12) Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 2. Lost Distinctions. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
...the essays of the reign of Anne, and in some of the best examples of modern English literature. The theory behind it is so inordinately abstruse that the Fowlers,...

13) On the American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson. America: I. (1761-1837). Vol. VIII. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations
...we shall get at the truth—learn the amount of this influence more conveniently—by considering their value alone. 4 The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the...

14) 23. Silence (1894–1898). Adams, Henry. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams
...upset. But for connecting the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the four years, 1893–97, had no value in the drama of education, and might be left out. Much that...

15) The American Scholar. I. Essays. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1909-14. Essays and English Traits. The Harvard Classics
...worse, the parrot of other men s thinking. 6 In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained. Him Nature solicits with all her placid,...

16) I. Education. General Introduction. By Professor H. W. Holmes. 1909-14. Lectures on the Harvard Classics. The Harvard Classics
...persistent need for general education that complicates the issue. Economic demand may justify child labor, but educational theory does not. A theory of education...

17) III. Natural Science. Physics and Chemistry. By Professor Lawrence J. Henderson. 1909-14. Lectures on the Harvard Classics. The Harvard Classics
...practical applications of Faraday s discovery have increased and are increasing in number and value every year, no exception to the statement of these laws as given...

18) Race. IV. English Traits. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1909-14. Essays and English Traits. The Harvard Classics
...it. They are free forcible men, in a country where life is safe, and has reached the greatest value. They give the bias to the current age; and that, not by chance...

19) I. Political Science. General Introduction. By Professor Thomas Nixon Carver. 1909-14. Lectures on the Harvard Classics. The Harvard Classics
...speaking, a cost, but a surplus income to the owner. This surplus income is the surplus value of the produce over and above the cost of producing it. Since very little...

20) In Favor of the Repeal of the Union by Daniel O'Connell. Ireland (1775-1902). Vol. VI. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations
...the land is the landlord s, and let him have the benefit of it, but we will also recollect that the labor belongs to the tenant, and the tenant must have the value...