,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at any rate, have more leisure than men. In the facilities and felicities of speech they commonly excel men, and usually they have more of that vivacious dramatic power which is called"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whistling girls and crowing hens Always come to some bad ends."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "OLD SOLDIER"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is beginning to outline himself upon the public mind as a distant character in American life. Literature has not yet got hold of him, and perhaps his evolution is not far enough advanced to make him as serviceable as the sol... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love, and may the best man win!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H.H."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Paris has come to call upon its sovereign; the pikemen of Paris, led by the bold Barbaroux."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sleep on, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O real President, real Emperor (by the grace of coup d'etat) at last, in the midst of the most virtuous court in Europe, loved of good Americans, eternally established in the hearts of your devoted Parisians! Peace to ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Three Guardsmen and in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Midsummer Night's Dream. Dumas is as conscientious about his world of adventure as Shakespeare is in his semi-supernatural region. If Shakespeare did not respect the laws of his imaginary country, and the crea... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it is quite possible to make that"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which are occasionally"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "usually exaggerations of some trait, so pushed forward as to become caricatures. Consistency to human nature is not insisted on in plot, but there must be startling and unexpected incidents, mechanical devices, and a great deal of what is called"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of these stories, pretty much everything is left out of the higher sort that the reader has valued in the story. The romance of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Monte Cristo is an illustration of this. The play is vulgar melodrama, out of which has escaped altogether t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or a secret process or remedy, and prefer the charlatan who is exactly on the level of the Indian Medicine Man, to the regular practitioner, and to the scientific student of mind and body and of the properties of the materia medica. Why, even here in Connecticut, it is impossibl... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "seem most suitable to the wooden-heads who believe in them, but if one were sufficiently advertised as not containing a single trace of vegetable matter, avoiding thus all possible conflict of one organic life with another organic life, it would be just as popular. The favorites... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H.H."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "H. H. that she did not live to taste her very substantial fame in Southern California. We should have had such delight in her unaffected pleasure in it, and it would have been one of those satisfactions somewhat adequate to our sen... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ramona that I do not need to draw it over again, and I violate no confidence and only certify to the extraordinary powers of delineation of the novelist, when I say that she only spent a few hours there,--not a quarter of the time we spent in identifying her picture. We knew the... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is that for? I asked as she returned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is the Angelus,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ramona"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like thee, I saw of late, In Delos, a young palm-tree growing up Beside Apollo's altar."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would that I might call A man like him my husband, dwelling here And here content to dwell."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "American Literature in England. The hostile forces, with an advanced guard of what was regarded as an"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "had been gradually effecting a landing and a lodgment not unwelcome to the unsuspiciou... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something too much of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "we have thought was given us at times for, in getting bigger in various ways, we have grown more modest. Though our English admirers may not believe it, we see our own faults more clearly than we once did--thanks, ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frankenstein."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But with a shudder he recognized what a peril he had escaped. Great Scott!--the reference is to a local American deity who is invoked in war, and not to the Biblical commentator--what would have happened to him if he had s... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "England seems to have been in phrases such as these:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When we began to produce something that was the product of our own soil and of our own social conditions, it was still judged by the old standards; and, we are no longer irritated by"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The really 'American thing' in it is, we think, quite undiscovered either by the author or his heroes, and that is the curious confusion of classes which attributes to a girl brought up on the humblest level all the prejudices and necessities of the highest society. Granting tha... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we have obtained our independence,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was almost six feet in height, perfectly proportioned, and in figure and deportment he was the most manly man I have ever met. His chest was broad; his muscles were firm; his face wore a most benign expression; his complexion was roseate; his eyes were light blue and beamed w... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Write to Nathan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Asia,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will undertake it. It was Captain Nathan Hale. Everybody was astonished. His friends besought him not to attempt it. In vain. Hale was under no illusion. He silenced ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As Hale stood upon the fatal ladder, Cunningham taunted him, and tauntingly demanded his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The hero did not heed the words of the brute, but, looking calmly upon the spectators, said in a clear voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Summer In a Garden"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fashions in Literature"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Summer In a Garden"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Education of the Negro to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Literature and the Stage, with characteristic comments on"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truthfulness and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Pursuit of Happiness,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but they are really sustained by some desirable qualities--they are cleverly written, and they are for the moment undoubtedly entertaining. Some of them as undoubtedly appeal to innate vulgarity or to cultivated depravity. I will call no names, because that would be to indict th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I will dust his jacket. The standard of criticism does not lie with the individual in literature any more than it does in different periods as to fashions and manners. The world is pretty well agreed, and always has been, as to the qualities that make a gentleman. And yet th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the press. The time has come for a more philosophical treatment of it, for an inquiry into its relations to our complex civilization, for some ethical account of it as one of the developments of our day, and for some discussion of the effect it is producing, and likely to pro... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The London Spectator and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The New-York Nation,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The power of the press,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't want colleges, we want workshops. It was expressed in another way by a representative of the lower house in Washington who said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The average ignorance of the country has a right to be represented here."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The wealth of a nation depends upon its populousness, and its populousness depends upon the liberty of conscience that is granted to it, for this calls in strangers and promotes trading."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mayflower"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mayflower in an association--to carry out the divine will in society. But, behold how speedily their ideas expanded beyond the Jewish conception, necessarily expanded with opportunity and the practical self-dependence of colon... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; it was what the Constitution meant by the"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created unequal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it would also have stated the truth; and if it had added,"
},
{... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, after all, have these wonderful achievements done to elevate human nature? Human nature remains as it was. Science grows, but morality is stationary, and art is vulgarized. Not here lie the 'things necessary to salvation,' not the things which can give to human life grace,... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The negro prisoners in the Southern States to ten thousand negroes increased between 1880 and 1890 twenty-nine per cent., while the white prisoners to ten thousand whites increased only eight per cent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the States where slavery was ne... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That nothing walks with aimless feet, That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I trust you do not permit yourself to be depressed by the temporary partiality of what is called 'the public' for the favorites of the moment; all experience is against the permanency of such impressions. You must have lived to see many of these pass away, and will survive many ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can have property in your book only if you manufacture it into salable form in this country."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the best literature must be reproduced in countless editions, and the best literature is broadcast over the world at prices to suit all purses, even the leanest. The disadvantage is that products, in the eagerness of competition for a market, are accepted which are of a char... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Being a Boy. Nowhere has there been drawn a truer or more vivid picture of rural New England. Nowhere else can there be found such a portrayal of the sights and sounds, the pains and pleasures of life on a farm as seen from the point of view of a boy. Here we have them all graph... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Book of Eloquence."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Summer in a Garden"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Summer in a Garden"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sonny, he said at last,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Saunterings."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Baddeck,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Winter on the Nile and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the Levant"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the Levant"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "South and West and the account of Southern California which goes under the name of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our Italy. They are the outcome of journeys made expressly with the intent of investigating and reporting upon the actual situation and apparent prospect... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Gilded Age, which appeared in 1873. The result, however, was unsatisfactory to both the collaborators. Each had humor, but the humor of each was fundamentally different. But the magazine with which Warner had become connected was desirous that he should prepare for it an acc... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conversations on Horseback. Had it been worked up as he sketched it in his mind, it would have been the outdoor counterpart of his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Backlog Studies."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Backlog Studies. The attractiveness of this work is as much due to the suggestive social and literary discussions with which it abounds as to the delicate and refined humor with which the ideas are expressed. Something of the same characteristics was displayed in the two little ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The World's Best Literature."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Vision of Mirza"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They do so."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, he says,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "However the poet may have been petted and crowned, however his name may have been diffused among peoples, I doubt not that the popular estimate of him has always been substantially what it is today. And we all know that it is true, true in our individual consciousness, that if a... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "EQUALITY"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It appears to me to be well for every one who commences any sort of philosophical treatise to lay down some undeniable principle to start with"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the early Christians was the temporary relation of a persecuted and isolated sect, drawn together by common necessities and dangers, and by the new enthusiasm of self-surrender. ["
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The community of goods of the first Christians at Jer... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has the Restoration of Sciences Contributed to Purify or to Corrupt Manners? and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the Origin of Inequality among Men, and is it Authorized by Natural Law?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To understand political power aright and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in; and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their persons and possessions as they think fit, within the bounds of the law ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as if he knew all about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The conditions of primitive man, says Mr. Morley,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man is born free, and everywhere he is a slave, a statement which it is difficult to reconcile with the fact that every human being is born helpless, dependent, and into conditions of subjection, conditions that we have no reason to suppose were ever absent from the race. But Ro... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not only equality of right, but equality of fact, is the goal of the social art,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is entirely consonant with the book theories of the eighteenth century, and needs to be confronted, and practically is confronted, with the equally good dogma that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are not to imagine, for instance, that the framers of the Declaration... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to promote union, establish justice, and secure the blessings of liberty; and the equality is in the assumption of the right of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to do this. And yet, in a recent number of Blackwood's Magazine, a writer makes the amusing statement,"
},... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Its hard, dry kernel consists of the abstract idea of equality. --[The French Revolution. By H. A. Taine. Vol. i., bk. ii., chap. ii., sec. iii. Translation. New York: Henry Holt & Co.]--Taine's French Revolution is cynical, and, with all its accumulation of material, omits some... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excessive dependence on the state is the most prominent characteristic of modern socialism."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These proposals to prohibit inheritance, to abolish private property, and to make the state the owner of all the capital and the administrator o... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Their education [that of college men] destroys natural perception and judgment; so that cultivated people are one-sided, and their judgment is often inferior to that of the working people."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cultured people have made up their minds, and a... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, indeed, if the will of man is all-powerful, if states are to be distinguished from one another only by their boundaries, if everything may be changed like the scenery in a play by a flourish of the magic wand of a system, if man may arbitrarily make the right, if nations ca... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When we turn to modern literature, writes Mr. Money,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Biology and Woman's Rights, Quarterly Journal of Science, November, 1878.]--, says:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The 'femme libre' [free woman] of the new social order... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Duties of Higher towards Lower Races."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Africa and the Africans. By Edmund W. Blyden. Eraser's Magazine, August, 1878.]--an official in the government of Liberia. We are mistaken, says this excellent observer, in regarding Africa as a land of a homogeneous population, and in confounding the tribes in a promiscuous man... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The mistake which Europeans often make in considering questions of negro improvement and the future of Africa is in supposing that the negro is the European in embryo, in the undeveloped stage, and that when, by-and-by, he shall enjoy the advantages of civilization and culture, ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is necessarily to change the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let there be content with condition; discontent with individual ignorance and imperfection."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want, says Emerson,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They fly! they fly!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "? Will the ability to read Chaucer assist a shop-keeper? Will the politician add to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of his lovely career if he can read the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Battle of the Frogs and the Mice in the original? What has the ... |
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