item: #1 of 16 id: 10613 author: Adams, Brooks title: The Theory of Social Revolutions date: None words: 44491 flesch: 56 summary: In the event of adverse fortune, however, the position of capitalists would hardly be improved by the existence of political courts serving a malevolent majority. And once a stable social equilibrium is reached, all men tend to support judicial courts, if judicial courts exist, from an instinct of self-preservation. keywords: act; american; capital; case; chief; class; congress; constitution; convention; court; danton; france; general; government; jefferson; judges; judiciary; justice; king; law; legislation; man; marshall; men; mind; new; opinion; order; paris; people; power; principle; property; public; revolution; society; states; supreme; years cache: 10613.txt plain text: 10613.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 1397 author: Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François) title: The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature date: None words: 98261 flesch: 60 summary: The Ethiopians conceive themselves, says he, lib. iii., to be of greater antiquity than any other nation: and it is probable that, born under the sun's path, its warmth may have ripened them earlier than other men. But to support the pride of your distinctions of origin and castes, prove to us in the first place that you are different from other men; establish, in the next place, as historical facts, the allegories which you relate; show us, indeed, that you are the authors of all this doctrine; for we will demonstrate, if necessary, that you have only stolen and disfigured it; that you are only the imitators of the ancient paganism of the West; to which, by an ill assorted mixture, you have allied the pure and spiritual doctrine of our gods--a doctrine totally detached from the senses, and entirely unknown on earth till Beddou taught it to the nations. keywords: action; beings; body; causes; chapter; country; day; doctrine; earth; evil; existence; form; general; genius; god; gods; good; hand; happiness; heart; heaven; history; ideas; ignorance; justice; knowledge; law; laws; life; love; man; means; men; mind; multitude; nations; nature; new; opinions; order; origin; passions; people; physical; place; power; present; priests; principle; public; race; reason; religion; right; science; society; soul; spirit; stars; state; sun; system; things; time; truth; universe; virtue; words; work; world; worship; years; yes cache: 1397.txt plain text: 1397.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 37582 author: Bindloss, Harold title: The Coast of Adventure date: None words: 90892 flesch: 87 summary: While they talked about other matters, Evelyn Cliffe sat in the stern of the tiny sloop, enjoying the sense of control the grasp of the tiller gave her, and the swift rush of the polished hull through the sparkling foam. Turning abruptly, he stood facing Evelyn Cliffe. keywords: air; blanca; boat; business; cliffe; country; dark; don; enchantress; evelyn; eyes; face; father; frio; girl; gomez; good; grahame; half; hand; head; help; house; leave; light; look; macallister; man; martin; men; money; people; president; rio; room; round; sarmiento; sea; señor; spanish; tell; things; thought; time; town; trouble; walthew; water; way; white cache: 37582.txt plain text: 37582.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 38982 author: Trotsky, Leon title: Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky date: None words: 71207 flesch: 54 summary: The view that terrorism is of the essence of revolution Kautsky proclaims to be a widespread delusion. From these words Kautsky might have observed why in practice it is not so simple to combine class war with interclass democracy. keywords: army; assembly; bourgeoisie; class; commune; conditions; country; day; democracy; dictatorship; fact; form; general; german; government; history; international; kautsky; labor; life; marx; masses; means; military; new; order; organization; paris; party; period; place; power; present; principle; production; proletariat; question; revolution; revolutionary; russian; socialist; soviet; state; struggle; time; war; way; workers; working; world cache: 38982.txt plain text: 38982.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 39540 author: Maurice, C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) title: The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years date: None words: 151732 flesch: 56 summary: This was to be effected by the introduction of Fanny Ellsler and other people of a similar character to the pleasure-loving population of Milan. Lo Stato Romano (really including much of other parts). keywords: action; albert; assembly; austrian; bohemia; cause; character; charles; city; constitution; council; country; desire; diet; effect; emperor; empire; europe; feeling; ferdinand; force; frankfort; freedom; french; general; german; government; help; house; hungarian; hungary; independence; influence; insurrection; italian; italy; king; kossuth; language; leaders; liberty; life; lombardy; magyars; march; mazzini; meeting; members; metternich; milan; ministry; movement; national; new; news; order; parliament; people; place; policy; pope; position; power; prague; proposal; prussia; question; races; relations; revolution; rising; roman; rome; roumanians; serbs; soldiers; state; struggle; students; sympathy; time; town; transylvania; troops; venice; vienna; viennese; war cache: 39540.txt plain text: 39540.