item: #1 of 12 id: 10291 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace date: None words: 36389 flesch: 62 summary: I can conceive no such Peace Congress as those that have settled up after other wars, settling up after this war. It would be a dismaying thing to realize that one were writing anything here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. keywords: africa; allies; britain; british; country; day; democracy; empire; german; government; idea; imperialism; league; mankind; men; nations; party; peace; people; powers; present; public; question; representation; states; system; things; time; united; vote; want; war; way; world cache: 10291.txt plain text: 10291.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 10753 author: Rushkoff, Douglas title: Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics date: None words: 17713 flesch: 54 summary: Though one possible direction for the implementation of new media technology may be exhausted, its other myriad potentials beckon us once again. Although many of the leaders and top shareholders of global media conglomerates felt quite threatened by the rise of new media, their conscious efforts to quell the unchecked spread of interactive technology were not the primary obstacles to the internet's natural development. keywords: ability; collective; community; computer; game; government; internet; licence; media; model; new; people; perspective; public; reality; renaissance; rights; software; source; stories; story; technology; television; terms; time; use; way; work; world cache: 10753.txt plain text: 10753.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 10837 author: Griggs, Edward Howard title: The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty date: None words: 27106 flesch: 62 summary: Probably one half of all the attacks on men of unusual wealth and success come from other men, who would like to be in the same situation with those they attack, and have failed of their ambition. It should be the open and universal demand of the American people that those who represent us shall place the relations we sustain to other nations permanently on the same plane of frank honesty, generally prevailing among individuals. keywords: american; day; democracy; education; force; germany; good; government; hand; history; individual; law; life; man; men; nations; new; people; self; spirit; state; time; war; way; women; world; years cache: 10837.txt plain text: 10837.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 12329 author: Woodberry, George Edward title: Heart of Man date: None words: 66278 flesch: 55 summary: It was said of old that great men were creative in their souls, and left their works to be their race; these ideal heroes have immortal souls for their children, age after age. If it be still allowed that all men should have a share in a self-government, it is yet maintained that a share should be granted, in addition, to educated men and owners of property, and to descendants of such men who have founded permanent families with an inherited capacity, a tradition, and a material stake. keywords: action; age; art; beauty; character; city; democracy; earth; element; emotion; experience; fact; form; general; god; great; hand; heart; history; human; ideal; knowledge; law; life; literature; man; matter; men; mind; nature; new; order; past; place; plot; power; race; reason; sea; sense; social; society; soul; spirit; state; things; thought; time; truth; virtue; way; world cache: 12329.txt plain text: 12329.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 19609 author: Clayton, Joseph title: The Rise of the Democracy date: None words: 68117 flesch: 59 summary: I am ready, he said, and will be ready at all times to do whatever, not only to repress, but to subdue the power of great men. The present condition of possessing land seemeth miserable and slavish--holding it all at the pleasure of great men; not freely, but by prescription, and, as it were, at the will and pleasure of the lord. keywords: act; anselm; archbishop; army; authority; barons; bill; century; church; class; commons; constitution; council; country; crown; day; democracy; democratic; england; english; general; george; good; government; great; henry; house; john; king; labour; law; life; london; lords; man; members; middle; movement; national; new; parliament; party; people; politics; power; public; reform; representative; revolution; right; royal; rule; social; state; time; war; way; william; women; working; years cache: 19609.txt plain text: 19609.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 22241 author: Lee, Gerald Stanley title: The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want date: None words: 76819 flesch: 65 summary: I do not like to feel that I am swaying the world with that yellow pencil, and that the ignorant way I feel when I am putting down crosses beside names, is the feeling other people have, that this feeling I have--in those few brief miserable moments I spend with the yellow pencil--is the feeling that this country is being governed with. If what an organization is for, is to put the soul and body of a people together it is compelled as a matter of course, to get its own way with the same quietness, dignity and power it is telling other people to. keywords: america; body; book; business; business men; capital; country; day; democracy; employers; human; idea; know; labor; league; line; look; making; man; men; mind; nation; national; new; people; president; right; self; things; think; time; vision; want; war; way; way people; work; world; years cache: 22241.txt plain text: 22241.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 27368 author: Faguet, Émile title: The Cult of Incompetence date: None words: 46546 flesch: 61 summary: Liberty, the object of such a law, is for the French, as Baron Joannès has remarked: The right of each man to do what he likes and to prevent other men from doing what they like. Young men want to be on the same terms as their elders and betters, and old men ape the manners of the young, for fear of being thought morose and dictatorial. Observe too to what lengths of liberty and equality the relations between the sexes are carried. keywords: aristocracy; authority; country; democracy; democratic; education; efficiency; equality; fact; form; good; government; incompetence; justice; law; laws; liberty; magistrates; man; means; montesquieu; nation; order; people; principle; public; reason; representatives; respect; right; sovereignty; state; system; thing; way cache: 27368.txt plain text: 27368.