Adams, John : (1735-1826) a leader in America’s War of Independence, was elected its first Vice-President & then President (1797-1801).
... minority who were wholly for England, a great hesitating majority who were eager for internal autonomy but unwilling to use extreme methods, and a small but vigorous minority of extremists with men like John Adams at their head who pushed the country into revolt and created a nation. The history of the Italian revolution tells the same story. We are fond of quoting the instance of Page 721 Japan ...
... collection of 'revenues' was implemented so ruthlessly and inhumanly that a few Britons could not help protesting. Brooks Adams speaks of the 'Indian plunder.' "It has always been our boast how greatly we have raised the revenue above that which the native rulers were able to extort," said John Shore in 1837. "Since the world began," wrote Holt Mackenzie in 1833, "there is probably no example of a Government... produce and textile. "Time was, not more distant than a century and a half ago, when Bengal was much more wealthy than was Britain," wrote the British historian William Digby in 1901. Already in 1853, John Sullivan, Collector of Coimbatore and founder of Ootaca-mund, had told the East India Company that he was in favour of returning a large part of Indian territory to native rulers "upon principles of... article of trade between the two countries, I am convinced that this country [England] will gain by the import cargo." This was Thomas Munro. But here was a 'trade' Britain was hardly interested in. Sir John Malcolm put it in a less commercial language: "The Hindoo inhabitants are a race of men, generally speaking, not 1. In 1924 Sri Aurobindo asked, "By the way, what is the average income of ...
... to have changed a medieval world into a technological one, because it enabled humanity to unveil the secrets of nature and to use this newly acquired knowledge for mastering nature. The late Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and friend of Richard Dawkins, wrote: “The invention of the scientific method is, I’m sure we’ll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the... × John Horgan: The End of Science , p. 47. × Steve Fuller: Kuhn vs Popper , p. 18. × John Horgan: op. cit., p. 41. ... that its conclusions are always tentative, ready to be overthrown by new observational evidence and new theories that more compactly, more elegantly, and/or more completely explain the evidence. John L. Casti It is scientifically unsound to make assumptions of the way things ought to be. Michael Behe We have come a long way in our narrative of the various manners in which evolution ...
... The word-master not only leaning near and manipulating his counters but also warming them with the contact of his own mind is the writer of this eloquent excerpt from The Education of Henry Adams (Chapter 28): "Power is poison. Its effects on Presidents has always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind... revelatory on the other are often shifting or fluctuant. In the last two quotations the causal appears to peep out through the subtle at one or two spots. Similar is the case of a pair of stanzas from John A. Chadwick. No difficulty in distinguishing them from a short poem by C. Day Lewis on a subject we have already illustrated with three passages: the Swan. Day Lewis achieves what a critic has ...
... Page 476 82. ibid., p. 300. 83. The Concise Oxford Dictionary. 84. Savitri, p. 913. 85. Cf: Henry Adams: "Life, Time, Space, Thought, the World, the Universe End where they first begin, in one sole Thought Of Purity in Silence." 86. Savitri... Mandir Annual, 1942. 3. This is the scene visualised by Sri Aurobindo in his Savitri, Book IV, canto 3. 4. See Pratap Chandra Roy [Tr.], The Mahabharata Vol II, p. 629 fn. Also John Brough Selections From Classical Sanskrit Literature p. 148 (Notes to II. 301-8). 5. Letter dated 8 March 1899 Romesh Chunder Dutt (Quoted in J.N. Gupta's Life and Work of Romesh Chunder... Iyengar, Sri Aurohindo, p. 309). 121. Richard Crashaw. 122. See The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, ed. by Cassirer, tr. by Forbes (University of Chicago Press). 123. Sir John Woodroffe, Is India Civilised?, P . 33. 124. Aurora, vii, 7 (Quoted in Stoudt, Sunrise to Eternity, p. 61). 125. The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 59-60. 126. Poetry ...
... who were wholly for England, a great hesitating majority who were eager for internal autonomy but unwilling to use extreme methods, and a small but vigorous minority of extremists with men like John Adams at their head who pushed the country into revolt and created a nation. The history of the Italian revolution tells the same story. Even in Japan, it was when the issue between the moderate... been a brilliant exhibition of his superhuman power of acting folly and talking nonsense... . 29 John Morley - critic and biographer of distinction, though an ineffective, if not cynical. Secretary of State for India - is almost skinned alive in the satirical portrait "In Praise of Honest John". Morley may have his niche in England's political and literary history, but this comic twitch to the ...
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