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 403 author: Davis, Richard Harding title: Soldiers of Fortune date: None words: 79687 flesch: 83 summary: They seem to be a most picturesque lot of young men. They were only employees of Langham--two of the thousands of young men who were working all over the United States to please him, to make him richer, to whom he was only a name and a power, which meant an increase of salary or the loss of place. keywords: alvarez; arms; burke; carriage; city; clay; coming; day; eyes; face; father; general; good; hand; head; home; hope; house; king; langham; left; look; macwilliams; man; men; mendoza; mines; miss; miss langham; new; night; people; place; president; road; stuart; table; thought; time; want; way; white; woman; work; young cache: 403.txt plain text: 403.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 50906 author: Churchill, Winston title: Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania date: None words: 57939 flesch: 81 summary: Thus it is that great men enjoy the power they risk their lives to gain and often meet their deaths to hold. Besides, he added, assuming that charm of manner of which few great men are destitute, I require you for a service of difficulty and extreme danger. keywords: city; crowd; day; door; face; fire; good; government; great; half; life; look; lucile; man; men; miguel; mind; molara; moment; moret; morning; night; officers; palace; people; power; president; public; room; rose; savrola; sir; soldiers; sorrento; stairs; state; street; thought; time; tiro; war; way; world cache: 50906.txt plain text: 50906.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 59259 author: Kastle, Herbert D. title: The Outer Quiet date: None words: 4245 flesch: 84 summary: This was so slight a touch of the vocal cords that no detector bulb or other trainee could hear it. George Lowery, he said, thirty-two, top salesman at Brady's Men's Shop, resident of Babylon, Long Island, owner of 12 North Rector Drive, husband of Adele Lowery, and today you may see her. keywords: adele; building; conquerors; george; men; time; trainees cache: 59259.txt plain text: 59259.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 60460 author: Berry, Don title: The Raider date: None words: 5941 flesch: 90 summary: Wolf caught a glimpse of men appearing at the crest. My apologies, old man, said the raider. keywords: carroll; daimya; joseph; man; right; village; wolf cache: 60460.txt plain text: 60460.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 61499 author: Roberts, Scott title: Monopoly date: None words: 9827 flesch: 91 summary: Brian faltered to a stop and Crystal James pushed past him. Brian followed Crystal into the smaller of the two ships and the rest of the rebels manned the other. keywords: brian; crystal; door; hanson; mchague; police; rebels; serono; ship; venus; voice; zeburzac cache: 61499.txt plain text: 61499.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 61696 author: Repp, Ed Earl title: Martian Terror date: None words: 10325 flesch: 91 summary: When all were quiet, Prince Lolan stood up. Beside Lolan the wall shuddered slightly and a trickle of rocks slid down it. keywords: arzt; atarkus; door; eyes; face; feet; irak; lolan; lugo; man; martian; mora; room; venusian cache: 61696.txt plain text: 61696.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 61845 author: Cummings, Ray title: Space-Liner X-87 date: None words: 18274 flesch: 92 summary: Someone here on board suspected me; that eavesdropper had turned his ray upon me quickly enough when I had stood talking to Captain Mackensie.... You're having bad times in Grebhar, little Dr. Frye said presently to Torio. And then a scream from little Green. keywords: blake; captain; chart; deck; door; earth; light; mackensie; man; mokk; nina; pressure; room; ship; torio; voice; x-87; young cache: 61845.txt plain text: 61845.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 62043 author: Lewis, Richard O. title: Zurk date: None words: 6247 flesch: 93 summary: Soon there would be other black ships. Other black ships were coming. keywords: eyes; gun; guyard; marene; zuldi; zurk cache: 62043.txt plain text: 62043.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 62377 author: Hasse, Henry title: Alcatraz of the Starways date: None words: 24383 flesch: 85 summary: The surprise stopped Mark Denning in his tracks, but fortunately, thanks to his training, he managed to keep his face impassive as they recognized each other simultaneously. You are demoted back to the lower order, Mark Denning, she said with a hint of the same mockery Mark had known in the Swamp. keywords: aladdian; aladdo; asteroid; carston; commander; council; cynthia; earth; eyes; face; fleet; luhor; mark; marnik; men; metal; space; swamp; time; venus; venusian; voice; vulcan cache: 62377.txt plain text: 62377.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 62395 author: Bond, Nelson S. title: Phantom Out of Time date: None words: 17532 flesch: 86 summary: For a moment her dark, vivid eyes touched Dirk's with lingering ferocity ... and despite the tenseness of the moment, the peril of his situation, Dirk Morris could not restrain the quick thrill of admiration and ... something else which burned through him. Thus, you see, said Rima so softly that only Dirk could hear her, you _did_ succeed, Dirk Morris. keywords: brian; dirk; dirk morris; earth; emperor; eyes; garroway; girl; hardesty; lenore; man; morris; nadron; neil; overlord; princess; rima; slador; time; voice; world cache: 62395.txt plain text: 62395.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 62476 author: Pohl, Frederik title: Conspiracy on Callisto date: None words: 8460 flesch: 94 summary: Peter Duane, what're you doing in the clothes of Andrias' household guard? Duane felt the tenseness ebb out of his throat. They came to a sliding, tumbling halt, though, as they faced grim Duane and his ready heat pistol. keywords: andrias; callisto; captain; duane; gun; head; league; man; men; peter; ship cache: 62476.txt plain text: 62476.txt