...election to the Elysée on Sunday, Sarko, sounding not so much like a Frenchman as a joyless Puritan stepping off the Mayflower, grimly announced: "The French people have decided to break with the ideas, behaviour... that la gloire française has lost its lustre. "The French can't understand what's happened," writes Lipton. "They used to have the best country in the world. Now you can't get a DSL...

... of the earth, and I do not see any possible escape for the human family. According to the writings of the Old and New Testaments, all must go to perdition." I do not suppose that he ...'We should have had the Venetian Republic in 1640,' said Coningsby, 'had it not been for the Puritans. Geneva beat Venice.' 'I am sure these ideas are not very generally known,' said Sir Joseph, bewildered....

... of liberty of conscience by looking at the career and writings of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island and author of important works.... The speaker traces the shaping of pre-Revolutionary thought through the writings of Williams, Locke, and Kant to name a few. It seems like Roger Williams gave the Puritans such such a case, that others copied/used his work without attribution...

..., even if largely familiar, and a valuable overview of the changes in social attitudes from the Puritans to the ``Me Generation.'' -- The Rise of Selfishness in America by James Lincoln Collier http://www.... Van Vogt--to create the Golden Age of modern science fiction from 1939 to 1946. The writing is verbose and not well integrated, but the book is always interesting. The World Beyond ...

... the values and do nothing with them, perhaps store them in local registers but certainly perform no write operations. As soon as such a listener sends a signal or flips a bit of any sort then ... observers except as verification. That is the ideal observer: no interaction. This entity of puritanical observer does not exist in reality, or if it does its ability to communicate with ...

... not rely upon observers except as verification. That is the ideal observer: no interaction. This entity of puritanical observer does not exist in reality, or if it does its ability to communicate with we humble ...> We all know that Einstein had something to say on this topic. He writes in Relativity Chapter 9: <quote> Now before the advent of the theory of ...

... by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.* Abstract A review of the writings of several leading "robber baron" capitalists shows that many of them were ...> history is that the Robber Baron era was the culmination of Northeastern Protestant (Puritan) culture. There is, according to this myth, a logical progression from the Puritans' "city on a hill" to the Robber Barons' pursuit of wealth ...

...-Faire Capitalism by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.* Abstract A review of the writings of several leading "robber baron" capitalists shows that many of them were ... is that the Robber Baron era was the culmination of Northeastern Protestant (Puritan) culture. There is, according to this myth, a logical progression from the Puritans' "city on a hill" to the Robber Barons' pursuit of wealth without ...

..., a good deal of morality seems to come down to sex, just as it always has for the puritanical Right. The Trouble with Principle is a series of polemics against liberalism, and scores some splendid points .... And if Fish is Nietzschean enough in this, so is he in the eternal recurrence of his writing. He now seems to have written the same book several times over - after you have stated that ...

...Dennett would reply that he is writing in metaphors for the layman ... I have quoted. Is Harris writing of a historical inevitability? Of a... mildly. In fact, one can write the history of anything as a... had occasion to compare the writings of the neo-atheists with ... of Norwich; though a moderate Puritan, he took the Royalist side ... psychiatrist and prison doctor. He writes a column for the London ...