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 34890 author: Seldes, Gilbert title: Proclaim Liberty! date: None words: 63240 flesch: 58 summary: The truth is that our Executive is tremendously prompt and unhampered in war time; the appeaser of fascism does not tell the truth; he wants an end to talk, which is dangerous, because he is always at war and the secret fascist would have to admit that his perpetual war is against the people of the United States. We cannot afford the time to answer every argument before we take any action, so temporary assent is needed (the Executive in war time automatically has it because he orders action without argument). keywords: action; america; americans; britain; british; country; declaration; democracy; enemies; england; europe; european; fascism; freedom; future; germany; good; government; history; hitler; labor; land; liberty; life; man; men; national; nations; need; new; peace; people; policy; power; production; propaganda; revolution; right; states; strategy; system; things; time; truth; united; unity; use; war; war time; way; wealth; work; world; world war; years cache: 34890.txt plain text: 34890.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 35572 author: Orth, Samuel Peter title: Socialism and Democracy in Europe date: None words: 106397 flesch: 62 summary: 21.81 Denmark (1910) | 98,721 | 114 | 24 | 21.06 Holland (1909) | 82,494 | 100 | 7 | 7.00 Belgium (1910) | 483,241 | 166 | 35 | 21.08 Switzerland (1908) | 100,000 | 170 | 7 | 4.11 Turkey (1908) | | 196 | 6 | 3.06 Servia (1908) | 3,056 | 160 | 1 | 0.62 U.S.A. (1910) | | | 1 | --------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-------------- IN 1910 THE SOCIALISTS HELD THE FOLLOWING NUMBER OF LOCAL OFFICERS, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY ============================+============================ Great Britain 1126 | Finland 351 Germany 7729 | of _Country_ | Socialist | Seats in |Held by |Socialists | Votes_ |Parliament_|Socialists_| Seats_ --------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-------------- Great Britain (1910)| 505,690 | 670 | 40 | 5.97 Germany (1912) | 4,250,000 | 397 | 110 | 38.81 Luxemburg (1909) | | 48 | 10 | 20.8 Austria (1907) keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; abolition; act; bill; bourgeois; chamber; children; class; classes; conditions; conference; congress; country; day; democracy; democratic; development; education; election; england; english; following; france; french; general; germany; government; insurance; international; labor movement; labor party; labor unions; law; laws; liberal; life; london; marx; means; members; modern; movement; municipal; national; new; number; order; organization; parliament; parties; party |; people; place; political; power; present; production; program; property; public; question; reichstag; revolution; right; second; social; socialism; societies; society; state; strike; suffrage; system; time; trade; unions; violence; vote; war; work; workers; working; workingmen; workmen; years; | =; | page; | | cache: 35572.txt plain text: 35572.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 815 author: Tocqueville, Alexis de title: Democracy in America — Volume 1 date: None words: 191835 flesch: 52 summary: [Footnote x: The fifth article of the treaty made with the Creeks in August, 1790, is in the following words:--The United States solemnly guarantee to the Creek nation all their land within the limits of the United States. This would have dispelled his apprehensions, if he had any, about the power of the United States to withstand the severest shocks of civil war. keywords: administration; affairs; america; american union; americans; authority; body; case; causes; citizens; community; condition; constitution; country; democracy; democratic; england; europe; exercise; existence; footnote; france; general; government; human; independence; individual; influence; inhabitants; institutions; interests; laws; liberty; life; majority; man; manners; means; nation; nature; new; north; number; opinion; order; passions; people; place; point; population; power; present; principles; public; right; slavery; social; society; south; system; time; union; united states; world; years cache: 815.txt plain text: 815.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 816 author: Tocqueville, Alexis de title: Democracy in America — Volume 2 date: None words: 142065 flesch: 53 summary: It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work, and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak, and that no form or combination of social polity has yet been devised, to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens. If he consents to connect himself with other men in the prosecution of the same purpose, at least he chooses to remain free to contribute to the common success after his own fashion. keywords: ages; americans; aristocracy; army; chapter; citizens; class; common; community; condition; countries; country; day; democracy; democratic; equality; europe; freedom; general; government; habits; honor; human; ideas; interest; laws; life; long; love; man; manners; means; members; men; mind; nations; new; number; object; opinions; order; passions; people; persons; place; power; present; principle; property; public; society; state; taste; things; time; united; united states; war; world cache: 816.txt plain text: 816.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 8690 author: Tocqueville, Alexis de title: American Institutions and Their Influence date: None words: 206942 flesch: 53 summary: Nevertheless it is important to acknowledge the peculiar advantages of great states. The citizens of every state have a deep interest in preserving the obligation of the contracts entered into by them in other states: indeed without such a controlling power, commerce among several states could not exist. keywords: act; administration; affairs; america; american union; americans; authority; body; case; causes; citizens; community; condition; constitution; country; courts; day; democracy; democratic; different; england; english; europe; exercise; existence; federal; form; france; general; government; habits; human; independence; indians; individual; influence; inhabitants; institutions; interests; jury; laws; liberty; life; long; majority; man; manners; means; nation; nature; new; north; number; officers; opinion; order; passions; people; place; point; population; power; present; president; principles; public; religion; right; slavery; social; society; south; system; time; union; united states; work; world; years cache: 8690.txt plain text: 8690.txt